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Fire at Will

from Ambition by Sumptus Ignis

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lyrics

Tank treads rumble through the moonless black
A village unaware
Awakened by the sting of a bayonet
Across a bared throat

Sow the fields with quicklime
And shattered bones
They fire at will, they fire at will
Pyres roar in the darkness
To still the cries
They fire at will, they fire at will

Gloved fists and razor wire
Penning the survivors
Like starving cattle
The sick and dying collapse into the filth
Their eyes are hollow

An orderly line
Moths marching single-file to the flame
Cower and obey
And be allowed to crawl another day

Broken hands turned to bleeding spades
Digging trenches across the gunsights
The patient soil awaits unslakable
It thirsts, without judgment

The earth starts to shake
A paralytic fear
The stories were true
Peace and sunlight
A thing of the past
Shallow trenches filled in
We fall to genocide
We fall to genocide
Flesh, blood, and irrationality
It makes no difference
Pull the trigger
I’ll be seeing you soon

Falling into a suffocating void
The smoking pits
The shallow graves
Black with flies
Ash rains upon the earth
The jutting ribs
The sobbing ones
Staring naked at a concrete sky

The question remains
Unanswered, unjustified,
The depths of inhumanity
When victory has a hundred fathers
Genocide’s an orphan
Who gave the order or who just followed
Makes no difference to the slain

Sow the fields with quicklime
And shattered bones
They fire at will, they fire at will
Pyres roar in the darkness
To still the cries
They fire at will, they fire at will

credits

from Ambition, released November 5, 2018
Joshua Wojtaszek: Guitars, bass
Bryn Schurman: Drums and percussion, vocals, keyboards, touch guitar
Jessy Sparks: Vocals

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Sumptus Ignis Key Largo, Florida

Progressive metal five-piece Sumptus Ignis (Sum-tus Ig-nis) began in 2016 as a side project for Identity Collapse members Bryn Schurman and Joshua Wojtaszek, Silura's Richard Perdomo and Joshua Thomas Williams joined in 2021 on bass and lead guitars respectively, along with John Scott adding clean vocals and slide guitar to the mix.
Look for their next release The Kindred Dark mid-2022. ... more

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