CATALYST CRIME - Acquired Immunity (Official Video)

Zoe Marie Federoff- Vocals, lyrics Kaelen Sarakinis- guitar Jonah Weingarten- keys Chena Ohanele- guitar Matt Federoff- bass Gerit Lamm- Drums Directed by Alexander Krull Produced by Omni Sensus Media Filmed by Alexander Krull, Greg Sher Assisted by Vincente Cordero, Marek Ashok Šmerda, Greg Sher Video edit by Alexander Krull Video edit assistent Leon Krull Special Guest guitar soloist: Marek Ashok Šmerda (ex-Cradle of Filth, ex-Root) ----------------- For my crimes I’ll testify Attempt, the mob, to satisfy I give myself For you to dine So bare your teeth And take a bite It’s the poison inside me It’s the pleasure of pain It’s addiction to everything that has been twisting my brain I invite the venom Feel my weakness lessen If you only knew what repair work the harm will do Enter beastling, heinous choking Sputtered pleas and frenzied foaming Heartbeat speeding, nerve corrosion Lung collapse and mind explosion Desert child taking doses Burning sun to witness only Underneath the turquoise sky There she lays a shattered vision Shifting sands begin embracing Sensing pain, Coyote’s waiting Laughs in time to labored breathing Mother, maiden, poisoned hellcrone Time accelerates the unknown These great truths take root in lies Deliver me Your frothing hate A scorpion on silver plate I’ll take the sting I’ll take the vow But before you I’ll never bow Give me all you have to give I give you venom I give you the demise Of everything once pure in me destroyed in fours and nines I give your altar A living sacrifice Of poisoned wretched horror in a fairy tale’s disguise With every sting I feel the flames Of anger rise inside my veins If you approach You best beware The venom’s in me If you dare I’m the nature of Scorpio I’m the freedom to be I embody the cruelest, the darkest, the worst of your dreams I have my learned my lesson Save one burning question So I ask of thee, what’s infinite mortality? What’s the purpose of my venom Can it heal and bring redemption Can it make the blind man see The lame man walk, the slave man free? Or will it be my condemnation Black the sun out, cause destruction Only time can write this tale What of those who sought my ending Burned my home and caused my suffering Can I ever justify The vengeful streak inside my mind? Eye for eye and life for life And sting for sting and bite for bite Are we not all crimes of life? And now you’ve spent Your shadow days In gluttony, deceit and rape Perpetuate your misery But I’ll resist, I will be free I ransom the dead I take your spirit I take your guilty lives The way you took the heart of me and called my life a crime I burn your altar With you, the sacrifice You poisoned wretched horror in a fairy tale’s disguise Insipid now I find your words Your stolen prose and foolish verse Yet take my thanks, for now I’m free Acquired my immunity I repurpose crimes