Come and Take

from Come and Take by Private Government

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lyrics

Walk forth to the funeral pyres
The toll of souls
Climbs higher and higher, I won't bite my tongue
Bring your sorrows and your hatred on my soil
I'll build my stronghold and my phalanx
Now I tell you

Μολὼν λαβέ
Bring it
Mολὼν λαβέ
Bear witness
Our triumph is your failure
Strength within our walls of shields
Fall from grace and arm your carcass
Let it be written, let it be done

Break your word, the judas kiss on wood
Break my bones and crack my skull, 1 9 7 4
Feed the herd, impose your word of time
Spill the blood of innocents,
Spurring malevolence, bury the benevolence
Walk forth into the fire
Your sanity fails
Your judgment defies you, tides will turn and drown you
Bring your sorrows and your hatred on my soil
We'll build our stronghold with your corpses
Now I tell you

Μολὼν λαβέ
Bring it
Mολὼν λαβέ
Bear witness
We fear not death’s black shadow
Embrace us grotesque and hallowed
Fall in place, disarm your carcass
So it is written, let it be done

Deprivation, roll in the tanks and bury the cradle
Mutilation, depravity haunting the weak
Occupation, the blood of the earth, the tears of a nation
Confiscation, 1 6 1 9 hollow graves
Blood on their hands, mercy fails the serpent
Tears in their eyes, misery fills the servant
Scorched-earth tyranny, the irony that buries the light
No hope remains, but we stand here and fight

We’re lions to lambs
Our sons our very walls
Etched in these gates are the terms of my fall
We're lions to lambs
Ares is lord, no fear of gold
Rooted like oaks
πάν μέτρον άριστον

Death, war, pain for vanity, theocratic tyranny
Red for green for gluttony, greed monopoly
Our triumph is your failure, strength within our walls of shelter
Fall from grace and arm your carcass, let it be written let it be done

United we stand
Divided we fall
The enemies land
We assemble the wall

credits

from Come and Take, released August 12, 2018
Composed by Miltiadis Kyvernitis

Lead sections composed by Joseph Akkawi

Lyrics by Miltiadis Kyvernitis
Co-written by Nadeem Bibby

Produced by Miltiadis Kyvernitis
Co-Produced by Joseph Akkawi
Engineered and Mixed by Miltiadis Kyvernitis at MNK Studios
Additional Mixing by Elvis Garagic
Mastered by Elvis Garagic at Soundstruck Studios
Band Logo, Album and Booklet Artwork by Rouba Abou Nader

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about

Private Government Dubai, UAE

A collective of musicians spearheaded by one to construct a modern progressive metalcore album with Greek and Middle-Eastern influences, that tells tales of woe and glory from beginning to end.