Treadmill

from The Hymnal EP by The Hidden

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lyrics

Awaken, you're christened, alive with a mission.
Sit down beside us. We'll spell it our for you:
A simple incision, a needle insertion.
Release of a waiver and claims of coercion.

Here begins the program catered to your body.
Here begins the payment plan for living fact as fiction.
The numbing hum you're hearing is the sound of sweet incisors
as they take apart the calm and make a wreck of spent desire.

Walk with your virus,
The pattern you're given.
Yesterday's promise
Meets tomorrow's conditions.

Awaken, you're christened, so crack yourself open.
Work as you vanish with footsteps of poison.
Bring to fruition the failure of victory.
Stand here before us: The champion of failure.

Walk with your virus,
The pattern you're given.
Yesterday's promise
Is tomorrow's perdition.

Left foot, right foot.

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from The Hymnal EP, released May 1, 2004

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The Hidden New Bedford, Massachusetts

Kevin Grant: vocals
Mario Costa: bass guitar
Tanya Paglia: drums
Daniel Brockman: guitar left
James Brockman: guitar right

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