Doomswagger (2011 EP!)

If you know - thy enemy and know thy self 
Do not fear - for the blood of a hundred battles will stoke your warring wealth. 
If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained - 
You will choke on the taste of defeat. 
If your ignorance spans the spectrum of you and your enemy, YOU WILL SUCCUMB 
In every battle 
To every fate 
Behind every sand drawn line and gate. 
Find your fangs you [bad word] coward 
Or keep time for a dead loss hour…
CHORUS: 
THIS IS THE TAO 
TO WHICH ALL ELSE COWER BEFORE ITS MIGHT. 
THIS IS THE TAO 
OF NATURAL POWER DISTILLED BY THE VILIFIED. 
THIS IS THE TAO 
THIS IS THE TAO 
THAT WILL LEARN YOU FROM STONE TO RIVER 
FOR THIS IS THE TAO OF… 
DOOMSWAGGER 

VERSE 2: 
If you seek - to walk through the graveyard of empires 
You must peak - the interest of a vanguard like misanthropic St. Elmo’s Fire. 
And when he breaks the silence to ask of your name you cut him down, down, down - 
And spell it on his flesh. 
Once you are plunged into danger then you, out of anger, will strive FOR VICTORY, 
Before the battle, 
Beyond a fate. 
The temple cattle superstitions can wait 
For you will drench yourself in the real. 
righteous hate you will feel…
CHORUS: 
THIS IS THE TAO 
TO WHICH ALL ELSE COWER BEFORE ITS MIGHT. 
THIS IS THE TAO 
OF NATURAL POWER DISTILLED BY THE VILIFIED. 
THIS IS THE TAO 
THIS IS THE TAO 
THAT WILL LEARN YOU FROM STONE TO RIVER 
FOR THIS IS THE TAO OF… 
DOOMSWAGGER
BRIDGE: 
I’ll devastate the aimless weight of all your masochistic barbarity. 
I’ll focus all and pride the fall because I’ll give you something, something to hate. 
I’ll make a way to seal the day that you don’t scratch and claw at your trench footed state. 
Your infancy was entropy until I gave you truth for something to hate…
Surmise the prize of bated breath. 
Steel your gaze. 
Split your mind and separate. 
Self-manifestation is the only way…
In hell you must dwell 
To wean you from retreat, 
For tactics without strategy 
Is the noise before defeat.
CHORUS: 
THIS IS THE TAO 
TO WHICH ALL ELSE COWER BEFORE ITS MIGHT. 
THIS IS THE TAO 
OF NATURAL POWER DISTILLED BY THE VILIFIED. 
THIS IS THE TAO 
THIS IS THE TAO 
THAT WILL LEARN YOU FROM STONE TO RIVER 
FOR THIS IS THE TAO OF… 
DOOMSWAGGER