# VNV Nation

VNV Nation is an electronic music group originally from Dublin and London, now based in Hamburg, that combines elements of trance, synthpop and electronic body music, into what they call futurepop.
    Damn the illusion of redemption
    and the hopes that held me here.
    I will oppose all that would befall me.
    With this rage inside of me
    I will defy what I would become.
    Only embers now smoulder
    where bridges once burned.
    I feel alive and yet I fear
    what may happen now.
    I know I can't return.
    -Distant
    This is your world.
    These are your people.
    You can live for yourself today,
    or help build tomorrow for everyone.
    -Foreward
    Passive fields. January two thousand and twelve.
    A nation that stands alone.
    Cold voices, faces pale,
    gathered unto their judgement day.
    Such pride remains unbroken.
    Such words remain unspoken.
    Just mothers to stand in vain and cry.
    Tears and medals in the rain.
    Shall I recall when justice did prevail?
    No reason to be found why reason did fail.
    The all clear resounding.
    The way was clear to rebuild this land.
    Shall I call on you to guide me well,
    to see our hopes and dreams fulfilled?
    On this day of our ascension.
    Stand your ground this is what we are fighting for.
    For our spirit and laws and ways.
    Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.
    For heaven or hell we shall not wait.
    Shall I think of honour as lies
    or lament it's aged slow demise?
    Shall I stand as a total stranger
    on this day in this stone chamber?
    The all clear resounding.
    The way was clear to rebuild this land.
    Shall I call on you to guide me well.
    To see our hopes and dreams fulfilled.
    On this day of our ascension,
    on this day we praise the fallen.
    Stand your ground this is what we are fighting for.
    For our spirit and laws and ways.
    Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war.
    For heaven or hell we shall not wait.
    Shall I think of honour as lies
    or lament it's aged slow demise?
    Shall I stand as a total stranger
    on this day in this stone chamber?
    -Honor
    Thus to Holy War, our songs that turned to roar.
    Onward in our cause, we judged by holy laws.
    Hailed the sacred creed, fell on bended knee.
    Death that filled our wake, blood that stained our hands.
    Thus we reached the land, sacred man beheld.
    Vessel of a sin, none shall call him King.
    Thorns were always gold, blood that never flowed
    Death lay in his wake, blood that stained his hands.
    Take away his shield.
    Tear apart his standard.
    Shouting, sanctify this holy lie.
    Wash your face with tears.
    Wash your hands with soil.
    Wash away this holy lie.
    Dawn across the land, return to ancient creed
    Mother, Father, child. Now and ever be.
    Praise the wind and rain, praise the joy and pain.
    Never havoc cry nor loose the dogs of war.
    -Outremer
    The Devil take you for his needs
    while children stab you and make you bleed.
    You'll repent for what you've done
    for raping my Daughter, raping my Son.
    -Serial Code
    There is anger resolute.
    Rears its familiar head on the TV screen.
    In a dozen bags a life was placed.
    In a breath he smiled and waved.
    Five minutes at a time the power held true.
    Without consternation our laws are lost.
    Lost to butchers, lost to child killers, lost to narcotic ritual.
    Another tag, another headline.
    Another smiling face shall stay 10 winters long forever.
    And where are the angels to guard?
    Where is the God of men and children?
    He is stalking the minds of dark poor souls.
    I know it's right and I know it's time for freedom:
    to kill another and to kill another and to kill another child
    of the flag till there are none left.
    another and to kill another and to kill another...
    -Serial Killer