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Mezmerize/Hypnotize Demos
Citadels in the Sky

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System of a Down

Citadels in the Sky

Release date: 22nd November 2005

From Mezmerize/Hypnotize Demos

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About This Track

"Citadels in the Sky" is a track by System of a Down, from the album Mezmerize/Hypnotize Demos, released 22nd November 2005. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Citadels in the Sky

[Verse]

Soldiers marching on

Believing there's no god

Deciding our own mind

Sleeping in the skies

[Chorus 1]

We must call upon our bright darkness

We must swim through the river of silence

We must break through the walls of violence

Nothing else will get us down

[Chorus 2]

We must call upon the power of violence

We must swim to the tower of silence

We must slip through the mirror of silence

Nothing else will get us down

Why, why why?

Why, why why?

[Bridge]

We are alive

We will survive

Bombs from the sky

Are raining above

Deserve to die

Bombs in the sky

When we divide

The bombs in the sky

[Chorus 1]

We must call upon the bright of darkness

We must swim to the river of silence

We must break through the walls of violence

Nothing else will take us down

Why, why why?

Why, why why?

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Track details

From Mezmerize/Hypnotize Demos

2005

Album

Mezmerize/Hypnotize Demos

System of a Down

Release year

2005

—U.S.F.I.G. (Demo)
—Religious People
—174 (Shavo)
—Criminal Nation
—Charades / Sherades
—Citadels in the Sky
—Elect the Dead (Demo)
—Hypnoteyes (Demo)
—Magic Babies
—War That No One Won
—սա սուրբ լեռների վաղ տիտղոսն է (This is an early title for Holy Mountains)
—BYOB (Demo)

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