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Abomination
03:49
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Look down the stairs and find
An abomination
Chained to the floor
Alone and abandoned.
(Isolation.)
We turned our backs and ran
Hiding like cowards,
Pretending that it’s not real
While it gains strength and life.
(It’s behind you.)
Behind our greedy backs,
It designs an escape.
Its stench invades us
And follows our children.
(It knows.)
The smoke billows in from the hills.
The ground is scorching beneath me.
It’s carving anger into my flesh,
I give out at the knees.
Encased in bile. Trapped in a cage.
Spit out like an animal.
Petrified inside. Struggling for breath.
It stares right through us.
Once a perfectly crafted thing,
Giving life to us all,
Is now an acid spewing Titan,
And death is all that follows.
The smoke billows in from the hills
The ground is scorching beneath me.
It’s carving anger into my flesh,
I give out at the knees.
An apocalyptic journey.
Walk with me to the edge
Of a valley bountiful with remains.
Walk with me.
Once a perfectly crafted thing,
Giving life to us all,
Is now an acid spewing Titan,
And death is all that follows.
Look down the stairs.
Abomination.
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2. |
Agree!
00:51
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Agree!
Pushed it pretty far
An incomplete thought
I wish I knew what you actually said.
We'll meet again
And laugh about
How far we're off.
Agree!
Agree!
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3. |
Bloodstained Banner
04:27
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Gone in pieces from my mind
Thoughts of anger on the side
I’d shot the arrow, but I missed
How did it end like this?
Rage incited by its name
A humble pawn of this game
And desire for your very touch
I’d never missed you this much
And we’re freeing the ashes that we’re holding.
That day shakes me to the bone
I’ve lost you, and I’m alone
I feel it all the time
In every room I walk in
In every word that I speak
In every friend that I face
In every floorboard that creaks
How did it end like this?
And we’re freeing the ashes that we’re holding.
Frames of pictures
Cascading down walls
That surround familiar rooms
And sounds.
The memories
They scream out to me
And I scream back, antagonized.
Ornate beginnings.
Sudden, infallible,
Incoherent ends.
We’re freeing the ashes that we’re holding.
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4. |
The Wake
06:23
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Pacing in my cell
Sentenced to life.
No?
Sentenced to eternity.
Trapped with my viscous thoughts.
I hear the laughter of my captors.
It only furthers my derangement.
They speak in twisted tongues.
The language of the ancients.
Spiraling into insanity,
Having visions of the end,
And wishes of execution
By my faceless jailers.
But my pleas fall upon deaf ears.
Kept alive through sheer will.
My mind slips further.
I hear the voice of a woman,
Behind a keyless door.
She promises to end my horrors.
I take my last breath
And fall to the abyss.
My reward for my compliance
Is my empty vessel
Tossed out like garbage —
Outside to be scouted
And devoured
by the wake.
I left without a whimper
Don’t forget about me
As I’m wrapped up by strands of time.
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5. |
Desecrated
02:51
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Tucked his head between his legs to wither away.
He blackened his heart,
Blackened his lungs,
Blackened his veins.
Stained sheets.
Scrapes on their feet.
Throw them
Back out to the streets.
Blamed my luck too many times to count on my hands,
But I’ve lost my way,
Lost my hope,
Lost balance.
Stained sheets.
Scrapes on their feet.
Throw them
Back out to the streets.
Stained sheets.
Scrapes on their feet.
Sent out,
Nothing to eat.
Most are discarded with mental ailments.
They lost their minds.
Lost their homes.
Lost their way.
And we do fucking nothing,
Except retract our hands,
Close our doors,
And shield our eyes.
Ideas of retribution
Have also done nothing.
We pretend to reform the poor
While tending to the rich.
You don’t understand
Until you want to die.
When life feels unbearable,
And the next step is impossible,
Knowledge, respect and
Understanding are key.
Why not treat them like your own?
How could you be too busy
For your community?
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7. |
Vile's Vice
03:49
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Endless eyes are watching -
Watching the chosen one -
Marching to her death
To cleanse our filthy blood.
While she lays on her back,
One hand holds the apple,
The other is outstretched
Towards the leaves of a Pygmy,
And we are starving
For her flesh.
Begging to be satiated.
The apple rots from within,
The worm feeds on its life.
Watch as the skin decays
To cleanse our filthy blood.
We now have safe passage,
Did this make us evil?
Become the vile’s vice.
Severed the leaves of a Pygmy,
And we are starving
For her flesh,
Begging to be satiated.
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8. |
Onryō
04:13
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She’s been reanimated
Guided by her coven.
Eyes glazed, thoughts sewn shut,
But aware of the horror.
We’re all the same.
We’re all the same.
We’re all the same.
We’re all the same.
These hands are no longer mine.
We cry and run. I killed her son.
She’ll leave no one.
“Come here and find me.”
Unholy dark apparition
Drink from the slit in my throat
I didn’t know you were listening
To my nightmares
Bending reality forwards
I feel your claws in my back
Rip me apart at the spine now
It fades to black
I reach down into the
Darkness of the water.
Where is the bottom of this pond?
We’re all the same.
We’re all the same.
We’re all the same.
We’re all the same.
I lower my hands until I drown.
It feels so wrong. The chants, the songs.
I’ve cried for so long.
I’m coming to find you.
Unholy dark apparition
Drink from the slit in my throat
I didn’t know you were listening
To my nightmares
Bending reality forwards
I feel your claws in my back
Rip me apart at the spine now
It fades to black
“Feed my ambitions.
Taste my flesh.
Honor my intentions
By longing for death.”
Here we are. Forever.
Ready to serve you.
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9. |
Contract For The Reaper
05:07
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I follow in
Like breathless wind
Sleepless nights gone black.
Lay in wait,
watching faith
Slip from forlorn past.
Unaware
Of that which stares
Glaring on
Desolation
Sanity on the fringe.
Wits at end
The blade’s staff
Secured by her hand
Lover scorned
Heart of stone.
Sink to the pits
Steel in hand, drug across
Barren waste and fruitless land
Cauterized my soul with one touch
I feel my heart as it slows
She tries to comfort me
As we go down
She preaches finality and trust
I can’t relate to this
Cold dark bitch
Who laughs at my mortality.
If I could only see you —
Unveil you,
Control you,
I would still pay my due
But torture you,
Impale you.
Before I succumb to you —
Taste you,
Feel you.
Navigating your cold darkness,
An intoxicating endless kiss.
I pull my face away.
Blood and dirt stain my hands
From trying to dig out.
Please just free me.
Contract for the reaper.
She calls out my name,
And I lift my eyes.
Face to face.
Grave mistake.
Contract for the reaper.
I look to the sky,
Stretched thin and sullen.
My sockets are dried.
Please just free me.
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10. |
Parasites
03:07
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Living in your thoughts,
There is a hidden terror,
A beast that feeds on your fear.
It tears apart your soul,
Heightening anxiety, despair, and doubt,
Lowering ambition and will.
Living in your flesh
And you can feel it moving
Inside you without consent.
It’s festering your wounds.
Chemically imbalanced, begging it to stop,
You give up on everything.
It lives inside
Parasite.
It comes for everyone, despite what you do.
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The light in you begins to fade.
Growls play against your skin. You hear riffs that shrill
with tyranny. Distant drums bang louder as you drift closer to your end.
You engage with the madness, letting go of all mortal bounds.
In perpetuating servitude, you've made it to us.
Welcome to forever. We are High Priest.
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