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Blight
01:42
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dripping wet I awake to face this hell
lash for lash, we beg forgiveness in
a shallow grave
filling in
with all that we let die
bloodstained hands in blind contempt
as we watch the world go up in flames
an uncaring race (let it crash)
to the edge of bliss (let it die)
off the precipice - over and over till there’s no longer
when did we ever care (write your status, fall in)
what’s my recovery in a world that’s past recovering?
we suffer all (let it crash)
to reach some end (let it die)
like sisyphus - over and over till there’s no longer
life (serenity dawns)
life (as the fires grow)
life (as the clouds bellow)
life (as a heart still pines)
(I can’t breathe with the weight of the end bearing down)
all things must come to pass
the birds, these waves, our plans and mistakes
all things must come to pass
these roots, old scars, light up like your eyes
all things must come to pass
your touch, this dream, lights up with the skies
life as ephemera
stars don’t shine they
flicker in the night, merely a specter of
what once was, what could have been
even dead and gone, there’s beauty in the absence
there’s beauty in the silence
there’s beauty in you
there’s beauty in me
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abscession - this flesh rots hollow
the earth spoils it sickly black
transference and waiting rooms
and all that still grows, a wallow
the branch yearns for something else
transcendence and exit wounds
fed to the fates, the collow
we live on (to suicide)
just to bleed (the earth’s disease)
we fight on (millions perish)
we die
this life drains fast like sandfall between our hands
we touch in vain, our hearts won’t beat in time
this dream dies fast like cancer between our bones
we try in vain, our hearts won’t beat in time
this will rots last the old roots which gave first life
we kiss in vain, our hearts won’t beat this time
torrid throttle, cast thy breath on plumes of ash borne of our indolence
heedless cretin, sweat thy death in the ruins of our ancestral insolence
we’re all disease
destroy, destroyer
curse against the tides
writhe against the call
inhume the final act,
bring down the guillotines,
let it turn to dust
I turn over to rapture,
I leave myself to rust, dissolve, abandon
cicatrice by cicatrix,
it goes on.
(blight, a light)
(the earth in life through death)
(reborn! rejoice!)
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Lost Virtue
06:33
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crown of ash, smoke, greed
shine like sarcoma
dominion of rust and ruin
rotting still, rotten still
dorsal vestige rise, resist
catch them proudly all laugh into the flames
you can feel it in the air
you can hear it in the static
a lineage of slaughter
use and consume
you can hear it in the air
you can feel it in the static
our lineage of laughing into the flames
how fitting it will be to be absolved of this
archaic tragedy of desire and death
all might must fall
as night turns dawn
eclipsed by time
shed these bounds (if it’s all wrong)
air your light (let it all burn)
when we’re gone (it goes on)
as nothing,
totality.
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Kindling
02:14
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6. |
Embers to End
06:26
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(twentytwenty, was it all worth it? bodies line the years, doomed kin festers)
survive.
survive this by screaming into yourself
things can’t get worse, every year only seems
to feel worse (when they come for you)
are we all safe now? are we all fitting in?
assimilate to forget we never belonged
dissociate to beset the nature of fleetingness
the fear (will it comfort you?)
the home we dreamt up, carried away
the home we dreamt up, carried away
the life we could have had, a promise never meant
I thought I knew where I came from,
where I fit in, where I relate
the tides will change
the ground will shift
nothing stays true
(meant nothing)
you strive all your life to feel welcome in their world, paying dues - used, consumed
when their walls come tumbling down, who’d you think will be the first blamed for the fall
fire feeds panic swells (false sense security)
desperate, take the bait
chaos feeds hatred sells (false flag civility)
desolate, take the fall
(oh god)
you don’t know what you have till it’s gone
stars won’t smile on you (stars won’t smile)
there’s no end in sight
where you don’t lose it all
no matter when, no matter how
so fester, wound
death kneels hardly still
time ends on all
fester, wound
we lost our home and so will you
time ends on all still
saving nothing, flailing down (coward)
we’ll always get the last word (choke)
only time till we’re all displaced (another war)
who will get the last laugh? (one last laugh)
frail obedient wretch
swallow grievance from a millionaire’s scorn
you’re nothing more than an ember to the flame
the fires rage to your neighborhoods still
coward, you’re nothing more than an ember to the flame.
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Flicker and Faint
05:03
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do you think the universe will blink when we’re gone?
do you think the universe will care what we’ve done?
do you think the universe will blink when we’re gone?
did you think we’re more than just
nothing
everything
is all we are
is all we’ll ever be
(all we’ve ever been)
live (everyday)
feel (everything)
just this once
rejoice! rejoice! rejoice!
suffer (everyday)
lose (everything)
just this one life
resist! resist! resist!
life is our own to own,
the stars won’t smile
no truth to light
meaning comes from within,
it comes from the fight
to hope to feel to grow to heal
I want to stop running away from myself
I want to feel the weight of it.
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if you’re alone and still screaming
is it fear that finds you under tranquil tides
is it bliss that binds you to watching yourself
fall apart
cursed to repeat, as the currents drag us
lights out, lights out (for all our dreams of painlessness)
strung out, strung out (we lose ourselves in our despair)
I’m drowning, so lost to the high
so lost to the lows I’m
not found at all
I know we’re trying
I know, the ending comes too fast and all at once
I know, we lost this fight so many times before
alone (they want us)
alone (to fall)
alone (we climb out into the night)
together (they hear us)
together (they fall)
together (we climb out into the light)
to all our dead friends lost to stars you shined so bright
they couldn’t see you yet they’re so blinded by the fight
the world’s a desperate place we’re not built for all the light
you dreamt life could shine softly at night...
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Catacombs Part II
06:46
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one for our fate
two for the meaning behind the wait
three with the helplessness
four more suffering
five find your burial
six sickly silent still
one for disease
two for the violence behind the breeze
three with the restlessness
four more profit there’s
five years or so till these
six thousand more fade to
black
I can barely hang on
live with voices inside my head
screaming no, please don’t go
yours was the face I dreamt of all along
yours was the face I dreamt of on every cold night
if everything must pass, I’ll live for it
if nothing remains I won’t regret this
when everything was wrong (know you were right)
yours was the face I dreamt of all along
yours was the face I dreamt of on my way out
all the light shines on for you
all the light shines on with you
all we hold like dust fades fast
(but love shines on in us)
a voice turns raw all by itself
it makes no sound
I felt it all
with my friends,
I found a home
tear down these walls
frail, still we wail
don’t be afraid
you’re not alone…
(lift this flesh)
lift this flesh up to love
believe in the light
and all that we can
shed this weight of self
lift this flesh to the fight
reject all their hate
the thorn in their hearts
shed the weight of self
lift these wilted wings and learn to fall
learn to lose hope, and still move on
learn the meaning of
I’ll stay with you
till the last notes chime
till the silence breaks
though the street’s lit up
though our hearts fail fast
last day with you I felt the ground give
way to the light of a million
stars burning hot
all within our
hearts
I’ll stay with you...
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