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Immersed
02:42
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Sealed beneath waves unseen
Hands of lead grasping me
Carried down into the dark
A thousand limbs pressing down
Beckoning to stay, to melt into the ground
Gone
The veil ripped asunder
The hands withdrawn
Pounding, dragging, trudging, pulling
Flowing through the veins
Dashing, coursing, rolling, reeling
Blurring through the days
Swept with the tide
Borne on their backs
Devoured, swallowed whole
Pounding, dragging, trudging, pulling
Flowing through the veins
Dashing, coursing, rolling, reeling
Blurring through the days
One with the tide
Crushed underfoot
Thrust out and left to fall
A wrenching in our bones
The cacophony shatters
The river, the gateway
The maw opens wide
Sink beneath waves unseen
Hands of lead welcome me
Carried down into the dark
A thousand limbs pressing down
Beckoning to stay, to melt into the ground
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Torn
01:17
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The walls rush forward, the vice is thirsty
Tied down, strangled from the inside
Embers bursting from the marrow
The tide laps hungrily at your neck
You lay upon the rack
Your breath ripped from your chest
Shaking hands, twitching fingers
You feel the blood start to boil
Bursting the seams into ribbons
Champing gashes on the bit
You lay upon the rack
Your breath ripped from your chest
It splinters beneath your skin
Festering, feeding
You lay yourself into white
As it bursts from your pores
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Drawn
00:54
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Torn into a thousand pieces
Springs and gears tear at their flesh
Chipping away, giving ground
Doors nailed shut
Every horizon lost and buried
Signing away the years
Bitter satisfaction, hollow comfort
Shackles trailing
Giving our names, tying our bonds
Cogs in the wheel, carving the soil
The telltale thorn, the golden badge
The unrelenting wrong
Thrusting our necks to this yolk
The path narrows ahead
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4. |
Rejected
01:17
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Shut off and discarded
Thrown under the wheels
Painted a pariah
Branded a scapegoat
Your thread is cut
While sealed behind closed doors
Fed by tongues of liars
Eating hollow words
Crossed off, exiled, unwelcome
A marked soul, cast down, cast out
You were measured
And found wanting
Feel the heels upon on your back
Feel the blame
Nest upon your shoulders
Crushed under the weight
Of impotence
Crossed off, exiled, unwelcome
A marked soul, cast down, cast out
Eat excrement from a gilded platter
Live on your knees with your eyes to the ground
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Hindered
01:39
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Beset and bogged down
Breathing dead, stale air
Dancing to the crack of the whip
Nothing moves
Nothing moves
Their nails dig deep
Giving inch after inch
Their nails dig deep
Moments melt into weeks
As the lights and the voices sink
Their nails dig deep
Plodding ahead and looking back
As the lights and the voices sink
Throw the doors wide
Lift your hands to the black above
Drink deep the swirling lights
The beast beckons
Breathe deep
The flesh beckons
Drink deep
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Deluded
00:58
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Dead light flows
from the glass
Slaving at nothing
Tap and scrape
Scratch and prod
this world of false light
Taken in and held from each other
Living each moment in opulent lies
Walking with restless ghosts at our sides
Shackled to meaninglessness
Shut it off
Break their hold
Cut your ties
Sever yourself
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Smothered
00:33
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A river of eyes turning in on themselves
Uncaring cattle, smashed into ranks
Turning their eyes and avoiding my gaze
Trample each other, smother yourselves
Fighting tooth and nail for inches of filth
Rushing to bury yourselves in the dirt
The doors are closing
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Confined
01:16
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Turning gears
Grasping hands
Swaths carved upon the blackened rock
Footfalls as scars
Fetid
Wasted eyes
Soiled rags
Stooped spines
The throng presses inward
Arms crushed to my sides
Their breath upon my face
Their eyes rake mine
Fetid
Wasted eyes
Trailing through filth and dust
Sparks leap from below
The roar engulfs us all
Decaying flesh
Decaying vessels
Left forgotten underground
The doors are closing
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Borne
02:28
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We are the blood upon the air
We are the blood under the ground
The way is flooded by a writhing mass
Bones grinding themselves into dust
We are the blood under the ground
We are the blood upon the air
Churning through these limbs that never rest
Bodies adrift in the bowels of this machine
We are the blood
Sink from the sky
Break from the earth
Seeking home
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Severed
02:41
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Walk in the jaws of the beast
You hear the baying of the dogs
Footsteps fall on empty streets
You see branches tearing the sky
Sirens call out from the dark
You feel twisting of the trees
Death dances the boulevards
Shards of glass litter ground
Crags and snarls span veins of stone
Bars of steel padlock these homes
Iron teeth bursting from the ground
Eyes press in from all around
Ivory tracks looming overhead
Past the stones where the children tread
Desperate hands shrouded by the dark
Every wall bearing their mark
This is what separates
This is what isolates
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Claimed
01:04
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When at last our dance is done
He welcomes all, old and young
To lay with him in darkened earth
Embrace of ash, in arms of dirt
Through blood and bone he makes his way
The darkest step, a waltz of decay
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Withered
01:36
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Let these days bore through my bones
Let these teeth be ground down to dust
May my eyes fade into pools of white waste
May my ears shrivel and deafen
The edifice will give way to rubble
Every mark will wipe from this stone
All the roads twisting and blackened
This vessel will run over the ground
Let these days bore through my bones
Let these teeth be ground down to dust
May my eyes fade into pools of white waste
May my ears shrivel and deafen
This place will tear me asunder
These weeks will feed me to worms
Garb me in linens, torch me to cinders
I will be devoured in the dirt
I am but flotsam and fodder
I am strewn in the loam underfoot
Spattered on the stones, fattening the roots
The imminent and the looming
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Debased
00:58
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Given to weakness
Languishing in scum
Desperation frosts
Over the eyes
Sink into this filth
Vomit your excess
Purge and reject
your own failure
This is an every day failure
The eyes that you live within
This is the page pinned in the book
A life of defeat
You are the leech
you are the host
Sucking yourself down
to the marrow
Abject and befouled
Spoiling yourself
A breathing cesspool
Begging at the feet of whores
This is an every day failure
The eyes that you live within
This is the page pinned in the book
A life of defeat
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Infected
01:58
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Crawling carrion over every inch
Belching our excess into the sky
We raise these tombs into the clouds
Breeding monsters to fear
Moulding our misery
Sowing our sorrow
Puppeting heroes
For us to exalt
Man foisting his artifice on itself
It bows under its own weight;
Threatening to collapse
Tunnels of offal carved underneath
We forge blades to cut deep
We run rampant through these wounds
We light the ground ablaze
We smother our own
I am the child of ruin
I stand wreathed in disease
Donning my crown of sewage
I am filth in a world of debris
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Numbed
02:48
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A slow, steady chill
Fills the ribs
The cold shambles over your veins
Give yourself to the glow
As the light shuts out of the world
Let it all fall into the dust
Feel the apathy curl in your chest
Hunting endlessly for release
Stumbling with the weight of each gaze
Unfeeling
Unwanting
Disowning everything
Done
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Ended
02:51
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Forging this chain about our necks
We fetter ourselves
Run while you can, make your escape
You'll lay bound and quartered at their feet
Your hear their teeth champing at the bit
The writing on the wall in blazing black
Gaze upon the face of tomorrow
The mortar and bricks climbing around his neck
This living omen, a breathing martyr
Dead eyes hazing within his pallid face
The old man sealed within the walls
Shackled to his chair
Go where you will, do what you may
Look not for answers, they fall all around you
Upon the backs of old, and from the mouths of babes
Our fate is one in the same
We’re trapped like rats
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