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My flesh is afraid but I am not
Not of the flood that carved sand from rock
But of the silence above that mocks me when I kneel
So let’s wager the answers on a game
Is silence absence? Is absence pain?
Was it man or the lamb that cracked the seal?
You drew black
You drew black
You, you drew black
(My flesh is afraid but I am not)
You, you drew black
(My flesh is afraid but I am not)
You, you drew black
(My flesh is afraid but I am not)
You, you drew black
(My flesh is afraid but I am not)
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2. |
Four Suns
04:17
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Wreaths of rot strung up to dry
The flies churning
Herald a symphony of lies
In the cloudless, godless, unblinking sky
A decade lost and all I found
Amidst the incense burning
In this crypt above the ground
We’re all ashes
We all fall down
Four suns hung burning in the dull
Of a dead world’s eye
The carrion crusting at the socket
The road home
Erased in the wind
And where the forest grew thick I found
The only way up is down
Plague flowers beside the bed
Nothing but the vermin stirring
Thresholds marked in red
Every grave in this land is over fed
Wine to ash in thy mouth
Blistered tongues searching
For a reason in the stony ground
Dust to dust
Round and round
Four suns hung burning in the dull
Of a dead world’s eye
The carrion crusting at the socket
The road home
Erased in the wind
And where the forest grew thick I found
The only way up is down
Nothing left inside
For our spirit to imbibe
Despairs never contrived
A soul that’s left deprived
God willing if the rivers don’t rise
But I can feel them swelling inside
There is no higher ground
The only way up is down
God help us we’re burning alive
The flames crash like the waves inside
A scream without a sound
The only way up is down
God willing if the rivers don’t rise
But I can feel them swelling inside
There is no higher ground
The only way up is down
God help us we’re burning alive
The flames crash like the waves inside
A scream without a sound
The only way up is down
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3. |
A Confession
04:08
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Father, tear him out of my heart
(Farther father)
Break his image into infinite shards
(Farther father)
Cut their throats spill the poison blood
(Stain the altar)
Cast me out of the grace, the light, and the love
I am meaningless to heaven
I am invisible to hell
If there’s a reckoning out there
Why haven’t I been cut down and buried shallow where I fell
Father I’ve communed with the dark
(Farther father)
With a void, with no edge and no heart
(Farther father)
It is here dressed in your holy robes
(The candles falter)
Deceit and death disguised in his favorite cloaks
I want the burden of proof
Not the convenience of fate
I’d rather be alone
Than worship a word on the page
A word on a page
As I accept the sacrament
(Forgive forget)
And revel in the testament
(Forgive forget)
My return to serenity
(Forgive forget)
Why haven’t you forgiven me?
Why?
Why won’t you forgive me?
Return to serenity
Why won’t you forgive me?
Why?
Why won’t you forgive me?
Fade to obscurity
Why won’t you forgive me
Your pain is killing all of me
I am meaningless to heaven
I am invisible to hell
If there’s a reckoning out there
Why haven’t I been cut down and buried shallow where I fell?
The only hand I feel on my back
Is a creeping fever robed in black
The bell won’t till unless he rings it
The hole isn’t dug until he digs it
There is no plan he is it
We’re just pawns for the slaughter of his bishop
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4. |
March of Whips
04:29
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Whip meet hand meet flesh meet man
Meet the latticework upon his back
Flesh meet bone meet thorn meet crown
Meet yourself upon the dripping stone
Depth meet height meet plenty meet plight
Baptize yourself in the failing light
Where darkness reigns in cloaks of chains
And pain is all and all is pain
Ascend
Transcend
Bend your will until you can’t
Again, again
Close the ouroboros of man
I am
Doomed to repeat the same dead end
From tail to head
Devouring myself just to live
Rope meet wrist meet rack meet twist
Stretch yourself into unbearable bliss
In sickness and health, meet other meet self
Forsake within and embrace without
Depth meet height meet plenty meet plight
Baptize yourself in the failing light
Where darkness reigns in cloaks of chains
And pain is all and all is pain
Ascend
Transcend
Bend your will until you can’t
Again, again
Close the ouroboros of man
I am
Doomed to repeat the same dead end
From tail to head
Devouring myself just to live
The logic’s sound
But the premise is flawed
Sacrifice is nothing
When nothing is all we are
The logic’s sound
But the premise is flawed
Your scars aren’t a map
They’re just scars
I’ve eaten hope just to survive
I’ve climbed the ladder of bodies
Fall into your zealot line
I don’t need a whip to feel alive
I’ve hung from every thread I’ve sewn
I’ve settled every single debt
It’s the end and we are all alone
I’m here and I’m on my own
The gates are rusted shut
And the windows boarded up
And I finally understand
That it’s our own blood on our hands
We’re fucked
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5. |
Love Plague
04:24
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WHYYYYY
Love is the blackest of all plagues
A soft iron in the blue flame
A dirty needle in the sick vein
A desperate penance for a broken faith
Love is the blackest of all plagues
More white on the blank page
A deep pit in a dark cave
A desperate sermon for the end of days
Call out to me in the darkness
Faith is a torment
But torment won’t save us
Scream that love is a fortress
But it won’t hold in this vacuum of nothingness
In the maw of emptiness
Faith is a torment
In the covenant detritus
God’s gone and nothing’s replaced him
Loss is the rot at the soft place
The give in the vital brace
The brutal end of brutal things
The desperate groping as the light fades
Loss is the rot at the soft place
The still hand on the blank face
The one thing we can’t unmake
The final pillar of a one-way faith
Toiling nights of loneliness
My cure is your pestilence
Desperate nights got me delirious
Yahhh
Call out to me in the darkness
Faith is a torment
But torment won’t save us
Scream that love is a fortress
But it won’t hold in this vacuum of nothingness
In the maw of emptiness
Faith is a torment
In the covenant detritus
God’s gone and nothings replaced him
WHYYYY
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6. |
The Invisible Seam
03:55
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Amidst the tents and painted limbs
The fog refracts the sunrise
I have awoke a different man
An empty outline colored in
If I’m alright, if I’m OK
It doesn’t matter if I’m dreaming
What I don’t know, it can’t hurt me [P]
It only keeps us breathing
]What if enlightenment pulls back
The curtain I’ve been holding fast?
What if I’m the only one that’s left behind?
What if salvation doesn’t take?
What if the illusion breaks?
What if I’m left here just to fade away?
Upon the abandoned stage
The wind whispers to me
An autumn tongue speaking my name
In the mouth of another day
You’ll be alright, you’ll be OK
It doesn’t matter if you’re dreaming
Unto the dust, we are unmade
Never be afraid
In the embroidery I see the design of everything
A blue robe with golden flowers
The minutes swelling into hours
Time is all around us
Embracing me
In the infinite folds
Inside the wakeless dream
Into the dayless cold
Beyond the invisible seam
The invisible seam (x4)
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7. |
Blood of the Earth
04:59
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Two roads diverged
I chose the one mapped in blood
If you can’t teach them
Split them open
If you can’t make them see
If they can’t feel then make them feel again
Piece by piece by piece
The night is humid with hatred’s breath
The air is thick with the pyre’s stench
Cut off their heads to spare their necks
Reseed the fields with their ash
Carve out their tongues, take your words back
If we don’t fight, we’re no better than them
Two ends converge
We chose the one inked in blood
If you can’t tame them
Make them afraid again
We are not prey, we feed
If they can’t feel then make them feel again
It’s their turn to live on their knees
I am the blood of the earth
That you found in the dark
By the light of the fire
A trap in the night
I am the blood of the earth
That you found in the dark
By the light of the fire
A trap in the night
The winter limbs are my limbs
And the moon is my eye
And it’s seen ends like yours
Time after time
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8. |
Die Raval
02:41
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Last words denied
When you fucking go
Go quiet
Tell it
To the soil
Confide
In the lid as it’s sealed tight
Repent
Beg the stone
For anything
But the agony that you are owed
Peel back the lesioned skin
Of the world you’re living in
Stretch it until it fits
A new skeleton
You’re not fooling him
Die Raval (x6)
You were born dead you rapist pig
Die Raval (x6)
I hope you choke on your last breath
Why waste the water when you’re already dead?
Why feed the beast when it’s already fed?
Don’t beg for mercy, there’s no mercy for you
Just the same rotten boils eating through
You and your fucking kind...
You and your fucking kind are due
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9. |
The Censer
03:08
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We’re all borrowed
From those we follow
Beneath vaulted ceilings
The censer sways
We’re all borrowed
From those we follow
The stained glass bleeding
The censer sways
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The shepherd’s wet with blood
He’s led his bleating flock to the edge
Like water to the fall
Break the bread and pour the wine
Feed the fire to watch the fire die
The shepherd’s lost the path
The wolves froth and gnash
Like drums in the dark
Spend the coins upon your eyes
Heaven is the first and final lie
In this room
In this bed
Beside you, inside my head
Tomorrow blooms
Already gone, already dead
In this house
Between these walls
Beneath this facade
I can tell
From the look in your eyes
To you I’m nothing
But something else to lose
The shepherd’s black with blood
Nailed to his own crook
Another messiah on the spit
Break the bread and pour the wine
Feed the fire just to watch the fire die
The shepherd’s drank them dry
Filled the lakes and drained the sky
Threw it up and brought the flood
Give up, let go, and cave in
This is where everything begins
A voice said, let there be light
And there was light inside of me
It was brighter than It had any right to be
But it felt like a lie
That I’d die just to believe
So I stepped off the edge
And I’m still falling
Faster and farther
Farther and longer
There is no bottom
To catch me
Falling forward while drifting backward
In the still, I plummet faster
There is nothing to stop me now
There’s a light in the darkening pane
Distant peaks on fire
Release the mortal chains
Death is desire
There’s a light in the darkening pane
Burning brighter and brighter
Release the mortal chains
Death is desire (x4)
Death is desire
One more move and I’m free
Peace is a fire
I feel it burning in me
I feel it shining in me
I feel it cauterizing
I feel nothing
I feel nothing
I feel nothing
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