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Burn Ward Arson
03:16
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Sing hymns of plenty
while you march on barren land
Blind; horizons vanish
Were they ever in reach?
Don't give me tall tales of a tomorrow never promised
It wouldnt end with a bang, but this whimper is monstrous
Annul man made truth
Can you verbalize
what wasnt felt whole
Ive found no hope in hope
Refuse to build within what deprives you of worth
At very least, these bones held a scrap of dignity
Til whatever bitter end
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2. |
Brain Stain
01:47
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Where do we begin?
Ugly shadows linger
In middle of rooms
Drenched in cold sweat
deja vu in a firefight
broken blinds leaking light
temporary respite
as square one returns to sight
drag each other's ragged
bodies to points unknown
half trapped in the past
with what little strength amassed
trauma burrows deep
cauterization
led around by the heat
necrosis seems almost sweet
seeking to be engulfed by
anything but the static
annoited by ash ever warm
implications of burns known far too well
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3. |
Jaw Wired Shut
02:33
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parasitic larynx
false prophet
flew too close to the sun
as if they didn't quite know the outcome
Cult of personality bland and dry
get a glimpse of what's to be dignified
blatant products of exploitation
inspire deluded aspirations
latch onto lips laced with fool's gold
is it desperation or a lack of self awareness?
Swallow the tongue, gasp and choke
Forever in the corners I've scrounged most peace
etched between the lines, hid under each crease
desires force fed into every aspect of life
sought by apostles of catastrophe
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Occupational Hazard
01:45
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Light breeze through a steel cage
i dont even got the right to die on my own terms
light breeze through a steel cage
all that never was it only reaffirms
every week, every hour, every minute, every moment
hack up rust, hack up wires, hack up the $um of your decay
light breeze tear open my skull
construct my grave then declare its a choice to stay
light breeze tear open the sky
the clock ablaze to finally walk away
I can't remember how it came to this
Ive been stripped bare to barely subsist
the shroud: is labor all that must define?
the haze: years of smog and tears declined
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5. |
Fondest Memories
04:31
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the beast takes many forms
basic needs that cant be met
a body i cant see as my own
grating passage of wasted days
flicker then fizzle
how do you persist when even the air feels unreal
thought i saw you shambling past on the street
isolation breeds fates wholly engulfing
to the coagulation from the cut
hemophilic premonitions
so close behind
the beast takes many forms
learn to love the taste
rotten scraps help dissolve
sever identity and connections
Eternities spent digging for a spot to be forgotten in another spent digging your way out
obsess and flail for just a notion
some semblance of direction
Prisons contort into more than metal
i wonder which we'll create
the search for answers at a constant precipice
ceaseless
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6. |
Leap of Little Faith
03:06
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Rip out the concrete
Witness what god fears too
Malleable language
Affixed by those branded before
Bound to the illusion of progress
Conjure divine landscapes from a shallow breath
Then run when conflict collides with your thin veil
Rip out the concrete
Witness what god fears too
Intimacy; born in the cracks
Strike true and fast
Become your own iconoclast
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Torture Agenda Buffalo, New York
Rust Belt Wrath
Split w/ Electric Bath out 2/23/2024 via Orb Tapes
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