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Spiritual Poverty

by Hive

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Mediated performer - Foul environment endorsing disorder An advertisement plugged in and out Audience direction for the reinforcement of doubt Best explored through a lens and a competitive environment Model life separates at the seams and walls collapse in When identity is currency and illusionary intimacy Without an original thought to ourselves With roots in hell Comatose while the snake turns to smoke There’s nothing left for them here The only commodity sold here is fear Wasted times like fountain coins The fire burned hot and then abruptly out They shaved the dignity off of the proud and devout At the dissolution of things time devours all Unsatisfied and unstable, falling victim to ever turning spirals Carved up with the old tools, in exchange for the gold of fools Without an original thought to ourselves With roots in hell
2.
When the whipcracker’s gaze falls back to the mob and says “so it is done” The peasants applaud at the breaking of wills While blankets of ash smother the sun When the slavemaster’s reign rose to the top of the chain Breaking every link that followed behind him Crushing bone with deadly grip But where do we go from here When this sickness just floats in the air? They are unforgiving They are unrelenting They’ll follow to the grave They know no bounds He’ll strip the meat from the bone for his hounds The bad actors and the victim matches Directionless slashes wrapped in red and blue He holds the obedient and detractors under water alike His foot on the back of our heads
3.
Who fired first? And which games of war get submerged? What is steel or the mechanism of death Compared to the hand that wields it? The good things blink out one by one And the thrill of the hunt becomes that which leads The ever nodding heads direct to armageddon Parallel lines With the advantage of time A bitter world begins to sprawl A race to extinction and be the first against the wall White flame of pure hatred From the sewer to the grave The unseen hands of a vengeful god Reach out from death’s womb begot And the apparatus keeps clicking Parallel lines With the advantage of time A bitter world begins to sprawl A race to extinction and be the first against the wall Parallel lines Grind against the crust of time Parallel lines In the prime to live and die
4.
Remedy 03:19
The gates open for the ailing victim The suits have prepared your room The straightest of jackets are pressed To free you from the things you knew Stagnant blood demands the leech So bind antiquity’s remedy A cross compounded into skull Worn to keep the ghosts at bay Mercurian cure - a lethal dose of liquid sunshine Sadness woven in to cruelty’s bouquet And the surgeon’s wishes for your stay will be obeyed Ice pick in hand and prefrontal destination Relinquishment of personality And your mind’s contamination Mercurian cure - a lethal dose of liquid sunshine Sadness woven in to cruelty’s bouquet And the surgeon’s wishes for your stay Laced with quicksilver martyrdom Now child take your medicine Alleviate that which ails you Must you suffer through the ache of life? Fair warning The abnegation of torment comes at a price
5.
Cure for cancer I took the high road and it still led me here With a cross to bear Unlike animals guided by instinct The concept of freedom and choice Makes sense of absurd purpose Metamorphosis The same paranoid awareness of shifting balances There’s no comedy left divine Only left to be burned unread Ear mark of self reflecting fiction Spiritual poverty A story that evolved as a true birth Covered in filth I took the high road and it still led me here
6.
Order As Law 02:44
Form and formless cremation ground All consuming aspects of corrupted accounts ‘This light flashes every fifteen seconds...’ Self directed contestants to new dimensions Restoration of order Butchers march forward Severing the bondage of mercy Place the garland of heads around your fucking neck All consuming aspects of new realities New bloodthirst for new adversaries Restoration of order Trading cultures for song birds Your refusal to enable and refrain From giving that which is expected Beyond all qualities of nature Withholding love and sympathy Barbarism for their hygiene law Severing the bondage of mercy Place the garland of heads around your fucking neck All consuming aspects of new realities New bloodthirst for new adversaries Order as law Order as law
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Protection 04:35
Under lock and key and submerged in concrete The bars may as well be the shackles at our feet Supposed sanctuary for those outside and in Mental cemetery celebrating ruin Spend some time alone in a lightless hole And a lifetime contemplating what was done The ladder’s top rung buys his own protection To ensure the king is not dethroned To topple the patriarch you must set his nest ablaze But no it’s none of my fucking business Shoot the messenger and reward the source And below, behead the witness Put him in chains or in the ground Spend some time alone in a lightless hole And a lifetime contemplating what was done The ladder’s top rung buys his own protection To ensure the king is not dethroned On top of the chain of command with a list of demands But no it’s all in the name of business Shoot the messenger and reward the source And below behead the witness Put him in chains or in the ground
8.
Lie awake in a hospital bed with only the hum of machines To drown out these thoughts in my head Like a force that cannot be seen Losing air alone in a room with no end in sight White knuckle these attacks when they strike And wait for looming darkness to subside It’s trapped inside and I can’t let it out Like a body outlined in a damaged mind Irony in chains - they’re the same Well wishes under a thick coat of dust Good intentions bent to fit Nerves ground down to heavy rust Scraped away by nails bit to the quick Throwing sand in the eyes Crushed under the weight of the highs What’s left after the will is trampled under calloused eyes? Episodes where I struggle to see the light at the end of the tunnel Suppress the need to understand What is suffering and what is normal
9.
Dead weight hanging from your neck Eyes peer out from hidden locations Sinister rays from the crosses stations The loom in the air deals trade in lunacy Dadd sees the eyes that watch them And Matthews keeps the seat warm at Bedlam Illustrations of madness - fear of the guillotine The middleman transmits from the influence machine Give me rest or agony - repeaters control now what i see Die a noble death from self inflicted wounds In defiance of the lord’s papal court Semi autonomous figures loom and inmates left in cells to brood The obelisk administers torment from hallucinations Sinking deep in captivation Illustrations of madness - fear of the guillotine The middleman transmits from the influence machine Give me rest or agony - repeaters control now what I see Terror reigns out of site and the streets Fill with aristocrat’s heads on pikes Die a noble death of the Bethlemites

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released August 19, 2022

Recorded feral in Minneapolis, 2021 by Dan Jensen

Mixed by Dan Jensen

Mastered at Audiosiege by Brad Boatright

All songs written and performed by Hive

Art, design and layout by Morgan Carpenter

Jim Adolphson - bass/vocals
Morgan Carpenter - guitar/vocals
Dan Jensen - guitar
Mike Paradise - drums

Vinyl edition released by Translation Loss Records, 2022

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