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With Roots In Hell
03:16
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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
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So It Is Done
03:07
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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
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Parallel Lines
03:19
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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
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Remedy
03:19
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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
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Metamorphosis
04:54
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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
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Order As Law
02:44
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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
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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
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Hunger Strike
03:30
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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
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Hallucination
04:59
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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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