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THE RITE OF FLESH
03:47
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bleeding from my fingertips,
i redesign my body.
slice and slice above the ribs
remove what has been found.
born of blood and strange fluid
i emerge from my cocoon
this body wears and tears at me
and i must discard it soon.
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Not here,
I lay here wandering inside my bones
bloodfilled body
I don’t know you I don’t know anyone
My spirit dances on the edge of my own spine
i supervise the tears in skin
Observe the dripdown of red wine
No I don’t know you I don’t know you
I don’t know your shape at all
I don’t know you I don’t know you
I dont know your shape at all
My hands they fade away from view
Im blinded, obfuscated
curled up within my ribs I hide
My heart beats hard in double time
Body and soul disintertwined
we’re disequibrilated
i drift so far away from me
The shell that I’ve created
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BURNING
03:13
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Im in pain
The type of pain
That makes your blood itch
the skin is peeled
The corpse revealed
that now can speak no more
This urge to tear
Compulsive, dear
Remove the imperfections
My shell it wracks
heaven and back
My skin is burning Burning!
Flesh and blood
With thorns adorned
a tungsten halo curls around me
fire and smoke
Im immolated
My instincts scream out loud
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LOSTTOTHEWORLD
02:40
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I Slept in the forest for too long
Lost my original form
Covered in moss I awoke
My back encarapaced
My hands transformed to claws.
I reveled in this new body
Now no one would recognize me
Id rather be lost to the world
Than lost in the eyes of its people
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GHOSTSONG
04:08
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you can't see me anymore
i've faded from this place
i reach out and try to hold you
i formless, just slip right through
void, nothing is left of me.
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THE RITE OF BLOOD
03:39
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Subsumed
Erased
Erased
i am born anew
Drowned in blood spilled
Blood spilled
I will be made clean
Scarlet, carnelian
garnet ichor floods my eyes
within this blood rite
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NOTRUTH
03:22
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A deep black hole tugs away at me
Pulling at my heart and twisting hard
I stretch a thousand miles away from the sun
Can anyone return me to my last form ?
I float along,
im Petrified
a thousand eyes unseeing me
What can I do?
What can I say?
calcified, frozen in ice
The right way’s wrong
The wrong way’s right
no burning truth
I’ve caught alight
Your sightless god
And all your claims
I can’t stand you
Or what you say
Or what you do
Just go away
calcified, frozen in ice
The right way’s wrong
The wrong way’s right
no burning truth
I’ve caught alight
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CARAPACE (bside)
02:33
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I Slept in the forest for too long
Lost my original form
Covered in moss I awoke
My back encarapaced
My hands transformed to claws.
I reveled in this new body
Now no one would recognize me
Id rather be lost to the world
Than lost in the eyes of its people
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bleeding from my fingertips
i redesign my body
slice and slice above the ribs
remove what has been been found
born of blood and strange fluid
i emerge from my cocoon
this body wears and tears at me
and i must discard it soon
From this hell I escape
Free my body from this pain
Pockets full of meat they move
Jiggle to the sound I bang, bang
Bang, all these bones they break
Making masks to hide my frown
When I don’t get my way
I yell when you tell me pipe down
Get loud, seekin’ aid for my sadness
Fade away into madness
Sell my shackles on the deep web
And hope you find my casket
Why are you all laughing?
My happiness is not a joke
You must not know
How would you know?
How would you know?
How would you know?
You must not know
You must not know
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ABYSSAL CITADEL
A BLACK STEEL FORTRESS IN A BENIGHTED DESERT.
ALLEGEDLY A RECORD LABEL AS WELL.
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