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Blood on the Map
06:26
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from fire, we wake
into cold desolate
condemned infancy
senses reeling for a taste of malady
open arteries are dripping with the juice
sweet salvation from the hunt
this intoxicating fruit
fertile crescent dilating with the seed
sedentary occupation
festering atrocity
we prey upon the tiger
running from the bull
in the shadow of the horns
we pray unto the storm
to pump blood into the veins
forcing life against the grain
justified to execute
these instructions absolute
drink deeply, the juice
stack your temples tall
hang your gardens high
lest another harlot find his eye
visage of god
the guise we choose
flesh facade so easily removed
but what crime deserves this curse of sentience?
no way back to sweet, sublime incognizance
no man is nomad in this cathartic wasteland
as savage gateways open; choose a side the future beckons
born from the ash, it is time to rise
blood on the map, it is time to rise
blind and grotesque, it is time to rise
burn what is left, it is time to rise
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Unfurled Spines
06:39
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whether by chaos, corruption, or greed
these glorious ventures indentured to history
peddled existence collected with interest
will poison the minds of these unfurled spines
born in the image of ignorance and fear
poetic projections achieving ascension
with fallible freedoms and ruinous wisdom
we mask our repugnance with fragrance of progress and reason
the blood of fools will flow
from gaping wounds of old
into the hearts of man
blood of fools will flow
with lions strength from lupine breast, another suitor rises to contest
where brothers lie in shallow graves from east to west, embattled and enslaved
what world will remain to behold?
when all of our eyes have been closed
so narrow the passage of time
unyielding the witness' eye
alas, withdrawn
shackles shaken but not gone
release but not reward
a thousand years of darkness to endure
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3. |
In Miasmic Despair
06:55
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forward we cross into night
leaving our future mistakes behind
enlightened darkness prevails
kings trading laurels for thorns and nails
in this intrepid kingdom of ash
smoldering stories of yesterday's glories
and flickering phantoms pervade
just shadows enrobed for the masquerade where we dance
dance to the rhythm of this sacked religion
where steeples and spires are measured in pyres
we bask in this season of undying treason
as futile feudality swallows morality
bleed for thy lord death shall reward
feel the burden of flesh melt away
lifeless vassals feeding castles
brick by brick, we rebuild this grand pyramid
but beneath the disdain
lies your temple in flames
a return to the dark from whence we came
in miasmic despair
breathe in the cold nightmare
and rot in this cage of molded flesh and violence
but you will suffer no more
when this disease becomes the cure
when you embrace the remedy
a solution to the problems existence is causing
close your eyes and see
resounding silence washes over the unclean
astray in isolation show me what it means
to know that when i see the other side
the light that's fading from your eyes
will not evade this crusade
erase the unknown
a new world to call home
ocean’s reach
depth of hate
terror form
subjugate
so supple this nubile domain
penetrate virgin shores
sowing seed with such fervent malice
lay claim in voracious disgrace
with your borrowed banner
and we will suffer no more
when we erase this fucking world
as we escape from all the fear and misery
out of obscurity climb, through coalescence of mind
we render this pathetic human paradigm obsolete
erase the unknown
subvert human form
deprecate
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4. |
Serial Eyes
07:40
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blackened, our lungs as we breathe
life into the machine
steel be our hearts
in syncopated unions apart
capitulating freedom consigned in resignation
slave to the swine
combustible disease
to see a world beyond our time
a force of involution
twisting and grinding our teeth
choke on the hand that feeds
burn and refine
a visionary profit inclined
to keep the masses assembling lines
a cartographic prison defined
a shelter from the culled
to fill a void to kill the time
a horrid evolution
mastered minds are drawing blueprints in the wolf pen
broken vessels bleed forever just to find a way out
but i try to survive an existent demise
executing my life line after line
and who gets to decide between service and strife?
by the will of the hive, i open my eyes
as the poison enters my veins
i can't breathe, i can't feel another way
as the worms feed into my brain
i can't see, i can never look away
as numbers divide, i try to survive
in the blink of an eye, resolve to nothing
as zeroes collide, only one will survive
through perpetual motion sickness, i fight
device or divine?
the sentient lie
industrial wombs yielding cognitive tombs
where we lay our minds to rest
i am alive
through serial eyes, every bit of you looks the same
device or divine?
the sentient lie
our heroes decide
the value inside
are we living or just alive when we are serialized?
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5. |
Lines in the Sand
04:41
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stakes piled high across the land
we play a royal hand
from castles made of sand
bodies hanging by a fine line
feeding serpentine relations
with dissenting smiles
draw the line
this placid illusion fading
the colors all rearranging
in the gray, i stand alone
the memories that haunt me
cannot be responsible
for the wretch before you now
cross the line, and you’ll find that we don't belong on either side
an affront to these shallow trenches
so hastily inked in conquest
all the pieces in play for the gambit
nameless faces erased
as shooting stars fill the skies with violence
on the shoulders of hungry giants
o, how their constellations grow
hold the line
with your bloodstained banner to justify our lust
transcribe the epics of heroism
notarized in the blood of villains
to the victor, the spoils of perdition
battered borders redrawn and partitioned
reparation through starvation
with this carthaginian piece of the banquet
don the shame as this indignation is
stowed away in the depths of abasement
blur the line
between saint and savage to justify our lust
will this hunger deny forever?
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Beneath Umbral Skies
05:13
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blood through the mirror
death locks the door
lifeless indifference
apathetic scars
cold the other side, a dissonant reflection
bathe under an umbral sky
in frigid beds, we lie
three walls surround us
two worlds below
pain is a comfort
suffered afar
lay your weapons down beside the proxy partisans
pull the trigger on command
and wash your filthy hands
the factories of pleasure vomit pulses forth in ecstasy
witness now our glory days, a golden age of fallacy
outfitted in fashionable rage
failed actors on a shallow stage
can’t see the terror for the dreams
under the shadow of the free
profiteering fear and hope with love letters and ransom notes
these grave demands and callous hands will lead us to the promised land
cast your sight upon the pauper's prize
manic minds mounted on mangled spines
feeding time, monstrous the appetite
bottom lines hunger for human eyes
cold, the other side of this reflection
cold, the shadow of our own invention
hold the screams in silent silos suffering
cold on the inside
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7. |
Woe
06:35
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wait on our knees and pray
to what trending faith
pray for all to see
transient belief
mother, don't you cry
and sing your lullaby
father's coming soon
to take away the pain
all i see and all i know
sifting through the vacuous collective mind
what you reap is what you show
painted on illusionary canvases
i try to find a way out
sinking on a vessel in the emptiness of what's left behind
i see the future coming from below
and as the void turns into conductivity, signified divinity
we all pay tithe unto the harbinger bellowing his fellowship of
woe is this gift i bring to your door
portraits of interfaces smiling through the glass
weaponizing vanity, controlling what it means to be unknown
we wade into the sediment
collecting the filth that gives us a purpose
atrophy for the pulpit
holding our breathless air
the end of night and day
stars slithering across an endless gray
placebo pulses beating in arrhythmiatic contest
our mother beckons home
turning earth to sand
and rending flesh from bone
a last chance to save our souls
the transmission is growing weaker
while you drown in delight
at the edge of ascendancy
a feeling divine
i'm fading away
our lives on a line
drawn in the sands of the hourglass
so vicious a sight
i can't look away
away from the blight
away from the suffering
away from the poison arrow that penetrates
the heels of this hedonic race
we die here tonight
flesh and bone disguises, silicon comprises all that we came to be
condign misery
and we arrive on distant shores
once burning beacon, now a glow
these battered lungs excrete a feeble consolation
while you drown in delight
at the edge of ascendancy
a feeling divine
i'm fading away
we all hail the sight
of the future industrial complication
an answer to all the prayers
bearing priority fare
aversion denied
can't seem to find a way
to hide from the sadness that suffocates
a fleeting life that celebrates this fate
we die here tonight
flesh and bone disguised, silicon comprised
cogs of the god machine
evolution complete
i die here tonight
so wide awake i leave behind this surrogate
a feeling divine
i'm fading away
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Stillborn Atrocity
05:56
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a spectral silence beckons
ethereal stains fading away
time's prisoners from portals past and future
relinquish this parasitic grip
abysmal wounds can begin to heal
the dam has burst
a river of remorse floods this plane of despair
this gift of pain wasted, misunderstood
the dichotomy of empathy and venomous avidity
how can i find a way to evade this cyclic redundant provocation?
barbaric beings
noxious fools
stillborn atrocity
ocean of tears and waste
destitute fate revealed
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