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Unfeigned Purpose
03:15
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Waters subside to shallow spills
The offhand drippings from above
Plucked and placed in a deeper famine
Tell me I am on my own
Enter the guileless, the recruited egos
Their unfeigned purpose held close
Their bodies’ wealth of fluid now untarnished
Soon blackened, boiling waste
Festering tar, gaudy gold encased
Empty hands deprived of more
From heads held higher
If only they knew
They will know
Waters subside to shallow spills
The offhand drippings from above
Plucked and placed in a deeper famine
Tell me I am on my own
Tell me I’m alone
When we gather all we own to sate above
What will be left to rob?
I am on my own
I am alone
Brooding my solitude
I am alone
If only they knew
When waters subside
They will know
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2. |
Tethered to a Trigger
04:34
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Ticking anxious, obsessive clicks
Foreboding cold calamity
Suspense beyond the surface
Now, awaiting consequence
Dying is the feeble flame
Dying, dimming, smoldering
Meticulous design yields a turbulent implement
Its trigger tethered to our wooden feet
Guilty is the fuse-igniting perpetrator firstly blamed
Mistakes, our leader forbade
Intention, no one made
Dying is the feeble flame
Dying
The delicately dampened flame
Smoldering
Dying, dimming, smoldering
Beset by a punishment
Destined to begin
Exonerate when it's too late
Mistakes, our leader forbade
Intention, no one made
Guilty is the fuse-igniting perpetrator firstly blamed
Dying is the feeble flame
Dying
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3. |
Lucid Terror
03:08
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Sentient in a coma
Imprisoned in his consciousness
He lives the dream he dreads
Suffering in slumber
Eternal sleep shall be his ease
Shell shocked
He flees from his wilted husk
Still dormant in reality
He flees from his shell
Wide awake and dreaming
Suffering in slumber
Eternal sleep shall be his ease
With wounds beyond the mind
His visions coincide
As penetrating, vivifying
Vital threads incise
The antithesis of a paradise
This is the hell you waited for
Behold your settlement in chaos
Emerge from this demented mare
And sleep forever
Lurker looming from the shadows
A figment of reality
A figure of lucidity
Silhouettes like soldiers
Volatile, armed and drawn
Welcome to the hell you waited for
Behold your settlement in chaos
Emerge from this demented mare
And sleep forever
He lives the dream he dreads
Suffering in slumber
Eternal sleep shall be his ease
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4. |
The Means for Peace
04:20
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Trapped enemies fighting, purging, vis-à-vis
It seems like they relate, but they're deafened by debate
Cultivated, symmetric armies
Shrouded, each appears to be
Embedded in a patriot
Alongside his propriety
Hatred in replacement of eradicated sympathy
Withholding the means for peace
He needs something to destroy
Eliminate his sympathy
Withholding serenity
He needs something to destroy
Erase the memories
Of fostering misery
As trapped enemies
Fashioned by fathomless contempt
By and with the blood and bones of men
It seems like they relate
Obdurate and oblivious
No one will concede
Noble and naive
No one will concede
Sonic screams of weaponry
The only sound of harmony
Embedded in a patriot
Alongside his propriety
Hatred in replacement of eradicated sympathy
Fostering misery
Withholding the means for peace
He needs something to destroy
Trapped enemies fighting, purging, vis-à-vis
It seems like they relate, but they're deafened by debate
It just seems like they relate
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5. |
Freedom in Confinement
03:06
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6. |
Anhedonia
03:47
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His body harbors a craving
Addiction
This feeling must leave
Contently, he ingests
The remedy to his sentience
Contently, he submits
Pacified by a sweet sedation
Freedom in confinement
Freedom in his tomb
A prison built in his perimeter
Slow, like the hour hand
Depletion of his passion
Ascension of his apathy
Precipitating the fate ahead
Forfeit masquerading as failure
A trifle, he suggests
Indulging to replenish
A rigid, lonely lust
Reaped upon reflection
Contently, he surrenders
Pacified, neutralized
Forever in confinement
Forever in his grave
It's only essential
It's only a guise
Freedom
Contently, he surrenders
Contently, he submits
Forever in confinement
Forever in his grave
Pleasure reaped upon reflection
Anhedonia
It’s only essential
It’s only a guise
Defensively, he denies the facade
It’s who he is
Neurotically, he asserts his control
It’s who he has become
Freedom
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7. |
Eyes over Shoulders
02:36
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Meddler in the mirror
Mutable flesh in form
Follow my meandering path
Every step, a copycat
Rent the vision that proceeds
The blood is deeper than it seems
Carve a trench with stolen spade
Siphon tissue from a grave
Strangers melt desire
Forging an abstract mind to be bereaved
Bonded by feeling
Radiant, we gleam
Forgetting the promise to be stripped of individuality
Rent the vision that proceeds
The blood is deeper than it seems
The fabled, bottled bother
Now searching for another
Apprentice of malice
With eyes over shoulders
And though we’ve melded all our senses into one
I still remember how it feels to be alone
Parasite, but I hear no alarm
We find a lane
We feel the same
We trod our way
We make our way
We feel the same
The fabled, bottled bother
Now searching for another
Apprentice of malice
With eyes over shoulders
And though we’ve melded all our senses into one
I still remember how it feels to be alone
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8. |
The Seeds of Enmity
03:05
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Prowling surreptitiously through a dismal domain
Marooned in miasma and friendly fire
Possessed by a compulsion to defend this realm
A deluge of faces bombard our bounds
Fluorescent flares obscure our vision
We pluck our targets from the flock
We see new eyes
We surmise
Engraved on the faces of the dead
The reflections of our own
For worst of all myopia
I nominate this tragedy
Maniacally compelled to attack
We see new eyes, and we surmise
The seeds of enmity
And those who trespass
Will see a fate worse than death
(The worst of all myopia)
And those who trespass
Will see a fate worse than death
You'll see a fate worse than death
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9. |
Bereft
04:11
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You once seemed like a stubborn stain
Tenacious, grudge-maintaining pain
Now bereft of all sensations
I must convince you I’m insane
Believe me
It once seemed like we raised a knight
Secured as a servant to his leader
Now begging your beliefs to change
I must confess that I am insane
Believe me
I belong to another purpose
Call me a traitor
But it pains me to pose as a mannequin
No longer a display
Believe me, I am insane
No more
Believe me, I am insane
Believe me, it pains
There was once a way we could all
Diverge from our convictions
And merge our kindred guilds
(There was once a way)
We have seen what it means to succeed
To fight our distorted reflections
And hide as our bonds and buildings fall to ruin
A superficial glance of reinforced semblance
Symbolic streaks engraved in ladders linking enemies
Now bereft of all sensations
I must convince you I'm insane
Now begging your beliefs to change
I must confess that I am insane
Believe me, I am insane
Believe me, it pains
No longer a display
No more
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10. |
The Circle
03:19
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The circle is completing
Drawing victory from vacancy
This will be a dilapidated city left in our wake
A withered shell of itself
We fight, we hide
We strive, we glide
Inches above the water
We sank to sorrow
We fought, we sought
We found, we strived
We dwindled
We sank to sorrow
Our kingdom followed
The circle completes
The circle repeats
Violence, victory, reconstruction, defeat
Galvanizing, brainwashing, whitewashing
The circle completes
We pray to be the ones who reign
But these violent tangents deter our victory
The circle repeats
Our mortal wings see injury
Our weakness is our vanity
We fight, we hide
We strive, we glide
Inches above the water
We sank to sorrow
We fought, we sought
We found, we strived
We dwindled
We sank to sorrow
Our kingdom followed
The circle is complete
The circle repeats
Neverending repeat
No one will ever win
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