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Mental Sewer
01:38
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The vermin rise and swarm, sharpening teeth
Sanding them down and away
The only pride lies in mass
Misguided by trust and fear
Bursting forth as promised from
Ever-defending home
The sewer, the realm of forgotten shit
Unexpected developments
We did not see, we did not hear
Unrealistic expectations
How much blood is on our hands?
There should be more, we should have fought
Break the chains and we break down
Unrealistic expectations
We should have known, how could we know
What never was, cannot cease to be
No one is coming to save anyone
He is not dead, he never lived
What never was, never will be
Forever and ever amen
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2. |
Shade of Doom
03:23
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Your formative years are over
Another day, another life, gone dry
Your ships have sailed, caught fire, and sunk
Last remaining memories of hope wither
The slow tightening of winter’s grip
The drying out of soft tissue
Less light each day, forever
Sundays could not have prepared for this
Voices re-appearing, in the night
Procrastination, has run its course
The shuffling of feet, beyond, the, door
Entrance granted to the sting, and nothing, more
Whisps of attempts to salvage
Between attempts at final manifesto
Mantras and anonymous quotes
Ringing hallow, as, ever
Mocked daily by the ghosts of opportunity
Wafting away, in the cold breeze, of the night
Dim memories, of chances gone
Picture the world without you
In it, is it any
Better, to have lived, to have failed
To live
To try
To grow
To die
We are owed
Nothing
We’re promised
Nothing
We warrant
Nothing
We deserve
Nothing
Owed and deserving of nothing
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3. |
Stillborn Phoenix
01:50
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The centuries pass
The timeline grows
Delusions of progress
These are exciting times
Is what we’re being told
A belief of change
Already shaped
By the same bloody hands
That formed the past
Invention the necessity
For tools of control
Keep looking away
Choosing to be blind
Willingly shackled
Enslaving yourselves
Burying your head
While the world burns
Eyes down, never forward
Meandering lives
Barriers breeding distractions
Wasting your time
Eyes down, never forward
Humanity unbinds
Barriers breeding distractions
Lie down and die
What entitled creatures we are
Lost in constant self admiration
Beg for the approval of your peers
While enabling each other’s vaunting
Desire to be at the front of the pack
Applauding, every conceited attack
Oh how predictable you have become
You self celebratory scum
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4. |
Fluorescent Coffin
01:49
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Entombed in rock
Constrained by bars
Flesh turns to bone through futile pursuits
Vision blurred
Bound to serve
Only in death will you be at rest
Debt
Always a debt
Never pad
This sense of self-worth is breaking you down
Devoid of hope
Breaking down
Still scraping and scraping
Clawing for the crown
Wishing and wasting your life away
Day turns to night
Routine in your way
Stuck in the formula
Reduced to a loop
Embracing the maze
With no release
Wishing and wasting your life away
Day turns to night
Live another day
Walking on your bended knees
Measures of wealth are all you see
Like clockwork you spend your years
In cycles folding for the hope
That it will all come back your way
Only regret is coming your way
Rotting
In this empty
Shell
Of a thing
You
Try to call
You
Can’t call life
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5. |
WYSIATI
03:16
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Lost in the mire
Of false perceptions
Imposing your views
Objectors be damned
Enemies created
With every dispute
Shutting out logic
While propagating conflict
Indulge in this face
While absolving yourself
Of this burden
Of being human
This mania
Is consuming you
Now everyone is your enemy
How will you fight them all
Who will you blame?
Misanthropy
Lurks in your worldview
Foaming at the mouth
Ready to pounce
Anger
Misdirected and shallow
Confused
So let them misguide you
Selective acceptance
Contradicting ideas
A walking disagreement
Waiting to implode
Deaf, To anything contrary
Infected, Beguiling self-righteousness
Hypocritical
Spitting diseased rhetoric
Prosecuting others
For what you don’t fully understand
Parroting narratives sound off
Who is to say you’re right?
Group that has made you faceless
With subservient aspirations
Weaponizing thought
Now everyone is armed
Think with caution
Or fall victim to
The Swam
Discarding your identity
And ditch reason for acceptance
So unsure of what you are
How can you trust yourself at all?
So unsure of what you are
Just following the heard
Buttressing clumsy ideology
With the grandstanding dead
Quarrelling, for the sake of quarreling
Raising volatile platforms
To hose these overnight martyrs
Dragged by your open mouth
Just following the heard
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6. |
Nrvnqsr
03:01
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Yearning to be saved anew
The futility of dead pursuits
Ancient bricks and stones of gloom
Or whitewashed sheetrock, same eternal doom
Drowning under acid rain
The earth is crushed under the reign
The score increases points reduced
Rules recycled anew, for pleasure of the few
Longing for death and her promises
Scraping the sores of the life you knew
Create the myth to prevent this
It never worked and never will
The score increases, each point reduced
The score resets, each point is nil
No worth no value no credibility
Never ending questions, never any answers
Drowning under acid rain
What was will never be again
Fill the world you know with piss
Die before the clock, you will never feel this
Wasting all life, wasting all mind
Putting in face time with the holy ghost
Feel the dead earth in the palm of your hand
You could never care, but yes you will feel this
The signals cross, and then just fade away
Burnt husks and charred shells stacked on high
Putting in face time with the holy ghost
Will buy you nothing, you will never feel this
Placing bets on the wrong tomorrow
Misguided concepts of everlasting life
Trading lies for a life of sorrow
The signals cross, and now, they just fade, away
Like a city under endless mourn
Everyday at half mast
For the world you knew, the life you loved
Never again, joy replaced by dust
Every bridge is burned and then
Nothing’s there the line is crossed again
Civilization planned around salvation
But no phoenix is coming
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Jeff (xFrom Ashes Rise/xHush)
Mike (xAt War With Shadows)
Byron (Lariat)
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