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Living Prey
05:25
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Who's that looking you in the eye?
Masturbating on your sympathy
Just another animal in pain
Stick the first one you see
The scalpers are out again
As ghosts wander day by day
Regurgitating their daily gospels
With vain purpose and neutered instinct
Oh how they love their little lies
I feel you leaving
In a stir of flinching limbs
Reaching back in memory
To the first signs of life
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A Garland in Decay
06:38
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Long cold dead earth
The prize of slow suicide
with seven charred prayers
All beauty culled from sight
A withered garland
marks the hangman's door
Over strange houses
Towers fall with rust
Many went off to die
For decades at a time
In steel captivity
In the gardens of man
The one sent from heaven
Left trenches sealed with blood
All that was coveted
Lies tattered at your feet
In those moments, I stood alone
Lost in the moon's caress
My faith lies bleeding
Bullet torn and still
I'm free to wander
To laugh in God's open wound
What is it that lurks in the caverns
That would cleanse me of this world?
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The Boundless Descent
04:09
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I heard you calling in the garden
Your voice older than memory
You are the end of all flesh
With flowers wrapped in barbed wire
Your gift, a dark moon's light
In this land among the shells
Staring for miles
At all the things we fear
The loss of our ground
The moment of our death
Alone without thought
In the nothingness we are
The sky bleeds out
At last, we are consumed
Forced to confront
The blade in your side
Lost in amnesia
A surrender to the tides
Don't look for safety
The boarders have been broken
I emptied my head
And the waves took me away
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Our Idol of Stolen Teeth
05:41
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What cries like a cow that hangs by its hooves?
Spinning in this perpetual butchery
Children lie maimed on burning concrete
Ending bloodlines of misery
Skyscrapers come crashing down
The tears of mothers are silenced
The moral highground is a graveyard
For the prosperity of would be kings
who grow grain on ash and bone
All paid for with poisoned seas
Shrouded in frost like smoke
The slaves have long since yielded
To iron laws they've consented
As a moral duty
To be dependent and pacified
Rendered subterranean
Under the law of flesh and coin
The day of fire is coming
The white horse rides, oh it rides
Into the embers of a dying empire
We breathe like lepers
Consoled in our deeds
The feathers of angels
lie soiled in the rain
sinking jaws never forget
Come rid this world of it's civilized pride
All the saints were washed in blood
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Final Agony
06:13
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A cold caress from the soil
Palm leaves adorn the stone
Longing to decompose
Strung up like saint
Spread wide in a ditch
Throw these bones away
to your deepest sewers
A tired hand has lost the will
An eager grip takes control
What stalked the woods through the night
will rule the ruins after dawn
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Scavenger Parade Seattle, Washington
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Gods of the Dead
by Carlton Heston
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