1. |
Dread
05:11
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bestow me celestial rewards
for all my putrid behavior
[scour the earth]
show us the upcoming attraction
of our hopeless endeavors
[the soil]
send all the pretty little angels
back to zero where they belong
waiting to kill the big man upstairs
may they be lucid and praying for rain
send all the filthy fucking angels
back to zero where they belong
and wait to kill the big man upstairs
may they be lucid and praying for rain
[smoldering]
only solemn pits of depression
hoping for a change of heart
stagnation's roots grow deep
the neverending dread to start
surrender your ego
tumble downward with me
cast thoughts into the void
and find that once free
[with ashes]
the soil is already smoldering
with ashes of the american flag
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2. |
The Shame Goes On
07:18
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i can see you've lathered yourself up
in algorithmic snake oil
and burned yourself at both ends
this epoch's eternal dirge
waiting for an unction
yet you ran out of gods to defend
spare me your they saids
your whataboutisms
your gaslighting
nail biting
infighting
virtue signaled
trial by firefighting
the shame in you
is guilt cast unto me
you've taken it all
and undone what could be
(the shame goes on and on
on and on and on)
now go tell 'em
from your mountaintop
in the era of introversion
we're marred and mirror images
of our own kind
but you never met a secret
you couldn't scream out loud
mangled acrimony as divine
spare me your they saids
your whataboutisms
your gaslighting
nail biting
infighting
virtue signaled
trial by firefighting
the shame in you
is the guilt cast unto me
you've taken it all
and undone what should be
(the shame goes on and on
on and on and on)
now go tell 'em
from your mountaintop
behold,
your redeemer
an arsonist
in cowardice
you'd writhe
in avarice
he'd thrive
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3. |
Pound of Flesh
06:38
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i can taste the cowardice
slithering through this city's veins
snakes, spiders, diamonds, pearls
they can pick their claim to fame
broiled in a summer of psychosis
frostbitten in a winter's barrage
the bitter, sarcastic uprising
swallowed up in the mirage
when we're razed from within
visigoths and paragons, one and all
will we still be standing?
will we be at all?
i have my doubts
i have my doubts
with freedom to shut your eyes
why bother to pick a side
i've heard the myths told
of annihilation sold
by idiots of the fucking fold
vanguards to ostracize
violence so intimate
consequences so menacing
and yet somehow all of you
never saw any of this coming
when we've been sacked from within
visigoths and paragons, one and all
will we still be standing?
will we be at all?
i have my doubts
i have my doubts
[goddamnnation]
take it up with god
take it up with your emperor
your dukes, your doomsayers
your heroes, your wayfarers
your daytripping placaters
your nagging naysayers
the oh so quite contrarian
with a quiet confederation
the quintessential constant
of this condemned cunt-cunt-country
now quit your bitching
when it's all ruined from within
visigoths and paragons, one and all
will we still be standing?
will we be at all?
i have my doubts
i have my doubts
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4. |
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when the sky
painted with a serrated edge
its ethos
forever obsessed
choosing to suffer
and reward bastards
get to the good part
and tell me how this ends
while I'm living in this fucked up apology
this loathsome hegemony
this predetermined nightmare
get to the good part
and tell me how this ends
while I'm living in this fucked up apology
this loathsome hegemony
this predetermined nightmare of nasdaq proportions
i've married into the madness of my own design
straight to every chakra
Now feed me my half-hearted absolution
with a silver spoon mantra
when the sky
painted with a serrated edge
its ethos
forever obsessed
choosing to suffer
and reward bastards
get to the good part
and tell me how this ends
while we're living in this fucked up apology
this lonesome hegemony
this neverending nightmare
get to the good part
and tell me how this ends
while we're living in this fucked up apology
this lonesome hegemony
this neverending nightmare of bailout proportions
the lividity in my stomach settles
just long enough to lose the rhythm
circumnavigating
circumambulation
and i know a thing or two
about self deprecating
passive aggression
i've got craters in my arm
where cigarette burns should've been
disowning disassociation
when the sky
painted with a serrated edge
its ethos
forever obsessed
choosing to suffer
and reward bastards
get to the good part
and tell me how this ends
while we're living in this fucked up apology
this lonesome hegemony
this terminal nightmare
get to the good part
and tell me how this ends
while we're living in this fucked up apology
this loathsome hegemony
this terminal nightmare of existential proportions
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5. |
Vestibular
10:12
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you, you've got your
cocaine cousin
and i heard jack and jill
caught the plague
i, i picked up
the nastiest habits
but all in all
we like to think we're still the same
we, we've chased
every dragon's tail
for so long now
the serpent feeds on its own entrails
in a failed coup against ether
the timeline seems ever bleaker
but it just feels like the world is testing our patience
and it's all so temporary
temporal and temporarily tempting
temper, temper, i have no patience for it
abandon hope
find us a getaway
from this state
this state of mind
just shove our heads
between our legs
as we wave
wave it all goodbye
a noose
around the shadow's neck
i keep dancing through moonlight
the only fool
who could still find solace
turning the dial left and right
i think i've lost it
i think i've lost my mind
let me assure myself that these
yes these are blessed times
running dry on facades to sell
i'll just go and reinvent myself
Śūnyatā
a point of origin
our subterfuge
our vestibule
a lovesick, deranged
version of you
the broken clock twice chimed
with kaleidoscopic
vitriol it rhymed
to the beat of the milieu
abandon hope
find us a getaway
from this state
this state of mind
just shove our heads
between our legs
as we wave
wave it all goodbye
but it just feels like the world is testing our patience
and it's all so temporary
temporal and temporarily tempting
temper, temper, i have no patience for it
but it just feels like the world is testing our patience
and it's all so temporary
temporal and temporarily tempting
temper, temper,
i have no patience for it
abandon hope
find us a getaway
from this state
this state of mind
just shove our heads
between our legs
as we wave
wave it all goodbye
Śūnyatā
a point of origin
our subterfuge
our vestibule
a lovesick, deranged
version of you
the broken clock twice chimed
with kaleidoscopic
vitriol it rhymed
to the beat of the milieu
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6. |
Hostage / Disruptor
05:23
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overly medicated
sleep deprived
my days here
have meant nothing
we're trapped in eternity
together, my dear
our days here
have meant nothing
curb my drinking
and reconnect when it's convenient for me
trade your luck in for mine
catastrophic thinking won't just let it be
[face my reckoning]
mistaking laisse faire
for callousness
a hostage to
affection
in the optic age
another day with no sun
hostage stroking
captivation
curb my drinking
and reconnect when it's convenient for me
trade your luck in for mine
catastrophic thinking won't just let it be
[face my reckoning]
with my one eye gone
and my hair falling out
i can't trust my left arm
and my voice won't be bothered to shout
i don't remember a damn thing
so far from humanity
in a reality
that supplants my dignity
curb my drinking
and reconnect when it's convenient for me
trade your luck in for mine
catastrophic thinking won't just let it be
[face my reckoning]
uppers
downers
all arounders
there's enough to get me by
repugnant
solvent
advent
there's enough to let us fly
so i'll never have to face this reckoning
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7. |
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her harshest rays
the sinking dream
with my head buried in your mullet
distractions feels like a guillotine
a fairweather fuckup
generations defined by a car crash
arterial roads of our lives
are crawling with black cats
so take it for what you will
because i don't know how to feel
I've dreamed of it all
what came before and what comes next
so take it for what you will
because i don't know how i feel
I've dreamed of it all
what came before and what comes next
and I can live with it
is it the ending that we craved
this wager on the apocalypse
dashing hopes, chasing ghosts
i need a drink to get through this
scattered in the details
the dark matter that we need
space to hide behind radiant smiles
so we'll never have to see
so take it for what you will
because i don't know how to feel
I've dreamed of it all
what came before and what comes next
so take it for what you will
because i don't know how i feel
I've dreamed of it all
what came before and what comes next
and I can suffer it
this situation sounds the same
as the last of the static rings
[over and over, over and over]
new stations, voices of one name
as they spinelessly shout
[over and over, over and over]
repent for silence before
the frequencies, they start to roar
through my plummeting ears
but i'm far too gone
and i was never really here
no, i was never really here
so take it for what you will
because i don't know how to feel
I've dreamed of it all
what came before and what comes next
so take it for what you will
because i don't know how i feel
I've dreamed of it all
what came before and what comes next
and I can harbor with it
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8. |
A Wretch Like You
04:31
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there's that humor, it reflects
that familiar, multifaceted
self-indignant disrespect
derealization
a fire in your eyes
you can always say
you were just caught up
in the riptide
a cause that never had a rebel
how did words become so malleable
a wretch like you
could learn a thing or two
about what you should do
when humanity's through
and a wretch like you
just can't get it through
when we're all fed up
and turning away
from a wretch like you
your lover's heart left lacerated
they'll learn to like the taste of steel
and lick their lips at the feeling of being hated
macrocosmic
a joke that makes everyone cry
you should've known
they'd never let you
slide on by
a cause that never had a rebel
how did words become so malleable
but a wretch like you
could learn a thing or two
about what you should do
when humanity's through
and a wretch like you
just can't get it through
when we're all fed up
and turning away
from a wretch like you
i'm all but certain
resilience will be futile
this diatribe from corpses
signifies nothing
we'll soon find you buried
among the meanwhile
wasted flesh that
festered in loathing
a wretch like you
could learn a thing or two
about what you should do
when humanity's through
and a wretch like you
just can't get it through
when we're all fed up
and turning away
from a wretch like you
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9. |
Fleeting Glimpse
05:45
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[forget our reflections]
cold,
cold fragility
how i long to see you fly
i fear the stars
look much more brilliant
from the other side
voices echoing through the void
arms raised up to the sky
the rain, it finally arrives
and washes away tears with a sigh
but when my sky goes out
and all the light is blotted out
i feel you still stand by my side
i know you'll be right by my side
[staring at their reflections
we won't look back]
but when my sky goes out
and all the light is blotted out
i feel you still stand by my side
i know you'll be right by my side
[forget our reflections]
let's set sail
for the nearest shipwreck
yes, let's fly south for the flames
let's fight
against our own rebirth
and find a way to stay the same
as far from heaven as the horizon sinks
let's not wait for the earth
to catch up to our falling feet
since it was always you amongst the fleet
the fleeting glimpse
[forget our reflections]
and when my sky goes out
and all the light is blotted
i feel you still stand by my side
i know you'll be right by my side
[staring at their reflections
we won't look back]
the fleeting glimpse
of what was to come, and what could save me
when my body feels like glass and my spine misaligned
the current prescriptions can't fix my mind
i've got a hunch that
our friends are all drunk
even when they're all stuck inside
it's only when i turn over in bed
and i see you in loneliness' stead
that everything feels fine
everything's fine
with you by my side
let the whole world just fuck off and die
while it's just you and i
you and i
shove annihilation aside
as we embrace and get by
while the whole world fucks off and dies
and when my sky goes out
and all the light is blotted
i feel you still stand by my side
i know you'll be right by my side
it was always you
it was always you amongst the fleet
the fleeting glimpse
of what was to come, and what could save me
from myself
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