1. |
Forced Decay
03:10
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All while you relish the compact,
The crushing hammer of God like men
Elected officials like swine
Convince you of your sins
Suffer for pennies the scraps
They fell from the factory line
Disease is pride unchecked
And history unknown
This forced decay
Of our own existence
This forced decay
By our own admittance
Where is the compassion and love
That is supposed to conquer?
Nothing more than buried
In the grave of comfort and luxury
Is sanity now reversed?
A state of agony, perverse
Lie gutted of all you cherish
As It lingers just out of reach
No movement
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2. |
Fall Down
02:09
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Hark no angels call
No saviour will come
We brought this pain ourselves
We have been undone
I'm not the son of civilisation
Nor the daughter of man
I'm not what you expected
Take cover while you can
Fall down
Out of the sky
Ashen wings burnt
by your sun
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Unborn
03:31
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Unborn
A solemn wish
Unborn
Blood clenched fist
Unborn
A hate twisted, gouged
Unborn
I reap what you will sow
If ever there was a single day
Where no anguish was bestowed
I would still take what was owed
My unbirth from history
Unborn
Like a rotten plague spread
Unborn
The flies about the newly dead
Unborn
Immolation heaps burn bright
Unborn
From that warmth theres no life
The condition unique to us
Torture engagement of life
Bequeath you my sight
No reason wills us onward
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Bitter Sunlight
04:40
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Sun dries up
Bitterness and grey
But sweet reverie
Only lasts a day
Hands so cold
They start to freeze
Now I think I sense
The tragedy
I beheld a world so dear
Though it's meant to burn I fear
No pain can touch those dead
A secret ideal I kept in my head
Everything everything
We've ever held
Everything everything
Returns to ash
Like the sand within our hands
Like the sand within our hands
Blown away
Without delay
Now I feel the anger pulse
I want to take a knife and gut it
Cut away the pain
Cut away the hatred
Wants and needs misguided
Flawed to be smited
Now you play, play the fool
Theres no place for hope
And cruelty rules
The grave beckons us all
The grave beckons us all
We all answer
We heed the call
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5. |
How Much Will We Endure?
03:17
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Aroused by our sorrow
They feast on our grief
They pull out their fangs
From laws underneath
Incensed with privilege
Our lives they do choke
So one day they might smother
All of our hope
How much
Will we
Enjoy
Abuse
Betrayal
Enslaved
And raped
The ardour of passion
Fades when a tongues swole
With contagion
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6. |
Arrow In Heart
05:09
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To shoot an arrow
Or break your neck
An act of love
Or self respect
This dagger cuts
scars made for you
This grave is deep enough
to hold two
Posture forgotten
In a passion slain
A time begotten
And senseless things
How desolate my heart
Bereft of thee
And in this woeful tomb
In dark I can see
Unrequited pleasure
A pain subtly sweet
And with this whip I hit
My back will surely bleed
I am my own master
But I feel so chained
Words if wisdom be damned
And my life a red stain
Touch is forgotten
The day is slain
Just leave me be
Just leave me
Be
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7. |
Shame (2019)
03:50
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Lip to lip
Your fetid kiss
A sneaking sickness
Of hateful morals
A shameful face
For your superior race
A fucking disease
Your white beliefs
I wish cruelty on your brow
No matter when or how
Your welcome to die
No love in your pride
Kill you while you're down
Eradicate idealism
Violence for peace
Peace through decay
Another war waged
Rid of the fascist plague
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8. |
Never Ending (2016)
02:21
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Once snow has fallen
You can hear the calling
Blood through veins
Fatality ingrained
Winter of youth
A facade of tombs
Sweet summer rot
Ruin, life sought
Never ending
Decline
Never ending
Desperate longing
Dread like needles
Pierce the feeble
Blood letting for more
Than the life now bore
Set silence in the woods
Set silence in my heart
A final plea
From the one within me
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Peace Through Decay Madisonville, Tennessee
“If there is a true universal mind, must it be sane?" - Charles Fort
Est. in 2020.
Logo/Symbol by J. Nada
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