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Judas of Azalea
03:53
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"The great betrayal. Listen to his slurred speech. Each blood-stained coin buys him another drink, another chance to escape into himself. He’ll speak of fate and of the way things were. I felt his every step and I watched as his soul was bought with the cost of two souls. The Son could not hide from the shadow of his kiss. He’ll speak of his repentance, and how he sent his own soul to the heavens, but it only brought him here."
When I'm drunk I can feel the good times wash over me
All the smoke from the bar, bathed in collective suffering
But when I'm high I can feel the devil sitting right behind
When I reach for his neck, fear shifts its weight
And it's my face I see as I go plummeting back to earth
When it's you and the darkness
Separated by this existence
What reflections do you find in the shadows there brother?
Is it the world we were told of by our dear mother and father?
Is it echoless
Is it silence
Or is it the world still raging inside us
Recycled forever
My inescapable fate has followed like a shadow
To meet me here at the edge of the wood
I'm no sort of friend in this wilderness
A darkness lost in wanderlust
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Brother Goliath
04:02
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"A man born of violence, shaped by his own hand, felled by a god’s favor in the hands of a child. Each step shakes our foundation but the tremors of his voice are greater. Brought to his knees by a stone’s throw. Brought to me by vengeance. Each challenge to a patron, the tossing of a table, brings a warmth to my chest. He wishes for another chance with the Israeli King. His blood is but a drop in the lake filled by that King’s hand."
And I was awake
Alive in the life you made
Born of my father’s eyes
Really it was no surprise
Oh, how blindness leads to anger
I was born no lamb for the slaughter
Ever since I'd left home, dreams of when bronze meets bone
But I'd learned better than to believe campfire prophecy
"Come here that I might feed your flesh to the heavens
Come here that I might leave your bones for the dogs"
Time would remember our fate and favor your name
Even through the oceans of blood that you brought
We're only separated by a valley
Beset by holy snakes
I've yelled for forty days
My only answer in the echoes
I've waited a lifetime of silence
Now, armor 'round my legs, a tight guard 'round my neck
Is the violence in my eyes really any surprise?
I'm no sort of friend in this wilderness
Bloodlust arrogance
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The Assumption of Moses
05:16
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"Dust covered and riddled with doubt, he who brought the law of the I Am, now reduced to drunken ramblings of regret. Was it his savior that brought him forth from those forty years, or was he lured there by trails in the sand? Carried through the Nile, carried through the Sea of Red, only to die with the prize in his eyes. Those promised lands fading, the green of his eyes ablaze with fury, and the dryness of his mouth tasting not like a Man of God, but of a man forgotten."
A hardened heart can take you like an ocean parted
A moment of clarity before death rushes in
What choice did I have when we spoke in Midian?
Give me the sword and I'd cut him short again
Forty years leaving forgotten graves
Fire by night, mist by day
What did you expect when you gave us snakes and spoke from a bush set ablaze
Were we all sacrifices on the altar of the desert
I'd begun to think I followed the snake from the garden to the desert
I was never much for words
And I was never much for this world
My body lays in some forgotten place hidden by the glare of your brilliant flame
Forever lingering in my grave
Caught between the words of Michael and the Devil
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Jonah the Doomed
04:11
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"Lured into the belly of the beast and shaded beneath the arm of a god, now spit out and burned from a job well done. Did he not do what was asked? Did he not bring Nineveh to its’ knees? A cruel jest played on the thinking mind. A man who spoke his heart turned to flame. The ringing of rebuke in his mind. He seeks redemption on his betrayer. Nineveh is reborn. Who shall quell their wrath a second time? Who can stop the twice-hardened heart?"
I was running out of light
Running out of time
Running out of life
The sun will set despite everything we think we know
Time will end, suspended in the unknown
I got on that boat knowing I’d drown everyone on board
Death was mine to give
Never yours to demand until that damned leviathan
Nineveh I was gonna fill your streets with blood
Blot you out
A small salt mound
Like Sodom and Gomorrah
But I was relegated to the shade of weak heart
You ripped out the page before the ink had dried
What a fool you made of me
What a fool you’ve made
Are you a God or a ghost?
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Twin Killers
04:06
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"Here I have come. A millennia have passed and you have not heard from me. I am the beast lying in wait. Through your scheming and wars, you missed the subtle beat of my heart. Neither below the earth or above, but of the earth. I am the great mother, the life you’ve drank to quench your evil thirst. Satan rose against you but I have found him weak. His tongue is sweet but drips with poison. I take him into myself, consumed for the last time. I will stand in the face of the Father, for I am Mother Earth. These few, these drunken fools, will carry me through your pearly gates. The fear of man will fill your heart and your angels will cry out. Once your creation, now only brings your destruction."
Quit knocking at the door with the plagues
My name’s not Job, do you hear me?
The last I heard you buried most of his family
I’m not a token to be wagered in any bet of any consequence
Afflicted for obedience
“Why do you watch the faithless in silence?”
I was once dust without a mind to speak
But now I breathe
And my aching heart beats too
Either put me back into the dirt or let us be through
And this is not an invitation for the Devil to be standing at my door
Like a traveling salesman he’s all sugar pills, cheap thrills and bullshit
Should your friend try his card tricks again, I’ll take from him his head
And bring to an end his miserable existence in this life
I want be like Jacob
Standing in the face of the almighty
Wrestling till day break
Let him know my name
Let them know my name
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6. |
For You O'faith I Weep
02:24
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::HEAVEN ECHOES IN SILENCE::
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