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Pispir
03:07
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St. Anthony's Fire
04:41
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I was angry and I was drunk
Without enough rope to hang it all up
We were sold a tent revival
But brother it was only a trash fire
So, we let it burn
And I returned from the shadow of the wood
One broken wing
Distorted memory
And now I’m all darkness can sing
Ever since I was awake
I've been engulfed in light-less flames
I can't unthink the thoughts that have led me to be
Or be unborn again
When I was a kid, we brushed the blood over the doorway
And watched Death pass down the street
God, I just want to sing about something else
To sing about more than eternal rest
Or every wrong that's ever been
To sing of life
To sing of love
Just give me peace
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3. |
Holy Thorn
05:26
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Voice Key
* ???
▲ Satyr
▼ Centaur
✝ Death
All other unquoted lines: St. Anthony
“At night you lie awake, you lie alone” *
There's a call outside my window waiting to be heard
“But what about the night that separates the sun and the moon? *
What happens to your loving sister when you finally let her alone?
What happens to the whole world when your eyelids finally close?”
“Impermanence is a permanent condition *
There's no wishing your way out”
Love's a lie too big to sell yourself
And too small to live without, while meaning grinds to dust
God's as real as I fear that he's ever been
Burning a hole in the view through my lens
There's an inescapable claim on all the hearts of humankind
But if love's a lie, I don't want to know the light
Put me back to sleep before there's a me and you
Before we ever questioned if there's any discernible truth
“Impermanence is a permanent condition *
There's no wishing your way out
It'll all be forgotten in the silence that follows this world”
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4. |
A Place of Great Undoing
04:52
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Voice Key
* ???
▲ Satyr
▼ Centaur
✝ Death
All other unquoted lines: St. Anthony
I walked on under a punishing sun
In a land devoid of the God of Abraham
Drawn into the desert with only the heat for company
I bit my tongue so long, I could've drowned in the blood I'd drawn
Cleansed the sins of a thousand timelines
Put to rest the hopes of dreamt lifetimes
I wondered if it was always to be imagined tragedy in this heart of mine
Even in stillness chaos consumes
The world, a perfect pearl, lost in the greatest depths
“Let there be light ▲
In the fog of your life
And a guide amongst the bones
The rust and mold are never satisfied
Is death a lottery?
What about this life, the breath inside of me?
Is love the sweetest drug, the greatest lie or the strongest chord woven in this life?”
Even in stillness chaos consumes
The world, a perfect pearl, lost in the greatest depths
The wind blew with a muted voice
And the sky was consumed by a void
“I am a god ▼
I am a ghost
I am the all becoming man
I am the past
I'm the future
I'm your reflection in the Jordan river”
"A prayer for strength brings burdens you never wished ▲
And weakness, the ease of release
There's peace in the journey yet finished"
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Abaddon's Cave: Entrance
04:57
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I crept into the cave as quiet as the day I was born
There's no shadows in the dark and now all the skeletons lay quiet on the floor
Born, hell buried beneath my skin
I was worshiped by grief
The fire followed and I swore it wasn't me
But ash leaves a trace, fine dust, skin stains, a grit between your teeth
In the dawn of my life, I could never imagine the twilight
The orange-pink of a setting sun grows
And my shadow is still heavier
But in the dark, there is no day, there is no night
Time hasn't slowed but vanished in the mist
All things are as they're ever to be
Suspended in timeless sleep
Just give me peace
A slight reprieve
I want to be forgotten
A burden cut loose from the downtrodden
I'm a page torn from the hymnal God doesn't sing from anymore
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7. |
Abaddon's Cave: Death
05:39
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Voice Key
* ???
▲ Satyr
▼ Centaur
✝ Death
All other unquoted lines: St. Anthony
“With heaven burning and hell extinguished, I'm the only ghost left lingering in the shadow ✝
God is dead and the devil was only a fiction
My name is Death and it'll never be forgotten
Since your birth you spent your time on words to be remembered like the stars
But in this place, there is no escape for every timeline's eventual fate
There are no words
There is no you
Only static silence
Feel the weight of your final breath exhaled into oblivion”
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What great words could I have to describe the boundless edge of the infinite
When every word's incomplete
Only an utterance as the sounds disappear
Moses couldn't bear the burning bush
And I, a look into the stars
“This isn't it. This isn't real”, I said to the indifferent silence
Love's not a spark but a fire raging this side of life and the other
Someday when the stars are still again
Will you breathe life back into a world not worth loving?
Or are we to be forgotten?
Reconstituted without our knowing?
Were we already here for millennia before?
After the silence we'll wake up to a new life
A promise of an empty grave
And a new world at our feet
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Faux/Fox Pensacola, Florida
RIP 2014 - 2023
Noise from the bastard part of Florida.
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