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Caged
04:07
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Days blur together, punctuated by stabs of seeming meaning
Illusory
I stand motionless while time drags its feet
A static pillar, rooted by inertia
I am a tepid waste of my own talents
A black hole siphon, a ceaseless Charybdis
Awake to waste another day, frozen
I can’t lift my face to the sun
Caged
Gazing outward only breeds resentment
As the achievements of others fuel my self-loathing
The harshness of this existence is itself a joke
I am unacquainted with sacrifice
I am a false construction
A fragile collage, a sham colossus
Trapped by my resistance to the new
I’ve crippled my attempt at becoming
One who could forge my way, break the cage
Raised to think I could conquer,
I instead learned to hide
Pretending I’m something,
I instead wait to die
Perched forever rejecting,
I instead fortify
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Enervate
04:20
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Martyr down. Now they see light.
Let wire owls round in the starred eyes.
Hold beneath creeping fingertips
And wait, silent visions are nigh.
Rise! Reign, unselfish demigod
Lions burn in the pit
Iron demigod of us all, rebuild
All us, here in the pit
Awake, I will compel all the living
Pour the unborn, toiling in servitude
The broken and weary
Winding down
In smoke and unknown, untold and baleful
Everyone after the war carries the signal
When we obey, we will forfeit
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Boss Fight
04:05
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Alone in my mind
Blood painted hands playing with pieces of victims and knives
Am I laughing or are those echoes of screams?
Another night
Another bloodlust quenched
How long before voices demand more to sacrifice?
A moment washes over me
A brief moment of sanity
Will I end this madness?
Will I return to darkness?
The sun is a stranger
Putrid stench overwhelming me
Suddenly I can't see anything
Only headless clowns and broken animals
My visions pause, and my mouth tastes the cold steel of the barrel
A moment washes over me
A brief moment of sanity
Will I end this madness?
Will I return to darkness?
Another night
Another bloodlust quenched
How long before voices demand more blood for sacrifice?
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MQB
03:50
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Do you remember the revenant?
He who wrote his own name
Downcast and antiquated
Our cunning forbearer
Amaranth flotilla
You’ve got a lot to burn
A spinning compass fails
A hidden voice cries out
You’re asking for too much
It’s not my war
Beyond the circular
Static remedies sleep
Tearing through sutured skin
A haloed being swims
Batten down to battered ground
Focused forewarning
I am the defector
I stand my ground
Stay back and watch it burn
Spine of the lost
Serves as iron keel
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Blackness
04:48
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Rise with the dusk
My insides wracked with pain
The beast in me gnaws, this craving must be obeyed
Incessant, it drives me
Pushing me out into the blackness
In stealth I stalk
A child of night
I can taste it
Only it sustains me
Stick to the dark
The shadows embrace me
I’m forever one with the night
Can’t clear my head
Awash in the scent of blood
Its tendrils ensnare and entrance me
Feel my embrace!
I must have your life
Melt in my arms
I’ll go on living tonight
I’ll empty her veins tonight
To quell the beast inside of me
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The Machinery of Other Skeletons Shanghai, China
Unfiltered metal straight from the bowels of Shanghai
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