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Of Beauty / Six
02:37
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I've been told
To let it go
Beauty will follow the path you deny it
So don't bleed and leave a trail to follow
Though beauty just sings of the flesh
Through touch it melds spirits
And locks my heart I confess
Blinded and beating
Surrender to beasts i suppress
All the while
Its tendrils pump dopamine
Give me that fiend fix
It knows I can't resist
Beauty will draw every breath
Till you cannot stand to sing
And have no burnt offerings left
Finding no warmth in the embers
Though they burn so fresh
Drinking into dreams
Each night that I lose it and wake
To that perfect visage
Haunting me just enough
Sweet until I trust
Again
O temple
O spirit
O scribe
The statue
The passion
My light
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2. |
Moon with two Suns
05:08
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Cue the morning's golden kiss
Sweet nectar wine on my lips
Cast from perfection
Beyond god's limits
To see you sleeping in the sun again
Leaves me lost in my wondering
How could such a goddess lie here with me
What could I write to show I love you so
How can these sounds find a hold in your soul
Your smile lets me know
On the coastline
My rising tide
You're my moonlight every night
Dancing shadows
Guiding stars
Lead me right to where you are
Porcelain seraphim
Reach over my heart
Shiver for the audience
Of one to impart
Encompassed dreamers
In a sleepwalker's field
Reassure me this is real
Our hearts in sync
Cyclical beating
Pound songs of a future
They know
We hold
Why's the sun shine rays
If not to light your face
You're nature's grace
Ascetic digits
Tremble under clothes
Charting beauty never known
Boundaries we
Battered on the coast
Watch the night get swallowed whole
In light
In dawn
In love
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3. |
Motherland
02:05
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There's a pattern in the numbers
Forcing my hand between hours and time
Rust has slowly gathered
My skin's stained pale now I'm allergic to light
My extensions are
Failing and locking up
No response to the touch
That kept us
Linked up
Planting holes in my sleep
And everything I'd care to see
I can't escape your winter
Taking solace in finding
Fragments of what I need
In a dream
Stumble through another quiet day
I can't be sure I heard you speak
Night forgot its boundaries again
So I keep dreaming
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The arachnid patterns spin latchkey young princes
whose kings hate their sons for cementing their limits
so fathers hate mothers for bottles and lovers
dress them in casts trade them amongst brothers
Choked down a handful of numbers and letters
on shapes and capsules
beads, and pellets, yeah
Physical emotional sexual bruises
on honor roll angels and Eucharist enthusiasts
we play the adult but inside we're still learning our ABCs backwards
Act reckless and hardened but we've grown together
still see you as yellow and feel you as embers
Lucky strikes, bum wine, and honing our thievery
leeching and breaking windows so they're even we
flourished like swamp weeds in drunk tanks and arcades the same
Oh what made your heart change
Why not just change your face
At best change your name
Please don't stay the same
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5. |
Upadana / Heaven Knows
01:19
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Mercy, mercy
Cry out each night
Beating your wings
In cages too tight
Telescope hope
Vicarious
Always watching
Sin scores your flesh
Whimper softly
Save face, kid
Heaven still knows
What you did
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6. |
God's Country
02:43
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7. |
Ol' Scratch / Updog
03:08
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I've been trading heartbreak stories with Ol' Scratch
Tryin' to convince him that he's no match
Now son, why'd you go tryin' to get her back
You're already in hell
Why would you go and do that
I said maybe she'll lie tonight
Just like she used to lie every night
Son why'd you come if you refuse to play your hand
I can't complain about the company but I truly don't understand
Hell is a reprieve from what I've gotten myself into
I need some escape from the angel that's been haunting my room
I could die tonight
Just like I want to die every night
What do you want
I know you have a hard time pitying my Icarus flesh
What do you want, son
But do we have a deal, Scratch
It's really time that's I've left
I could help you forget her
I wanna forget her
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Please recite records of
The tyranny of my touch
The daggers of my praise
Dejection and malaise
Repulsion of the flesh
Stumbling from my bed
Your black teeth rest
Emblazoned on deceit's crest
When your orchestra stands at attention
Without warning
And the best grows attached to the leash
You're holding
You can doom our drunken talk
To ego stroking
I'll await my attaboys
Post performance
Now
I can't tell where the stage ends
This smoke and mirrors act has got me drowning
Let this be my root to be exhumed
Not drugs or booze
But the moon and my muse
Left foot back this time I'll lead
Guide you in my arms
I wanna wrap you in colors
Watch you stain them black as that heart
The signs are all pointing
To an ending unfitting
Still one dance on stage can't hurt
(Or so I thought)
Watch me fall
Through the orchestra pit
Through the fires that we lit
Reaching for a hand withdrawn
Vanished with the dawn
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Blamin' the drink won't do me any favors
Just draggin' down a friend who's always there
Is it numbness that I seek
Is my heart beating weakly
Has this last year been one long bad dream
In this heart
I can feel a knockin' from the inside
A calling from the cavernous dark
You were drippin' in a poison kind of way
I brushed the draping hair from your face
An alien I failed to meet in peace
Consumed me
Is it blood or is it soul you want
I'm beaten, I'm stripped, I'm gaunt
What the fuck do you want
Wake me
Tell me it was just a dream
Or slay me
Please stop my haunting
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I took the short tour
And I bled myself out
Carving graves underwater
In your breeding grounds
I have to say your offerings
Are really no fair trade to me at all
I’m sad to say you’re leaving me
No choice, no choice
And still I stay
‘Cause I’m sick of myself
I’m sad to see you’re offerings are hookin’ me
They’re hookin’ me
The last last seafarer scrawled
Warnings in the dock
While bleeding from his eyes
(There be) Vipers, leeches,
Whatever your greatest fear is
Make peace with your god
Reading no more
Tying off anchors
Knowing my changes
Dive in
I have to say upon sinking
I know exactly what it’s gonna be
Remembering those warnings
Were scrawled out by me
Seems I’ll die and come back again
To die again then die again by your hand
Make believe and silly dreamin’
You know I love your love
So come on closer, little being
You know I love to love to love
(love x6)
Erase the memories of pain at will
It doesn’t matter how much blood we’ll spill
Adjust the depth until you feel
That any dosage could be real (love)
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Holy Boar Maine
Eric B - Guitar
Ben M - Guitar
Caitlyn S - Vox
JP - Vox
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