1. |
Suspended and Separated
04:31
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Watch
Me
Drop
Four to six feet and I’ll be closer to rot
As my legs dangle
Twitching ankles
Take me to the top
With a short trip
And a quick stop
Finally at the end of my rope
Now help me tie the knot
I feel them tugging from below
Safely pull me closer
In embrace of the unknown
Chains of life now meet with locks of death
Anxiously burying myself
As I'm enveloped beneath the stress
I hear the whispers and the laughter
Insidious piercing thoughts
Mischievous lies spilt in my
Blighted ears
They bade me sit here, think here
Feel there, drink there
Lie to me, die with me
Gnawing every moment at the back of my skull
Pleading with me begging from the gallows to fall
The disembodied wish me closer to be
Requested simply no dishonor to me
How truly fitting and an honor to see
Suspension of the body
Animated soul free
Now sat in the darkness and shadows of my seclusion
Utterly bereft of desire to avoid my own conclusion
Theories adhere to me quickly as visions appear to me
My laughter it echoes
While blood drips down fingers
Clenched hold of this haunting
And frayed symbol of my end
They may speak softly
They may speak fervently
Orations persuading me listlessly to my ruin
They may speak quietly
They argue relentlessly
Pervasively sneaking through self reflection
Tie the knot
Watch me drop
Feeling the weight from my shoulders
As I separate the neck
Tie the knot
Watch me rot
Feeling my soul fade past
As I make peace with my death
As I make peace with my death
Death
Death
Death
As I make peace with my death
Death
Death
Death
Every foot brings me closer to rot
Every moment brings me closer to drop
Every twitch brings me closer to rot
My very last breath brought me closer to rot
Their soundless whispers bring me closer to rot
Their scratching claws bring me closer to rot
Their heavy hands bring me closer to rot
Eternal darkness brought me closer to drop
Close to rot
Close to dead
Close to drop
Close to dead
Four to six feet
And I’ll be closer to rot
Four to six feet
And I’ll be closer to rot
Four to six feet
And I’ll be closer to rot
Four to six feet
And I’ll be closer to rot
Four to six feet
And I’ll be closer to rot
Four to six feet
And I’ll be closer to rot
Four to six feet
And I’ll be closer to rot
Four to six feet
And I’ll be closer to rot
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2. |
The Red River
04:26
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I dream
Of flowing red
Beneath me
I see
The glow of beyond
It calls me
I seek a shallow pit
Fit for the opportunist in me
Stalking scheming
Select blades
With which I write
Down crimson limbs
Barely even sleeping any longer
Night after night
Creeping sneaking
Destitute and somber
Awaken drenched
Horrid stench
Haven’t washed my shirt
Still covered wet
Tears red and sweat
Remind myself
Between the whispers
And the visions
Bring glory to the idol
I may understand true wisdom
Red flowing
To the waterfall
Of eternity
Spilling forth
Life within your limbs
May it carry away
Cleanse you of your sins
Red flowing
To the waterfall
May it carry away
Cleanse you of your sins
I dream
When I awake
Compulsive urges
Haunt me endlessly
They taunt me
Make my visions fruition
Til I collapse again
Covered
In red
Til I collapse again
Covered
In red
Til I collapse again
I am ready to receive
My eternal awakening
Crimson
I seek a shallow pit fit for the opportunist in me
Blade
Stalking scheming select blades
With which I write down crimson limbs
Down
Barely even sleeping any longer
Limb
Night after night creeping sneaking
Destitute and somber
As I collapse again
I am carried by the warm red
Flowing beneath me
Though my eyes close
They eternally open
Free to ponder the eons
For bringing glory to the
Idol
My idol
Hunting and stalking the streets
Now flow red for my
Idol
My idol
Carried eternally now
I’m submerged in the
Red
Everything forever
Red
As I collapse again I’m
Red
Beneath me always flowing
Red
The words they always whisper
Down
Down
It drips it pours it flows
Down down
Flowing red
Down
Down
It drips it pours it flows
Down down
Flowing red
Flowing red beneath me
Flowing red beneath me
Flowing red beneath me
Flowing red beneath me
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3. |
Beast of Many Mouths
03:36
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The lair
Many mouths
The lair
Many mouths
The crown is set upon the throne of eternal mastication
Gnawed remains and flesh litter floors of the delegation
Court of fools is now in session
Judgment of the poor balanced by famished indiscretion
The hunger it waxes and wanes
Earthquake starvation pains
Speak truth as its written in bloodstains
Generations extolling this kings reign
Feast
The lair of the beast of many mouths
You’ve stumbled upon
The beast of many mouths
Throne of eternal mastication
Fetid stench
Rot and death fills the air
As the humid breath
Reminds of your despair
Fetid stench
Bits of rotting flesh
The scent of lies and fear
You’ll find no monarch here
Flesh, blood
Guts, pus
Bones, skin, and teeth
Reminders of the liars left upon the floor
Dripping from the ceiling visceral deceit
Humans
Liars
Their only use in death
Feeding corporeal form
They find they’ve wasted breath
Humans
Disgusting
Beseeching and begging for life
Sacrifice daughters and sons
Deliciously ending their plight
The lair of the beast of many mouths
Generations they have filled my gut
Their king a puppet
Yet no hint of doubt
Speak truth
In this hall of bloodstains
They beg for health
But yet no pity remains
No pity remains
No pity remains
The lair
Many mouths
The lair
Many mouths
The lair
Feed me
Many mouths
The lair
Feed me
Many mouths
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4. |
Loss of Love
04:41
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Despondently I walk
Through these lonely and filth ridden streets
I never imagined
To feel lower than this
What remains of my love
Memories of blood soaked sheets
We were meant to be together at the end
Our spirits joined forever
May we eternally descend
Elated I revealed
My great and gleaming grin
Last beats of my lover's heart
As the bloodshed begins
As your lips grow cold
And the fear leaves your eyes
Tears run down my face
I witness your death born smile
Sands begin to pass
The hour of rot is within hand
With this same quick motion
Begins the slicing I had planned
Ritualistic sacrifice of the lovers two
One hour begins the death
Now you must see it through
Perception of your spirits intertwined
Red ribboned deadly divine
Decay in decadence sublime
Two bodies
Sliced four each
Eightfold is the offering
My realm you reach
Where are you now
I thought we had escaped this fever dream
Are we falling down
Searching for you, but I can’t hear you scream
Where are you now
I cannot see you am I fool to the obscene
Are we falling down
Then I awake ashamed in miserable defeat
What has gone wrong
How do I remain
I awaken pained weak deathless
Lost and riddled with shame
Everlasting love replaced by everlasting sorrow
Eyes white limp body draped in black
Now I weep on the lightless morrow
Twas the two of us to be
With this knife made three
Our ritual of forever
Now a deep longing for thee
Never again will I greet you
Spirit lost to the shadows
With luck and chance that I glimpse you
Under the dark of the gallows
Where are you now
I thought we had escaped this fever dream
Are we falling down
Searching for you, but I can’t hear you scream
Where are you now
I cannot see you am I fool to the obscene
Are we falling down
Then I awake ashamed in miserable defeat
This pact
Eightfold the offering
Join in sacrifice
True love your death may bring
All I require to
Cut true with blade unwavering
Complete my ritual
Before chimes of morrow bells ring
As the hour began the sand flowed
Once the knife began she ran cold
But my hand began to tremble as my will lost its hold
And my cut was not enough
Just one below the eightfold
Loss of love
Watch and weep as she is fading and floating away
Loss of love
Wallow in your failure to this lonely life you are now chained
Where are you now
I thought we had escaped this fever dream
Are we falling down
Searching for you, but I can’t hear you scream
Where are you now
I cannot see you am I fool to the obscene
Are we falling down
Then I awake ashamed in miserable defeat
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5. |
Teethchewer
03:28
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My favorite sounds
Are a final breath
And the clink of a coin
The last beat of a heart
The agony of death
A heavy purse acquires results
No need to narrate
No explanations necessary
There’ll be no delays
Demeanor is calm
Yet I'm excited within
Not with a smirk or a grin
Do you see this beautiful smile?
No longer can I hold it in
Additions to my list
Breaking up the digits just like twigs
Plucking and popping the pieces
From their sockets
Filling the coffers
As I make a deposit
I think my smile now
Deserves a higher status
Bone might be beautiful
But metal now makes it magic
Watch it gleam while I grin
Salivating satisfaction now begins
Crunching teeth within my metal jaw
Cleaning meat from the bones that I now gnaw
Who knew what little treats your mouth was hiding
No need for the gold
Now these bodies provide me
Hunt to feed
Slaughter to sustain me
No longer killing to making a living
Just killing living in glorious sin
With all these bodies piling up
I am engorged they’re filling up my gut
Compelled to consume
Forever chewing on teeth here in my tomb
Teethchewer
Man of blood and gold
I live for the cracking of bones
The shattering of teeth
I dream of eruptions of blood
Of rivers red and deep
My hunger grows
Give me more
Just another piece
Another taste
I cannot wait to eat
The next scrap of my feast
Devour completely
But savor
The teeth
They call me Teethchewer
Man of blood and gold
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6. |
Below the Boughs
04:03
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I can sense the weary heart
By its treads
The weight of wandering
Ceaseless it may seem
I know of a place
That you may rest your head
Below the boughs you may dream
Delirious hunger clouds the vision
Behold the bounties that this grove will bring
Follow me just a few more paces
Last surge of strength within
Now your heartbeat races
It cannot be true
This sight you see
Claw at your bloodshot eyes
Revealing the feast of a lowborn king
Wretched who wanders in exile
Below my boughs you dream
Wretched one plump in his excess
Fed full now wanting of nothing
Satiated mass
Trembling
Heave all you might
Thouroughly I am embedded within
Drink of my root
I delight in your suffering
Your actions no longer your own
Motioned as branches you dance and you swing
Dance
Swing
A final chance at life
Cursed into motion
Til death it may bring
Move
Sway
Dance
Swing
Wretched who wanders in exile
Below my boughs you dream
Wretched one plump in his excess
Cursed into motion
Til death it may bring
Til death
Til death
It may bring
Pluck out the eyes
Nothing to see
Place on the tongue
Imbibe with relief
Peel at the skin
Fleshlessly wreathed
The motions slow
Transformation is reached
No longer must you wander
From my roots you may drink
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7. |
Portrait of Decay
03:52
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Why must my vision fail me
Upon this canvas of flesh I paint
A realm beyond this world awaits
New mixtures to create
Blood, pus, and marrow
Strewn across the gallery
Bits of body parts and human refuse
Every rotten piece which I can find a use
Each stroke of the brush brings clarity divine
Again my artistic grandeur brings upon the sublime
Witness this beautiful visage
The portrait of decay
Bones and flesh are ground together
Adding in the tears of the weak
Saturated hues and pigments
From my unholy technique
Recreating this wonderful vision
Feeling of eternal warmth
Perfect the palette
I am reborn
Awake in a womb of rot
Have I been here forever
Is this the realm I have longed
Yet now does the vision fade
Minutes passing as seconds
Where’s the feeling I crave
Blurs contorting in front of me
No longer compulsion could fade away
Short lived twisting back to reality
Again I prepare my palette
My fundamentals not adequate
Surely my humors suffice
A final mixture of pigments precise
As the hair mark the canvas
Fevered and delirious I strike
Life pools on the floor at my feet
My masterpiece it beckons the knife
The vision no longer fades
As my body goes gray
I find myself drifting away
Into this portrait of decay
Portrait of decay
Is this what I longed for
Decay
Rot but not fade away
Eternal
Solace and ecstasy
My life on the
Floor right in front of me
This canvas of flesh
My canvas of flesh
Bones and flesh ground together
Add in the tears of the weak
Saturated hues and pigments
From my unholy technique
Recreating this vision
Feeling eternal warmth
Perfect the palette
I am reborn
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8. |
Malodorous
03:18
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Twas I
Born of the mud
Basking in filth
True drinker of sludge
Malodorous reprobate
Bringer of shame
Found eternal solitude
I whisper your name
Rot
Following the whispers
And a horrid screeching tone
Manifesting creations
Of vicious fornication
Wicked slaughter in the
Mind and the degenerate soul
How could one
Seek to punish
Those lost to the light
Of your villainous depravity
Willfully basking In the
Excrement and viscera
Without an understanding of the
Will behind the massacre
Atrocious
Disgusting
Mephitic malcontent
Repulsive
Displeasing
Regurgitation guaranteed
Witnessing the putrid frame
Coupled by the burning at the nostrils
Crippling nausea makes
Retaliation futile
Relent as you’re reduced
To the fundamentals
Treasured substances
Excrement viscera
And necessary essences
Excrement
Viscera
Saturate my figure
Leave me pustulant and fetid
Humours
Eternal
Combined and enshrined within
The screech becomes a song
The screech becomes a song
The screech becomes a song
Befoul me
Before thee
My flesh begins to ripen
Plump with pus
I am enlightened
Tenderized
And moisturized
My slough becomes the idol
I ascend
Devoted acolyte
Bear witness
And weep
Witness my putrid frame
Inhale my ripened odor
Choke as you attempt your final lamentations
Vomit fills your throat
As you achieve the true perception
Excrement
Viscera
Flesh becoming ripe
Plump with pus
I see the light
Tenderized
And moisturized
Embodiment of filth
I descend
Devoted acolyte
Born of the mud
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9. |
Breath of the Ocean
04:10
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It began as a whisper
Then a song
A dreaded lamentation
Cacophony of all of my wrongs
The allure of the deep
The only respite I receive
The silence surrounds me
As I slip under the surface
Beginning to breathe
Choking as the silence surrounds me
Leadened I am slipping away
Carried beneath the waves
I ascend
What trick is at play
Pulled up to the surface the cacophony remains
Whos hand in stay of execution must I lay blame
I didn't ask for this
You see yourself a savior
I see my ended bliss
I want no resting place
No burial ground
Only to slip below and never be found
My memories are pain
No will to persist
Ashore again
Breath of life I must resist
I long
For the silence
Will you follow me down
Plunging to the depths below
Its icy cold is all I ever wish to know
Silence as I inhale the ocean
As the pressure builds my frame begins to fold
The pressures build
Eyes bulge under the weight that surrounds me
My lungs now filled
Gracious acceptance of what I could never be
I’ve no need for this earthly life
Renounced, resigned
All that's required is to end this strife
I have finally reached my closing divine
With a deep breath of the ocean
I heave a sigh of relief
The silence surrounds me
The allure of the deep
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10. |
A Conduit Awakens
03:46
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Night after night
Perform rituals
With no end in sight
Without a question or understanding of
The toll it takes on the end of life
Peasants requesting knowledge of beyond
Longing for peace of lovers and their second sons
A hefty price to pay to ease their mind
But not the weight of gold
That keeps me up at night
Lost spectres and souls
Clawing back from death to their homes
Nightly I’m taunted
Beckoned and begging for life
By the haunted
Upon this night now
Something is different
Awaken cold and breathless
Visions burned beneath the eyelids
New incantations
Relentlessly echoing endlessly
Wails of the dead now muted by a new unholy tune
Awaken
Conduit of the damned
I speak through you
Unlocking the visions of the world anew
Relinquish control
Recite the prayer of twisting tongues
Become the key
Unlocking the realm of the rotten one
Awaken
Awaken
Five severed hands
Placed about the limbs and the neck
His sigil in obsidian sands
Now witness the eternity of rot
Now witness the eternity of rot
Now witness
Eternity of rot
Horrors of the mind
Beasts of reality
Fables and myths now
Reaching right back at me
Screams and cries heard from both sides
Collision of worlds
As the conduit awakens
Relinquish control
Recite the prayer of twisting tongues
Become the key
Unlocking the realm of the rotten one
Five severed hands
Placed about the limbs and the neck
His sigil in obsidian sands
Now witness the eternity of rot
Awaken
Now witness the eternity of rot
Awaken
Now witness the
Eternity of rot
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Rotten Tongue Michigan
You are blinded by the putrid wave as a voice speaks from behind your eyes. This harrowing call beckons you to relinquish control and submit to a Rotten eternity by damning yourself with wicked strikes upon us all. Embrace the Rot and let it seep within you. ... more
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