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Strength
Through Wounding
Through our bleeding We are
one!
Through the darkness breaks the light.
Through the light unending pain.
Deify the wretched ones,
Till the darkness comes again.
Porphyria
Cutanea Tarda
I know..... It's here we
retreat, for where else would we go? To great disbelief there is somewhere
we belong. In negative space supposed flaws go unseen, but out strength is
shown.
In darkness together we're bringing the light.
In darkness together we are forming.
The fire tomorrow is born of the night.
In darkness together we ignite.
From all we've been shunned but we've found a new home. To great
discontent it is greatness that we own. In luminous eyes, reflections of
fear absolute....All hate what we've become.
When daylight forms blinding walls where do we go? Days, arid are
scorching all. When daylight forms blinding, binding walls, where do we
go? The darkness calls.
Exsanguination
Welcome the whole new pain
and take comfort in all you've become. I waved as I passed myself along
the way. I have arrived so unashamed, but my reflection no longer looks
the same. It seems much dimmer now....it seems so dim.
Just stumble and fall into a world thats overcrowded, and you will find
me, won't recognize me, I won't recognize myself.
I have arrived so unashamed, but all my senses no longer seem the same. I
can sense everything. My sight's so clear.
In an instant, my life just slipped away. I fought for life the whole time
you were holding me down. You watched me dying. Holding me down, you
brought my rebirth.
Malleus
Maleficarum
Open my eyes as I submerge
and I won't deny what I've been since birth. I'll die drowned by your
standards. Breathe in the life of the summmer's death as the orange and
red breathe their first breath, so welcome as they're burning through. We
all begin to burn. Autumn's flame dances in my eyes Set alight for all
we've learned. My ashes falling. My skin is singed but it heals my heart
and with glowing pride I'll wear my scars. I'm honored by your hatred.
Leaves fall we arise again, and the end impending, it will begin. So
welcome as it's burning through.
Ashes fall and I'm rising up again. Ashes fall. Ashes fall. Ashes fall as
we all arise.
Narrative
of Soul Against Soul
To the wounded:
I have seen the self image they've forced you to reduce to shattered
glass, with the only remaining value lying in it's jagged edges. But the
few who warrant waking for await their recognition. No fear of death but
with fear of life, your weakness kills everyone. So live.
Angels for everyone.
For no lack of searching I can't seem to find one.
Angels in everyone.
What of all their promises? Can't seem to find much more than lies.
Angels in anyone.
A permanent solution to a temporary problem. Before I'd lay me down to
rest, I'd throw away everything to live.
Clove
Smoke Catharsis
Lean against the night and
laugh as I try to scale the walls. Ingnored futility fills the air. You're
only there to watch me fall...If only pure sweetness was offered, why's
this bitter taste left in my mouth? If I could catch my breath just to
exhale, I'd know that I held it in too long...... From above comes a faint
smile, a new vantage such a view. Familiarity know disowned. Just sit and
stare as I walk away.
The
Prayer Position
Now! Peel the skin back from
the flesh. Steal the flesh back from the starving static minds. From
nature we must stray, to clarity we'll climb. Deadly impulse seems so
natural, just look beyond it and we'll find a brand new evolution. Here
begins a brand new line. And in the distance there's a gathering, that no
longer seems so far away.
Pushed to our knees so let us pray, and all together we'll bring the real
rain. Watch all that's wasted wash away, so let it come. Our will be done.
Stature retrieved, regain our form. Break free from instinct that's left
us all confined. From nature we must stray to clarity we'll climb.
Tradition ingrained, now impermissible. Now comes a call for all to find a
brand new evolution. Here begins a brand new line. I can't help but fear,
look to my species and tremble, to think that God is just... And in the
distance there's a gathering that no longer seems so far away.
No
Poetic Device
I've been dreaming. I was
lucid. I was dreaming blood was seeping from my pores. Who'd believe that
it was all my own decision? Cracked faces and medicated smiles. Set fire
to my home before I turned and walked back in. For even needle open my
chest and insert ten pins. I just anticipate what awaits when I awake...
break. I die in my daydreams. The gardens have all been overgrown. I
pushed my hand through the thorns to crush the final rose. A deadly secret
only I suffer to know. I can't eradicate what awaits when I awake...
break. I die in my day dreams.
The
Last Kiss
Hung in your room, swaying,
hoping only that you'll see. All by myself, I'm alone in such poor
company. The deeper I think, the deeper I seem to sink, I can't stop the
insects that are feeding, pull the needles from beneath my skin. I broke
myself, shattered, tied a bow around every peice. You'll love the eyes.
Have they always shone so vacantly? The more I show the less you'll want
to know. I can't stop the insects that are feeding, pull the needles from
beneath my skin.
Now I'm on display. I am becoming.
Hurt myself today. It's all for you.
Do you like what I'm becoming?
Hurt myself today. It's all for you.
I part the night, flashing, approaching as I watch you flee. Pushed
through your panes. Seems I've landed quite uncomfortably. But as I pass
through souls of broken glass I can't stop the insects that are feeding.
Pull the needles from beneath my skin. Please don't ask me what I think,
trust me, you don't want to know. Please don't ask me to open up, trust
me, trust me, 'cause I can't.
Weathered
Tone
They're coming 'round again.
I've returned and they've been waiting. Their aged offererings received
and returned, passed through wet eyes. I tremble as I feel them rolling in
for, my sins, the old ghosts know. So chilling as I feel them mourn within
my soul. As the mourning grows.
Unfold before me. Turn back the page again. Twenty four hours spent
wishing that the day was never ending. Shadows of glory shading my heart
again. Recall the summer when I left my heart to cool beneath the shadows.
I'm coming 'round again. I've returned and no one's waiting. I strain my
eyes to see but it's so hard to read old tags on fallen walls.
At a
Glance
No haven now as I watch it
pour from everywhere, just like the storm that has come out of thin air.
Gentle caresses, just as paper thin -frail and only- lack the strength to
hold.
What if could go to sleep for days, would you count the hours, or would
your restlessness consume fading memories of me?
Fall into open arms that offer their protection. Quick to deny that
they're open to deceit. Long to believe that support will never cease.
Bitter and lonely, those they've left before.
The vibrant heart so quickly growing old, the warmest eyes so quickly
growing cold. Just a glance for they don't care to see what becomes of me.
God
Called in Sick Today
Let's admire the pattern
forming. Murderous filigree. I'm caught in the twisting of the vine. Go
ascend with ivy, climbing. Ignore and leave for me the headstone crumbling
behind.
I can't help my laughter as she cries. My soul brings tears to angelic
eyes.
Let's amend the classic story, close it so beautifully, I'll let animosity
unwind. Steal away the darkened pages, hidden so shamefully. I'll still
feel the violence of the lines.
I can't stand my laughter as they cry. My soul brings tears to angelic
eyes. And miles away my mother cries. Omnipotence, nurturing malevolence.
Midnight
Sun (Hidden Track)
What went down on the side
of the road? What I saw at the edge of the sea.
Only those elements time cannot wear, and they follow. What seeped out
throught the cracks in time, what sucks out the color in me?
What awaits beyond infinity?
Beyond and to All Time I Stand
What blew in with the great gale?
What weighed down the falling leaves?
What came forth from the remains?
What has always lived and gone unseen?
What has caused the night to fall?
Who speaks of eternity?
Who awakes to night eternally?
DE PROFUNDIS CLAMAVI
O my sole love, I pray thee pity me
From out this dark gulf where my poor heart lies,
A baren world hemmed in by leaden skies
Where horror flies at night, and blasphemy.
For half the year the sickly sun is seen,
The other half thick night lies on the land,
A country bleaker than the polar strand;
No beasts, no brooks, nor any shred of green.
There never was a horror which surpassed
This icy sun's cold cruelty, and this vast
Night like primeval Chaos; would I were
Like the dumb brutes, who in a secret lair
Lie wrapt in stupid slumber for a space...
Time creeps at so burdensome a pace
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