1. |
Defenestration
02:51
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life on the sidewalk / suffocation
absolution will never come for you
broken or breaking / I’m shattering
glassy eyes and sunshine in the miracle wound
death from the high-rise / reading backwards
nerves meet clouds and skin in the windowsill
broken or breaking / I’m shattering
losing consciousness as pavement rapidly gets closer to you
you’ll taste me soon / you’ll believe in it, too
turning into / no one by the window
when did my life end / on the way down
was this mine or was this the ghost of me
I can’t believe this / thrown not fallen
impact stops the pain but the pleasure drains from me
never been better / crucifixion
blunt force teardrops water the stark concrete
will flowers grow from me / human compost
is this my defense or is this my deserved defenestration
you’ll taste me soon / you’ll believe in it, too
turning into / no one by the window
ever threw you / I believe in it, too
turned black and blue / I will kill and be killed
shattering, splattering / charged with battery
enemy scatter me on the pavement
defenestration of the selfless kind
plummeting through your life directionless as if through gravity
suffering until my death and I always I knew that I deserved this
suddenly I am stopped from the harsh reality of being alive
plummeting into the end and it woke me the fuck up
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2. |
(no body)
03:49
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falling short / a victim of a sovereign society
understanding everything and learning nothing
like there is nothing else to learn
while holding onto the hand of the unknown
you’ll learn that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination
no body / no blood / no bones
dropped into this hole / rotting alone
with an empty promise of a better life
a delusion left to be
unseen / unheard / relive / return
I am an illusion plaguing your fucking vision
hallucination invading your flesh prison
now watch as I dissolve into the nothingness of which you made me
I’ll leave you wandering an empty space slowly degrading
no body / no blood / no bones
dropped into this hole / rotting alone
with an empty promise of a better life
a delusion left to be
I am unseen / unheard
relive / relearn / return
I don’t live here / I’ll just die
I will wither away alone
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3. |
.nemo / Sematary
04:03
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descending oceanward / my hands are clean
glowing red / gaining speed / I choose not to feel my limbs
gasping for water but drowning in hydrazine
oil and blood and dead skin and tech debris
I deserve this but does the majority?
telepathic lies are told from authority
floating corpses / burn don’t bury
blame the tide on / no empathy
leaking shit / into the sea
burn don’t bury / sematary
deflection / ape distrust
exclusion / aalt into dust
just like the rats we expire on our own terms
deepthroat to feed and dopamine to burn
the utopia has turned and we’re never going back
we die as fucking strangers with the sun at our backs
I am going nowhere and that is because
I’m dying / Is this sanctuary?
I don’t want to be buried in a sematary
and when the glass starts to crack
you know we won’t be saved
no room left on the raft
erased from the page
we’re never going back / never
deflection / ape distrust
exclusion / salt into dust
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4. |
Ruby
06:07
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I want to hear you scream my name / and then I want it to stop
I want to live with the pain / bathe in your blood
live inside your body and feel what you feel
I'll breathe you in / until the ash fills my lungs
see what you see / taste you on me / lingering on my tongue
and stay there for good / until the taste turns to blood
the only place you'll ever be remembered is on your knees
kicking and screaming and begging for release
there is no escape / I've locked you inside
the knots have been tied / I hold your fate
binding you and me / for eternity / suffering
I'll breathe you in / deep inside of me for all eternity
binding you and me
gnawing at the root / my teeth splinter into fragments that dribble down my chin / oh the taste of sin is so bittersweet / Ruby's coming / I'm coming / she's coming for me / this river's run red / suddenly she's devouring me / she's out for blood / her image of me / returning to the earth leaves her incomplete
I'll breathe you in / until the ash fills my lungs
see what you see / taste you on me / lingering on my tongue
and stay there for good / until the taste turns to blood
the only place you'll ever be remembered is on your knees
kicking and screaming and begging for release
there is no escape / I've locked you inside
the knots have been tied / I hold your fate
binding you and me / for eternity / suffering
I'll breathe you in / deep inside of me for all eternity
binding you and me
seeping red / just like you wanted to be
cleanly bled / from roots flow the stream
now she's dead / or at least dead to me
ruby red / you said you wanted to bleed
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5. |
Entangled.
03:06
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scraped off of the cold and dirty sidewalk where we lie
entangled
this is the grave of an afterthought
crawl inside me / use my eyes see / look what you’ve done
as I feel death flowing through the chambers of my heart
I bleed just for you
no longer plagued by the memory of you
sever the ties to meet outside reality
staring back into the sneering fucking face of oblivion
I'll die laughing
carving my name into your eyelids
crawl inside me / use my eyes see / look what you’ve done
tethered / we will enter the lie of forever
and you will beg for serenity
who will replace me in my resting place
now I wonder who will fill this grave that you've condemned me to
devoid of all my senses / the darkness brings me back to life
tethered / we will enter the lie of forever
and you will beg for serenity
who will replace me in my resting place
severed / from the weight of the lie of forever
we will exit reality
you will replace me with such shameless grace
now I wonder who will fill this grave that you've condemned me to
devoid of all my senses / the darkness brings me back to life
look through the glass / and you’ll see the truth crack
and I know that you’ll pretend to be sorry
and even try to fucking resell my story
but through the void I will stare right back
and this glass casket will crack
breaking / you’ve separated me into pieces / I am broken
decay / as time slips away you’ll feel regret for the
things that you have done
and I know that you’ll pretend to be sorry
and when I’m gone you’ll even bathe in my glory
but through the void I will stare right back
and this glass casket will crack
look through the glass / and you’ll see the truth
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