1. |
Chrysalis
04:42
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Kill love
I am that devil perched upon your shoulder
Your bad intentions manifested
Feast upon the dead flesh of former aspirations
Watch your dreams become tears in those eyes
May the stench of failure fill your lungs with sorrow
Disguise yourself with manufactured smiles
Do I look like someone who cares what god thinks? X2
You’re worthless
Just look at yourself
Kill love
This suit of skin so flawed, filthy and disfigured
Yearns for the comfort of an undisturbed slumber
These bloodshot eyes
They never close
Forever focused on a distant memory
Detach yourself
Embrace the void
Let the nothingness consume you whole
And in your darkest hours
Look to me with helpless eyes
Put your faith in my hands
I know what it means to be cast to the side
I know how it feels to be left for dead
Oh no, don’t think you are alone
Im here, and I’ll never let you go
Dug inside and built myself a home
I’ve lived it all before so
Where can you run?
You will never get far enough
Who could you trust?
I’ve been there from the start
This is what you’ll get
Living a lifetime of always being second best
Doubt will haunt every step
Choose your path
Meet the end
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2. |
Insomnious
04:56
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They want me dead
Have I gone mad?
These walls are closing in
And I can hear them talking
Saying such awful things
Tonight they’ll come for me
Shadows with glowing eyes
The most perfect black
With the whitest teeth
Well now the sun has set
And with it my last defense
I sense them shuffling
Just beyond the glow
Their whispers fill my room
A constant chattering
If I just close my eyes
I don’t think ever I’ll wake up
Tonight they’ll come for me
Shadows with glowing eyes
The most perfect black
With the whitest teeth
Hey, take my advice
Don’t ever fuck with ghosts
They’ll never leave you alone
How much longer can I endure
Before they fully devour
Every last bit of fight that I have left
Save me
Nothing will stop them now
They know I’ve reached my end
Closer
I see them now
Too many of them for me to count
They dance around
Impatiently
Waiting for the moment they can feed
Fall asleep and this could be it
They’ll swarm and leave my body ravaged all cut to ribbons
(What can I do)
Fall asleep and this could be it
They’ll swarm and leave my body ravaged all cut to ribbons
(Oh no fuck this)
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3. |
Nobody's Human
04:44
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Goddamn
It’s back again
The obsession I can never seem to satiate
I can’t contain
The impulse
To surgically sever them limb from limb
Oh shit
I can’t sit still
I’m itching and I’m twitching from the chemicals
This time
I’m wondering
Just how long I could make it last
How long can this last?!
They screamed “god, please save us”
I laughed, “He’s not coming”
My god
Ive lost control
My hands around your throat and I can’t let go
Too late
I can’t go back
I’ve grown addicted to the sounds of fear
Fear!
You can run, but let me warn you
I will hunt you down and torture
Every inch of your filthy flesh
My sweet prey
Rest assured
With your demise
Dissection will continue till I’m satisfied
So believe
You won’t be found
An acid bath cleaner than the ground
Nothing remains!
Butcher!
I will hunt you
I will find you
I will take everything from you
I will cut the heart from your chest
And watch the light leave your eyes
My devil smiles
I’m the Butcher!
I can’t and won’t be stopped
I’m eternal!
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4. |
House of Doors
03:57
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It’s been years but they still remain
Every night replaying memories
The dream is always the same
A mansion with a spiral staircase
Corridors filled with all their endless doors
Rooms shaking from past echos
And as I walk these haunted halls
I’m confronted by the ghosts of my design
They open wide with a chorus of screams
“We hate it when you come here.”
The walls are filled with photographs
That come alive as I stumble pass
Moments captured in black and white
Visions played of a former life
Collections to prove that once
There was evidence of happiness
WE
HATE
IT
WHEN YOU COME HERE
What happens next leaves me cold
You’re standing there all covered in blood
And as hands reach out to hold me back
I awake in my bed covered in sweat
Corridors filled with all their endless doors
Rooms shaking from past echos
And as I walk these haunted halls
I’m confronted by the ghosts of my design
They open wide with a chorus of screams
“We hate it when you come here.”
WE
HATE
IT
WHEN YOU COME HERE
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5. |
Seven Seconds
05:05
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Oh well, you’re just a "gypsy queen"
Stale worlds from your harlot mouth
Goodbye bright eyes
Hello dark skies
So when the rain came
It started the flood
And as I clawed at the banks
I was swept away
Did I fall for you
Or was I your prey
Either way it’s me standing on the edge
Of a parapet looking for some sense
Hoping the end justifies the means
Justifies the means
So now I see the truth
That face behind the mask
You’re damaged goods
And nothing can repair your broken past
So you want to patronize
Disrespect the one I love
Who took you in and gave
When yours couldn’t give a fuck
To replace me oh so quick is sick
I could break you down but what’s the point
You only care about yourself
A self serving hypocrite
Hey now
You do to this to yourself
I know
I’m far from perfect but
I would have tried
That voice was full of spite
Thought you could stab me deep
You forget who the fuck I am
You couldn’t be more dead to me
I bet
You thought
I cried
For you
Sorry
No lie
These eyes
Stayed dry
I don't wish any ill on you
But I don’t care what happens now
Be a queen or die in the streets
It means no difference to me
Well I’m glad you’re doing great
You’ll always be an actress
Play the part how it suits you
You’re a sucker for dramatics
The stage has been set
So bring on those theatrics
The critics are always watching
I hope you break a leg and hit that high note
“Oh go write a song about it”
I’ll go write a song about it
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6. |
Anhedonia
03:51
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The sounds of my screams
Shake me awake
Conducting shocks
All through my veins
The system has failed
And god is a lie
If he was there
He’d hear my cries
To save me from my mind
Nothing can ease
These frightful thoughts
So these pills don’t help
They keep me null
Leaving me numb
No room for myself
A chemical hold
On all of my thoughts
Emotions erode
As time goes on
Sealed in my room
Away from the world
The blinds are drawn
Safe from the sun
There’s no one here
A vacant home
I’m scared to death
Of being alone
So save me from my mind
I barely exist
My god
When does it end?
Each day
It starts again
Nothing can ease
These frightful thoughts
The sounds of my screams
Shake me awake
Conducting shocks
All through my veins
The system has failed
And god is a lie
If he was there
He’d hear my cries
He’d hear these cries
Fuck this, I hate this
It’s all in my head
Deep breaths
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7. |
Ru(m)ination
02:07
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*Bass Interlude*
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8. |
Of Famine and Plague
02:43
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I died, but I’m back again
Clawed my way out of that tomb
I licked my wounds
And carried on with my loathsome ways
There is no rest
For an undead creature such as I
I walk alone
Too cold to feel the world burn
Im the reason you fear the dark
This curse
Will always follow
Dead things
Sing of my lament
Through the ages
I’ve witnessed man's constant stain
Generations born into their selfish ways
They lied, but I’ll speak the facts
This planet's doomed, and so are you
The trap is set, to bring you all to your knees
You plague this earth
A contagion all on your own
The infection spread
Past the point of no return
If it moves kill it
Through the ages
I’ve witnessed man's constant stain
Generations born into their selfish ways
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9. |
Wormtongue
03:58
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Pardon me, but get out of my way
I’m feeling sick, and I don’t think I can stay
Listening to the tripe that you all say
Maybe tonight I’ll explode
Rip the tongues right from your throats
Look you in the eyes as you choke
I can’t take the noise
I think I’m going deaf
Run your mouths all you want you sycophants
You'd better watch your step
The wolves have got your scent
Waiting for your clout to collapse
All you do is spread your filth
Preaching from your petty throne
It makes me laugh, makes me laugh, makes me laugh
Every kingdom falls to dust
So don’t forget your time will come
You make me sick, you make me sick
You’re not like me, you’re not like me
Pardon me but get out of my way
YOUR masquerades are more than I can take
Do they know how fake you are?
Carry on with all your sad charades
Tell yourself how great you will be
But tell me who the fuck is listening?
I can’t take the noise
I think I’m going deaf
Run your mouths all you want you sycophants
You better watch your step
The wolves have got your scent
Waiting for your clout to collapse
All you do is spread your filth
Preaching from your petty throne
It makes me laugh, makes me laugh, makes me laugh
Every kingdom falls to dust
So don’t forget your time will come
You make me sick, you make me sick
You’re not like me, you’re not like me
False modesty is worse than arrogance
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10. |
Ocean Black
03:54
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Below!
My great failure
The weight of regret so daunting
I’m just egregious
Destined for horrors
I ruin everything that I touch
I did this to myself
I ruin everything that I touch
I did this to myself and
I ruin everything that I touch
I did this to myself
I ruin everything that I touch
I did this to myself
Your face still kills me
A beautiful hurt
But you’ve long forgot me
You've left me to drown in my despair
With my last breath, I gave up
I let the darkness swallow me whole
Below, the currents pull me down
Like a stone on my chest
And I feel nothing at all
Except the grip of death
Alas, a light pierced the void
Warming my cold form
Lifting me from the depths
To feel the sun again
I never thought I’d make it out alive
But I found the will
So to tell you the truth
I’ll never truly forget
The scars you left on my heart
But I’ll do my fucking best
You left me to drown in my despair
With my last breath, I gave up
I let the darkness swallow me whole
Below, the currents pull me down
Like a stone on my chest
And I feel nothing at all
Except the grip of death
Alas, a light pierced the void
Warming my cold form
Lifting me from the depths
To feel the sun again
I never thought I’d make it out alive
But I found the will
So to tell you the truth
I’ll never truly forget
The scars you left on my heart
But I’ll do my fucking best
You left me to drown in my despair
You let me
You let me
You let me
DROWN!
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11. |
Regurgitate
05:47
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These rituals that I perform
Summon every loathsome one
A gateway to oblivion
I still feel those claws around my neck
A hundred voices screaming
Out to me
Begging for my attention
Most days I feel like the world is ending
Will I fix my imperfections
Or let my bitterness infect me
With a sense of insecurity?
That leaves me wanting
Something more than this
Numbing existence
Built on failures
I’m insatiable
It’s never enough
I expect too much
And give even less
I couldn’t care less
It’s a cold comfort
To bury the past
And pretend
It’s a lesson learned
I know better now
Than to let my guard down
The snakes still slither
In the tall grass
A fleeting scene in a fever dream
Burning fields and blood filled streams
Purple skies with a billion eyes
Mountains of bodies piled high
Who do you think you are?
I can’t seem to shake it off
This dread I feel is
More than I can stand to take
As my hopes collapse
I can’t seem to shake it off
This dread I feel is so surreal
More than I can stand to take
As my hopes collapse
Let me make this clear
If you’re not understanding
That this pressure
Has gone and made me lifeless
Stop
And ask yourself
Is it worth it?
I will always
Be a disappointment to you
These rituals that I perform
Summon every loathsome one
A gateway to oblivion
I still feel those claws around my neck
A hundred voices screaming
Out to me
Begging for my attention
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12. |
Thrall
04:26
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Moonlight parts the hair from her face
Moves so delicate under her fingertips
In a bed of serpents she lays
As their poisons Seep into her skin
Lost in chaos I walked with my fears
As I wandered they became irrelevant
Choked on dust from the weight of my years
In the echoes I heard her voice beckon
“Come inside
Don’t you fear a thing
There’s a life you can have. You’ll be free!
I’m alive
Put your hand in mine
We can conquer and claim all we see!
But in time
You’ll lose everything
For you know not the evil I bring!
Close your eyes
Don’t you fear a thing
You can’t live in this world without me!”
Memories lost to the smoke
Forgotten. No longer potent.
Her smile is splitting
Her forked tongue is spitting
So deep in my ears as it was from the start
The Scales on her dress
And the bones in her nest
She crawls on her belly
oh queen of my heart!
Tear me apart!
Unhinged, devoured, digested, decayed
Black tar on my lungs
Drips hot from her fangs
Venomous plague!
Unhinged, devoured, digested, decayed
Limbs going numb
As she smothers my face
Tear me apart!
Moonlight parts the hair from her face
Moves so delicate under her fingertips
In a bed of serpents she lays
As their poisons Seep into her skin
Flames!
Ignite and take shape
They dance on my grave
Embers are left behind embedded in my skin
She bays at the moon
From outside my tomb
I hear her voice carried with the fog upon the wind
Buried alive!
Flames
Burning my chest
The smoke on my breath
This romance is deafening, defeating me again
I’ll find no rest!
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Patterns of Decay New York
PATTERNS OF DECAY
Formed in April 2014
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