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b e h o l d e n
01:32
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slaves to the days
all condemned to death
tamed by your chains
til you draw your last breath
in the spur of strife
you gave up on life
and in time resigned
to the shackles
waste begets waste
we are born into graves
as the passing of torches
makes ash of our fates
the profanity
of humanity
never to suffer is never to be
suffocate the flame
or endure in vain
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a n a t h e m a
01:26
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still I await you to atone
to reap the sorrows that you’ve sown
set in my soul as into stone
still I am cursed to waste away
awaiting penance to be paid
as its remontant seed abates
I’m left to fester in disgrace
I won’t wait another day
for recourse to germinate in you
and neither will forgiveness
whatever you try
I will not forgive
I will not forget
goodbye and better riddance
get fucked and die
now and forever
I shall hate you
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s a c r a m e n t
01:55
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I tread alone these valleys’ verge
by shadows veiled
impelled now only by this torch
I carry still by soil and sea
to seek your apotheosized effigy
at the altar I will collapse to my knees
and light a pyre that you might reach out to me
your hallowed form above me looms
my sentinel against the silent gloom
my weary mind, my body lame
want only for your warmth to thaw this frigid plain
its embers fade, swallowed in dusk
I yearned for your love
but you left me a husk
I would spill my veins if it would stir your heart
but it never will
I would quell my soul to stoke a flame in yours
but it never will
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u n m o u r n e d
02:02
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resigned to the futility of all
confined for all time to this mortal thrall
from the throes of fate
there’s but one escape
day after day
eroding away beneath unending waves
in this deluge of hate
I have lost my way
and with it everything
there is nothing left for me
but a truth I cannot face
I have lost my way
and with it everything
my spirit wanes on bitter winds
on buried cairns, my bones lie bare
from starless skies, a gale profane
pours forth until naught more remains
all that I was
forever more
all that I was
forever unmourned
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a t t r i t i o n
03:06
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my heart is starved of wind
ashen where once burned
vain to the kindling
beckoning from cinder
I’ll be free
with this final breath
I’ll be free
embers unto death
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s u r r e n d e r
01:37
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