1. |
Invocation
02:24
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Sing to me, oh, Muses dual
You've roped me along
Why won't you sever my thread?
Cause I am
Well poised as poison
We rot, stagnating
Stripped of the shreds that were worth redeeming
Thoughts dispersing as seed
Tend to soil the soil of
Our gardens rich in bones
All their bones
Believe it
Bless you,
For coming along with me
I pass judgement: distributed
A crooked symmetry
Well I face judgement: distributed
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2. |
Claw
03:37
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Downwards plunge
Into a world unmistaken
Crass and forsaken
Left here without a trace
Besides the one we acquired
Naturally inspired to rise and investigate
Curiosity stings the eyes
Fickle composition
Failed recognition towards the
Upcoming substrate
We thought that we struck gold
Well worth its weight if sold
But a screech led us to
Reevaluate
Outer crust like broken glass
Intuition's game
We were held back and poisoned
A fiery mantle cocked
Apollo’s burning rage
Set to blow us away
We are the first cursed,
Forefathers of Hell
Crushed, coughing, blackened blood
No use, living, a life infused with tar
A stanchion came smashing down
A stone-cold mezzanine
His legs are all but lost
Now all’s said and done
We were held back and poisoned
Why is the tourniquet burning?
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3. |
Quarantine
04:34
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Watch me spin out of line
You know I said you…
You taught me how to fly
And open up their eyes
You’ve granted us a chance...
To be more human
Well I'll appeal to plans that allow us to
Spread redemptive truths and mobilize
I know that many will resist,
The hypocrites are killing day by day.
Well I know we'll end this passive war
And I know we'll even out the score
Now, as we spin out of line
We will part the sea
Oceans of understanding
We’ll impart and see
Our ripples will travel the world
Open your mind
To something effervescent
And our deniers
Are growing grimmer
With persistence
Hail...
See how our god was locked away
Hail...
So I could rise up in his place
Maybe I was born just to rise up through this camp
When all my life’s been fodder for this dream
So cast down your lot, and hope it spells my name
I promise we will Proteize
Our eyes
Stay trained upon the enemy
Circumscribe
That crooked noble family of
Bigots!
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4. |
Lush
02:18
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I used to walk in winter, like a child – mesmerized
I relinquish myself to the memory
Its grip tightens and I drift away
My eyes are assaulted, sunlight trying
To tunnel through my eyelids
Boots in weathered slush
Disrupt a pattern of daily rush
Every time I decide to move, I transform the universe
All of our senses are so incredibly lush
We’re under house arrest
With no one to reflect my motives
We’re under house arrest
Never to be seen again
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5. |
ROTI (ft. Jesse Kirman)
05:24
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Bless you for inviting me to speak
My work has echoed in obscurity
For far too long now
It deals, of course, with the ailment known as Tar
You know I'd like to suggest (you know he’d like to suggest)
That it doesn't touch our temperament
So close your eyes and throw yourself
In the place of another
Oh please don't let this be my eulogy to humanity
A concept so foregone:
There once arose a school of thought
Slowly eroded, they believed in the greatest good
For the greatest number,
There was no fine print
No self-indulgent, overpopulated paranoid deportation
You know that time separates
So lonely is division
We’re lost in mind
Our plight demonstrates
Subjective is our vision
We're lost in mind
Time separates
Lonely is division
Now we're lost in mind
There was no fine print
No self-indulgent, overpopulated paranoid deportations
You know that all of my research suggests
This toxic turn away
From our humanity
Was unfounded
Well I acquired and breathed
The dark air into my lungs
And yes, there were effects but
They were all aesthetic
Confirming what you've known
Deep down all along
The sickness is social
(And they're a product of mistreatment
Well worth redeeming)
Why won’t you sever my thread?
Backed into a corner
Your ignorance was bearing down on me
I am one of them
And you are the monsters
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6. |
da$$munny
00:35
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“That’s money”
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I always knew
My inquiry
Would mutate its way into disaster
Eyes shut, patiently, and waiting
For something to go wrong
Unlucky me, I wasn’t meant to be
This handheld fattened pig
On and on upon this path we’re drawn
Together friend and foe alike
The battlecries of the empty
Echo through this crowded hall
Bounding freely from wall to wall to wall
We never listen, just wait to speak
And now the speaker’s gone and sprung a leak
Is it wrong to wish that I had clawed my way up?
As if it would have changed a thing
The recipe calls for a handful of suffering
To build that perfect character
And force the narrator to spare me
I avow: cast aside your differences
None of that matters now
No, I maintain, I deserve to be saved
I’m different, I’m special – inspiring
Hah, you’ve been played
Words fall short
Desperately clawing for ledgers
The fate of songs forgotten:
Well I can’t quite remember them
A lot of people out there don’t want to listen
They just want to hear
And many with the means to convey
Still hold back what they hold dear
So on this platform and through this platform
I need to craft words sincere
Even if each individual’s experience
Might differ
From ear to ear
None of them knowing quite who to despise
Through the hatred and tar dripping into their eyes
Maybe I’m a hypocrite
Maybe you are too
And that’s okay
It means we’re thinking
Interpret away, interpret your way
Out from this crawlspace
Never knowing quite who to despise
Through the tar dripping into their eyes
All it takes is one contaminant
All it takes is one
(Hail…see how our god was locked away)
(Hail…so I could rise up in his place)
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8. |
Wasteland
08:09
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I wish that moment had lasted an eternity
With which I could handle the creatures around me
Tearing the flesh from my kin
A martyr in mind but a coward in practice appears
Delivers a sermon of falls upon deaf ears
And nobody’s ears but his own.
I wish that I was not overcome
And worth redeeming
But everything I built was under the
Guise of greater good
Is this even remorse?
I should have thrown myself
Between their mangled teeth and my people
But I was partial to my skin
Now I’ve left you all
All alone
With a crack, they hit the ground
Like fallen angels all around me
The soundtrack was sickening
Then descended the vultures
Maddened with sickness and hunger alike
You all look to me as if I have an answer
Your Aspirer aspires for respite
And a vessel to harbor the night
Come on, look to me as if I have an answer
Your Denier denies you his right
Crash, it’s all the same
Clawing at this foothold
Running in circles is growing insane
Over my dead fable
Running in circles is growing insane
(And getting your thoughts straight, inaner yet)
And I ran
Left the turmoil behind me
How I ran
From the chaos of my craft
Please forgive me,
I tried so hard to make a difference
Decompose here until the end
In wasteland
I am the bastard of this realm
I was a jester in a crown
My people’s remains above the ground
Cause I’m a coward
No! I buried you
When I was all you needed
Their misguided worship
A captain retreated
I’ll outrun the day
I’ll outrun today in cowardice
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9. |
Succulent
04:10
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For every brick that I have laid
And every glimmer of the spade
I hang between myself and the fallen
Now at my door you congregate
This is my space, this is mine!
Legacy, averting my eyes, it’s over
So keep your knife trained, stay true to the
Path that brought you into my sight
Now have you come to punish me, Philomela?
You know my face,
The mask from which you draw your name:
Trespasser
The man I knew died weeks ago
Yea this is just a shell
Now I implore you
To keep the howling down
And let us sleep
Well you’ve inherited this pain
Don't wrap me up in your
Modicum misery
Rise from the earth, my chosen
Up from your knees and face me
Brother
Get out of my head
We, the kings of our time
Now you've come again just to
Oust me shamelessly, usurper
Don’t wrap me up in your bodiless
Modicum misery, scavenging for what to eat
All you've locked away
Has come kicking, screaming
Remnants of our fate
How our heroes have fallen
Every day you walked around
I was waiting on my pound
Of flesh
You’ll be crooked, never found
I'll be feeding overground
Lah-dah-dah
Lah-dah-dah
Lah-dah-dah
Ha-ha-ha-ha, yes
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10. |
Imbroglio
02:41
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With cartilage dribbling down my chin
(I led a succulent following)
Their temperament as tender as their skin
(I led a succulent following)
It sustained me
(I led a succulent following)
Please sustain
Hide behind
The curtains of your eyes
And watch from afar
Hunger, struggle
Or satisfied immobility
The epitome of
Sensation
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11. |
Ashes (ft. Lauren Babic)
09:35
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You are all beyond choosing
So don’t follow my lead
But I swear to you, unfaltering
We'll make it through the week
Inhabitants
We share our plight
And we will rise tonight
If we so choose
We've been picked off and plundered
So we cry to our thunderous fate
But with little cohesion I promise you
We'll storm the gate
If we so choose
But if it were up to me
You know I'd thirst for justice
This idol who left us to die
But if it were up to me
You know I'd thirst for justice
And render the traitor a mortal before his own eyes
Faith has always wrought
Bottom-feeders
I lack precision but I have tact
I lack persistence but I abstract
I got you wondering
Was it worth it after all?
Recourse, he robbed us of
All of his promises
Recourse
Hail…see how our god was
Locked away
Reach for
Resolution
This ends tonight
I'm breaking
This open, written word
Unbreaking, this overarching world
Where I'm unlimited
And I'm shaking
As the earth that twists in front of us
And I'm breaking apart within my soul
We followed him
Sovereign
All of them
I would fight back
I lack precision but I have tact
I lack persistence but I abstract
I got you wondering
Was it worth it after all?
We followed him
Sovereign
All of them
I would fight back alone
Sever all the threads he's wrought
Fetch the fates
Storm the gates
Written on the pavement:
"Worship is enslavement”
Reborn out of water
Dire, straight from the source
Save us, we retaliate
And I want nothing to do with it
So I'll say
The end of a holy war
Is a war on holiness
I'm remiss, I digress, I repress, I resent that I brought you all here, but we're here
Follow me into oblivion
Carry me home
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