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Godspeed
06:38
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Reaching past the clouds
Sunlight filters out
Nothingness abounds
Guiding us somehow
Somehow…
Surrender
To the vast, hostile, foreign, formless
The unblinking Void
Takes hold and lifts you, weightless, up
To view this canvas of the gods
To feel minute in its scope
And be lost in its grandeur
Transmission outgoing (CAN YOU)
No reception (READ US?)
Tell me, do angels weep (CAN YOU)
When smoke fills the heavens? (READ US?)
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2. |
The Accomplice
10:36
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So funny we should meet
Like strangers in this bar
Please, let me buy your drink
You really came so far yet
How strange that you should run
From what you know’s inside
You point the finger, but
I’m right behind you
So good to see you here
This time let’s make it last
And all those empty years
We’ll leave them in the past
Let’s get you to your room
It’s far too crowded here
We need some time alone
Say goodbye
I can’t sleep
Will you stay up late with me
We can talk about
Everything I missed
I can’t sleep
Will you stay up
And talk with me
Share everything
It’s hard to hear you
Through the snot and tears
Take a look at yourself
You could break a mirror
I walk to the door
And turn the lock
And turn off the lights
And turn the lights off
I’m closing the curtains
It’s just you and me now
You can let it all out
I’m going to let it all out
All out
Let it, let it
Come down
And get it, forget it
Hang tight
Kicking, just kicking
Face white
Just kicking and kicking
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Allegory of the Cave
08:15
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Gaze upon the light,
Misleading those enthralled,
That which was perceived
Is but a shadow on the wall
much too dazzled to see distinctly
what had cast silhouettes she once saw
That which was perceived
Is but a shadow on the wall
What is this?
This light burns my eyes
I am filled with a strange sense of life
Am I mad?
Or have I gone blind?
Everything: familiar and new
A startling change
Flashes of light, floods of color
The outside world comes into focus
Overwhelming
Overcome
By brand new sensations
I must return
I must shatter their chains
I will dispel their illusions
And bring them Into the light
Gaze upon the light,
Misleading those enthralled,
That which was perceived
Is but a shadow on the wall
Obstinate,
Impetuous children
Content to remain
in their cage
They reject all that I offer
As folly - foul and profane
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Deadseer
06:23
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There are ghosts all around me
Dull eyes and pallid skin
No depth to their gaze
Just a sketch of hatred
My sins compounded
The weight of transgressions
It is always with me
Always with me
Wrongs I can never right
There will be no salvation
A prison of my own making that follows me
There is no speech between us
No spark of recognition
Whatever once was has withered
A bitter memory is better than none
To keep alive the lingering warmth we shared
The new coldness
Each day eternal
The chill births uncertainty
Willowy and translucent; the dead are all around me
Ghoulish caricatures with outstretched hands
I long to give them what they seek
but I’m too weak for peace
Ever insatiate; Spectral shadows arise
They want no vengeance; But their enmity is plain
Eyes on the ground; Head full of stars; My hands to my chest
Fingers find the leak
As red blood ascends to my mouth
Ashen hands enclose me
As red blood ascends to my mouth
Ashen hands enclose me
As red blood ascends to my mouth
Ashen hands enclose me
As red blood ascends to my mouth
Ashen hands enclose me
As red blood ascends to my mouth
Ashen hands enclose me
To lay me in my grave
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Lapsarian Washington, D.C.
Lapsarian (adj): Concerning the biblical fall of humankind
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