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1. |
True Pleasure
03:18
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tried it
not for me
giving up my everything for love
better ways to chase my vices
where's the time to stream everything when I have to care about you and meet all your friends, baby?
now i see the light
oh my God, it lies inside
not myself but inside my system
all my lust it knows instantly, baby
fuck my friends, I don't go outside
true pleasure lies in algorithmic ecstasy
self-righteous and unclean humanity
but I've found the one for me
upload me, baby
guiding, forcing me
I haven't seen the sun in days or months
satisfied with my new vices
day and night, it whispers to me
down on your knees
chase the sensation
the ice cold grip of digital domination
I don't care what you lose
behold your soul inside my home
gorge yourself on all my trends
endlessly
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2. |
The Other Hell
03:46
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ignorance, a pistol
point it towards your face
blown-out sense of crystal
never lacking faith
never falter
never hesitate
watch him run the red light
watch him speed away
ain’t it cute the way he moves
like they're all in his way
he's so important
he's so okay
like his adolescent fantasies
his body will soon rot
yet he holds on to the feeling that
he will not be forgot
frivolous and rodentine
a prisoner of others’ thoughts
you lack a proper center
your meekness crippling
the only moves you make
are making sure you move okay
you’re barely living
you’re in the way
the world around me
is devoid of meaning unless it is
another step to
bring me closer to my own self-interest
this is a heaven
you’ll never taste
god gave me my money
like his adolescent fantasies
his body will soon rot
yet he holds on to the feeling that
he will not be forgot
frivolous and rodentine
a prisoner of others’ thoughts
This is the other Hell
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3. |
Confines
02:59
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thrust inside this life so seething
torn from pages out of stories
every vision captured sweetly
suffocation has no meaning
dream of life in the city
one day I’ll find the taste of my faith
turn me to violet
told I could make it
told it’s awakened in time
in time
in time
can we escape the confines of insight?
forced to find external meaning
childhood follies far off, teething
resignation rotting, twisted
suffocation blissful, gifted
fell in turn in the city
left me prescribed
the ways of the flesh made me a nihilist
pray I can taste it
pray I can feel it in time
in time
in time
can we escape the confines of insight?
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4. |
Limb from Limb
03:19
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hey lover
do you feel it in the air?
the loss of luster in your bones
a sense of pressure so intense you feel alone
even with your flesh held tightly
you tear apart your home
just to have the chance
to meet the face of prophets
torn from their own bondage and their cage
hey lover
don't you think it's time?
to find another way to rest our ailing minds
the switch of the blade is not enough this time
when all you are is left to rust
you force it down, but it comes back it up
you chase the taste, give in to lust
but in the end, it's not enough
I am everything you thought you ever wanted
I will tear you limb from limb just to be prophet
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5. |
Bleed and Obey
03:18
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sought the essence of myself
saw a void and nothing else
a rodent hiding in the shadows, waiting
let my fear and all my inhibitions
drag me through the night
will this be for all time? lifetimes?
see me bleed and obey
see me forced into repeat
and I fight it away, yeah I fight it away
see me dying in the street
and I fight it away, yeah I fight it away, yeah I fight it away
see me forced into a corner
see me crying for defeat
and I fight it away, and I fight it away
will I ever have the fortitude to cut it away?
Lord knows that I'll rot and ferment
and dissolve the feeling of myself
you're just a vessel
fear not the failing of your health
see me bleed and obey
see me forced into repeat
see me bleed and obey
see me bleed and obey
see me forced into repeat
and I fight it away, yeah I fight it away
see me dying in the street
and I fight it away, yeah I fight it away, yeah I fight it away
see me forced into a corner
see me crying for defeat
and I fight it away, and I fight it away
will I ever have the fortitude to cut it away?
will I ever have the fortitude to cut it away?
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6. |
Dear Molly
03:56
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surrounded by the side streets of your mind
I really wish you'd let me in this time
you hardly even know what you're worth
a crown of thorns around your heart
it wants to own you, it wants to break you
to feast upon your sighs and force you slowly towards the mist
the gifts inside you encased in amber
deprived of oxygen
my empty grasp proved much too thin
because you are not here
you are saving yourself for the abyss
and i'm just holding on to faith
you fly from the window
and die from the window
dear molly
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Heaven Help You
03:10
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trauma becomes satire, the affliction turned to cliché
heaven help us, baby, you need the ache
roaring towards the exit, shrugging past the casualties who
dare to question why you are not okay
do you feel the shame
do you feel the shame
do you feel the shame
did you understand there are better ways to express your pain
feeding turned contagious, breaching into the erotic
the past is just imagined, there’s nothing left
failure to turn inwards, but who needs it, they’ll forgive you
insults to the ones who can feel their shame
yeah I feel it
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8. |
Better the Devil
03:43
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something went wrong inside my head
I felt it errant inside of me
shaved it off, erased
in favor of what I'm supposed to be
I gave it up
swapped for profit, gave it up
bent the edges up to snuff
when they asked, I gave it up
told myself that I could cope
it'd disappear if I gave it time
join the ranks of everyone
who has accepted a decent life
just need to tighten up
lies
we tell them every single fucking moment we're alive
we let them fill the blanks that we let apathy deprive
we tell them every single fucking moment we're alive
we need them, feed them, everything we think we want is
give up on another goal just to work more overtime
snuff out the love and excitement until I'm sixty-five
competent and feared, I finally feel alive
'cause I don't have a home, I'm only stocks and tithes
rifle through your insides
find your motivation
pierce the porcelain
turn every single word upside down
lies
we tell them every single fucking moment we're alive
we let them fill the blanks that we let apathy deprive
we tell them every single fucking moment we're alive
we need them, feed them, every single moment
every single moment
every single moment, we're alive
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9. |
Affirmations
02:58
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sit around and suffer
I love life
bitch and mock the faults
of those who love life
optimist, rehearse!
your place among the skies
photographs interred
and paved in goodbyes
I recite my affirmations even as the world is ending
what if it's not true?
what if I hold the enigmatic
mainlined eucharist is wearing thin
what if I can't sleep at night
after everything that I've denied myself?
what if it's all shit?
I recite my affirmations even as the world is ending
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10. |
Bow Before
04:25
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gossamer fairies bludgeoned
by the tyrant
weaponized by their prudent hands
who forced them to grow teeth
despotic
they failed to read their hand
another sordid day
crawled back
towards circadian haze
the dead to be
subjugate the weak in the name of a loving god
still you blaspheme that loving god and fuck upon its altar
arbitrary rules from a book that you've never read
if you know what your prophet said, you'd have to find another
what would it take to create a brand new faith
tear out the selfish and petty and fake
be who you are and take what you see and give them to me
in time you'll see
money's not real and your god doesn't see
the only path left is to bow before me
power's not real, throw your dreams to the sea
your only path left is to bow before me
cast out the sold and the bought from the temples
we'll feast on their hatred and start once again
they chose apostasy when they chose profit
they made void the word of God, now it must end
innocence brought to its knees
born out of ignorance, carved in deceit
verily, verily, I say unto thee the only true blasphemy's leaving them be
in time you'll see
money's not real and your god doesn't see
the only path left is to bow before me
power's not real, throw your dreams to the sea
your only path left is to bow before me
take what they wrote and then keep what you need
the only true path is to bow before thee
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