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Single mind, mass of heaven, bound to the maw Beneath torrent, water live, amassed Holy Hums, earth churned, bloodless Upon putrid banks spent saints Lithified Sacralized sufferer, ruined dogma Abandoned conviction To sow shattered seeds Unto the calmed currents Great work over lifeless void Animate demiurge architect Withered roots, scattered ash Sator numinous depths
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Solar descent upon vestige of peace Herald your end No greater joy than to witness The posture of the coward Erected as architecture of vermin A fit monument to your avarice Robe dipped in blood of your own misdeeds As abandoned humanity acts accordingly on you Your skin flensed like the land Your soul inverted and mutilated Like your revered image of the human beast of burden Solar ascent upon the rotting corpse Gaze affixed upon the alluding sky Erected as architecture of vermin A fit monument to your avarice
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Fleshdirt - Asphalt
08:47
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Deeper within my thoughts I beckon thee
Phantom of the marrow,
cloaked in ash and shadow,
you rise from the silence of forgotten graves.
Through the halls of my mind you wander,
a herald of storms,
a crown of withered branches
piercing the heavens with sorrow.
The stars recoil from your gaze,
their light shattered into black rivers of time.
I drink from the chalice of your ruin,
and the night swallows my spirit whole.
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Fleshdirt - Specialist
07:05
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My lungs fill with plague
as the winds of the mountain scatter the ashes of the sun.
Roots writhe beneath the soil,
gnawing the bones of forgotten empires.
The river carries venom,
its black current whispering hymns to the void.
Stars collapse into themselves,
mirroring the ruin of man.
I wander the forest of stone,
where wolves chant dirges in the hollow dusk.
Each breath a fever,
each step a descent into eternal night.
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An affliction
Of ambition
There's blood on my hands
From the thorns on the ground
Awaiting what lies ahead
Averting what lurks beneath
Slain upon demoniac rapids
Retribution swift
We do not
Return from this
False and contrived
Are the kings of cowards
Cut without pity
The throats of despots
We do not
Return from this
False and contrived
Are the kings of cowards
Death
Endless river
Of No Return
Ride for ruin
And the world's ending
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Lost among the ruins
Dissolved as mist
Buried in this Dying Earth
Whose names are now gone
Ailed by avidity
Annihilated by nescience
Banished
Vanished
Sorrow
And anguish
Charred
And consumed
Gone by way
Of fatal pride
Banished
Vanished
Sorrow
And anguish
*The words used in the sample during the middle passage come from "The Sword of the Lictor" by Gene Wolfe
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