Austere
The Stillness of Dissolution
1. Dissolved Exile
Drowned in soaked sand
Emptied into rotten lungs
Chords in locust symphony
Murmured by shattered throat
Those close didn't care
Those afar sent warmth
The coldness of wire
Hands upon my face
Catacomb bone and drowned lung
The emblem of my own dissolve
Those close didn't care
Those afar sent warmth
The coldness of wire
Hands became familiar
Shit flowing through tubes
Via gnawing coffin winds
Veins drinking a poison
Both needed yet unwanted
The strangers kept coming
Breathe life back into me
But was it ever really wanted?
Thank you, sweet lady
For saving a man with a death wish
Thank you, sweet lady
For saving a man with a death wish
My death wish dissolved
Dissolved in exile
2. Time Awry
Bury me
Beneath a swarm of rats
Lost control
On something I never had
A fractured soul
In a whited wreath
Clawing at the bottom of despair
A vile murmuring cunt
I endure it's dagger
So nourish me, rat mother
Led into the nest
Burning the hands of time
Upon days of which now gone
Endless and wandering
A smile in-between blurred lines
Upon a mirror of fractured time
I face so many truths
I burn myself on each
Of fractured time
Time awry
Burning the hands of time
Days of which now gone
Endless and wandering
Adrift in nowhere
A vile, murmuring cunt
I endure its dagger
So nourish me, rat mother
Led into the nest
Wilted in rotten blood...
3. Redolent Foulness
A heart gathering dust
Beating slower until the last
A life entwined with sorrow
With fleeting times of joy
A mind that will not stop
Fuels desire to be gone
A price too high to pay
For the withering bouquet
Desolation in the air
Becoming ever more aware
Of the hopelessness born
Back inside the womb
Enclosed within four walls
I'm lethargic and forlorn
This rancid, fetid abode
Will become my tomb
Vomiting the last spark of life
Onto the filthy floor
As I glimpse dead flowers
And try to recall their perfume
4. The Downfall
Look around,
Tell me, what do you see?
So many people
Living, laughing, carefree
In a world served by grief
And a hope that never came
A cosmic coincidence
It's bullshit all the same
Evolving into nothing
Back into the dirt
Of this dying planet
This wretched, cursed earth
The downfall began
When we developed self-awareness
A loss that lasts forever
And a will that's so strong
To find what others have
A sense that I belong
Conceive and raise a child
Save the human race
From its impotent futility
But I see it's all in vain
The downfall began
When we developed self-awareness
A reimagined species
Heads into the dirt
Heading into the dirt
5. Rusted Veins
An endless dissolve
Inked by oblivion
Enthroned upon bearers of decay
Unknowing, yet ready to unfold
Here we stand firm
Defiant in the eye of existence
Crossing the bridge of flesh
Draped in crimson decay
The creeping of time
Wrapped in rusted veins
Dressed in night's thorned robe
Where relics lay wilted
Wilted in silence
Wrapped in rusted veins
Where a soul bends towards the earth
Beneath roots clawing at old soil
A curse uttered in catacomb dust
Within a collection of corroded bones
Crossing the bridge of flesh
Draped in crimson decay
The creeping of time
Wrapped in rusted veins
Dressed in night's thorned robe
Where relics lay wilted
Wilted in silence
Wrapped in rusted veins
Night caresses my remains
Seeking tears to shepherd away
Only to find parched bones in decay
That lay within the claws of time
6. Storm Within My Heart
I've seen the colour of spite
Uttered behind curtain
Your vitriol vomited
Sinking into the mire
Vile spectres in black
Ruined within your ruin
Dripping in malice
Yet wasted beyond burnt stars
These winds take flight
As dull knives upon my heart
What is it to feel pain?
When my soul died within your storm
These winds take flight
As dull knives upon my heart
Within your storm
You begged for closure
Reopened wounds still bleed
Coloured fibres of benevolence
Yet this treason dies with you
So be still, fall silent now
Fade the everlasting grey
For the only pastel left here
Is your blood upon my soul
These winds take flight
As dull knives upon my heart
What is it to feel pain?
When my soul died within your storm
So be still, fall silent now
Fade the everlasting grey
For the only pastel left here
Is your blood upon my soul
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