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1.
Nowhere to hide Nowhere to run and you're out of disguises I know the truth and you cannot deny it Flame on the fuse and you cannot ignite it Cursing my name Nowhere to hide Nowhere to run and you're out of disguises I know the truth and you cannot deny it Flame on the fuse and you cannot ignite it I won't be rid of the price upon my head Day one, the stranger came to me Occupied my head rent-free Day two, the stranger steals from me Covers skin so they can't see Day three's arrival came too quickly Left in the dust and grew sickly Day four is quiet, maybe I'll fight it Day five, he scorns and reclaims his stay Why do you visit? Why are you here? What do you want? Why are you near? Why don't you smile? Why do you care? What do you feel? You are a stranger Why are you hateful? Tell me, stranger Why is it painful? Stranger stands in my reflection Stranger stares behind my eyes Stranger Why are you shameful? Stranger in the midst of the mind Begging your restraint Stranger Day five thousand one hundred thirteen Tried to rid his home in my skin Lift this hateful prison off me Chew the fruits that rid you of me Why do you damn look like that? Why are you still looking at me? Why do you visit? Why are you here? What do you want? Why are you near? Why don't you smile? Why do you care? Why do you stay all of my days? You are a stranger Why are you hateful? Tell me, stranger Why is it painful? Stranger steps behind my footsteps Stranger stares behind my eyes Stranger Why are you shameful?
2.
Drawn to the allure of the water run pure Minutes turn to hours when the river flows sure We are sinking Flood the flesh and bone Drown me Capsized Run ashore on grounds that offer promise promising a brief respite again Intent While it's known the journey thrills The destination devastates and plunges, deepening The kill Beyond restraint the anchor slips before the tide Caught in fingers desperate to taste the inside Demon in the window not inclined to glance back His game is one of patience; one will play into his tact We are sinking Flood the flesh and bone Drown me Show the sinful liquid gold Find me raptured in the current find me subject to its hold Drink it This fount is not of youth But it leaves the mind young when it wraps around your Tongue Slowly But beware as tendrils pull, you will stumble and you'll fall Turn your heaven into hell It will turn your heaven into hell Drawn to the allure of the water run pure Minutes turn to hours when the river flows sure We are sinking Is it hard to lose? Holding on the dice Can you hear me now? They're not playing nice Trapped behind the window Devil will not smile No more Fast acquaintances The water's at my throat Trapped behind the window Devil turns away Once more Sea is rising past my neck I will know bliss Flood me Drown me Pull me down
3.
Heaven they dry their eyes because you won't reach paradise Suffer below God he wipes his tears and though he saved a spot for years Sorry, so long Save your spite for the days behind you Say your shame has fallen from your skies I saw the gates slam shut And the saint diverted his gaze Adrift in misdirection Falling on my face How will saviors deny you? Test me on this and on this alone Test me not for the sake of design Oh how the gods won't rend the strings How? They hang and cling to a torn page Blind me, bind me I heard enough to know it's true The voice inside gave me proof to see it through Heaven they dry their eyes because you won't reach paradise Suffer below God he wipes his tears and though he saved a spot for years Sorry, so long I never knew you Be rid before my sight You are scum on the dirt I created Sink into the cracks When did conscience escape you? You play the role of a changed man And spout on hymns of praise I know you'll keep your promise I saw it in a vision I'm told whom I must walk with It's time your children came back home Time your children came back home Not by choice but by your mind Hold their hands and clench them tight Your hell is made of spite Spite Heaven they dry their eyes because you won't reach paradise Suffer below God he wipes his tears and though he saved a spot for years Sorry, so long See the kingdom by your maker Hide inside the walls of mortal men I know you'll keep your promise I saw it in a vision I'm told whom I must walk with I fear no earthly prison I know you'll keep your promise I saw it in a vision Blood my price for living days of falsehood Where is the ink? Where is the name you scribbled on your page? Palaces on mountaintops of lies I walk among them And know their worth Oh, now know the truth seeps in lies My world is yours Command the vessel Free me I am reborn Heaven they dry their eyes because you won't reach paradise Suffer below God he wipes his tears and though he saved a spot for years Sorry, so long Heaven they dry their eyes because you won't reach paradise Suffer below God he wipes his tears and though he saved a spot for years Sorry, so long Heaven they dry their eyes because you won't reach paradise Suffer below
4.
We all grow attached to the semblance of another Pour out selfless gifts for the benefit of others The final sun set quakes the pillars of foundation For where the stone rests is where I met the realization What's in my head? Bottom feeders circle The scavengers descend I won't weep for you I am incapable Incapable Incapable Drop like flies still the sun will rise again Did I value you or the value of your gifts? Held in high esteem as a trophy on display As the flesh grows cold you stay the sum of all your worth Why? Why can't I love? I offer you the nothing I showed in my stead I can't weep for you I am incapable Incapable Incapable Forgive me You're not my weight to bear I will keep you and discard you as it's best for me Forgive me my indifference I fear hurt I fear refusal Regret Refusal I am incapable Afraid of Repairing I cannot love
5.
Monsters 03:55
Wash your hands clean of the guilt You will yet not pass the walls I've built Overstep another stone is set Breach the walls but know my world is kept Underneath the soil I tend Don't feed the creatures bound to revolt Monuments and gifts of trust won't Unfurl my clenched fists And the monsters will not go to sleep They pry the eyelids open Over the bed they lean Whispering secrets Black tethers Hold me down Cellar snakes and silver serpents Climb the posts below the mattress Heed our words and guard them closely You need to change But I wake up the same as always No sage wisdom held to my chest The mirrors tell no lies Only truths that I deny And the monsters will not go to sleep They pry the eyelids open Over the bed they lean Whispering secrets Black tethers Hold me down I will be a lantern on your path But no one shines for me But the monsters they won't go to sleep They force the eyelids open Leaning across the bed Whispering secrets But the monsters will not leave my side Until I wake from slumber I'll hear their tactless lies Until I keep them Shut-in cells Curse my mind
6.
Damage Seeps in open wounds Damage Reap the spoils of ruin No more lights to chase in tunnels sealed in stone Architects conceited in designs so cruel Dead ends Rails on ties on grounds unstable Locked on course Hands face down Inching towards the void What further shall my weary eyes regard? Deceit Conscience covered by the truths In tales of old Damage Seeps in open wounds Damage Reap the spoils of ruin Did you see the clouds and harps plucked under soil? Pray your loved ones smiled Locked in tombs of royals Did you sing those songs and dance above the rain? I await the day we cease to grasp our pains Show me how to live while shackled by the heel Grief and mourn and plea and soon return to dust Did you see those clouds and harps plucked under soil? Pray your loved ones smiled Locked in tombs of royals Did you sing those songs and dance above the rain? I await the day we cease to grasp our pains Damage Seeps in open wounds Damage Reap the spoils of ruin
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Pitfalls 03:06
Punish me with a second drop Wash it down with a third and forth 40 fluid ways to quench my thirst Invite the urge to make this night my worst Converse dry: the bottle's sealed I can't wait to make me feel Tide's high— surface ripples Levitate to force the payload Reveal the part of me That forgoes this vacancy Look like shit Feel like shit Look like shit Feel like shit Look like shit Feel like shit Look like shit and feel worse Far worse than I have dropped The hurt stays near as all my shots Writhing, splitting— pains to be you Wake up far too gone to stay true Look like shit Feel like shit And it tears me up, yet I do it again Fucking bleak Fucking weak Hands push 12:00 and the circle completes I must know what I have owed Payment shown to taste the cold Gift is yours to keep; my weight to bear Showered on the rocks in the sea I fare Insufferable drenched medication I feel the pull of my inclination Look like shit Feel like shit I look like shit and feel worse Far worse than I have dropped The hurt stays near as all my shots Writhing, splitting— pains to be you Wake up far too gone to stay true Look like shit Feel like shit And it tears me up, yet I do it again Fucking bleak Fucking weak Hands push 12:00 and the circle completes Look like shit Feel like shit Look like shit Feel like shit You look like shit Feel like shit Pitfalls, recall to make the pieces fit Oh yeah, the debt is paid You're not good enough until you pay to play Bring a bottle, and a second, three? 'Cause I hope to god you don't think it's free Oh yeah, that's what I came to see You hug the bowl like you hold decency Didn't go too far or did you taste the pain? 'Cause your pillow starts to look a lot like porcelain Pitfalls, recall to make the pieces fit Far worse than I have dropped The hurt stays near as all my shots Writhing, splitting— pains to be you Wake up far too gone to stay true Look like shit Feel like shit And it tears me up, yet I do it again Fucking bleak Fucking weak Hands push 12:00 and the circle completes
8.
So what the fuck is going on? It's a miss and it's near but it's far and out of my reach Hard to recall It escapes me yet; I'm like What the fuck is going on? It's again and again and it takes so much to rebuild All in my head And there it stays for now But what the fuck is going on? Remember how it made you feel What it meant and what they meant Remember the anger you felt and the resentment in your heart It's not your fault but know you can't repeat Worm, writhing, wretched beast Know your pain Let this show I'm better Than I was Know your pain Fix yourself So what the fuck is going on? It's a miss and it's near but it's far and out of my reach Hard to recall It escapes me yet; I'm like What the fuck is going on? It's again and again and it takes so much to rebuild All in my head And there it stays for now But what the fuck is going on? The days we entangled in our company Let it fuel you in a mission to resign repeat mistakes May your wrath live forever as a reminder A home is reduced from the inside Know your pain Let this show I'm better Than I was Know your pain Fix yourself What the fuck is going on? What is going on? I swore to myself Don't remember the warmth You'll suffer a lifetime in its leave It's a miss and it's near but it's far and out of my reach Hard to recall It escapes me yet; I'm like What the fuck is going on? What the fuck is going on?
9.
Send me to the void I'm found in my abyss Bury imperfections Entrapped my thoughts in cases from the past Send me to the void Send me to the void I've fought my boundaries I purchased safety in the naught within the numb Choose the poison you will sip from the chalice The fumes endure and force the strain of my spite I found peace in the expanse of the null And when the truth refrains I'm stalling at an impasse Fuck My heart it pulses under soil Send me to the void Send me to the void I'm quelled in my abyss Hidden intersections Entrapped my thoughts in cases from the past Naught regains my substance In trifling nuance lay the vices of the mind I know what I fear And what I love is the embrace of the surround Ah, what I'd give to know the cold Send me to the void A voice behind the walls Pries me from my slumber Raptures me to state beyond my kind Send me to the void Send me to the void She breathes above the hills The stale breath of none Will you stay? Hands are those that kill This peace shall have my fill Have you shame? She breathes above the hills The stale breath of none Will you stay? Send me to the void Send me to the void

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released August 31, 2022

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