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Spoken Word Intro
00:48
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Listen
03:29
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From the dregs of the hidden and curse of forbidden
the agent, he did rise.
The fire 'neath cauldron, the holes in the cross
there are snuff films playing in his eyes.
The ousting of goodness, defilement and bedlam
from which he draws his wicked strength
The sins he shall rent, his impure intent
shall go for unthinkable length.
Chorus:
Go to bed early, or it's gonna eat you
You'd best do what I fucking tell you.
Pretty and blonde, above and beyond
what was asked for when she was released.
She bleeds clear and thick, like semen and spit
and her kisses are black and diseased.
She rips and she tears, professes she cares
though she's been at this rape for a while.
She gave us her aids, cured her claws, teeth and blades
in her mother's milk, blood, shit and bile.
Chorus repeat
Like legion with drive, we find all still alive
and plague it 'til wretched or dead.
Grasping hands, gnashing teeth-lusts arose from beneath
all concrete things snapping like thread.
Flowers wilt, children cry, Mothers weep, father's die
in the pursuit of our quenching of thirst.
We enter the pure, no relief and no cure
feeding frenzies as hearts and hope burst.
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3. |
Bean Appetit
02:07
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Wheels creak under the burden
Of a cargo best left unnamed
Horses whipped into a frenzy
For those who give chase musn't gain
Luna looks down upon their pursuit
With a pale yellow eye
From the village we run, back to the cave
Where our hungry family lies
Yes, we've brought home dinner
from our midnight
midnight carriage ride
Some mistake us for highwaymen
Others mark us common thieves
The truth of it is, we're forty-eight
Hungry mouths to feed
We're creatures are taste, if not wealth
And those tastes are the great divide
Between those who share our happy home
And you frightening strangers outside
We daren't travel among you
save our midnight
midnight carriage ride
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4. |
Blank Brick Wall
02:30
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Slack is gone
Eyes blank and wide
Feeble struggles
Strangled pride
Lust for torment
Howls of glee
Calls of wanton
Agony
Ignore the thrashing, tune out the screams
In this Technicolor dream
Feel the rope scrape the beam,
Apathy in its extreme
Ooh ooh
It's the cold that threatens
Our sanctum's piece
Rotted wormwood
Fear's release
I want to touch you
I want to feel
Your faded label
Your broken seal
It shakes the window, tugs the door
Like an angry predator
Killed the virgin, spared the whore
Left flower petals on the floor
Ooh ooh
Take a sip of this, it should put some color back in your face
I'm so sick of this, stare with me at what pain cannot erase
Don't pick at this, when next it bleeds I shall think of you dead
In this cold, dark place
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5. |
Estelle
02:57
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I once kissed a girl, she was pale as can be
and her lips were a deep ruby red.
Her hair was as black as night skies tend to be
as she lay on her cold marble bed
Her room was all dusty, and pitch black you see
for none had been there in a while.
But the passion between that fair maiden and me
drove me there in pursuit of her smile
I twice kissed a girl, and the second was cold,
emotionless, lacking in life
Her silence, it bit to the depths of my soul,
her indifference cut like a knife.
"Will you not speak to me?" I inquired her long
but needn't have bothered, I got no reply.
"After all that I've done for you?!" asked I with a pain in my heart
that brought tear to my eye.
And thrice I did kiss her, and thrice I was spurned
sent away without a word.
The maggots that nested in her pretty lips
laughed as her taxidermied cat purred.
When she died, she left me alone in this world
with her rotting, decaying shell.
But still, we make love every night,
my dearly departed Estelle.
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6. |
A Ride Home
04:56
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Follow me to the other side of dawn
where passes a black clad rider on a skeletal horse.
See the lovers kiss as they hide from the sun
And hear poor Fortunato scream his remorse
I hope the chill doth leave you be
For naught but infinite dark awaits
Feel the walls and the blackness close in on thee
As deeper we go, to where light shan't penetrate
Past those locked places that fell silent long ago
Past the secrets only the departed know
Continue to walk, for I am here at your back
Though my mind lies elsewhere with a long forgotten smile
Fear nothing lurking within the smothering black
For this trip beneath shall be well worth my while
Look upon the door before which you stand
The last light far behind and above
Enter, but touch nothing, stay your hand
For within these walls lies my lost love
Those lips that I kissed so long ago
As they whispered secrets only I could know
Arise, my beloved. See what I've brought for you!
A fresh flesh vessel for you to occupy
Enter and wake, embrace life anew
And stand with me 'neath this Stygian sky
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7. |
The Rats and Rats
02:36
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I like to watch the moisture gather, gather on your window
while you lie inside, asleep and unaware.
I like to watch your eyelids flutter, flutter while you dream away
not ever even knowing that I'm there.
I feel your breath begin to quicken
then become eratic 'til it fully stops with terror and surprise.
They're telling me that it's unhealthy, sick for me to view you
in these shards of mirror jammed into my eyes.
Rats and rats
I like to feel your body shiver, shiver with the poison of the serpent's kiss
that has you feeling ill.
I like it when you are pretending, pretending it's not me you want
'cause you know that I love all those I thrill
I love that you gave me a second chance, an opportunity to prove
that my love is true.
I sit up late and hold your hands, maybe with progress
and a scalpel I can hold the rest of you.
Rats and rats
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Lilith
03:51
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Viscera of the innocent
drips from her hands.
With a wine glass of virgin's blood,
she sings along with the screams of the damned. Can you
See her pretty and elegant
in her burial gown?
She gnaws on the entrails of the pious and pure,
insuring that they will go down.
Chorus
Won't you save some inferno for me.
Summoned forth via pentagram,
she is with us again.
She holds blasphemy in her eyes,
Her unmaking gaze will pursue to the bittersweet end.
Will it hurt, I ask timidly.
She just shakes her head.
Then she places her hand to my cheek, she was lying,
I don't mind just as long as she's fed.
Chorus repeat
Don't ever let the pain stop,
I need it in the worst way.
Junior succubus by night,
pretty porcelain figure by day.
I am free in your bondage,
thrashing at my restraints.
Draw on me again, I have more that you want,
the tension is making me faint.
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9. |
Ferry on the River Styx
04:24
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No fear, beloved wife
to you I'll soon return
For Grease I'll march forth, I'll slay her foes
And if need be, for her, I'll burn
We stand and fight with all we are
But still, alas, I die
And while on the ferry, Charon informs me
Someone neglected to place the coins on my eyes.
The ferryman demands payment
for my passage to the other bank.
But I've nothing to give, for I was buried with nought
but the shield on my arm and the wound in my flank.
I'm forever in debt, and until he collects
I'm damned to work the oar
To slave away forever and a day
rowing from shore to shore.
I shall never set foot upon the soil of the land
of peace or agony.
I must bend to the task of propelling this craft
So others may rest or burn, you see
I meet them all, old and young alike
And weep for what they've lost
But then came the day when it pains me to say
I bore my own wife across.
Now she's passed beyond, but here I remain
weary and longing for her touch
Making the trip with the ferryman
Cursing the gods and my luck
But sometimes I see her. She waves to me.
Oh how I pine for her kiss.
But until I pay or waste away,
I am imprisoned on the River Styx.
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10. |
Parting Sentiments
00:50
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