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Araneous
04:21
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Black legs crawling behind the clock
Never an instance without them
In silence it whispered of decay and showed me how to cure the pain
I cannot escape it’s foul stench
Cannot run from the chaos inside
It’s leash tightens on my throat, pulling me under waves of liquid lead
Return to the place where lust and greed made an angel bleed
I must feed my desire or all that’s inside me will unwind
Arachnoid body climbing inside my dreams
Awake to unblinking eyes buried in me
I choke on truths, unspoken
I can’t withstand the pressure
A moment of weakness
Eternal asphyxiation
(Solo - Abernethy)
What’re you out of your mind?
Coming back here, again and again
They know what you’ve done
They will hear the heartbeat that drones beneath our feet
But I will never be free of the spider who shadows me
Return to the place where lust and greed made an angel bleed out
I must feed my desire or all that’s inside me will unwind
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The Droste Observer
03:41
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We trust the gift of sight as truth and always we believe that what we see is reality
Beyond mortal vision lies the truth to our addiction
Controlling all that we desire
Peer into the absolute to see reality destitute
The primal source of the wicked
Evil lurks outside the edges beyond my perception
The cosmic eye feigned as my conception
Impossible optical illusion
Into the mirror I am repeated infinitely
And I am placed into the abyss
Infeasible mental delusion
This eye is not my own
In reflections it dwells
It’s gaze guides me to wicked sins
Returns to me in swells
(Solo - Allen)
The voice is not my own
In refractions it dwells
This voice guides me to the ending
Returns to me in swells
(Solo - Pugh)
(Solo - Allen)
I trust the gift of sight as truth and always I believe that what I see is reality
Beyond mortal vision lies the truth to my addiction
Controlling all that I desire
Into the mirror
I am the Droste observer
And I am placed into the abyss
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I’ve seen my futures and I’ve witnessed the rapture
Observed turmoil
Mirror of realms
Tortured by foresight
Led by fear
Pulled further into the lie
Fantasy or foul verity
The iris waits bathed in seething blaze
Contaminating truths of the mind’s eye
Cursed dimension
Thy eye, unblinking terror
It’s gaze brings me to my knees
Thy eye, unblinking mirror
I must obey or death I’ll replay
I’ve seen the orb watching intently
Twisting fiction for his collection
Tempted ecstasy
Allures me
Pulls me closer into the eye
Shifting paradigm
Collapsing all that lies in me
My eyes are drowning in Droste’s pit
The unending waves of liquid lead
Trapped in his gaze
I throw myself into the sea
Waters of cruelty
Chasm incendiary
Under the lens I dance upon the waves
Inside the eye
Inside his lie
I suffer, I burn in treacherous depths
Die by his wrath or succumb to the storm in the iris
Fucking eye wreathed in flame
Dragging me into its maze
Thy eye, unblinking terror
I am the prey to which he will slay
There must be another way
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Paradigm I: Betrayal
06:24
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My sight has gone black as liquid lead drains from my head
I’ve viewed all of the pathways but now thy eye eats my mind
Its mouth has opened up to inhale all things at last
Gluttony has led me to where nothing comes back
Becoming one with the legion of paradigms
Merging with the source
Restoring the timeline
Returning the design to the divine author
Betrayal
I’ve weaved through it’s maze
I’ve become enslaved
Crushed by the jaws I crave
I submit to the weight of fantasy’s foul plague
It’s mouth has opened up to vomit all things at last
Indulgence has led me where everything turns black
My foresight has gone as liquid lead drains from my mind
I’ve viewed all the beginnings but now my eyes feed on time
Submit to the mirror split
Crushed by his jaws
Just fucking drown me
(Solo - Abernethy)
Reset the rift
Merge me with the source
Betray me
I see the edge of time where all tales twist together once again
Each paradigm is wrapped in their own web of torment
And together we have all been betrayed
At the vertex of all, certainties are unwoven and reality is begun anew
The spider spiraling off into the void once again
And always the wretched eye, driveling lustfully at the truths and untruths born at each turn, at each branch
Plunging us all deep into the waves of the iris
To see the possibilities that lie beyond every turn, filling our lungs with liquid lead and watching as we drown
The spider need not lead us astray, as we all return to the source eventually, and we will never be without fallacy, never without malice and greed
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Cyclical Awakening
05:16
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Killers, zealots, and drug addicts
Suicidal rituals rage on in the moonlight
Some speak of divine ascension and spaces outside of time’s orbit
End the screams of the chaotic
Dampen our minds from the truth
Kaleidoscopes bleeding plasma
Dripping parallels into circles
Auditory hallucinations
Alternate interpretations
Aberration of allegory
Seduction by purgatory
Predatory stalking
Craving our incantations
Pulling us within divine vibrations
Severing the mind’s eye and revealing all that I’ve been
Trapped in endless twisting fiction, spinning webs of torment into spheres of cyclical awakening
(Solo - Allen)
Timeline shifts
Universe now adrift
Sinking in
Forcing me off the cliff
(Solo - Abernethy)
End the screams of the erotic
Open our minds to the void
Constellations breathing gamma
Weaving parallels into circles
Dripping worlds into the realms of the mind
The waves will swallow all that was ever mine
Weaving the parallels of infinite time
End the wails of clones from alternate paradigms
Void divine
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6. |
Turbulent Reality
03:37
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Fixated on the empty gaze
Eyes full of galaxies
I see something now but the rest is smoke and mirrors
The universe balances on my psyche
Perception is a constant burden pulling me under waves of liquid lead
I need the fix that will blind me from another ending
Allowing the cycle to return, to reveal what’s been unseen
Blurring the difference between life and death
Hallucination, fantasies are all I see
Unable to resist tempted ecstasy
I give in to chaos to see where it leads
(Solo - Allen)
In turbulence I can see
Existence an illusion
And time is a reoccurring dream
I watch as reality crashes around me
It has always been the truth but only now I see
Death has already come for me
With truth, panic crushes through me
And I grasp the memory of when life was real
(Solo - Abernethy)
(Solo - Stinar)
Blurring the difference between life and death
Hallucination, fantasies are all that bleed
Unable to resist tempted ecstasy
Always give in to see where it leads
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7. |
Born of Blood
03:54
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Trapped in dreams forbidden
Endless falling, drowning, crying
Succumb to their begging
Hellish frenzy
Pleasure from unworldly sources
Guided by chimeras voices
Slave to this feeling
Burning my insides without it
Longing for the vital fluids
Drowning in their blood
Wails of sirens pleading
Pushing for their lust to be drained
Granting their desires, not mine
My world is their benefaction
Yielding them their greatest passion
I am unresisted
Feeding into my addiction
Craving all that lies inside them
Cursed siphon
Pain
Pleasure
Born of blood
Stalking in the midnight glow
Blood moon
Sadistic bellwether
Angel’s call from the bordello
Flock of prey
One to fall victim
Approach without prompting terror
Alluring without error
Masking my lustful gaze
Withholding craze
Grasping her neck
Forcing forward
Lashing out
Screams of horror
Twisting the blade in her
Spilling fervor
I have been drawn to the act of execution
Spilling blood to free my soul from torment
The silence brings me ever nearer
Her vacant eyes force me to orgasm
Lust
Torment
Born of blood
Death is all that's left
My only vice
Killing, fulfillment, coming to the last of her breaths
Fuck, the moment has gone
I’ve killed again
Fleeting, climaxing, returning to the demons’ grip
Mental banishment
Consciousness
Fractal planes
Drowning in droste’s pit
Trapped inside the mirrored split
Pain
Pleasure
Torn apart
Lust
Torment
Born of blood
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Paradigm II: Clarity
04:52
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Did chaos ever look me in the eye or did the mirror show me what I wanted to see
The veil of reality is so thin
Who could really know the truth?
So I made what I wanted of it
This eye may be vile, but the mirror has doomed the collective paradigm
We’ve been betrayed and together we will succumb to the storm in the iris
I now see the edge where time becomes mine
How I crave abstract reality
Sinking in swells of viscous misery
The affliction of restraint
Illusion of ill mind
All consuming apathy
The righteous blood
Twisting the tale that corrupted all time
I spun webs of torment
Forcing my wrath to emerge from the depths of my mind
Return her to god himself
Ceasing to resist my despair
Drowning
I have followed the fallacy of his faith
Deceived
I’m entangled with my mistakes
Now fate’s forlorn
The only way out is with my own hand
(Solo - Abernethy)
This eye may be vile, but the mirror has betrayed us
We’ve been deceived and together we believed the lie
Oh great eye you have shown me the path
The veil over the mirror falls and now I see
Hands drip crimson with the spoils of pleasure
The master and it's puppet finally free
Did chaos ever look me in the eye or did it always dwell deep within
With life after life felled by my trembling hands
I drown in the sea of my sin
The eye was mine but in the fear we were blind
As the final victims fate draws near
These hands rip through my chest as I lay me to rest
The eye once wide is finally sealed
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