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Dante's Rhapsody
04:57
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Nothing's static
So dramatic
She's ecstatic
She is plastic
Touching her lips
Flame in her hips
Dopamine drip
Power tripping
Sunken eyelids
Soda pop sips
Dehydration
Hedo-nation
Down in Hades
With the lady
Of the night I
Come alive
Time's drippin down from our Midas cup
I'm looking down but seeing up
She's drinking blood on video
Marcus Antonius with his Cleo
patra, when I am looking at ya
I see shaded pastures, greener than before
Of your stature — statutory rapture; of the devil girl next door
Club inferno, we'll flare out with the rest of them
She said: What do I care, most fun is had down below
Don't wanna fly where there's no air with the rest of them
The burning flame melts all residual snow
Burn it all to a crisp
Silver tongue girl with a lisp
Just come give us a kiss —
Nothing better than to end like this
Second circle of hell
When you're in it, it's harder to tell,
Where the high [and] hangover switch:
I am bewitched, with you in this ditch
Age old story
Boy and girl, so boring
She appeared before me
“Outta purgatory”
Devil girl who showed me underworld untold, she's got
a stranglehold on my whole soul
Lucifer, we will chase you out of Earth
She said: what do I care most fun is had down below
Bash Gabriel's head with his horn in a gleeful mirth
The burning flame melts all residual snow
Second circle of hell
When you're in it, it's harder to tell
Where the high-hangover switch..
I am bewitched, with you in this ditch
Just look ahead, don't mind the swell
It gets real good after the dizzy spell
The lovers’ quarrel at the end of our times
The cataclysm — yet I'm feeling just fine
[I'm feeling] great! We feel elated, there’s no more need for
Sanctity and purity and lurid insecurity
The gates are open everyone can join
Our perfect liberation of this burning sensation
Some call it love or lust or being young
I call it slavery of the wildest kind of fun
The dream that they’ll [have] never ever dream[ed] of
I don't need a buddha, there will never be enough
Judas Priest speaks the sermon starts
Congregation's spirit is off the charts
Until life undo us part
Sanctimonious preacher hearts — listen!
We will laugh to our hearts content
Off the years you fuckers spent
Purveyors of the right path, so swell
Well, I guess I’ll see you in hell
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2. |
Quaranteens
05:00
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Tired of talking to the abyss
with its endless laundry list
of the things that feel amiss
Ignoramuses in bliss
Sitting all alone at home
Playing broken telephone
A suburban rolling stone
Rolling on down
Tourist in town
Fucking around
Learning to count
Feeling depressed
Idle and stressed
Who to impress
Gimme that [..]
I lost it all
with my commute
Putting up walls
Sirens on mute
Heart is diseased
Fever won't cease
Germs are immune
SALT IN THE WOUND
Just a little flu shot
I have lost a lot more than a bit of blood
It's more like a flood
Save us, oh Jehovah
This dream's far from over
The divine reveal
Show me to the feeling
[Or] we'll just pretend
I'll be your friend
[Please] Stay until
Lockdown ends
Stay in your room
More like a tomb
This dusty womb:
Pregnant with doom
Saintest Mary Magdalene
In your mirror I have seen
The nothing that’s inside of ourselves
The book of Job on the hidden shelf
The void that we are
All through and through
Atoms and stars
Dead before noon
Slipping away
Feeling okay[?]
Turning the page
Together we
Tire [of] talking to the abyss
As the viewpoint slowly shifts
Sands of time grim reaper sifts
At the beach we used to sit
Now we know how lonely feels
Everyone's Achilles’ heel
Even those with hearts of steel
Can't escape this broken seal no more
Meet me with a plague mask
So my toxified gas
Won't spread any further
There’s no love — it’s murder
There's no one to save us
From this fever nightmare
I know life is not fair
But we're kids no more
Not like before
I'll be your friend
Stay until
the lockdown ends
With empathy greet
Your destiny find
Serenity sing
Our symphony
of light
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3. |
Thirsty Children
05:03
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She's stuck in a psychotic trance..
Abandoned her soul in the houses of France
Won't you look at her provincial dance?
Just yearning for her advance
Branches sprouting from her wounds
This is a scene from a 1960s cartoon
You look at yourself and you see the moon
Cooking powder by the spoon
After leaving for clearlake waters
I went looking for owls and abandoned sea otters
It's really you in the woods
It's really you, so stay hydrated
I ain’t scared of losing you
just got this feline fear
that when I look, won’t see you. Hear
a cat that’s dying yet so livid and alive
Branches sprouting from her cuts
What can you see with eyes wide shut?
With this kind of narcoleptic strut
Won't be able to leave this rut
So pure that rhymes don't work anymore
So senseless like a hunting carnivore
It's really you in the woods
It's really you, hungry for blood
Drenched in the nest, can't dry off
Trying to cool down, so desperate..
Thick searing hot liquid,
Concentrated, no 2% up here
They say the message isn't clear
But nothing good ever comes easy
Muddy waters, murky daughters in the ritual
Skyline to where?
I asked and I heard a prayer. It went
“It's really you in the woods
It's really you so take a dip
In salty seas and clearest lakes..
It's really you in the jungle,
Queen of the beasts and the insects,
Find what it is you are looking for
Even if you are not looking at all
It's really you in the swamp
It's really you, so stay hydrated”
Drenched
With eyes wide shut, the vision dims
With eyes wide open, sinner without sins
Evening, morning, and noontime, I speak and moan, and He hearkened to my voice
Entangled in the marches with dead Mary and Joseph
We drink the blood of Christ we eat the body of Lucifer
Oh rage from lights from above, we sing it with love
Through the chemtrails, we see the eyes of God
In pressed pills in the shape of a cross
Not all is lost. We are drenched yet dying of thirst
This party's bad but I've seen worse
The seeds burst from persimmons and other exotic fruit
Squish it from under your boot. And inject the heat rises with every breath
Hard to say if I'm right when there's no one left
Tallest buildings of the world, widest arcs of the covenant
Maturity immaturity delusions of grandeur crashing of the ego
The id is imploding the love is eternal the fire is eternal
We ascend then descend then don't land the fall
with brains splattered gray matter all over the pavement and the wall
And we're free
Free to dance
Free to sing
Free to fuck up everything
Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name
Thy kingdom come
Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread,
deliver us from evil
We are dying of thirst
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4. |
Edge of Time
04:41
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When you cracked my ribs, it was the greatest thing that had ever happened to me
[The] lack of air in my lungs and the blood I coughed up — Pollock couldn’t ever outdo me
The catharsis I felt, your perfume that I smelled — Dior, carbon monoxide and iron
Thought that I'd seen it all but this one's new: the despair that
I feel with you
I don't know where I'm going to sleep
I don't know where I'm going to stay
Baby, there is no tomorrow
All we have is today
When the fire fades we're left in [the] shade in our little little nowhere
Found one last pill, so now we can kill little feelings that were left there
We’re [flashing] red and blue. I'm in love with you and the masses won’t forgive us
We stand our ground, enter the void, single touch and
We’ll explode
I don't know where I'm going to sleep
I don't know where I'm going to stay
Baby, there is no tomorrow
All we have is today
Picture a cliche movie scene, a teen dream sort of scenario: bloody faces with eyes sunken deeper than black holes; burnt [out] in more ways than one; a cloud of gas, stunned. Endless fun for the whole family? A cautionary tale of how not to rebel, because there is always a right way right? What is presented on your screen is a sort of youth that burns so bright that you hear about it on the 6 o'clock news.
This little tale is made to soothe
As they don’t fit your sense of truth
As packaged by the status quo
Which seems to melt like falling snow
It turns to sleet and crashes down
Drenching the soil over the mound
Reviving hate from ages past
Dumbfounded faces, all aghast
This rotten corpse, modernity —
The Earth has caught new leprosy
Any attempts to go beyond
Will be squashed.. So sing this song
It’s just kids, they’re having fun
A little vodka for the road
Pretending they are on the run
Oh yeah, the kids are having fun
A little vodka for the road
First stick a needle, then lick a toad
Pretending they are on “a run”
Imagining they are in a tv show
And this is their theme song
So sing along
Is it so wrong?
They don’t know what’s coming up next
We all know that the kids aren’t okay
Tomorrow is a foreign concept
All that’s left is today
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5. |
Byzantine
04:28
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I wanted to go back
To the time I was a teen
What the fuck do you do
When the whole world turns byzantine
Unfettered emotions
Susceptible to the ebb and flow
Off capsules and potions
It all comes up when I'm below
Down in the dumps
Across the road
Can't bear the stench
There’s something rotten in my soul
We used to feel secure
We used to be so sure
We handed out brochures
We used to dream of war
And then it finally came
We simply couldn't wait
It was a joyous state
Knockin’ on Heaven’s Gate
But now we're not asleep
We have gone in too deep
And have we earned our keep
This hill is far too steep
Now in the valley of death
Demented souls won't rest
And at the shadow lords' behest
Put on their Sunday best
A tin foil helmet
Emblazoned with the letter Q
Losing my taste and smell
Whatever I believe is true
I have been beaten black and blue
(now don't go crossing thin blue lines)
My land is in decrepitude
(my friend, we're running out of time)
I like the one who's strong and rude
There's microchips in baby food
There's something lurking in the air
It catches all those unprepared
We can't let all of them succeed
Prioritize us on your feed
We'll show you things you won't believe
A silver platter flat like the earth
Make sure they eat their just desserts
We'll show ‘em what we're really worth
Down on God’s green Earth
The zombies rising from the dirt
Leaving bacteria on the hearth
Don’t you believe a word
Or you’ll get hurt
We've all been lost these past few years
If we're god’s sheep, give me the shears
It doesn't matter what they hear
Divided, conquered by the fear
And you’ll go mad, King Lear
Just go to sleep my dear
There's nothing left for you here
there's nothing left
there's nothing left
there's nothing left
there's nothing left
there's nothing left
there's nothing left
there's nothing left
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Sweet Little Nothings
03:09
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Winds are howling at my window
lights are flickering above
is this what god finds entertaining
making the stupid fall in love
will the feeling, it sustain us
when there's nothing funny left?
will the future entertain us
or will we be forever bereft
of the comfort and of peace?
of this nervous sweet release?
I can not survive on cheese alone
will the two of us make it home?
you want all of them to see you
you are never to be seen
Q: what's it like being together?
A: flashes of a fever dream
well I guess we don't exist
neither you nor me nor us
always living in illusions
fear of gain and fear of loss
fear of comfort and of peace
fear of hardships and disease
I am quick to bolt and she's
both the beauty and the beast
why'd you take it all so seriously?
scared of things living deliriously
overthinking and dramatic
analytic yet pragmatic
childhood hidden in the attic
Seasons change but what about people?
here's the church and here's the steeple
i can drop it it's not hard
the damage was already done
little fractions in our hearts
isn't life just goddamn fun?
sweet little nothings we’ve become
sweet little lies that we had spun
under neurotic summer sun
I’ll see ya later, gotta run!
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Re-enact the renegade wars
Get your scoundrel soul on all fours
And howl
See your brightest parts prowl
Quietly, they sneak through your cracks and crevices
Forgive yourself your negligence,
Don't keep em in suspense
Blow your nose: “who knows some blow?”
Let it snow let it snow let it snow
Do your dance, let's drop and roll
Fracturing your aimless whole
[The] decision which precedes incision is the hardest one
Drop your bombs, scream your songs
And have your disgraceful fun
Don't ever let those corporals forget
The price at which they won
Piss on the floor forever more
Show them sunshine with your gun
Scream and shout and mill about
Sun won't shine, words won't rhyme
Sounds won’t fit in time
I will get what's mine
Light it up, light it up
Come on and fill my fucking cup
Sleep in elastic band cloth
Rest in the tree like a sloth
About to be caught
Oh darling, don't look so distraught
You won't be caught if you don't let go
So hold on ‘till your flesh detaches from bone
Stick to your stones
Paint pictures in grim tones
Remove all contacts from your phone
She understood
To immolate you're gonna need some wood
Come on
The mission doesn't need revision: you just run and gun
Drop your bombs, scream your songs
And have your disgraceful fun
Don't ever let those corporals forget
The price at which they won
Don't wanna see humanity
Gouge out its eyes with its thumbs
Rip out my vocal chords
I will resign, devout and bored
Religious warfare at its best
At least you die for something else
Pray and sway, all happy and gay
Jesus saves, we will behave
Just give me a sign
I will give you all of mine
Light it up light it up
Who needs money
Light it up
Who needs when you have no time
External
Internal
Financial advisors
Progressives
Feminists
Billionaires
Babies
Murderers
Gardeners
Artists
Politicians’
Mothers,
Daughters
Idle folk
Optometri-cians
Lawyers
[The] Killers
Street magicians
Superstitions
Obstetricians
We all die the same:
with God's proverbial bullet through our fucking brain
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Roughly Human Vilnius, Lithuania
get your scoundrel soul on all fours
and howl
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(m)emo / post-hardcore band from Vilnius, Lithuania
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