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I stood at the centre of all creation
The elephant had left the room
I can’t be the same thing to them
And the same thing to you
Abide by the rules of the atrium
For me the apple tree does lean down low
Yet I smell the foul fruit of your endeavours
Like a love affair
Between a civilian
And an army deserter
We were doomed
Give birth to humble renewal
For empty heads
Control talking tongues
The fate of the feather and the fate of the brick
Equally weightless
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Black Air
02:52
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Black air and tombstones
Adapt to blood trauma
Systemic acquisition
Of that which cannot be owned
Life hate and vexation
Evolved to sustain
Blatant disregard of
Organic breath and growth
Gold dipped and bleached
Embrace sterility
Instant gratification
Controlling microbes to leviathan
We lay waste to all that is your gods
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Do you think your severed limbs will be waiting for you in heaven?
It takes a special person to realise what they have lost
Suffering is essential
When atrophy makes you who you are
I would hate for you to be missed
At your turn to suck the cyst
There are many nooses in the trees
If you suddenly decide to be free
You are not meant to see me
For I am not for your eyes
But you’re wealthy aren’t you?
For misery is the world’s only true currency
And at that moment
Of your absolute realisation
You will try to speak
I will wash your mouth out with rope
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The White of the Eyes
01:25
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The dweller in the threshold
A world of nightmares
Graves opening like flowers
No prayers penetrate this frightful maw
The stars turn and time presents itself
This is the water, this is the well
Drink full and descend
The horse is the white of the eyes and dark within
What year is this?
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Like dangling keys in front of an infant
Chattering flaking bones
I’m building sandcastles from your ashes
In the twisted molten mess we created
Death machine
Hurtling through time and space
Consciousness
Atop the wings of a magpie
Searching for something shiny
Obliterate
Tangled between sheets of matter
Slicing razor sharp splinters
Rusted brown like an old barn
Rusted red like our own blood
As it escapes it binds us
Forever entwined in an accident
But after all
I’m glad it was with you
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Pulled from the shelf and cracked the spine
Carefully freed like an aged wine
Heroic love machine
Bursting at the seams
Sucking venomous faces
Fingered in the right places
Damaged delicate parts
Remind me of the difficulty between forms
I imagine my world without them
The fucking sacrifices we make
To continuously feed the mutations
Forcing sentiment into difference
Morbid calculation of the separations
Contrary to popular belief
We are bound to collapse
Lucid visitations are beautiful
I get the chance to wake up without you
Duvet wrestling for another six hours
Recollection can be a bitch
But she aint got shit on you!
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7. |
Nightmare Withdrawals
02:28
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Eyes shine like the blue on the back of a blow fly
I’ve seen you in dreams, I’ve seen you in dreams
Floating like the smoke from a fired gun
In torturous slow motion
I’ve never been told to do something by somebody
More adorable or convincing
I felt tempted to listen
But I’ve seen how this ends
The connection was a bastard child of time
Nightmare withdrawals crept into my consciousness
Reality bit like a saw scaled viper
In my madness I accused the sunrise
As the venom filled the gaps and I drift away
I realise I was never too good at change
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8. |
The Obscured Witness
03:03
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Constructed and removed
Captive and abused
Enveloped and subdued
Silverback parade
Glaring stares etch scar
Brittle bone and plexi glass
Iron bars and sunlight fading
Single serving enemy of life
But your time will come
Mother will erase you
Carbon transfiguration
Ancient law has seen to it
Starvation, infection
Disease and plague
This is your demise
You have been warned
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Rorschach and Delirium
04:20
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Denial is the first step
Drenched veins
Let the bloodletting paint
Rorschach and delirium
Blood refracts memory
In the crystalline salts of saline demise
Blank and empty
We seek to interior decorate our breath
With colour and meaning
Let our sounds be the vessels of conviction
And our touch be the action of truth
Clandestine laboratories
House escape like aviaries
With doors left open
House birds with no wings
Sunken battleships litter your brain
Like chewing gum litters ashtrays left in the rain.
Sleep evades you like happiness
Escape what you will but you will not escape death
It’s not peer pressure, it’s just your turn
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Sic Mundus Creatus Est
05:55
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We blame ourselves for genesis
We hold account for destruction
Will we ever be worthy of this gift
Forcing alchemy within
Your earth from the fire
The subtle from the gross
Embrace the ascent and descent
Receive the force both superior and inferior
“By this means you shall have
The glory of the whole world
And thereby all obscurity
Shall fly from you.
It’s force is above all force
For it vanquishes every subtle thing
And penetrates every solid thing.
And thus the world was created.”
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2021 and Blindfolded and Led to the Woods are back with their 3rd full length album Nightmare
Withdrawals.
Fueled by trauma, yet wholly cathartic, Nightmare Withdrawals’ sinuous songs exhibit technical mastery and raw emotionality.
Nightmare Withdrawals is out March 26th.
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