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Mausoleum
05:24
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If you set out to destroy yourself
The road can be a long and winding one
Littered with the mangled wrecks
Of everything you ever loved, yeah
And others walk this bitter trail
You'll know them by their desperation
The same contorts your own face
And drives you to your own ruin
We are rotting in a mausoleum
A waste of bodies sprawling deep
Locked together in a fetid union
Is this the product or the seed?
We are squatters in this mausoleum
Narcotics bury us in sleep
Bound together in a fatal union
We are the product and the seed
Such pale flesh your body craves
You'll break it up into a million parts
And fold it back into your brain
But nothing ever penetrates your heart
No matter what you lay with
No stranger ever filled your cup, no
And you never tasted anything
That didn't sour on your tongue
We are rotting in a mausoleum
A waste of bodies sprawling deep
Locked together in a fetid union
Is this the product or the seed?
We are squatters in this mausoleum
Narcotics bury us in sleep
Bound together in a fatal union
We are the product and the seed
We are rotting in a mausoleum
A waste of bodies sprawling deep
Locked together in a fetid union
Is this the product or the seed?
We are squatters in this mausoleum
Narcotics bury us in sleep
Bound together in a fatal union
We are the product and the seed
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Artemis
09:01
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I was there to find but I was found instead
I thought you could save me but you came to condemn
Cover up my ears and tie me to the mast
I was bound in fear to the safest path
All my dreams are dead
The walls are closing in
I try to ascend but all I do is sink
I can take a jewel and turn it into mud
I turn every heart to granite, Midas touch
I thought I could take it but I was just a kid
I fought every gift you ever deigned to give
All my dreams are dead
The walls are closing in
I try to ascend but all I do is sink
I'm back to square one
Cold in defeat
And I'm curled in the fetal pose
My reflection now is alien to me
And I don't recognise the man I used to be
If I could I'd go back and slap myself awake
If I'd only known how years would fall in waste
All my dreams are dead
The walls are closing in
I try to ascend but all I do is sink
I'm back to square one
Cold in defeat
And I'm curled in the fetal pose
All dreams they fall apart
All things bright turn to dark
All dreams shall fall apart
All things gold shall turn to
Turn to dust
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Pendulum
08:34
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I walk a narrow path
Over a barren land
Across a crucial line
A Rubicon of fire
I eat a bitter pill
A panacea grim
Intense the aftertaste
I'll meet whatever wakes and embrace it
Swing from one extreme to another
Out of the pan to the fire
I never could find the middle ground
And I walk on a rope in the mouth of a chasm
Watching the fabric unravel
The tapestry of my meaningless life
Swim, swimming in infested waters
And the tide has carried me out
The currents beneath me are pulling me down
And I feel a dark nihilism inside me
It's founded in rage and frustration
And it beckons me into a reckless state
I accept
And let go of fear
Let go of pain
Let go of love
Let go of everything
A spring, coiled tight and trembling inside me
An animal waits in my future
A creature devoid of all moral restraint
And the walls that I built up around me start falling
Expose me to scenes unfamiliar
And flood my asylum with terrible light
And the fall can be swift when it leads you to madness
And he's free who abdicates hope
But freedom is just another man's pain
And I know the road ahead leads to a dark place
But it's all just a foregone conclusion
How can you feel so dead and alive
All at once
Let go of fear
Let go of pain
Let go of love
Let go of everything
Of everything
Of everything
Of every god damn thing
I walk a narrow path
Over a barren land
Across a crucial line
A Rubicon of fire
I eat a bitter pill
A panacea grim
Intense the aftertaste
I'll meet whatever wakes and embrace it
I swing, swing fast swing far out of the pan to the fire
Live fast die young and let nobody know who you are
Swing fast swing far out of the pan to the fire
Live fast die young and they’ll soon forget who you are
From one extreme to another
Out of the pan to the fire
From one extreme to another
Out of the pan to the fire
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Lighthouse
09:24
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You are the force that drives me
And binds me in spirit to the earth
A totem of the ancestral sum
That courses like a river through time
You're the forest path that guides my stumbling feet
To a place of equilibrium
And from my flesh I lay a foundation
And set a torch in the tower of my vigil
A light shines through the dark
Divides me from myself
Elutriates my blood
A transfusion for the soul
The silence after the storm
Provides me clarity of thought
The sky clears at the far horizon
And shines with a rejuvenating light
And the broken land lies still behind me
Nothing stirs in that ravaged wilderness
I am born afresh, I am reincarnated
I shed the serpent skin of my past
A light shines through the dark
Divides me from myself
Elutriates my blood
A transfusion for the soul
You rose like a tsunami
From an ocean amniotic
To flood the shore for miles in waves of light
You came to beat the night
To eradicate the shadows
And to rinse the poison from the blood in my veins
All flesh is a flowing stream
In the currents of a mighty river
Arterial to the propagating heart
Back when the darkness reigned
I never thought I would see the light of day
I never thought I would feel its warmth again
Again
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Plateau
04:21
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In my room I am king
I'm a pharaoh of nothing
My sceptre burns with narcotic incense
The resin seeps through my skin
Don't know where it stops and I begin
It's been so long since I saw the daylight
All these days slip by like dreams
As I languish in this place
I've been lost in a lotus haze
Since I hit this plateau
Born of fire joined in sin
Kissed my eyes with blood stained lips
And all this time I thought you were a saviour
I turn my eyes through the sanctum gates
But all that's left is the low and profane
It's been so long since I could tell the difference
All these years go by like dreams
As I lie hopeless in this place
I succumbed to the lotus haze
When I hit this plateau
Lost in a lotus haze
All these days slip by like dreams
As I languish in this place
I've been lost in a lotus haze
Since I hit this plateau
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Colossus
06:00
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Waiting at the window
Cloud it with my warm breath
Watching for the headlights
But they won't ever come
What blind and voiceless sorrow
Holds me in this state
When was I forsaken to this dark place
Shadows all around me
They feed on my neuroses
Chatter in the dark hours
Insidious and haunting
No man is an island
But mine is not the mainland
I grew up on the wayside
That's where the shadows dwell
Raised in isolation
Bathed in Cortisol
I was bound from day one to be unhappy
Neurotic little angel
I fed you like a parasite
Now you block the sunlight
The shadows are as one
You can turn around and walk away
But you'll circle back around again
You can turn your back on anything
But it circles back around again
I broke my mirrors and I cut myself
Scrawled words so bitter in my book of flesh
I took an existential ache
And made a Colossus
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Olympia
07:40
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Cruel the pantheon that eats its children
But even gods must die alone
In the cold and dark
Feudal fire burns through the ages
And not all wounds bleed the same
Some will leave a scar
Born in cycles of disfunction
Each new offspring spirals out
In confusion
I saw the light in the brightest eyes dim
I saw generations sink
Disillusioned
I spilled my cup at the altar
But blood is thicker than water
All hope forsake
You who choose to stay
Heroes ancient their deeds forgotten
Statues toppled in the sand
Profane the earth
Fallen temples conceal their shadows
And the wisdom of the past
Remains interred
I fought these cycles of disfunction
But no apple can escape
The orchard shade
I heard a mother's ululations
Underneath the festive lights
While the youngest slept
I spilled my cup at the altar
But blood is thicker than water
All hope forsake
You who choose to stay
I thought I had fortitude
I thought I'd got out unscathed
But small things can add up to a break
All roads lead back around
I choose exile it's better than the pact
I can't chew the ambrosial fat
I hate what I've come to
Pantheon I renounce you
All this time I've been waiting for the
Wave to break and destroy the world
I've been waiting for the wave to break
The wave to break
I've been waiting for my mind to break
My mind to break
I've been waiting for the world to break
The world to break
I’ve been waiting for the wave to break
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The Animal State Portsmouth, UK
The Animal State is a one-piece progressive metal and alternative rock band created by multi-instrumentalist Col Mullins. With a wide range of influences spanning multiple genres, his music could be placed somewhere on the rock spectrum between Mastodon and King Crimson—loud, metamorphic and with an irresistible driving energy. ... more
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