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Scarabaeus
00:28
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SCARABAEUS
A stain paints
where the thorn lodged
A reminder of
the fullness of pain
And the ripeness of
its vacancy
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2. |
Jettatori
04:00
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JETTATORI
Shedding rays of destruction
Everywhere you look
From a piercing glance
The sign is made
You are jettatori
Poor innocent
You are jettatori
Suspicions are gathering
Like mists in the fall
Your season is turning
It's casting a pall
Striking eyes
Strike your eyes
Before you do more harm
With your piercing glance
Misfortune surrounds you, jettatori
Do you understand now, jettatori
Suspicions are swelling
They heave and they roll
Your tide, it is rising
It swallows you whole
Old: indifferent
Cold: recalcitrant
Shameless, blameless
Bold: vociferous
Veiled: insidious
Hidden, unbidden
Turn away
Cursed gaze
Striking eyes
Strike your eyes
Before you do more harm
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3. |
Amphisbaena
03:42
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AMPHISBAENA
I don’t know which
Torn in two
Pulled in two
Here I go
Writhing in the detritus of cephalic excess
Bloody circles
Pieces here and there
Under a mantle of skin
Bound in
Twisting tight
I’m a lie
Here I go
Down below
Now I know which
Underground
Not safe
Not sound
Shed my skin
Begin again
Twisting tight
I’m a lie
Face to face
Look away
Impossible to face the anarchic reflections
Fractured, furious, fractal revelations
Side by side
Contradictions thrive
Execrable, inexorable
Cross left, cross right
Knots pulled tight
Had I known which
I would never
Have sacrificed one for the other
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4. |
Viaticum
03:43
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Viaticum
Fall from the tower
All the way down
Debased, unstable, baseless
Disgraced, ungrateful, graceless
Face encased in mud
Mucosal morass holds fast
Drowning ambition, suspicion
Sinking unblinking, grasping at visions
Upside or down, there's hardly a difference
Pressing away between the shoulder blades
An omen of a summons from above
Over again
Ever we end and begin
Over again
Over the edge and again
Calling, lifting, gravity so grievous
Leave us
Wallowing in a leaden dolor
Over again
Ever we end and begin
Over again
Over the edge and again
Forced ascent to the firmament
Grasping, gasping mud
Stretched from bestial to celestial
Effortless spreading, bloodletting
Reaching, amnestic, anemoneic
Upside or down there never was a difference
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5. |
The Empty Circle
03:00
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THE EMPTY CIRCLE
You draw a circle
Your chant is cyclical
No time
No mind
An offering of wine
A smoking ember
A shadow stirring
Mephitic vapors rise
Your fears materialize
No right
No light
A whisper in the wind
A form from behind
The empty circle
Come with me, fool
And travel to the other side
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they blew the flies from their lips before they spoke
ragged, gaping, hungry, empty
wait to gather up the edges and piece them together
people make up stories that pour out their suffering
let them spill out until they run clear
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7. |
Sealing the Wound
04:00
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SEALING THE WOUND
The heavens seethe
So I too, seethe
Night upon night
Mangled inexorably
My dark pulse seeps
My essence bleeds
My fuliginous spirit
Chaos enwreathed
Time is standing still
And is flowing fast
Lurid as delirium
Shall I wait like a spider in its web
For some poor soul to take my place?
Shall I sit, fat with pain
Eager to spit poison?
If I could escape
I would be oblivion
Soporific
Cinereal
Miasmic
Oblivion
I would sleep
And dream of extinction
The form I would take
Would be of a snake
The heavens seethe
So I too, seethe
Night upon night
Night upon night
Time is standing still
And is flowing fast
Lurid as delirium
With no end in sight
I will bite the hand of madness
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8. |
Make No Mark
03:23
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MAKE NO MARK
Make no mark
Blow away like words in sand
Take my spark
Hold it, protect it, in your hand
No armor can withstand
Time's relentless fray
Defenseless you must stand
There's no way to stay
Locked inside
Never again to feel the pain
Walk outside
And feel the sting of the rain
No armor can withstand
Time's relentless fray
Defenseless you must stand
There's no way to stay
Petrified, wretched
Calcified, rusted
Melt me, I'm frozen
Mend me, I'm broken
It's too dark
Make your mark
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9. |
Sulphur
03:55
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SULPHUR
You burned me like sulphur
You ate me like sulphur
You covered me
I was ochre
Trapped in amber
Deep in slumber
You consumed me till I was nothing
But ochre aching
Burned away in your Grecian fire
But now I use your filth
To fumigate my soul
To cleanse the cloak you smothered me in
I lost myself
I was eroded
Eaten
Slowly corroded
You were yellow
Breathing fire from your
Poison bellows
Flames stoked by sulphur
You consumed me till I was nothing
But ochre aching
Burned away in your Grecian fire
Now I use your filth
To fumigate my soul
To cleanse the cloak you wove
You burned me like sulphur
You ate me like sulphur
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THE AFTERMATH OF THE FLOOD
Hear Yes Screams Where
Far No Near Near
Rage Chaos Fury Fear
Run Flee
For your life
Fight against the tide
Wild jaws open wide
Run, river, run
Fast to the sea
Over your banks you go streaming
Run, river, run
River of blood
Leave in your wake only screaming
Gone
Time rushes on
Leaving behind all that you love
Dissolved into infinity
Broken apart
Broken in pieces
Fragments of ghosts rush past
The smell of defeat
Nothing but swamp in slow retreat
Still you linger on here
Knee-deep sunk in mud
In the grip of spirits
In the aftermath of the flood
Gone
Time rushes on
Leaving behind all that you love
Dissolved into infinity
Grieve until you’re whole again
And the screams are stilled in your head
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11. |
A Reminder Of
00:45
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Lividus Portland, Oregon
Formed in 2017 in Portland, OR.
Uta Plotkin - vocals,
viola
Connie Wang - bass, vocals
Rob Shaffer - guitar
Christy Cather - guitar
Michael Thompson - drums
... more
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