1. |
Behold
02:17
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2. |
The Resurrection
06:19
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There I had spotted it I believe
Was it really what I had seen
Or was it tricks of the light
A cruel pareidolia
Once again deceiving me
Or had I truly retrieved
What time had tried to erase
Had I discovered A statue of ages
A story buried beneath
The maggots’ feast has ended
But the hunt has just begun
Remains of the uncelebrated
Rectifying the unsung
No knell or nails put down
To sanctify what’s left
Just the scavengers unburdened
Of all pomp and circumstance
In our hands
We remain diligent
Disintegrate
Unveil the colosseum of white
Reanimate
Discard your entrails and arise
Grave wax a porcelain aid
Penitence paid
Soiled soul departing
Desiderium delayed no more
Closure without a core
Estranged from the outside
Inside immortalized
A captivating serenade
Of entangled mangled spine
Cartilage breaks in pirouettes
And is freed from the bonds of time
We decide to which end we’re confined
Disintegrate
Reclaim what once was laid to waste
Reanimate
Now is the dawning of your new life
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3. |
From Faded Forest Floor
05:12
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Evasive dark calamities
The forging of our path
Until we wake the dead from sleep
There is no going back
You you’re not prepared
For what’s inside my corporal lair
The dead cannot be saved
Once of the earth to dirt you’re slaved
To dirt we’re all slaved
Our death is but a day
The grounds where all remains
But what I create shall live in my name
All debts must be repaid
Trust what I have built has earned its stay
Nothing escapes decay
What you cannot touch
You can’t erase
Death won’t be defied
You think planting a seed
Puts time on your side
And you can cry
That the woods
Look so alive
But the land we
Stand on now will
One day swallow us all blind
Evasive dark calamities
The forging of our path
Until we wake the dead from sleep
There is no going back
Everything you thought would matter
Is the latter of hereafter
Nothing stays
Beneath the shade
Your memory
Can’t be replaced
I won’t go back
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4. |
Where Rot Reanimates
07:52
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Dark
Damp
Moist obsidian
Mangled mycelium
Heterotrophic existence
Envelop me
Polish clean the ivory
And accept my awareness
Dark
Damp
Like organ farms and foxtails
Our worth is more than our brittle shells
God I knew
In a matter of millennia
The dead man’s fingers
Would uproot
Black
Rot
Bubbles up
Pungent
Putrid
Right the wrongs
Infestation
Vanquish
Breath new life within me
Raise me
Oh raise me
Lavation spring
Relinquish to fungus
The gifts they bring
Raise me
Oh raise me
I’d die to be clean
I clear my lungs
When summer comes
An ethanol breeze
Raise me
Oh raise me
Raise me
Oh raise me
Of all my unaccomplished deeds
Let my regret bare seeds that breed
A magnificent kingdom
Earth balls split the surface
Bridge this life to the aftermath
Sporing new existence
Generations with every breath
With every step we cross the threshold
With each new breath we feed the cycle
With every step we send the signal
With each new breath we feed on their soul
Breath new life within me
Underground the truth is found
Earth’s history buried deep
A rebirth an aphid’s thirst
The great recycling
Raise me
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5. |
Unto
00:55
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6. |
An Exalted State
04:44
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This could have only ended
One way
We lay
Where the grass fades
Together
And safe
That’s all I needed from this place
I didn’t crave the change
But it claimed me anyway
I wanted to stay
Life unfolds
It always finds a way
And we’ll remain
My whole life
Led to this point
Where I can finally rest
Everything I worked for and gained
No longer bares the weight
And my repentances
An acceptance
Take what is left
Give it purpose
Give this purpose
Give me purpose
I’ll never go back
I found my peace of mind
Life unfolds in such mysterious ways
But it all ends the same
Is it what were made of
Or what we can be made into
There’s no going back
Once the joints have been fused
And even in this second life
I can’t shake this sense of doom
There’s no purpose
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7. |
Only
01:05
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8. |
To Be Devoured
04:17
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The clouds collapsed
One then a dozen
Smothering the night
Until their burden grows too heavy
And they set the rivers right
Fog replaces their proud peaks
Like a comforting white lie
The wind will brush it all aside
Silence comes avalanching down
Weightless it buries me to the frozen ground
There’s no more grief
The trees whisper to me
Within this forest of memories
Oh Blessed relief
It is to feel this empty
Where the lost souls find their sleep
Now isn’t it nice that we
Can weather the storm together
In this valley where these restless waters
Carved a home
A place chiseled in time forever preserved
In each mountain side
A monument of each morning you spent
Waiting for the winter to thaw
The rising sun resilient as always
Knows the worst is yet to come
Now isn’t it nice
The worst is yet to come
One more day
Is all that was needed
So that we could find the light
At the end of this tunnel
Weren’t we promised
To see another spring
A guarantee
That if I worked hard
Out in the cold
That wouldn’t be me
The worst is yet to come
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9. |
By
00:58
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10. |
Endless Depths
04:47
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Five decades
Crumbs rain down from the sky
Like beggars we gulp them down
You wouldn’t last a day in this life
The infinite night
Five decades of festivities
To commemorate a fallen beast
And may your corpse
Feed the many
In this barren economy
We feast
Velvet worms grow from your thrown
Whispy in the frigid current
Can you see their colors
Dancing in the dark
We’ve been hunting
We’ve found nothing
But Bone
Five decades of festivities
To commemorate a fallen beast
And may your corpse
Feed the many
In this barren economy
We feast
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11. |
Of Atrophy
06:28
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I want to macerate
The meat around your bones
I want to tear through your chest
And rebuild your ribs into a home
I want to inlay each tooth
In your mouth with gold
And I want
I want to show
How far you’ve come from the side of the road
I saw the beauty in your rot
And now the world will know
They all will know
Baked in the sun
The stench fills the rancher’s lungs
The dream of a bucolic life
Distorted and ravaged in just one night
The soft soil
Disrupted by dragged hooves
The rope shifts and slips
The unbreathing neck snaps
Bones and flesh and feathers
A parade
The rancher’s mind drifts far away
Discarded cans that mark the grave
The galloping builds from underground
The vultures gather round
This is their moment
This is the time
This is the place
What is left is mine
Defeated
And tired
The rancher
Returns
The heads are gone
The shells disturbed
Withdrawn and complacent
He blames the coyotes
And drags another body
To the side of the road
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12. |
As
01:17
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A tear in the earth
A scratch in the fabric of life
Another passing that bares
No weight in these eyes
I pictured it all so different
The dirt under my nails
Winds up in my mouth
The nerves persuading me
To keep my head down
I pictured it all so different
What am I to do now
Towards who does my hard work count
I lay it all out
And as it stretches before me
All I can feel is the grit on my teeth
It’s difficult to find the meaning
In the end of things
I wished to make a difference
Now change is the only gift I keep
Unburdened by time
Where the lost souls
Find their sleep
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13. |
We Return to Ash
06:42
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Feed me full of fear for the end is near
I feel at peace I finally feel at peace
For the dead do not weep
We’ve got all we need
I feel at peace
And so it goes
The quiver at the top of each pendulum swing
A pulse of life retreats
And the earth pulls you back beneath
All our beliefs relinquished
With our final blink we’ll find true purpose
In the ground where our nutrients release
No melancholy obsequies
The time of grief is past
All is born anew at last
I am no longer lost fate has found me
These empty sockets
Now marvel at the roots of a tree
Do not weep
Necrophagy we are now one
We are nothing make use of me
In time we’ll capture the light
Gleaming off the ossuary
Horizons unfold And defy belief
A truly breathtaking sight
When the dead re arise
Unburdened from pain
Unburdened from time
Unburdened from life
All that was mine
Is now yours
From dirt I arose
As ash I return
I feed this carrion earth
My body my dreams
All I had hoped to be
Nourish the forest
That once nourished me
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Seeking Tragedy Salt Lake City, Utah
From Dirt I Arose, As Ash I Return out April 7th
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