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3 COURT JELLY
05:36
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In a bed of slate
Unenraptured
Wheezing rook!
IDLE!
Brutal and bitter
or stunned
Woven into the frame
CUCKOO!
PLUM!
Devastate,
Unenraptured
Obliterate
Siver scream,
Ooze!
Blighting curse
Heavens hair
Hellish bite
Buzzing blessing
Become an urge for else?
Smitten, lorn, unclean
Unenraptured
International
Organisation!
Civilisation
Blighting Curse
Civilisation-
[MULCIBER'S THRONE]
Cabals
To settle in bliss
To scourge
Scotched Labyrinth
Burden
Squire, squeal, behave!
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SISTERHOOD OF THE OX-EYE
03:47
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3. |
BARGELLO OR WHIPSTITCH
04:13
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Iron quilted unto me
Ornament me
Could never hide will
Seize my wrist!
and guide me...
Where the fountain is
Shivering placid
Sings
The gloam, electric
Current travels through
a forking tongue lashing
Me
Back into bed
Your diligence is impressive
Your belligerence is charming
Your shame is endearing
Your touch is disarming
Bargello or whipstitch
Bargello or whipstitch
Bargello or whipstitch
To weigh down the veil
Byzantine braided
To hold the veil:
Where the brook meets the road
Where the swing meets the house-
Bargello or whipstitch
Bargello or whipstitch
To watch through the veil
Where the brook meets the road
Where the swing meets the house
Where the insect meets the seed
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4. |
HELLAS PLANITIA
05:24
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So bitter, twine,
twill
A ring of gold
Saw-off offer, a sigil
Cleaved
When I saw the moon
brittle, at night
when I peered inside
What I saw
was
Deep Blue
Ink of Sleep,
Hissing Death!
Become as a thorn:
A sting to the eye.
I saw my
Idiotic form
As rendered object
A thinning crowd of acid hums
Before the tomb
Always unsung
For forever!
and then, what grace!
Another beach, cruelly laid under
smoothest dune, generously warm
a hug from a friend
an open shadow
before you start over again
before you grow older again
Thank you for the spirit
thank you for the spirit
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5. |
PYRE MATH
04:37
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A crack in the math
Towards
Madness
Shrieking hyssop
Hideous, scaled and torn
Flesh sublime
Sundered
Red!
Swollen spectrum,
Fastened and drawn thin
Diamond hiccups,
Cascading as hazy pins
To beget an erection
Of hideous texture
Death, by clause undone
Death, by clause undone
A handshake
A landscape
Thankfully
A beauty
Form against shape
Joyous rapture
For a song we share
A growing braid on the pyre
For a song we share
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BALLAST! WITNESS!
04:22
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Old blessings, comfort and balm
forscored in ache, loss and gain
reflect upon your land
where the sun sets sweetly still
mine afield blight-plains
delicacies crushed in peat
reflect upon your psalm
where the sun sets sweetly still
burrowed, bellowed greenbottle buzz
how cool are these cats?
humour drained into a cup:
BALLAST! WITNESS!
Line me up!
Wetting home, solace lake
wicked witchcraft from the bramble
I still remember the Hollywood hills
BALLAST WITNESS!
Line me-
Keening, stoned and split
With a marmalade phalanx
Pharmacopeia of perfect blue
Growing, then a shrinking spell
I still remember Fell's Point
The lust! the seer, she said
Reflect upon your land
Where the sun sets sweetly sti
BALLAST! WITNESS!
Line me-
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INNER FIELD, SEER
03:45
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All through the years
My family grew and
A sweetly clasped toy-
Just like that
It's changed
Hello to my children
I'm far away, but alive
I love you more than I could sing
I love you more than I could sing
All through the years
Foretold by a psychic
family predicted by the seer
along the boulevard
a million miles from light
just like that
it's changed
My end feels its coming
but yours will grow forever
my end feels its coming soon
I hope that you can love me even when I'm gone
and just like that
it's changed
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PROTEIN PITCH
04:00
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The cook is the devil
Take you by
the small of your back
And gives you a tour
of this continent
all the ruins
surround us
brand new proteins
manifold, many
collapse into a pulp
then, bitter legs
and a comb of torso
a keratine superette
under immense nudity
immeasurable
and not without honour
the first moan in a
joyous breath of cotton
uninvite these hands
from our own body
to steel themselves
for this concerted effort
above the orchestra's pit
another tensed wire
bone strung to bone
plucked to quake
the funny slut I am
growing up again
I cannot write something
to read on this gravy train
The second wave on land
It’s coming through the pitch
A severed wire humming
Above the orchestra pit
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WATER
05:03
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Hello, world
Stand firm, light
Feel the water
All alone
Feel the water
Hold it low
Feel the water
All alone
Nothing comes
Brightened light
Feel the water
All alone
Condemn
All alone
Feel the water
It's impossible
Feel alone
Heaven folds
Feel the water
Feel the water
All alone
Feel the water
All alone
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OLIVINE
03:42
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DEEDS UNDONE
08:27
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It's all for the taste
A body is wound
Into my own
made a landscape
the hills and lakes
dangerous curve
down
heaven screams
deeds undone!
heaven screams
deeds
un-
done
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THARSIS RISE (WEDDING)
05:58
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Desperate for play
A new way to toy
With agony
Groan for the organ
Desperate to dive
A tool to shape
The agony
Gown for the wedding
Gown for the wedding
Desperate for kink
Violent joys!
With agony,
Long for the nighttime
Desperate to sink
Colossus sighs
The agony,
Fuel for a handshake
The madness of the cuckoo
Sweetness of the plum
Poison up and up
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SUMMON ASTAROTH
08:44
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CHRYSE
03:59
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PITCH
06:04
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The cook is the devil
Take you by
the small of your back
And gives you a tour
of this continent
all the ruins
surround us
brand new proteins
manifold, many
collapse into a pulp
then, bitter legs
and a comb of torso
a keratine superette
under immense nudity
immeasurable
and not without honour
the first moan in a
joyous breath of cotton
uninvite these hands
from our own body
to steel themselves
for this concerted effort
above the orchestra's pit
another tensed wire
bone strung to bone
plucked to quake
the funny slut I am
growing up again
I cannot write something
to read on this gravy train
The second wave on land
It’s coming through the pitch
A severed wire humming
Above the orchestra pit
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BOULEVARD SEER
06:07
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All through the years
My family grew and
A sweetly clasped toy-
Just like that
It's changed
Hello to my children
I'm far away, but alive
I love you more than I could sing
I love you more than I could sing
All through the years
Foretold by a psychic
family predicted by the seer
along the boulevard
a million miles from light
just like that
it's changed
My end feels its coming
but yours will grow forever
my end feels its coming soon
I hope that you can love me even when I'm gone
and just like that
it's changed
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MELTING WHIPSTITCH
06:01
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Iron quilted unto me
Ornament me
Could never hide will
Seize my wrist!
and guide me...
Where the fountain is
Shivering placid
Sings
The gloam, electric
Current travels through
a forking tongue lashing
Me
Back into bed
Your diligence is impressive
Your belligerence is charming
Your shame is endearing
Your touch is disarming
Bargello or whipstitch
Bargello or whipstitch
Bargello or whipstitch
To weigh down the veil
Byzantine braided
To hold the veil:
Where the brook meets the road
Where the swing meets the house-
Bargello or whipstitch
Bargello or whipstitch
To watch through the veil
Where the brook meets the road
Where the swing meets the house
Where the insect meets the seed
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SEED
04:09
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19. |
GREAVES FOR ANNAPURNA
06:11
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It makes you wonder..
was it ever enough to lie over the lawn?
When the pitch dries on the branch
Erase the gold, drink at last
Like a black bolt
All became, arise, air sometime
A smell caught under my nails
it lasts and lasts
I need to get in touch
I need to light a match
There's a taste that's in my mouth
a sunken tea, move its way to the south
I can't feel it at last!
was it ever enough?
some destruction feels like enough
was it ever enough?
The handle, glass, to pull
There's a taste on my lips
like passion pool of a kiss
and it stops now and it never was held
there's a feeling in my wrist
I seldom hold my lips
the forest, in time, kills itself
at any distance great enough, there's a black cat crossing your path
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20. |
4th VEIL
09:50
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