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Panic Rites
02:34
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A world revealed, the veil withdrawn
A marriage seen beneath the shade
A burden to all
From man to beast and worse beyond
Panic rites left undescribed
An unnatural bond
And that which is without form
Will take to itself a form
A symbol now a horror manifest
Before which reason will fade
Seas boil and hard earth decay
Et diabolus incarnatus est
Et homo factus est
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2. |
1822 Breakdown
01:35
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Strain to be heard from the Half Moon Battery
Bark out the riff from the start of Swap Meet
You can't make them hear it, what can you do?
Describing 1989 to 1822
Shout like a fool, stagger like a klutz
Vocalise the feedback from Paper Cuts
You can't make them hear it, what can you do?
Scream into the wind, your work is cut out for you
Stricken by a vision of a sound that's new
'Cause you're in 1989 and they're in 1822
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3. |
I Witnessed a Drowning
02:12
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Can you pick them out, did you see their face?
Estimated time, estimated place
Estimated distance from your hiding place
What were you doing in that part of town anyway?
I witnessed a drowning, unknown assailant
Unambiguously unwanted
I witnessed a drowning, resisted to the last
Called out, pushed down
Held fast in a brackish pool till the end
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4. |
Cheap Clubs
03:14
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A splinter group of a side event
A subdivision born of dissent
We assume names, we speak in code
Of events recorded nowhere and people you won't know
In cheap clubs I share my space, I wear a pass
I speak aloud words I once read
In cheap clubs I show my face, I sense a chance
That my time was not wasted
A flyer shared, a rumoured scene
Mentioned in passing in the quarterly zine
We lucky ones, we chosen few
Bear witness to wild talents in basements and back rooms
In cheap clubs I share my space, I wear a pass
I speak aloud words I once read
In cheap clubs I show my face and I accept
That a life lived in pursuit of niche aims and obscure truths
Defeats the pain that is produced by frustrated drives and starved aptitudes
That a life lived in pursuit of niche aims and obscure truths
Is not a life that was wasted
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5. |
Common Calamity
01:44
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Set on by dogs, pinned in a wreck
Gassed in the night, nothing too suspect
Common enough
In common law
Teeming with worms, burnt to a crisp
Stranded in a field and exposed to a shimmering electric mist
Common enough
In common law
A mutual fate
A simultaneous end, predestinate
A shared tragedy, a twin fatality
A double loss
Two dead
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6. |
Dead Travel Fast
03:00
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Undead threat rises from the past
To be propelled by modern gas
A moveable castle, land iron-clad
Dead travel fast
Cruel pilot rejects all appeals
Crush future under wide-rimmed wheels
Infernal combustion, equipped for assault
Dead travel fast in new world
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7. |
Black Mark
02:36
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Curator of an ever-lengthening list
Of damage done and opportunities missed
Don't deny it, I know what you did
Your every transgression's been documented
Permanent record
Permanent record
This mark is gonna last
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8. |
The Return
01:46
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Barely recovered, barely alive
Left yourself open to a presence that lived in another time
Hoodwinked by a Huguenot
He caught you sleeping and transferred his poison essence to your mind
This face is gonna change to reflect your moral decay
Or something else...
Close to your daughter, rude to your wife
A chance to start again, or retribution for failing at life?
This face is gonna change to reflect your moral decay
Divine punishment for past acts, or a force from beyond the grave?
This face is gonna change to reflect your moral decay
Or something else; it's not clear.
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9. |
Lost Estimate
02:51
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12 ovals in high-speed dive
Set formation, edgewise dime
Vandenburg's orders, Porter's rebuff
Estimate ordered destroyed
Glints high in the northern sky
2 joined by 3rd, glowing white
Shot down by Cabell, spit on by Boggs
Estimate ordered destroyed
McCoy & Treuttner must be reassigned
Forward analyses to O.N.I.
Launch Grudge and end Sign
You can't conceive the trouble it can bring
When ordinary people see extraordinary things in the sky
102-122-79
The ghost and Ruppelt's manuscript survive
Launch Grudge and end Sign
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10. |
Deicide Now
03:03
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Identify and organise the victim class
Recruit those who cannot grasp true form of attack
Break the ring of destiny for all life in this world
Now to attack and dethrone god
It's time to attack and dethrone god
Break the ring of destiny, we'll smash the stone with seven eyes
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11. |
A Better Tomorrow
02:24
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Wake in fear, two paths that must collide
Light cigarettes with money, wear sunglasses inside
Get wrecked in Taiwan, unconvincing plan
Fire guns with both hands
Spend every clip
Mark down every shot & record every miss
(Mark shot for a better tomorrow)
If you can't drink the whisky, you will drink the piss
(Drink piss for a better tomorrow)
Get shoved in an alley or fight with your friend
(Fight for a better tomorrow)
Choose your own end
Steal the plate, reclaim three years of loss
Remember your girlfriend's birthday, deny that you're the boss
Drive that taxi right, stifle urge to fight
View Hong Kong at night
Become a god!
A fragmented account of heroic bloodshed
(Shed blood for a better tomorrow)
If you can't stay away then you will stay dead
(Stay dead for a better tomorrow)
Receive good advice, give your brother a gun
(Give gun for a better tomorrow)
Commit fresh crime, and serve out your time
For a better tomorrow
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12. |
Druidism Exhumed
03:08
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Untouched, unworkable
Neglected and accursed hollow
Laid down, cast out, swapped out in hope
I'm digging up the Guidmans Fauld
I'm calling up the oldest court
I'm talking up the Good Ones, and lo!
The Druids will be exhumed
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PK Bats Edinburgh, UK
Haunted 3-piece.
🦇🎸🦇🎸🦇🥁
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