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Lighten Our Burden
05:27
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first, we crack the shell
oh how it pains me to do this
witness its dismemberment
guilty or innocent
one shall fall
there's no hope, no hope at all
is it courage or fear
that compels you
you betrayed yourself
deeper revelations dawn
in calms between storms
I fear the wounds are fatal
let this mark the end
we lose faith
our allies turn against us
forsake this planet and its people
a world I do not know
proceed on the way to oblivion
off this twisted planet
I would have waited an eternity
but why throw away life so recklessly?
taken refuge
in a tomb we cannot find
lighten our burden
we all must die sometime
this is bad comedy
fate waylaid us both
no light in our darkest hour
consort to the darkness
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2. |
Petrifaction
04:39
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alluring false pretenses
strategic deceit
hypnotic malfeasance
imprisoning narcosis
no way to escape
only muted cries
from those confined
instantly paralyzed
trigger the sinking
weightless suspension
inwardly shrinking
dormant servility
formulated unwillingly
theft of essence
with no acquiescence
depart my consciousness
to depths dark and bottomless
loss of dominance
to the somnolence
endlessly falling
clawing to find direction
nothing happens no action
only petrifaction
fall to the undertow
no way to escape
accept your fate and watch from below
unwilling occupant
dark disembodiment
forever sentenced
bereft of presence
can't comprehend
no strength to expend
just frozen
impersonally chosen
writhe while immobile
no limb is prehensile
undone and just numb
succumb to the stun
agency passing
now thrashing, attacking, and lashing
nothing happens, no action
only petrifaction
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3. |
Temple of Desecration
05:43
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forgotten wounds
knotted and unhealed
halcyon despair
only strength is in pain to bear
scars over scars
scores-of shouldered sores
sworn to bitterness
in the chalice, so drink deep
the body is a temple
corporeal divination
the sinews disassemble
despite its consecration
the mind is a fortress
that provides no protection
hidden fissures line the walls
that are just a mere projection
no holy remedy
no divine intervention
finite self-designed misery
no great ascension
painful sacrament of guilt
the most graceful inhabitants wilt
as they kneel in ruins of mental undoing
cries deafen, silent but resonant
ignored anguish
distorted growth
poisoned waters
on the altar of dishonor
the body is a temple
corporeal divination
the sinews disassemble
despite its consecration
the mind is a fortress
that provides no protection
hidden fissures line the walls
that are just a mere projection
bear witness
thou shall not see
cast your voice
thou shall not ascend
lament your sins
thou shall not heal
cast your voice
thou shall not rise
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arbiter to each affront
once anger mounts and patience thins
the hunted suffer the brunt
of cruel and deadly whims
a fog shrouds the hunter's intent
deeper truths withheld
mental exile
dying like a fish in the hands of a child
predator to more than prey
unnatural laws to obey
fear what you don't know
the widening void that is your woe
insistence to kill masks the guilt
you can't hunt what you cant name
confused by what ill will built
never see who's truly to blame
determine who shall be redeemed
for the invisible machine
resign and reconcile
apply the amorphous profile
the dream of an idealist
or machinations of a masochist
the architects are all anonymous
unseen aims of subconsciousness
not all exploration can be made by foot
not all courage is found in arms
predator to more than prey
unnatural laws to obey
fear what you don't know
the widening void that is your woe
insistence to kill masks the guilt
you can't hunt what you cant name
confused by what ill will built
never see who's truly to blame
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5. |
Social Stenosis
06:36
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monsters below a thin veneer of social convention
attempting to obscure a woeful dimension
society teeters between the dwindling few who commiserate
and those eager to inflame the kindling and to immolate
the only need for decency is actually transactional
moments of morality are obligatory and contractual
empathy exchanged for being part of the majority
integrity deranged for a sense of superiority
everyone prefers the illusion to despair
burying that which is inhuman
and fervently putting on airs
biases grow
social circles constrict
alliances go
prejudices encircle & convict
unwittingly inherited preconceptions define
the validity and the merit in the conventions you find
repeating reasons like mantras to prove you are right
never conceding, no matter the ends, or how bloody the fight
egocentric unquestioned defense
negates, erases, and replaces
the last tatters of compassion
eroded, broken, and outmoded
civilized society is memberless and forgotten
fear hardens into biases until humanity is rotten
efforts to unite are exploited as a means to ignite
they break free from the hell of the abyss and move silently among us
everyone prefers the illusion to despair
burying that which is inhuman
and fervently putting on airs
biases grow
social circles constrict
alliances go
prejudices encircle & convict
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6. |
Decoalescence
06:10
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uninhabited and unfamiliar
exhausted lost and bewildered
step forth go inside
no recollection of how you arrived
mutation of reality
mutilation through duality
something different lurks beneath the skin
now hostage to the madness within
division of the self
a fault in our genes
cells coded to self destruct
a living pathology
witness your own demise,
step away with the same disguise
mitosis of consciousness
division is the consequence
corruption of form
echoes of the self
you become it
it becomes you
inhuman representation
of what you thought you were
living inanimation
a shell survives your termination
infinite inward spiral
birth of wonder and terror
confront yourself
and not know what you see
distortion overpowers
it crushes and absorbs
fight it and harm yourself
destroy it when your features emerge
fragmented til no part remains
decoalescence
divide into nothing
decoalescence
fragmented til no part remains
decoalescence
divide into nothing
decoalescence
monophagic deformity
biologic forgery
synthetic silhouettes
assimilate and disintegrate
fragmented til no part remains
decoalescence
divide into nothing
decoalescence
fragmented til no part remains
decoalescence
divide into nothing
decoalescence
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7. |
Dark Odyssey
06:24
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go from the vessel
now disembark
no navigation
no stars to chart
completely submerged
never again to return
absence bestows
no line to clench
there's nothing below
in the depths of the trench
lost to the eroding tides
forfeit to the tumult
the passed are the current
in a torrent of salt
enveloping waters
oceans of time
completely submerged
never again to return
dark odyssey
amid sunken topography
captivity to the
whirlpool of infinity
adrift and defenseless
departed and damned
time is endless
like grains of sand
cast away in the fray
from the farthest shore
scattered in the abyss
on the father's shoulder
enveloping waters
oceans of time
completely submerged
never again to return
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8. |
Cliffs of Insanity
08:21
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tumbling further into the madness
arms grasping at the void
rumbling murmur echoes the vastness
collapsing without making a noise
slumbering observer to the havoc
outlasting all that is destroyed
blighted by regret and fear
self departure
fostering the unknown
a yawning emptiness
self-suffocated eternally
everything turns black
the void forms inadvertently
there's no turning back
abhorrence as a guideline
relentless despair preordained
stifled lifetime
endless years bear the pain
all-consuming
in the belly of your hate
always looming
but from the mind it emanates
tumbling further into the madness
arms grasping at the void
rumbling murmur echoes the vastness
outlasting all that was destroyed
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Horst Cincinnati, Ohio
Horst is a studio project with musical influences ranging from thrash, doom, power metal, gothic rock, and industrial, with a lyrical focus on the pains of the modern human condition.
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