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Fracture
02:55
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The blast furnace cremates the clay
And the smoke billows out
Spiraling
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Behold
Weeds too tall
Flourishing
Blocking the sun
With roots above
Our broken stems
Throttled, scorned
I feel the weight of their polished heel
Affluent predators
Stalking in comfort, silent
Grinding their teeth, golden rot
Affluent predators
They camouflage with tanned flesh
Shearing wool, searing gore
The pasture’s rotting
Yet we still graze
As cattle, pining
For a larger cage
With gristle fraying
And shattered joints
As sacrifices
They will exploit
Emaciated pith
The endless hunger
A life devoid
The wage of sorrow
Paid in bone
Their broken dogma
Burned in our skulls
We are the Scythe
They reap what is sown
Unconscious submission
We worship the shrouded crown
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Costa-Hawkins
03:43
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Each year
These walls
More ravenous
Ten percent or more
Rekeyed
These locks
More casualties
Drywall soaked in blood
Where is your just cause?
Clean cut class traitor
Trickle down crisis schemer
Elephant, blue tie
Where is your just cause?
Forty-five, survive
Bloodshot
Carpal
Production's up
Load-bearing reports extort
A wreath of nails and muscle
Broken spines and sinew pillars
And a callous-crusted roof
And I’m selling cartilage and tendons
For fragments of pumice
Scraping by, shaving off
Scarring and gnawing and shattered
Thirty three point three
Repeating
And another six and a quarter
On the commute
To burnt retinas and acid reflux
Wasted on plastic
And check stock
And Andies
How may I direct your call?
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Asphyxia Caduceus
05:10
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We can’t afford your life
Ration off our right to heal
Clipped wings, ripped snakes
Benefit covering benefits
Claim denied
Incomplete
Nullify
Terminate
Claim denied
Profitless
Burdensome
Bottom line
Opiate renewal
Ash capsules fulfill your urn
Nervous burn returns
Forced ingestion, cyclic rust
Twice every day for fourteen months
Infection addiction
Biotic crash
Forced ingestion, cyclic rust
Twice every day for fourteen months
Please make an appointment
We'll kill you next
Anxiety
Prescription, please
My ankles are swelling and I’m rooted to the ground
Don’t dig me out
It’s cheaper to fossilize
Anxiety
Prescription, please
I can’t feel my fingers and my tongue is getting numb
Don’t stop the drip
I’m finding it’s hard to breathe
I cannot recall a time without neurosis
This sickness contingent on lack of compassion
Tear out my lungs straight through my throat
I don’t want to breathe
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Pyrolysis
02:53
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[Instrumental]
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Outrage Fatigue
04:39
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I have seen the light of resistance fading
I have seen crowds gathered in protest thinning
The weight of their actions
Like a mother smothering her child
Each ounce of pressure
Another human loss
A further mounting cost
A conflicted heart
Historic abhorrence
Malicious ignorance
Their ideals: extremist
Our justice: imminent
Our violence: overdue
Circuit board
Overloaded
Overburdened
Too many lights
Too many fires
Too many pyres
We stumble on
So blindly wired
So blindly tired
Another day
Another roadblock
Another cellblock
Another day
Your hatred is printed in white and red
The victims will flay you in broad daylight
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Overwhelming poison
Ivy choking neurons
Quiet crushing terra
Serrate anchor drowning
The mountain passage: so winding
The river’s current: so blinding
The desperation, the panic
The devastation, the static
I can’t get away; betrayal
My cruel shadow falls; fatal
I’ll bleed in silence
A parasitic mirrored veil
The black horizon
Elongating with every year
I’ll bleed in silence
The taxidermied nightingale
The world around us
A burning scar, unholy, pale
I have been consumed by harsh white noise
Apathy
I have been consumed by harsh white noise
Damnation comes
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A Constant Knowledge of Death Massachusetts
SHOWS:
1/25 - dNB Craft Kitchen, New Bedford, MA w/ Eye Flys, BEDTIME MAGIC, Don't Grow Old
1/27 - O'Brien's Pub, Allston, MA w/ Diva Karr, Prayer Position, The Cost Ov Living, Luci Dead Limb
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