It lives within thin layers Crawls across the walls and floor Reverberates in my head More and more Create the perfect skeptic, let him See how long limbs grow, ‘til the Air turns sick and putrid Choking through A spider weaves, beneath These dying leaves, so shady I now know when, the ties Like bones, need time to heal Rebroken Fuck that Fucking grin I see, each time I dare to close my eyes It gives me something new, in life I feel compelled to despise Create the perfect skeptic, let him See how far words go, until the Air grows thick with actions Smile through Then fracture knees, of those Who try to please, your highness A snake still breathes, in rafters loft These words, need time to fade Once spoken Love, loss, fear, and loathing Voice, face, teeth, tongue lapping flies Though I sit down, I can’t relax I formed a pact, that’s forming cracks Now what this is, stands undefined Bounce back and forth all through my mind Await another Innate magnetic pull Can I, kill the force of deadpan whispers Can I? Been here before Lived here before All the venom, inside this trap Is one that I have lain myself Again It lives within my skin now Left its mark upon my brain To stain the future in its Coming shame Create the perfect skeptic, let him Live through old vow’s throes While crocodile teardrops Kill a rose A spider weaves A snake still breathes Poisonous Fangorious Venomous Acrimonious Beneath these dying leaves, so shady That small grin fades into Thin memories forever

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls Step right up and get your ticket! Come in, come see Everyone crowd close to me Such marvels that I have to show Don’t push, don’t shove There is always room enough Come bathe your faces in the glow Then back home It’s empty Separate lives are lonely Then back home There’s nothing Disparate lives live only In themselves: Pathetic Pathetic Talk big, talk loud Talk over a quiet town Make your voice the only one to hear, yeah Then push, and shove, it’s Coming close to close enough Don’t want to get too far or near, know Detaching Decoupling I see it disintegrating Unfeeling, not acting Unspeakable thoughts and nothing Compassion, reaction to Feel this: sympathetic Sympathetic Look on, look on in horror Everyone crowd close to me Such marvels I will show you Stare into the glow and see It’s okay to feel confusion Lights dance across black skies Life may be an illusion I sympathize Now it’s time to assimilate, it’s time to let it go Combine truth and reality, with the false light of the glow You may feel you are not here, or that you don’t exist You may feel out there’s not real, synthetic Come one, come all (You’re welcome here) It’s writhing It’s molting I watch it begin reshaping And back home, the shadows Swarm every nook and hollow They compel me to Feel this: pathetic

So bind me if you can My strength can sever chains Or sever hands So test the power I have grown Play like it’s just a game, but You wish me rooted to a stone You, deny me, freedom to roam You, deny me, a place to call my home Scream and fetter, bind my legs to the Earth This mystic ribbon, cannot hold me forever Deceive, because you fear me, you Believe, I’m going nowhere, trapped here But know, one day I’ll rip out your throat So trick me as you will The hand I bite and sever Won’t be enough to fill So wait until we meet the end A bitter roar in thunder Devour gods and men And I will wait alone Bound to a fateful stone Rend flesh and break the bone Old god I will dethrone Time dwindles down to nil Nothing can keep me from Claiming my kill Now I await the end of all Break free to claim my vengeance Crush through this sword, swallow them whole

Sick horses They don’t know nothin’ They don’t know nothin’ at all So give me, so give me Teeth I can chew with And just enough of that horse meat To keep me all skittish And oh These teeth that tear I know Even predators fear Scared horses They know what’s comin’ They know what’s comin’ today So feed me, so feed me Horse hide and bile And just enough taught tendons To tie up my smile And oh These teeth that tear I know Even predators fear I will never Look like a lion And I will never Burst from the grass, to see Take to flight, sink the bite And drag that dead body The meat I devoured All but exhausted now Bones I have carved into poems Hard angles stabbin’ out The hell am I eatin’? Horse shit and silage My plate is steamin’ Like the adage Don’t look your gift horse in the mouth And oh I know Dead horses Love to do nothin’ They love lovin’ nothin’ at all So cleanse me, so cleanse me With bleach and ammonia And just enough of that horse meat To feed the nostalgia And oh These teeth that tear I know Even predators fear I will never Look like a lion And I will never Burst from the grass, to see Take to flight, sink the bite And drag that dead body

I watch the sea, I listen To hear her voice To hear the melody I don’t know when, but one day I’ll make that choice To fall deep in Waves, upon waves, upon waves Biting Washing over me In endless Waves, upon waves, upon waves Inviting Flooding into me Now I am haunted by her song Beautiful and wrong Still pushing deeper I bear the scars, of her kiss Never thought I’d miss Now I long for Eternal Days, upon days, upon days Of drowning On the ocean floor I’m seeking Ways, upon ways, upon ways To recreate That sound once more Gone evermore Dreaming in fevers Fictions and weavers Beauty deceivers Call me Urging me out there Lapping up sea air Flesh daring to bear All those fucking teeth Digging into me Making me believe The lie That calls me out to search the sky At night, to see What waits under those waves for me Waves like mountains And I put the Goddamn effort in Always counting The days I may have left within To hear her voice To make that choice I’ll make that choice To make it The weather turn, the season change And still I yearn, I burn, I freeze She callin’ me, she callin’ sweet She led me to higher miseries To hear that voice To hear the malady To make that choice And cease to be That all my love Shredded in her teeth That all my life Would come to sink beneath

Love me, follow me Eat me, swallow me Hate me, murder me Leave me, bury me A hole inside a pit, collapsing in its gravity Filled up with flesh and shit, bouquets of dark depravity A want that never is met, becomes a need, all hollowing So open wide, just open wide and satisfy We’ll never see the rapture I’m capable of ruining myself I need no fucking help Before keeps coming after Everyone, just breathe and stare And they, like I, no longer care There is no brain inside the head, but still it keeps on thinking There is no soul inside the heart, but still it keeps on feeling There is no stomach in its guts, but still it keeps on eating There is no mouth to open wide, but still it keeps on screaming I’ve never felt so conquered I’m functional in self-destructive ways Staggering through the days There is no fucking laughter Everyone, just breathe and stare And they, like I, no longer care Feel a black hole inside, no more pleasure, no more pride Just eat, and eat, and eat, and eat, and eat till its all gone I starve Can’t fucking fill the hole Deflowering, blossoming, lost all self-control Take on the role As all of Hell designed And sublimate, defecate, anti-weight defined The meat in rind The frozen shit we shill Tossing to, tossing fro, hope that hate will heal Eternal zeal Has a different goal Combining bodies with bodies, complete the whole Feel My hunger rise, ten thousand times Endless fields of forbidden meat to eat I do my dance, I sing my song I do not value right or wrong I eat all flesh, I eat all bone Devour mind and heart and home My tongue Running in arteries To lick the blood, lick the wound, lick the sick disease As I may please But I can never stop Hunting and herding my human crop It never drops The urge remains the same Hunger lives, hunger needs, cannot be contained Forever stained A want that builds and builds Until it stomps its foot on the strongest will My cannibal inside lives It eats to fill, it eats till emptiness Slavering, over the dead and I do obey Il duce Tu quoque Manger pour tuer I fear I know I will not last Another season Never enough to fill the void It eats the reason Yet I will search this world for more to take And I will find their hiding place And I will eat the last of humanity

So, go and, lie Face pressed, upon, cold floor, (forevermore) Breathing built up dust, with deadly inexperience (So, lie within) Blood fills fat finger’s end, then Pushes in porcelain, skin Live in linoleum, sigh Swaddled, left to die (so, go and, lie) No carpet there, just bare And barely conscious, cutting teeth That bends warped wills, above, beneath, So, lie, beneath (begin belief) Lie, and wait Captive and captivating In a way, this is all about you I’ll be in soon To take good care of you Don’t move (don’t move), don’t speak (don’t speak) Don’t dare you fucking breathe Help me heal the broken one To be rebroken till it’s done Forcing fleshy fingers in Nine down and one makes ten One makes ten So, go and, lie Like genocide, of one and the one is you Curled up, volute, helpless and destitute (Motionless and mute) A voice in violent dole Send not for whom the bells toll It’s all of us, and all at once And all at once (once at all and) Our, sole, sun, shines, upon, such fun, and I, fix my, Big, fat, finger’s, end, into, where, you begin So lie and wait I won’t be late In a way, this is all about you In a way, it’s all about me, too Prechorus I’ll be in soon To take more care of you, but I Don’t move (don’t move), don’t speak (don’t speak) I don’t dare to fucking breathe, at all Help me heal the broken one To be rebroken till it’s done Forcing fleshy fingers in Nine down and one makes ten You cannot leave this place My floor upon your face Did no one ever tell you? (Life is war) It means to do you harm Did no one ever show you? (Life is war) Here comes the victor (Did no one ever warn you?) (Life is war) The world rests on a weak man’s shoulders The world rests while a weak man shudders And shutters close to close all eyes Left to go, below and lie