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In The Shadows Of Monuments

by Vile Electrodes

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Not everything is as it seems Monuments overshadow me In my blackest crown Shed tears for the veiled king The last of us remain With nothing in between Caress me With blood stained hands We speak of that Which no one understands A blood soaked kiss Fitting welcome for the queen The last of us remain With nothing in between In the shadows of monuments Not everything is as it seems
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The Red Bead 03:44
The deep cut is painless When the blade is sharpest From a red bead to a river And then it’s over A life Can mean so little A momentary flicker And then it’s over The deep cut is painless When the blade is sharpest Numb for so long Nerves on a knife edge Comatose comfort If man is wolf to man Then run with me To take a life Can be so simple Sleight of hand betrayal And then it’s over Starved of sensation Watch me die slow It might have been different To give my life Will be so simple From a red bead to a river And then it's over The deep cut is painless When the blade is sharpest Numb for so long
3.
A sense of violence we fall like dead leaves drifting lost on a turbulent sea decades close in The shape of things to come hollow cold flawed perfection How far can we go? Horizons extend We leave more behind As gravity ends Lay myself bare Confessional age Sympathies shared At this primitive stage Decades rebuilt Years disconnect You walk away As I genuflect How far can we go? Horizons extend We leave more behind As gravity ends
4.
Evidence 05:22
Every contact leaves a trace Impressions hang in empty air Creating evidence, creating evidence Meaning where no meaning should be there Is this your evidence? Heedless of proof faith is our evidence Empirical truth faith our experiment Through relics of lesser lives We grow stranger than we were Retracing paths, retracing paths Of ghosts who’ve gone before Is this your evidence? Heedless of proof faith is our evidence Empirical truth faith our experiment Merely shimmers here Lives on hold in dark and flux Resurrect as stars burn out Traces of a century brought back Is this your evidence? Heedless of proof faith is our evidence Empirical truth faith our experiment In the face of your conviction The walls began to fall Balance tipped and overthrown Degrees, now, of what left is real Is this your evidence? Heedless of proof faith is our evidence Empirical truth faith our experiment
5.
The fate of all things is decay No care can stop this destiny By day we’re bathed in dust So in dark we hide a truth In plain sight of denial As we turn to rust Rejected time and time again Piece by piece we’re broken down Our structure cannot last Like derelicts of night Dulled by time and slick with rain As we turn to rust Dark mirror lacks reflection Tarnished crimson, faded chrome Realities of jaded lust Pools like blood beneath our feet Our corrosion is complete As we turn to rust
6.
We hears prayers recited In a high walled garden Fragile commandments Implore that we go on Simple revisions Mean all is changed and broken If you knew the way ahead Is this the path you would have chosen Shadows show no movement Here you are enclosed forever And you will know regret In the name of the father Now in the minor hours Hushed tones call for reverence Til steps in the hallway Remove the shroud of silence All is quiet now All is quiet now All is quiet now
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Like satellites that span horizons Senses stretch on and on Nothing to start so nothing to lose Nod to forever for all is absolute Grounded on nothing but locked to a course Here I am now in central collapse Fall in a vacuum here velocity ends Turn me to dust I’m dismantled again
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Incision 04:21
A broken reverie Where all becomes memory my newest obsession is this discovery Once you’re under my skin You’re all that remains A universe of bones And poison in my veins Begin the incision And sharpen my senses I steadily fade Is this what the end is A futile pursuit For none can deter The passage of time We are now all that we were What more will you ask No more to express a single pound of flesh Is all I have left Begin the incision And sharpen my senses I steadily fade Is this what the end is
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Alone on an empty shore A wide expanse of nothing I’m consumed by the view And lost in the absence of sound Taste of metal in the air Silver skies on the verge of rain I’m a stranger in this place Trapped by stasis and fear I’m a stranger to myself Nothing left for me here Alone I test the water And submission comes so easy The ripples spread and fade And there’s no hope of rescue here Will I sink or swim, embrace the tide It’s only a matter of time I’m a stranger in this place Trapped by stasis and fear I’m a stranger to myself Nothing left for me here Must we mask Our fundamental needs In a matter of time It all comes clear I'm a stranger to myself And there's no hope of rescue here No hope of rescue here
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Stand enraptured A revelation A strange elegance To this desolation All that once was Slowly vanishes No grace or redemption It all ends with this If you deal with devils They’ll mark your cards Innocence forgotten In holy wars So this is our fate Fall of man to end it all Lie here in ashen snow Buried where we fell All the rest of the lovers Draw their lines in the sand Faint gestures washed away As the sea reclaims land All the scars that we etched on the earth Time and tide will erase We’re the last of the lovers And we’ve fallen from grace
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Not everything is as it seems Beneath the vanished past Another history The fragments Pull together And tell a story Of you and me There is nothing but silence Sharing darkness til dawn A feeling of forever A moment of perfect calm Not everything is as it seems

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released September 14, 2016

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