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Episodes
05:15
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Drive the pin beneath the skin
Where sin meets muscle
Everything that's ever been
Shall be again
Drive the pin beneath the skin
Where sin meets muscle
The folly of indifference
The taste of blood
In circles we traverse
These cast off plains
Of desolation and despair
Which ransom us here for nothing
Drive the pin beneath the skin
Where sin meets muscle
Everything that's ever been
Shall be again
Drive the pin beneath the skin
Where sin meets muscle
The folly of indifference
The taste of blood
In circles we traverse
These cast off plains
Of desolation and despair
Which ransom us here
But someday
We’ll find another way
Until then it’s too late
Keep your head down, son
In circles we traverse
These cast off plains
Of desolation and despair
Which ransom us here for nothing
For nothing!
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Make Your Bones
02:03
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Hands around my neck
They want something delicate
(Make your bones)
Now the only way out
(Make your bones)
Is the same way that’s in
Lower your veil
What dwells within?
A fortnight of guile
Sweet as saccharine
Upon that you depend
The only way out
Is the same way that’s in
(Make your bones)
The only way out
(Make your bones)
Is the same way
The marrow of man
Rusted away
The locust swarm
Feed at your grave
(Terror)
The marrow of man
(Tender)
Rusted away
(In a whisper)
The locust swarm
Feed at your grave
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Last Rites
04:42
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Were we made to pinch life from veins?
Preach divinity from false statuaries?
This depraved masquerade
More questions than answers
Flashbulbs burst at the parade
The caskets all singing
No martyr, no return
Crosses mark the spots we forgot
Take it back, take it slow
So no one ever knows
Those were the days
Inches turn to miles
Occupy the space
We left between those years of squalor
I know you want them back
What appetites find us in the shade
Ravished by a voice, ravaged by a truth
Coming straight for you
Watch out!
No martyr, no return
Crosses mark the spots we forgot
Take it back, take it slow
So no one ever knows
Those were the days
Now your last rites
What have you done with the one you love?
Where has she gone?
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Draw You Out
03:57
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How shame paints your face
At the mention of a name
Pale, porcelain skin break
You can’t have what I can’t take
I’ll draw you out
Of that wicked shell
That you’ve made a home
For such brittle bones
We were younger then
With souls too tired
Still I bear these incisions
Each curve a wayward smile
I’ll draw you out
Of that wicked shell
That you’ve made a home
For such brittle bones
But you’ll feel again
This world and all
Its grotesque pleasures
Spreading like snakes
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Small Hours
04:15
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Child of night
Salt stream to wound
O’ cancerous thought
The small hours bloom
Put all the knives
Away in the house
Collect the flesh
From the body it left
You came to me
As an apparition
A gloved hand outstretched
An angel no more
Take me away from the light
Separate the vessel from the mind
To the land where men go forgotten forever
And move in silent winds
I held the weight
Of death in your eyes
Withered, afraid
That someday the dawn will be
Returned to me
You came to me
As an apparition
A gloved hand outstretched
An angel no more
Take me away from the light
Separate the vessel from the mind
To the land where men go forgotten forever
And move in silent winds
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Small Hours (Early Demo)
04:35
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Child of night
Salt stream to wound
O’ cancerous thought
The small hours bloom
Put all the knives
Away in the house
Scale the flesh
From the body it left
You came to me
As an apparition
A gloved hand outstretched
An angel no more
Take me away from the light
Separate the vessel from the mind
To the land where men go forgotten forever
And move in silent winds
I held the weight
Of death in your eyes
Withered, afraid
That someday the dawn will be
Returned to me
You came as a vision
A stitch in the filigree
An end to the ache
Take me away from the light
Separate the vessel from the mind
To the land where men go forgotten forever
And move in silent winds
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Vagrant Beat Athens, Ohio
In honor of the many echoes still traveling from 2010–2013. We thank you, eternally.
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