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Altschmerz
04:51
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I breathe death
Within my radius no one can live
But why can't I die?
So open an vast around me
My brothers are the stars
I know them so much more
Than just specks of light.
You are more distant than they
If I could I would go there
Alone the way life belongs
Be the first to return home.
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Nodus Tollens
13:25
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But then I saw you there
The fear so much stronger
Than the force around me
Colder than the vacant light
This is not what I had wanted when I died
I push myself further
Past blinding light
Past vibrant oceans
Past deadly tunnels
And you stay behind me
Floating like a blissful sprite
With no clear intentions
I try to keep my distance
Neither of us more shy
I turn and you hide behind a comet
Together forever we fly
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Liberosis
10:10
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I'm in love with the shining ones
It looks like a shimmering orchestra
The clay in my hands has already cracked and is chipping away
Hope bleeds out of my pores
As I grate my skin
Like a sculptor who slept in
Insomnia eats us away
An author who forgot his punctuation
At a televised book signing
Insomnia eats us away
It's too late for us
But I made none of the choices they made
We are stuck
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Interlude
01:10
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In a Cage
06:42
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Trapped in a cage. He loves me a special way. Soiled sheets, long sleeves in the summer to hide the bruises. Keep myself away from everyone. The only one I want to see (to see me) has sewn her eyes shut and gone deaf. Will no one save me from this? Do I have a say in who owns me?
Arms are bound, bugs in the walls, constantly looking over my shoulder. Questions every word. Every look brings cold sweat. My throat's been torn by my keeper. My eyes at my feet, dragging chain along the concrete. All those abandoned look and smile but no words leave their mouths. Their faces are dissolving and blowing away in the wind.
I wake up to a white light. Wrapped in sheets, wires in my skin. My skin is painted in a fresh dark coat. The number of bones multiplied.
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Abuse
05:53
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Drug me and top off the bottle. Frequent return customer benefits. They look in my eyes and tell me to leave. The most loving words until that night. There is no greater than he. A shining knight. He treats me, showers me. I know it's love, he shows me every night. He says "top off the bottle," and my scars burn bright. The flood rushes in. Liquid reaches every corner. His eyes disappear. It was an accident. His roars hurt my ears. His arms grow and reach all. I know he loves me, he tells me when he's done with me.
He says no one else will, and I am lucky. This special, secret love is so hard to find. He must be right. I am special, I am great. But why do I feel sick? Why do I shiver in the daylight? Why do I lie awake at night?
And I love her so. At least I think so. Machines have been taught to feel long ago. It's best not to read the side effects. The road back is growing longer and full of holes.
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Evil
09:47
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Arms wrap around me as a symbiotic union is formed. One being, one home, one mouth. I am happy. I am scared. Stay seated, stare, and smile. It's fine, it's worth it. The American dream, at least one of them for someone. Perhaps someday. I'll see you never. We'll be a rumor. Fade into a rumor.
The mirror breaks. He tells me I am filthy. Asks me where I've been. It's nothing. The exhaust he spews rises to the ceiling. His arms like whips, lash out back and forth. I can't tell if I feel nothing or everything. This is all my fault. He just does this because I do wrong, but he still loves me. I'll see my friends in white again. Just a short nap then I will be back home. He will be happy again and show me how much he loves me again. Over and over. He just does this because I do wrong. But he still loves me. I'll see my friends in white again. Over and over. And it all turns black.
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Skull Incision Fresno, California
Est. 2007.
Solo project of Jacob Lee (PlasticBag FaceMask, Keeper, Elder Devil, Hellish
Form).
All guitars, bass, vocals, and production are by Jacob, as well as E-drums up until 2014. After that, all drums are programmed.
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