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Decay
01:48
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Sincere in insincerity
Surrounded by false decay
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Judas
02:40
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Through the auger
Dancing in the teeth of the vice
Stolen grip
Flesh upon gear
To your daughters
And the hidden ones who make the nails
I can barely lift up my arms
Worn into powder
Forced into gums
Scorch the earth for what had to be done
A line on every tooth into a crest on every bone
A noose to protect my neck
It will work
I'm sure
Circumventor
Great destroyer
Sputtered and died
A line on every tooth into a crest on every bone
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Strangelove
02:39
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There's a chain around the ankles of the world
All our lives are only nails in earth
Every rat had the arrogance
To think they'd see the end
Knotted in filth,
Drowning under dead weight
The conceited belief
That you'd deserve to die
In some self-made armageddon of shame
At least I'll cease
At the peak of human misery
Nothing but the best for me
There's a chain around the ankles of the world
All our lives are only nails left in earth
Every rat
Every rat
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Hex
02:02
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A new resurrection
Comes over everything
Strung between my teeth
Hanged
Scatter me
The mountains are millstones
To die with dignity
At least there's purpose here,
Absolution
Then choke it down
Feel the vacancy
Breathing out your bones
Tethered across the stomach
Fall into fear and pour it out
Choke it down
Feel the vacancy
Breathing out
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Civil Gutless
01:07
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With a mouthful of sand
With a tongue like ash
In a void of language and lack
There is a gnawing rot at the heart of this
A shallow grave for us
It is a sickening creeping act
And it will never be enough for any of them
With a mouthful of sand
With a tongue like ash
In a void of purposeful lack
There is an ember lit at the heart of it
Despite the failures of all the rest
And the uncounted mass of clamoring dead
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