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unbearable lightness
06:16
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Washed in the pale gold,
skin luminous and warm.
a wild ache
in blood and bone,
tensed limbs
spread and coil.
eyes fixed
on a wall of glass
between us.
in its mirrored surface
we watch our bodies
entwine.
writhe.
unwind.
and there we suffer
the smallest death.
afterward in the stillness,
the petals of a flower unfold and fall,
scattered softly to the ground.
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2. |
unbearable weight
04:25
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Inside us
the heart of all nature
strangles itself,
chokes
and disappears.
like rain in a flood,
like tears in the fire.
gone.
you alone remain endlessly unchanged,
in an ageless,
breathless,
weightless dream.
how can you stand to be so free?
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3. |
gather
05:26
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We gathered, cast away our eyes,
burned our tongues, and swallowed our teeth.
where we walk now, there is no need to see or speak or eat.
faith is our guide into the eye of the storm.
faith is our guide through the fire and flood.
faith is our guide along the path to war.
faith is our sight beyond seeing. faith makes our words without speaking.
faith is our sustenance and succor.
faith lets our steps be sure,
when god is pissing on the map -
its withered, ancient hand come down to clamp us to its breast.
gathered on our knees.
we receive the poison,
close our eyes and sleep.
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4. |
old bones
03:26
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The carcass of all you used to love,
bleaching beneath the soundless wind and sun.
Cold comfort now, the future and hope.
Replaced by a scene of collapse.
Put it in the ground.
Bury these old bones and forget them all.
Breath to whispers.
Blood to dust.
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5. |
antlerborn
05:25
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The most ancient directives lost,
suffocated
in the name of a more docile modern age.
You build nests of apathy
inside cages of anxiety
and gladly call them home.
Kings make crowns of my stolen rage.
Sit on thrones of my empty veins,
but they cannot call me tamed.
I am not enslaved.
You might convince yourself
you are the lone ram
in a herd of sheep,
still you obey.
bleat and obey.
i will watch from the shadows
and laugh among the beasts.
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6. |
squall
06:42
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You have sown the clouds,
but we suffer the squall.
flickers of arson cross the sky
and the solid ground below breaks away.
If I must stand alone
against the wind and tide
to wait for the calm,
then let it be so
and let the last of us left pile your corpses to burn.
In the name of all precious,
pure,
young,
and free-
I face the storm.
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7. |
candles
04:35
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Burn at both ends,
bright and silent.
Waves of color dissolve
into black memory.
These flames
spill their gold
to each impoverished night,
until everything shines in here.
The spirits swell and glisten,
then burst and wither
blow away like smoke.
They dance on the air,
coil and entwine,
become new breath,
and begin again.
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8. |
by tusk and talon
09:33
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Beyond lost
in a world of steel and noise.
The soil is tangled wires.
The trees are made of rods and panels.
There is an eye within an eye
watching every angle.
In the beginning
there was flesh and will alone.
At the end
there is only hollow ritual
and meaningless
words of praise
for the things we have made,
and the ways we have changed.
A cold and exact set of standard parts.
By tusk and talon
they have come,
with iron tooth
and razor claw,
with silicon fist
and cabled mind.
They have come
to take us away from ourselves.
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9. |
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watch the light leave the body
through this spreading wound.
the night is with us now,
in us now.
all future mornings rise to find
our faces turned away
and unknowing.
our dead lie unburied.
our dead lie unmourned and envied.
we picked at the flesh of reason
and welcomed absurdity,
embraced fantasy and greed
and dulled our senses.
as the fires burned away
we paid no mind.
when the fires burned our feet
we could only beg;
to remain royal
in a kingdom of less
and less
and less
with each passing day.
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HUSH. Hudson, New York
Earth shattering sludge/crust/doom from Hudson, NY est 2012.
Physical releases available via Sludgelord Records, Fuzz Records, Silent Pendulum Records, Dullest Records.
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