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Frankenstein's Architect
02:26
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Lyrics:
I am going to the butcher shop
I am going to the graveyard
I am building a flesh house
I am stuffing meat into geodes
I am drawing blood from stone
I am building a flesh house
It isn’t for companionship
I’m not afraid to be alone
I am building a flesh house
I am going to the butcher shop
I am going to the graveyard
I am building a flesh house
I am not a masochist (I am playing god again)
I am not interested in pain
I am building a flesh house (I am building god again)
Who’s walls will pulse with sensations (I am playing god again)
That do not have a name
I am building a flesh house (I am building god again)
I am going to the butcher shop (I am playing god again) (does a creature know it’s blood?)
I am going to the graveyard
I am building a flesh house (I am building god again)
I am pushing the needle in (I am playing god again) (as from marrow it's spun up)
Like a drill bit strikes the ground
I am building a flesh house (I am building god again) (when did you heart start?)
I am splitting the membrane (I am playing god again) (and all the creeping things inside) (when did your heart start?) (this is all for you)
I am trying to let you out
I am building a flesh house (I am building god again) (when did your heart start?) (you are a place of honor)
I am going to the butcher shop (I am playing god again) (That run the body feed the mind) (when did your heart start?) (this is something new)
I am going to the graveyard
I am building a flesh house (I am building god again) (when did your heart start?) (you are a place of honor)
I am a symphony of a thousand veins (I am playing god again) (a vaulted ribcage over head) (when did your heart start?) (this is all for you)
I am the song of a fractured and farcical brain
I am building a flesh house (I am building god again) (when did your heart start?) (you are a place of honor)
I am going to the butcher shop (I am playing god again) (that holds the weight of giants flesh) (when did your heart start?) (This is something new)
I am going to the graveyard
I am building a flesh house (I am building god again) (When did your heart start?) (you are a place of honor)
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Squirm
02:33
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Lyrics:
Beneath the green and starless sky
The earth is split and bleeding
In the depths of endless night
The writhing things are feeding
Upon the pulsing alien flesh
Arising through the rift
The wounded god that’s here enmeshed
Brings life to this abyss
Brings life to this abyss
Brings life to this abyss
The hungry children of the deep
With mouths of thorns and crowns
Squirm into the living meat
They cling and tunnel down
They cling and tunnel down
They cling and tunnel down
Cradled in the songs of blood
They tunnel twist and eat
In the body of their mindless god
They taste divinity
They taste divinity
They taste divinity
Unlike the sun, an absent god
A callous distant king
This flesh can be depended on
The heart of everything
The heart of everything
The heart of everything
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3. |
Dark Devours
02:45
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Lyrics:
Diver: 4321
Diver (spoken): Ok, beginning descent.
(Angel (sung): Unfolding unfolding, dark devours (repeated quietly throughout the Diver’s monologue)
Diver (spoken): Try to think nice non claustrophobic thoughts!
You wanted to do this, remember?
Ok. (deep breath) This is incredible..it really feels
Like I shouldn't be here somehow, like. It isn’t Allowed
Like I broke out of bounds and fell into the night sky
And now i’m gonna see all the things that are hidden up here that i’m not supposed to.
Er. down (laughs) I guess and- wait. What is that? That sounds like a voice but- does it? And..it almost sounds like…like..my-
Angel(sung): The sky has drowned
Diver(spoken): Jesus christ! What the fuck was that?
Angel(sung): in the midnight hour
Diver (spoken): Ok. That’s is my voice
Angel (sung): Stars surround
Diver(spoken): …and…and what is that?
Angel(sung): Unfolding unfolding
Diver(spoken): Like uh. Some kind of giant
Angel(sung): Dark devours
Diver(spoken): bioluminescent jellyfish but it’s…it’s
Angel(sung): Pulsing, convulsing
Angel(sung): Stars devour
Angel(sung): Limbs unfurl
Angel(sung): Like Wheels on wheels
Diver(spoken): It’s Are-are you the one singing?
Angel(sung): Surrounding, confounding
Diver(spoken): Or-or…am I?
Angel(sung): A dream made real
Angel and Diver together (sung):
The angel’s songs
Fill my mind
Beholding, unfolding
Depths divine
Unfolding unfolding
Dark devours
Unfolding, beholding
Angel devours
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4. |
Beloved
04:04
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Lyrics:
Circles on Circles rippling out
Circles on circles wheels on wheels
He calls out to the infinite
The pattern embraces him
He waits in the water dark
Listening for the voice of god
The signalman, beloved
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5. |
Flesh and Blood
02:19
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Lyrics:
I’m the one you need
Who else is gonna bleed,
For you?
Like I do?
I’m the one you haunt
I’m the one you want,
I know you do
And I do too
We can call it symbiotic
But my dear this thing we’ve got is
Hard to justify
My favorite parasite
I offer you the purest love
The kind sent down on wings of doves
I offer you my flesh and blood
So long as I can be your God
I’m the one you need
I’m the one who bleeds
For you,
You know it
It’s true
We will call it symbiotic
Cause my dear this thing we’ve got is
Easy to deify
C’mon and hold me tight
C’mon and hold me tight
My favorite parasite
C’mon and hold me tight
My favorite parasite
A truth that hovers in the silence
The love of God is often violent
My girl I know what you are
And one day I’ll cut out your heart
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6. |
Resurrectionist
02:04
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Lyrics:
He’s been going to the butcher shop
He’s been diggin and he never stops
The tank is full but the fish are dead
The head is the tail the tail is the head
Who’s to say what’s disassembled
Cannot be repaired again
He knows that anything that stops
Surely can begin again
He’s been going to the graveyard
Carries flesh home wrapped in paper
The scientist, the true believer
Dead fish bits in the freezer
Who’s to say what’s disassembled
Cannot be repaired again
He knows that anything that stops
Surely can begin again
He comes away
With the catch of the day
In death he preserves it
So that he can reverses it
Who’s to say what’s disassembled
Cannot be repaired again
He knows that anything that stops
Surely can begin again
Stitched together fish kit (god is a writhing)
The doctor’s come to fix it (pulsing meat thing)
He’ll make the pieces fit (god dead)
The resurrectionist (and alive and bleeding)
Stitched together fish kit
The doctor’s come to fix it
He’ll make the pieces fit
The resurrectionist
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7. |
Autopsy
02:37
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Lyrics:
Bright light over black water
Tangled limbs illuminate
An angel of the dark
On a dissection stage
Her blue blood halos her
As we close in
The servants of the light
Scalpels in our hands
(Piercing light have mercy on as
As thy waves crash down upon us)
The star opens and light pours forth (Shattered sky thy will be done)
Takes our blades and guides our course (Let us hear the song unsung)
Pale flesh splits beneath our hands (Let our eyes be opened wide)
Bathed in light we understand (Let us see the coming tide)
Here beneath a broken sky (May we not be turned away)
We raptly watch an angel die (May we never fear the flame)
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8. |
Green Green Glass
02:05
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Lyrics:
Lost upon the great expanse
Of green green glass
Adrift so many days I’ve been
And not a ship has passed
My food was gone two days ago
Fresh water I’ve no more
Doomed upon the lonesome sea
God help me, I implore
But what is it that sings below,
The green green glass
Calling for me soft and low
What squirming shadows pass
My body aches, my throat is dry
But fear departs
The comfort of those strange sweet cries
Surrounds my heart
They promise me the face of god
In the abyss
All that I could ever want
The truest bliss
They sing to me to sink below
The green green glass
They’ll carry me in tow
Should I depart my raft
I sink into the water cold
Around they wrap
And cradle me in pulsing flesh
And down I’m swept
So tenderly they sing to me
As down we fall
Into heaven we descend
A vast flesh sprawls
The wounded god that lays below
The green green glass
Riddled with ecstatics angels
Writhing mass
As I try to struggle now
They twist and hold me tight
What horrors come to greet me here
So distant from the light?
What will the larval angel be
These maggots be transformed
What alien beast has in this hour
Squirmed here to be born?
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9. |
Within Color
03:53
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Lyrics:
Lyrics:
(Color within color within color)
I call upon the star caged
I call upon the opened eye
Thy disciple shall not look away
Let me look upon thy light
I call upon the star caged
I call upon the opened eye
In thy brightness let me be remade
I ask thee open up my mind!
Piercing light I invoke thee
Piercing light I invoke thee
Piercing light I invoke thee
(He calls out to the infinite)
(The pattern embracing him)
When I invoke thee I tremble
(Star-eyed he drowns in light)
(Colors burst within his mind)
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10. |
The House of God
02:44
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Lyrics:
There was a woman in the wallpaper
There was a woman in the attic
There was a heart under the floorboards
And I heard voices in the static
When I first came to your doorway
I didn’t even need to knock
I knew the chambers of your heart
Already were unlocked
And they will say when they come
That we are not alright
That you are a minefield
That I am a blight
They will say when they come
That you are not a place of honor
(We are playing god again)
That you ought to be condemned
(Life Death and Ressurection)
That I’m probably a goner
(We are seeing god again)
(We are being god again)
They will come with their medical men
And they will come with their wrecking balls
To smash you down to foundations
And to cut me out of the walls
(I am playing god again)
(I am building god again)
But I’m not the madwoman
And I am not confined
If the house be my body
I’ve just taken what’s mine
(I am playing god again)
(I am building god again)
And I am not Victor Frankenstein
The fool who forsakes
And you are no monster
You are no mistake
(I am playing god again)
(I am building god again)
And I am not a madman
And I am not a prophet
But I saw what’s divine
And we have become it
(I am playing god again)
(I am building god again)
God is a shivering pulsing meat-thing
God is a house a cathedral a building
(We are playing god again)
They will slash where the wires intertwine with my veins
(Life death and Resurrection)
Our blood will pour down upon them like the rain
(We are seeing god again)
They will take to your rafters your rib cage the saw
(We are being god again)
Not knowing the doors we have slammed be our jaws
Our presence demands that they stand down in awe
For we are none other than The House Of God
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