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from Madder Mortem - All Flesh Is Grass (2001)
Chamber of the mourner
Ashes of a morning mass Six feet of earth to lay On wooden home forever Chamber of the griever Hope of dawn cut away Bowing to defeat This time the path cut short Chamber of the sorrower Mausoleums closed in silence Wow given to fulfil Let no one stand between Chamber of the dead Pleading spirits to awaken Build the gate, brick on brick There will be another key |
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from Madder Mortem - All Flesh Is Grass (2001)
This is where forever opens
This is where all flesh is grass This the mask and this the virgin This is where it falls apart Holy mother, triple goddess Dream and death through blood evoke Through your womb we bleed and burn and now: Rise again Breaker of worlds So the seed is sown to reap and so the blood is sweet anew So intone the word not spoken Now the time to break the truce Ah! And the world splits apart and the essence flows free And whatever she gives I am ready to take For the keeper of the crossroads is the keeper of the keys; the one who stirs your silent dreams, the one who wakes the fear As she stands before you at the lake to lead you to the shore, she's the one who is the breaker, she's the one who waits no more Breaker of worlds |
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from Madder Mortem - All Flesh Is Grass (2001)
Head on pillow
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from Madder Mortem - All Flesh Is Grass (2001)
Send him from this land, he's bleeding
A display of pain worn as a crown Are you strong? Are you worthy? Are you pure? Are you clean and wholesome? In his face the plea of mercy Like a child corroding to a man While the blood still flows he is enchanted Ruby red, the streak of hidden malice hides the smile Are you strong? Are you worthy? Are you pure? Are you clean and wholesome? Oh, there's cancer? Oh, there's mistrust? Burn and cut, burn and cut There's nothing There's nothing here There was nothing before You don't know this Life can take you far, but this is further Once the lie is in, will he prove worth it? Know (So we all give in) No defence will stand through pity Powerless, kneeling before the bleeding heart |
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from Madder Mortem - All Flesh Is Grass (2001)
A daring step
The waiting crowd A hungry child must learn to bow Yes, this is all the bitter truth The gritty sand beneath your feet The taste of failure on your mouth This is a game of hurt Yes, this is all the bitter truth Yes, this is cold reality This is what you have come to Yes, this is all the bitter truth Yes, every gesture was in vain This game is harsh and you have lost You know it all comes down to this: Pathetic lies and vanity The taste of sand inside your mouth A daring step The wanton smile A desperate man Tells desperate lies Yes, this is all the bitter truth The gritty sand beneath your feet The taste of failure on your mouth |
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from Madder Mortem - All Flesh Is Grass (2001)
Where do you go?
I don't know Cold carbon air Breathing out filth Breathing in burning blue Nothing breaks me now Go! Let my hands go Go! (Today The hour on time The breathless second Another perfect view) (Today A contradiction that talks one way A blind, stuttering fool is healed I'm not quite finished) I am fire and reborn Go! (Today A mirror broke in ecstasy And desolation bled to death I've been forgiven) Go! On hands and knees Taking in all in one stride I have covered my own tracks and all falls into place We will all go |
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from Madder Mortem - All Flesh Is Grass (2001)
On the eleventh day, he reached out his hand
and made the sign of parting, spoke the words of taking leave and of never going back To breathe the air of dreams To walk upon a path of bodies To know what carnal means To live the law of hate and cold flesh Wailing for the solace in a lie No echo here. No truth. No time To blind the eye to see To feed on every broken moment To kill and kill again To end it all while it's unfolding To know the only way: To love the beast and then to beg it to die from every wound Listen as the mourning herald sings the dirge to which we march in time Crawling naked 'neath the burning stars, sleeping beauty dries Never |
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from Madder Mortem - All Flesh Is Grass (2001)
Turn, turn
Let the rosegrove burn Turn, turn Watch the flies and learn Turn, turn Grinding it down Turn, turn Make it go on Sleep tight, wait long Hold on, stay strong There is a beast within And there's no peace without I speak the lie as true And it has blinded you Sleep tight, wait long Hold on, stay strong Let the rosegrove burn Watch it all come down This is what I've earned Watch the flies and learn Thrown back in line (So now the war is on) Thrown back in line (And now devotion's done) Thrown back in line (So let revulsion on) And now the vultures come Sleep tight Wait long Hold on Stay strong Turn, turn Let the rosegrove burn Turn, turn Watch the flies and learn Turn |
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from Madder Mortem - Desiderata (2006)
Storyteller, bring your stories to my pyre
You, the tame man, be what I have learned to loathe Tell me the secrets buried underneath A thousand years of dirt Tell me the fever chills your blood You were the last I'll be the first Fall as you are and for good I am here, there's nothing left to change Life bleeds too soon, counting time down on us Hope withers at my touch Leaving it's ghosts to teach all colours grey Change Storyteller; see the futile smiles and answers I will teach you not to taint my sweet control I have a deeper kind of riddle And a puzzle you won't solve Laugh on your knees Laugh for the changeling and the joke that took us all Change |
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from Madder Mortem - Desiderata (2006)
What are the words of the queen on her throne?
Spite and splendour, cold under stone This is her promise What is the name of the gift she brings? Sleepless slumber under her wings This is her promise Cold, cold stone Cold stone that buys and baits you Cold stone that hides and hates you Older than pride and pyre Older than flood and fire Here the swiftest beat will stop Here the strongest man will fall In her tower, in her halls In her silent maze of cold stone Cold stone to groom and grind you Cold stone to mae and mind you Cold stone to bleed and blind you Cold stone to break and bind you And her arms won't let you go And her weight will pull you down And her breath is in your lungs And her laugh is that of cold stone What are the words that will always remain? Hunger, sorrow, winter and rain These are her promises |
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from Madder Mortem - Desiderata (2006)
I open my eyes today
To leave the world of dreams behind We all know the nothing A hole in our hearts we try to forget Or drown in jest and jokes So I open my eyes today To let myself be torn apart In the rigid chill of my vow All my dreams will die My blood is seeded with hateful ghosts Their cleaving hands upon my faults Pleading my guilt as they pull me down Into the sea of broken hope How could I have known? All my dreams were lies I know All my dreams were lies All my dreams have died Die. |
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from Madder Mortem - Desiderata (2006)
All will wither, go to sleep
The ones you love you may not keep All you touch will fall apart The dreams you kill will break your heart There's no mercy, there's no rest The void will scream within your chest No one knows and no one will So leave this place that makes you Ill |
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from Madder Mortem - Desiderata (2006)
Speak so softly, I will hear you
Though your words are uncincere All your talk amounts to nothing And that nothing's not for me Through a thousand smooth evasions Your voice still rings in my ears If you'd remember who you were I could take hell out of your care I could give you all I am No more syllables to hide us Fate dead within our hands No more shadows and contortions We have run out of lies I could leave you undefended Always hurting, always wrong Leave you wanting and dependent On a hope that'd let you down But still your voice retains the phantom Of all you wanted to be I could give you all I am Say my name No more words to hide us Fate dead within our hands No more shadows and contortions We have run out of lies No more syllables to hide us Say my name |
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from Madder Mortem - Desiderata (2006)
I know that death hides in my eyes
And screams from my song I've left the bright lights Left for the river without bridges Slow and silent: In it's waters I can dream of peace I know of no hope Down and into the flood will be my way And to my hangman I will bow My scaffold will follow me down Sing as the soul falls Over the water your voice lingers Just be by my side When the river sweeps my feet away Though I gave you no hope And all your love I have repaid with pain I will go down Stay with me My light is all gone Stay with me |
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from Madder Mortem - Desiderata (2006)
Sleep, take me now and never let me wake
Still in your hands, in your kingdom I'll be yours to break Sleep, I am tired I have blundered on to a path where I don't belong Still in your hand, I'll be safe from where I could go wrong Promise me a silver dream Let your silence flow over me Give me serenity and take away my will Let your silence flow over me Ghosts hold no pain I surrendered years ago Life has no claim on me Let me slip quietly beneath The pulsing noise of everyday Life has no claim on me Sleep if I beg of you, will you bleed all memory from my veins? Cold in your arms, I'll have given all my hurt away I am not afraid I have waited on your doorstep too long Take back my name Close my eyes and turn my face away |
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from Madder Mortem - Desiderata (2006)
Hold the curse close to your chest
Now let the game begin Whisper a silence of disease That will never end Just give a changer all control And the pallid king your hand Lay your head gently down on hate That will never bend M for malice M for modesty M for me Where no heaven can be found Only the purpose will remain Let it drown all pain Let it drown all fear All things broken, all things sworn All this the malice will replace Let it drown all fear Let it drown all pain Let no sorrow hold you down Let the weight of good recede It will drown all pain It will drown all fear M for malice M for modesty We repay |
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from Madder Mortem - Desiderata (2006)
Spelling my name in analogies
Pulling your eyelids down Over my silence, over your blind eyes Building myself an anomaly Building with breaking hands Shutting the noise out Driving the nails in I have no name My name is silence I have no pain Who would save you now? Pulling myself through the windowpane Kissing the broken glass Drawing the walls close Stitching my mouth shut Resting my head on the demagogue Leaning on burning sound Tearing my words up Putting my works down I have no use for your bloodless compassion Don't waste your indulgence on me Nodding my head with the grinning ghost, Loving the lucid flow Too many mercies Too many stale hopes Turn my face to avoid your eyes Swearing to let it go Too many failures Too many favours |
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from Madder Mortem - Desiderata (2006)
Useless words and scattered earth
Wring that neck for what it's worth Curse the flood and hate the sun I will see the damage done Plague holds this land flooded with milky tears Life dripping from their eyes Burning their hearts to sleep Pure salvation on your tongue Drink the venom you've become Traitor by necessity Be the dirt that clings to me Plague holds this land flooded with milky tears Life dripping from faithless eyes Will the surface sealed Plague on this land! None I loved and none I spared I fulfill what I prepare The remnants of your line Lost the blood that now is mine Plague holds this land flooded with milky tears Life dripping from faithless eyes Will the surface sealed I have listened I have come I have torn you one by one Be the dirt that clings to me |
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from Madder Mortem - Desiderata (2006)
Fate, I see your stare
Underneath your pale eyes All is here, holding it's breath to have life Smooth, sleek smiles howl at my door To hold me down Or move me on? The pace makes it unclear They smell of lust Of sweetly silky rotting dust Once they'll measure me coldly Twice they'd beg me to try Hope will always betray me It's hand of stone has left the bitter mark on me Hopes, atrocities and daydreams Lay it all on me The cause that I should die for Lay it all on me Fate, I see you stare All is here Fate, I could not care less All is here |
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from Madder Mortem - Desiderata (2006)
Nothing can turn me now
Come the terror, come the turmoil Close over breath and bones On the tide will flow Rivers of vibrant life Come the fever to the dead soil Stream with my dormant dreams On the tide will flow Cold is the waiting stone Come the change, I'm sick with hunger Burn me and make me whole On the tide will flow Slow and sure Come the fall, the fall I long for Blind me and bring me home On the tide will flow Seed my world with auguries With agony and joy With fear to hold my spirit down And glory yet to come So will be the day: On the tide will flow Out from our eyes Out from our feeding hands No pain and no penitence No word to hold the flood to come Burn me and make me whole Blind me and bring me home On the tide will flow |
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from Madder Mortem - Eight Ways (2009)
There are many names for the place I'm in
It's a different kind of hell There is room enough but too many stairs No one asks and no one tells With each door you pass, another set of traps revealed Pin-on smirks that smell like fear See behind the pretty faces There's just no substance underneath It's all a game, and how I hate it when all their fancy words turn out to mean the same Let it seep - let it slide Let it fill you up You'll feel the little cracks appear The venom dancing in your blood You're coming just in time to see me tear See behind the pretty faces There's just no substance underneath It's all a game, and how I hate it when all their fancy words turn out to mean the same Just a little hope stretched far too long It's different kind of hell Just a different kind of hell |
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from Madder Mortem - Eight Ways (2009)
All I know is the light of lanterns hanging from the trees and the sound of the heart that beats to keep me here
And then the darkness falls (It always does for the likes of us) Stripped of voice and thought and cold on the ground I fall between the stars All I know is the path that led me out here on my own where there's no time A lonely place for old and frozen stone And the darkness falls (It always will for the likes of us) The distant burning suns of other worlds singing dreams of ruthless light All I know is the light of lanterns hanging from the trees and the sound of my heart beating inside of me |
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from Madder Mortem - Eight Ways (2009)
I'm handing in my guns now
I will stop slipping away like sand between your fingers For better or for worse, I yield to you I will lay my armour down, claim the hunger and the words that were always on my mind Any triumph breeds defeat Any blessing holds a curse but for once I won't let go You laugh at all my twists and turns The stories I tell find a home in your memory And by now it is too late to run, so I yield to you I will lay my armour down, claim the hunger and the words that were always on my mind Any triumph breeds defeat Any blessing holds a curse but for once I won't let go You see me like no other And I have tired of staring it down, tired of turning to find it all too strong, too strong to let it go |
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from Madder Mortem - Eight Ways (2009)
Time bent out of shape
A swirl in the waters of Lethe Time stretched impossibly thin Webs beneath the laughter Silence for the master Time striking poses at life A prancing and prideful accountant Time dragging cold feet behind Webs beneath the laughter Breathe the sticky sweet (It is the way, it is the way, the only way) Never-ending rooms where nothing seems to move Breathe the sticky sweet (It is the way, it is the way, the only way) Liquid clinging hours neatly stowed away Just endless choking time tracing patterns in the dust Time waiting only to pass at a glance So hungry to find and devour us Time smirks and gloats at our backs, eating all our hope away Time, time, time Time stretched unbearably thin Webs and woe and laughter Silence for the master |
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from Madder Mortem - Eight Ways (2009)
So now the bringer of unease has reappeared
He has dared to show his face within our walls His visage hidden in the mouldy earth and his fingers in the waters I had calmed His intrusion is a presence in the air and the fire is a nuisance to our hearts and he's showing off the secret little thoughts we kept apart And then the trap will spring Nip our heels and make us bleed Just as we found our ease pops a monster out Behold the travesty! Get that monster out of here! He is steadily uprooting all our plans, letting loose the sordid demons we had bound Turning all our dainty gestures upside down and misplacing all the footholds we had found Every corner holds a shadow to expose, every closet has a skeleton to show, and he's proudly re-displaying all we worked so hard not to know And then the trap will spring Just around our time of need I fear the change he brings Get that monster out of here Behold the travesty! Get that monster out of here! I will mask the wounds I could not heal while you set your resolve We'll be laughing at some joke we played while our options dissolve It is only fate, my love Who could wear it down? Behold the travesty! Get that monster out of here! |
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from Madder Mortem - Eight Ways (2009)
When the time and the place is not my own
I'm okay just as long as you are around It's just like Eden's door is ajar and desolation's peeking out Coiled like a snake lies the shadow of a doubt that gnaws at the roots of my heart and dismembers my peace When I'm caving in When I loose myself too far from home you'll kill the distance But I'll close my eyes, close my ears, close my mind and put my head down and run Is it a coward's heart that trembles in your hand? There's a fear in me you will never understand, but beneath that fear there's a will of steel and I think you know Then there's just the little matter of where and when you need to make a stand Make yourself clear, I'm damn sure that you can A token of will and resolve is long overdue I need to know I can depend on your sight, that you know the difference between what's not wrong and what is right and I'll sing and I'll scream 'till you hear me But it's all right - I don't mind Build your own words, make your own time You've got nothing to prove I know you hold I know you hold |
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from Madder Mortem - Eight Ways (2009)
This ordeal has made you fret, but you know it's not that bad
We thought ourselves beyond its reach Well, it seems we've both been had See, it flows so easily A ruthless piece of art And it grows and speaks of mysteries to be And flips itself to show the deuce of hearts The riddle wants to be It rubs our noses in nature's demands and it wrestles our dearest doubts out of our hands There is a balance of hope and despair How we bleed for it! In our need for it all sense disappears The riddle wants to be |
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from Madder Mortem - Eight Ways (2009)
Time floats so slow here
We won just to lose Here all walk solemnly No light shines through Here the waves break for you Deep blue the spell on us Old, sick and drained All creation turned its face away to leave us blind and torn and failed Here the waves break for you Nothing stirs the underneath Our hearts are so cold Up above bright life ebbs and flows Salty tears below Here the waves break for you Always Here the waves will break For you |
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from Madder Mortem - Eight Ways (2009)
Like a rolling tide
Like a gentle slide nears the point where you and I converge I won't have you say that my wilful ways is a vast new land just now emerging You know what I am I'm the fire you thought you'd lost I'm that breathless touch of frost The one spell that will endure The cancer and now the cure And you seem to find a pleasant peace of mind in the fact that I'd take on the world for you Does it strike you then, when you withdraw again, that it might be worth your while to see it through? Make a leap of faith Trust the riddles and the signs Cross that cold, forbidding line Find the trail between the words and chase down what you have stirred 'Cause I know you feel it change From a whisper to a storm From a keyhole to a door From a flow of honeyed brine to your tremors locked in mine I was never moved by serenades beneath my window, but by your gentle touch on my spirit and on me I am! I am spirit, I am clay I am growth and I'm decay I'm a saint ablaze with sin and I end where I begin And I will not be defined by another's set of rules; by a Reason void of Truth My own path is mine to choose, but my heart is all for you It's the little things, like this need to sing Like the way your voice resounds in me Like the way you resound in me |
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from Madder Mortem - Eight Ways (2009)
There's a man far from here who made sure to stay well clear of taking hold or letting go, always choosing not to know
But then his bridges burned Sometimes still he stops and turns, listening to open skies for broken words and severed ties And I believe that wordless call he hears sometimes could reach us all I stayed for so long where dream and day collide Now I'm on fire There's a girl, one I know, who wrapped up her heart in snow Much too proud and much too vain, she thought she could hide her pain in that clean and crispy chill To this day, she feels it still Once frozen to the core, she's not who she was before And I believe that chilling cold she feels sometimes could touch us all I stayed for so long where dream and day collide Now I'm on fire Let it freeze, let it burn Someday soon it is your turn to fall down as others fell As they wept, you will as well |
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