1. |
The Boiling Gardens
05:09
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Black tendrils reach up
Toward an unseen sun
The long hooked arms
Of immortal beasts
Fight against currents
Boiling alive, agony
Wander in darkness
Flee across canyons
The great abyss
Black tendrils reach up
Toward an unseen sun
The long hooked arms
Of immortal beasts
Why have you come
To this purgatory
Of deathless eyes
What madness drives you
Ever farther down
Welcome to the deep
Has the world above
Finally become more vile
Than the monsters down here
Things you once feared
Black tendrils reach up
Toward an unseen sun
The long hooked arms
Of immortals
A great sinking eye
Whose gaze scalds our flesh
Oppressive light shines
We cannot hide
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2. |
A God Without Remorse
05:00
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Feed on a billion bodies
Behold the destiny of man
Their world of chaos finally at peace
Is this how it had to end?
With every building burned
And all their cities turned to ash
The scent of putrefaction fills the air
They only did this to themselves
But if you stood by as they died
Then you are a failure on high
Those who were created in your image are no more
The mighty one ignored their cries as evil took its course
Now those who died in agony, the virgin and the whore
Forever burn, abandoned by a god without remorse
Sink in a ruined ocean
Its deep the last stronghold of life
Climb the highest mountain and behold a desert
Vast and empty as the sands of time
If this is what remains of all our legacies
Then all our victories have truly been in vain
Undone in the blink of an eye
But if you stood by as they died
Then you are a failure on high
Those who were created in your image are no more
The mighty one ignored their cries as evil took its course
Now those who died in agony, the virgin and the whore
Forever burn, abandoned by a god without remorse
But if you stood by as they died
Then you are a failure on high
Those who were created in your image are no more
The mighty one ignored their cries as evil took its course
Now those who died in agony, the virgin and the whore
Forever burn, abandoned by a god without remorse
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3. |
Secrets and Slime Eels
02:32
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Deep withinyour body
Beneath thin, pallid skin
Lie glassy sacs of unborn wrath
The seeds you've sown arise
And now begin to quiver
Gnawing ever toward the air
Colorless eyes peering out
Uncoil and seek a new host
On festering thoughts they nurse
On disgorging words they feed
Like vermin they breed and grow
Sequestered, stronger by the day
Blind and deaf, they fill your throat
Bursting forth to spread their seed
Colorless eyes peering out
Uncoil and seek a new host
Afflicted with your weakness
Unleashed upon the world
But never gone for good
They'll be back to feed again
Colorless eyes peering out
Uncoil to seek a new body
And seek a new host
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4. |
Of Urchins and Worms
05:23
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It's been years since you've seen the light
And now that you're never going back
Creatures of darkess begin to rise
With eyes aglow and bodies black
Shapeless, weightless, the sea itself
Watches you relinquish the light
To rest forever in the plains of the deep
At peace in eternal night
Become one with these worms
Let black water fill your lungs
Come home
In blinding clouds of spawn they writhe
Grey matter swirls and suffocates
Bodies twisting together in grotesque form
Abominations that stain the sea
Eggs drift away in viscera gyres
A desperate sacrifice of unborn lives
Ancestors consumed by their progeny
Chewed into sand and forgotten
Become one with these worms
Let black water fill your lungs
Come home
Become one with these worms
Let black water fill your lungs
They won't remember you above
And no sad songs will be sung
Come home
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5. |
Here She Lies
05:59
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This abyss is a graveyard
Fragments, fading memories
Those we left behind
A place for broken souls
Endlessly I'm searching
Signs that you're still here
Cling to fading hope
Is this what I want to find?
Even through endless years
This longing never dies
Follow a distant voice
And here she lies
Here in my fevered dreams
What horrors meet the eyes
Only the darkness knows
But here she lies
Into jaws of valleys
Pale spectres following
Realm of lightless eons
Giants tower over us
In this chasm I can
Hear you calling out to me
But my eyes see nothing
And my heart is growing cold
Even through endless years
This longing never dies
Follow a distant voice
And here she lies
Here in my fevered dreams
What horrors meet the eyes
Only the darkness knows
But here she lies
Here she lies
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6. |
A Feast for Lampreys
03:55
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Sitting up there in your high chair
Choosing money over life
It’s a business, so you tell me
Twisting yet another knife
I don’t care that your career path
Says make cash and fuck the land
You should care that you had all our
Futures in your greedy hands
All the world’s a stage for
Your comeuppance day
It’s too late for apologies
And now that everyone is watching
It’s time to start the show
Endless teeth are waiting for you
Just a push and down you go
Slip beneath the water’s surface
You’re a feast for lampreys
It’s time to reap what you sow
This has been a long time coming
All those years you raped the sea
Now it’s time to learn a lesson
They feared you now you'll fear me
Palpitation, suffocation
Last things that you’ll ever feel
Mastication, termination
Torn apart by savage eels
All the world’s a stage for
Your comeuppance day
No one will answer your pleas
And now that everyone is watching
It’s time to start the show
Endless teeth are waiting for you
Just a push and down you go
Slip beneath the water’s surface
You’re a feast for lampreys
It’s time to reap what you sow
Retribution, our solution
Even if it is in vain
Denigration, reparation
We take pleasure in your pain
And now that everyone is here
Flesh will tear and blood will flow
Now that everyone is watching
It’s time to start the show
Endless teeth are waiting for you
Just a push and down you go
Slip beneath the water’s surface
You’re a feast for lampreys
It’s time to reap
It’s time to feast
It’s time to reap what you sow
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7. |
The Grave of Leviathan
05:50
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For epochs we have lain
Upon this ocean throne
An altar to the gods
Growing in our lethargy
Feeding on those below
Immortal seven seas
But all our victories
Are lost upon the tide
Revel not at Leviathan
Look closer and see
Harpoons that pierce his ancient flesh
And though he strains
Against the ceaseless reel
He too will lie with the crabs eventually
Yet now our golden age
Is reaching its demise
The setting of the sun
It will be you who finally
Drags us back to the deep
To face the nightmare
No mournful serenade
For those about to die
Revel not at Leviathan
Look closer and see
Harpoons that pierce his ancient flesh
And though he strains
Against the ceaseless reel
He too will lie with the crabs eventually
For now a storm arrives
To wash the light away
Revel not at Leviathan
Look closer and see
Harpoons that pierce his ancient flesh
And though he strains
Against the ceaseless reel
He too will lie with the crabs
He'll lie
One last breath for Leviathan
Torn asunder, he
A bitter end in human killing fields
Gaze upon his fading majesty
As he falls to lie with the crabs
In the grave of the sea
The sea
In the grave of the sea
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8. |
Neonate
06:39
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[Written by Aaron John Gregory of Giant Squid]
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A Feast for Lampreys Boston, Massachusetts
Ye Gods! I wonder if my evil art has raised this monster.
- Herman Melville
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