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Jester
03:22
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No poems this time
No clever stringing of wit
It's just me crawling into my grave
Just gnashing at my hair, as your betrothed has gone away
If only to equal your pain
You once poured your heart out in my hands as I clenched
My fingers burled large in the wounds of your ribs
….Of your ribs
And I chose poison to ascend me
No one could ever replace
Instead of Elysium or the heavens where we'd escape
without you now I wake to live in a grave
I wake up to live in my grave
….In my grave
The Jester will cackle at how foolish I am
And I will join your betrothed in the grave
I am just another worm to the earth
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Contrarian
05:56
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It’s burning me out
I’ll pull my heart through my eyes
Am I the mother of love or demise?
A rodent or wolf in disguise
Pestilence observed a careless wandering pellar
He’ll turn his back on us all
We’re all one in the same
The man who comes in favor of rain
How needless we are to forget
To give care to our wounds still seething
Pestilence observed a careless wandering pellar
He’ll turn his back on us all
Caustic and ravenous
I’ll pull my heart through my eyes
Whimsical as I am, I’ll ignore all your lies
Too many times
Pestilence, too many times
Am I the rodent or the wolf?
Too many times
Pestilence, caustic and ravenous
Am I the rodent or the wolf?
Too many times
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Cthulhu
05:58
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The old metronome stops keeping time
The covenant is wretched, but this one is mine
A wonderful sight, our world engulfed by the sea
With the great priest atop the tower is me
It gifts me it’s wings, I cannot resist
And I am pleased to be in it’s grip
Swallowed old victorian homes
All who remain around the monolith gather
And welcome the great priest Cthulhu
Welcome him home to conquer and devour
Common man to lament: “It gifts me it’s wings”
“And I am pleased to be in it’s grip”
He’s my father, and I’m but a ghost in his world
(I woke to a tumultuous stir, and feel such a calling to this incredible dream
The sands always stirring, the ocean floor all around us
I belong to the faith, the fire, and the frenzy
I chose to die in the cavern of embrace, in these days, hand in hand aside
The world’s greatest beasts
So maddening in thunderous size
So deafening these bells always calling to me, always calling out me)
He’s my father, and I’m but a ghost in his world
It gifts me it’s wings, I cannot resist
I built this monolith, are you pleased?
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Stranded
04:15
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Day 3; Blood transfusion complete
As you awake a new beast, a new terrifying breed
To you; your creator laments
“This is the hunter’s dream”
It implores you to feed on only pain and anguish
You are blinded but first attempt to speak
“I am not stranded here with you, but you are stranded here with me”
Withering oak painted against darkness becomes your home
No champion to your might
Crude weapons fuel your lust for blood
Despite your lack of sight
You’re a most fearsome hunter
It implores you to feed on only flesh and terror
You are famished but first attempt to scream
“I am not stranded here with you, but you are stranded here with me”
Withering oak painted against darkness becomes your home
Terrible fear; an endless well of strength
You’re a most fearsome hunter
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Scathing
06:21
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Go sleep in the shadow of the hill
With your bottle of copper and shine
Unfashioned realms of dark
I’ll usher in the end of a most illustrious life
They’re forgetting all of our tremors
They’ll weep to hear the sound of my ghost always rattling my chains
This cypher is still sealing me
Now we all must fear evil men
I’m always rattling my chains
Unbroken blue; I’ve barely my dagger’s grip
I wander as that of the blind
Your touch is that of the snake
And I’ll wallow as that of a swine
They’ll weep to hear the sound of my ghost always rattling my chains
This cypher is still sealing me
Now we all must fear evil men
I’m always rattling my chains
Always rattling my chains
Your toxin charm invites
I’m always rattling chains
Stygian circumstance come to play once again
This time I’m no clinic’s fool
I’m always rattling my chains
Your toxin charm invites me
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Manipuli Washington, D.C.
Luke- Vocals
Stephen- Guitar
Gus- Guitar
Steve- Bass
Charlie- Drums
manipuliband.com
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