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The Christ Counterfeit
01:38
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Do all you problems melt away?
How could we know what to expect?
Why do we keep playing the game
Awarding us with our regrets?
Demonstrate your tricks for dimes
So is it your place of mine?
The question begs a new brigade
Of dead men walking through the night
If I can live with blood on my hands
Then she would grovel at my command
And you can pretend everything’s fine
And suffer despite your limited time
These shadows lurk where ever I stand
This solemn nature earns reprimand
I just want to think and feel
Like I took enough when nothing’s enough
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Eryx
03:33
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All hail the night
In crisis and subsistence
Instigate divide
In the guise of your resistance
I have become the locus threat
My tribe once held captive by a thread
Unleashed as your harbingers of death
Now I’ll open the gate
I’ve given you design I can take it away
Muster the courage to contend and I will seal your fate
Back to the abomination from whence you came
Will the scythe held reign eternal
Or trade us like Dionysus?
Stand against time and worlds infernal
That once sought my coronation
You have become what I’d expect
Anticipating shifts where our realms clash
With vision clear
The storm may come to pass
As I open the gate
I relinquish the key now we’re one and the same
The light that fills your soul conceals your face
With vision once ascribed to the insane
Will the scythe held reign eternal
Or trade us like Dionysus?
Stand against time and worlds infernal
That once sought my coronation
I decry
An ambiguity so bleak
It erodes this mind
That fails to contain me
The astral form
Projecting as we sleep
While they unanimously state
“Hot damn that cat can play.”
Clench my fist
Enchanted is it’s grasp
Possessing
Your intent broken like glass
In astral storms
That brought you to your knees
Because we’re unified by hate,
Our dissent, and my embrace
Will the scythe held reign eternal
Or trade us like Dionysus?
Stand against time and worlds infernal
That once sought my coronation
Coronation
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3. |
Of Smoke and Porcelain
04:53
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Behind the smoke
Infinite form
Alters take hold
Once more
Becoming culled
Your words entrancing me
Codes I’ve yet to interpret
Your core scathed far beneath
It’s porcelain surface
Nothing is as it seems to be
Won’t you convey that I deserve this?
Are these outcomes only a dream
When apparently imperfect?
Maybe you’re in a trance
When you tell yourself this can’t be happening
Despite the circumstance
You aren't the only prisoner of make believe
The souvenirs you keep
Should they remind you of each lie that we’ve been told
You’ll still feel lost to me
Because I recognize you’ve become culled
Your words entrancing me
Codes I’ve yet to interpret
Your core scathed far beneath
It’s porcelain surface
Nothing is as it seems at least
Could you respond like I deserve this?
Because these outcomes have no meaning
Other than appearing imperfect
Entombing the meek
The world as it’s seen
Is artificial and bleak
And this form won’t compel me
To
Compromise:
The language of those soon forgotten
I won’t comply
But I’ll burn this bridge and watch you drop dead
Don’t let this make your head spin
Because I don’t feel a thing
Doesn’t mean I don’t see
That when nothing compels me
I’ll just wear YOUR bleeding heart
On my sleeve
What fate will we attain
Without hope?
This feeling we exchange
Merely to cope
You laugh when you’re afraid
Shielded in smoke
So then maybe you won’t
Become so cold
What fate will we decry
When we’ve lost hope
This heart that I confide
In you to hold
I smiled when you died
Behind the smoke
Is this the reason
I’m becoming culled?
These words they escape me
In codes you’ll never interpret
Because you’re scathed so far beneath
Your porcelain surface
More corroded than you seem to be
Don’t tell me I deserve this
This outcome must be preconceived
To have become this imperfect
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4. |
Self-Portrait
04:44
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All intentions met
The reason you believe we’re meant to
Martyr the life and blood
Of what this self portrait reflects
A symbol of desire
The shadow of what you’ve repressed
Where this mind reconciles
I always knew that I would
Find you
Here in this
Space between the light
Can I convince
Myself it’s real enough?
Won’t let this go
Forsaken like before
Keep this dream close
And never wake up
You think that’s air you’re breathing?
Fall deeper into sleep
Your mind belongs to me
You’ll hope your life away
This trauma may come to pass
With the signature energy
You interpret as your sacred path
I’ve spent my life awake
Insomnia as my compass
I knew I’d alter states
But I never intended to
Find you
Here in this
Space between the light
Can I convince
Myself it’s real enough?
I won’t let this go
Forsaken like before
Keep this dream close
And never wake up
Lost in the wake of what
The moon and sun emanate
Frequencies dictate
Sentience simulated
Omens of the stars
Indifference demonstrated
In what you proclaim
Reminiscent of what you take from me
I’m torn between your dominion
And where we begin
Symbiosis within
Constructs of nature eternally
Am I meant to believe
That time isn’t always against me?
Omens of the stars
Indifference demonstrated
In what you proclaim
Reminiscent of what you take from me
Will I discover soon?
Unveil the truth awaiting
Here in this
Space between the light?
Can I convince
Myself it’s real enough?
Won’t let this go
Forsaken like before
Keep this dream close
And never wake up
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5. |
Allure
04:34
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Behold the antichrists domicile
Within your cells
A hollow frame
Where eternally
His legacy is placed
I venerate innocence
Yet dwell in your distain
The oath you take
To lock away
And terminate the threat
We won’t cease fire
Until all who remain left
Honor codes that we have kept clear
You set your sights
In motion
Like a firefly harrows night
I waive your signs
And devotion
Because nothing allures these eyes
And nothing will satisfy
Like the genocide
That which you placate
In the the tyrants name
Because you feel nothing inside
In my nature to conspire
I can bear the weight
Of my consciousness
But I can only hold my tongue
So long as this truth still exists
What may conspire
When our enemies reveal
The light they once concealed clear
You set your sights
In motion
Like a firefly harrows night
I waive your signs
And devotion
Because nothing allures these eyes
I can see what this scribe compels
The hexes that consume your mind into the spell
Your masters contemplate the reset back
But they don’t give a fuck about you as a matter of fact
I bargain with the gods to turn this heart to stone
As I walk among cadavers to attain the throne
Recognize what my scribe compels
I am the corridor that transcends from your masters contrived hell
Resigning
Automated
Subservient inscription
Resigning
Automated
Subservient inscription
You set your sights
In motion
Like a firefly harrows night
I waive your shrine
And devotion
Because nothing allures these eyes
I bargain with the gods to turn this heart to stone
As I walk among cadavers to attain the throne
Recognize what my scribe compels
I am the corridor that transcends from your masters contrived hell
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6. |
Kill Grid
04:21
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Vivid is the wisdom to accept this fate
Whether it be a gift of God or desperation
To watch those complicit suffocate
May your eyes indulge in their devastation
Altruistic the heart that's synchronized with the rhythm of it's service weapon
Assigned as an extension to the limbs that shall be ripped from us
If I'm torn into pieces give my regards to the righteous ones
Won't die brave but eager to fuck my enemies up
Civilization united in fear
Contrasting fallacies end the same way
When luminescent paths become unclear
And there are no apparent means of escape
Only surrendering
To what enslaves me
In blood offerings
Awaiting satellite signal response
Is this an adequate amount
Of bloodshed for the gods?
The mind concealing sacred symbols spawned
Unveils the advent of the second renaissance
We manifest before your eyes
Religious projections of your mind
All in your head
This game we simulate
Unlocks and trophies
Per tossed grenade
Kill 'em all dead
As you recite this phrase
"My life's only a game"
Hell hounds deploy
Seek and destroy
When this prayer fails to keep you safe
Remember the instincts we've instilled
So that when your hands begin to shake
You'll keep your aim still and shoot to kill
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7. |
Red Hand On 4
04:00
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Smoke fills the air
I think about our life before interference was there
But people underestimate the cruelness that we’re capable of
I’m reminded when I see my friends bodies in pieces torn up
Mostly can’t take my mind off how grievance held us
It holds me tight
Won’t let me go
It’s suicide
Behind this scope
The ground is wet
And stained with red
I hear screams through the walls
’Til no life is left
At this point I wonder
How many card games exist
But since the apocalypse
I’d say my brothers only play styx
And still we keep entertained
Because the enemies tied up outside
Get cigarette burns
Depending on how many pop songs they can recite
God help us
What we’ve become
Please save me from
My religion
Of homicide
Please cut these hands
From this wretched beast
Here where I stand
When the offering was lost on us
Every choice became less obvious
So you were born into a battlefield
Well the world before you was a carnival
A war waged against those less treasonous
Bred temperament’s you’re quick to fault
I covet the life born into this war
Your rifle like your brush to canvas
You saw not what prisoners we were before
The second renaissance fell reprimanded
I cling to the sentiment of what you said
“Give me liberty or give me death.”
So honor the land that the left hand has torn
Offer blood until she can’t drink anymore
To die fighting is the only thing we live for
We’re not casualties of
But purveyors of war
Held captive by the shit that fills your head
“How will liberty serve me in my death?”
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The Conduit Orlando, Florida
The Conduit is a math metal composer creating music from Bend, Oregon USA. The sound is designed for listeners who desire complexity and a distinguished melodic profile. Most songs are comprised of Fibonacci rhythmic motives and meticulously head bang-able time signatures. The Conduit is evolving to accommodate listeners by sharing a refined musical ideology. ... more
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