1. APES MASQUERADING AS WOLVES

The barking lives behind our backs
Like infections in inferiority
A crawl across the sinews in trust
In dreams ripping and tearing
When the pack arrives
Does it not scare the wounds off the flesh?
When the pack arrives
Does it not scare the wounds off the flesh?
Deeper and deeper
So shall it go
The wolves cry penance
Something the ape will never know

Force fed at the front of the line
You're dead or biding your time
Left open bleeding for days
We all just waste away

For all that we are
We are but animal


2. THE BOOKS OF DEATH

Lives committed, time erodes, years wasted

Books of death in purity

Open palm, broken bone, corroding

Books of death in perpetuity

All binding winds through the open vessels
The letters publish through the skin
The jaws of cost crushing down
On our last will

And a middle-aged testament
From the laws of the lost
Leading the blind

Page by page
Pouring down
Across the braille


3. INHOSPITABLE

Inhospitable
Transformed as the host demands
Left for the scavengers
Bled from life
Living for the kill
This ritual
Irreplaceable


4. GANGLION

Run, on empty
Nothing, will change your mind
You'd give up your life

The weight
Impossible
A sign
Unsolvable


5. SYMMETRY HYMN

So how do the hands close the wound
When it bears the sign of symmetry
So how do the hands close the wound?
In the worst light
It shows us how to believe
And how to reduce life
To mere division

Self-lead prayers met with broken rhythms

Rejected themes of paradise
Buried in ash and pitch


6. DRAINING ORDER

Pull the chords down
Around your neck
Banished to this working chasm
Said in the subtle word
"Never breathe
Never seek
Never become
Become whole again"
This is the writ of the disenchanted
Lay down your arms and breathe in deep
No matter to the past or the feeling
To tithe in that final sleep

Order of the drained
Revered within the name


7. AN EVER ECLIPSING PRESENCE

Let reign the fires over the world
The great works of abandonment
The fulcrum remains missing
The placement shall fall
In a puzzle running deep
Sentencing itself on repeat
Mirror image down to the bone
A new trespass that will never atone
For whats given to us as a gift
Creates a weight trapping us

From that which conceives it
Thriving on fear
An ever-eclipsing presence
Draws you near

An ever eclipsing presence

Bred worm-like with the dust of bones
A corroded sigh
Revere yourself as holy
To give into the lust on high