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The torches burn
Flames to signal offerings
For green gods favor
Where there once was light
Only shadows remain
Feed feed the towers above the trees
The demon knows only hunger, hunger
Cast them to the pit, await deliverance
Cast us to the pit, until the cycle starts again
Tied them to the stake and left for wolves
Shut your eyes to the glint of teeth
Cover your ears to screams gone on too long
We die the slow death
You cut yourself but the blood is not your own
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Fire On The Hill
03:15
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Fire on the hill tonight
Eyes to the sea
There’s more than the waves
Crashing in
Sails, not ours
Cast the torch
To wake the night
They’re landing at first light
Full dark, the word has gone out
No one sleeps tonight
Daybreak
The sun seems to hesitate
Only the sound of gulls overhead
Squinting through the barricades
For shapes in the mist
The fog burned off with the flame of guns
The harbor’s alive
The sun crossed the sky, they never set foot here
The harbor’s alive
Trailed by the taunts of defeat
The harbor’s alive
Their sails disappeared below the horizon
The harbor’s alive
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Kingdom Of The Ruined
06:55
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Across the river
The lights of the living
Over here, buildings toppled like gravestones
Brick strewn,
fenced off
vacant
Once a refuge, refuge
for the unwanted
A place to exist and be forgotten
With fellow derelicts
Kingdom Of The Ruined
In this Kingdom Of The Ruined
Walk the hallways with me
Where scalpels severed the spark
And cold gray tables slid from walls
Ghosts, exorcised drift north
To hollows and bridges there
To haunt the places we never seem to notice
Kingdom Of The Ruined
In this Kingdom Of The Ruined
Tunnels beneath us
Vines are reclaiming
And in their need
Pull everything away from the sun
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Monument
05:40
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Their arrows darkened the sky
The thunder of their feet not far behind
Through the trees, death bore us on
At spear point
We carved paths where there were none
Until the land fell away
Their ghosts led us here
To this place where our fathers
Songs are never sung
Below us stones sharpened to teeth
By living water
I know the white in hunted eyes
We were not as wolves
But the herd driven before them
Cornered
Some chose chains
And others failed to fly
I run
The last steps only air
The spray above the roar below
Calls me down but the dead won’t have me
Their ghosts led us here
To this place where our song
Will never be forgotten
Below us stones sharpened to teeth
By living water
I know the white in hunted eyes
We were not as wolves
But the herd driven before them
Cornered
Some chose chains
And others failed to fly
Pile your stones atop me
We’re the voices in the rivers
Pile your stones atop me
We’re the lights in the trees at night
Pile your stones atop me
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Tarnished The Name
06:02
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You traded loyalty
For royalty
When the smoke cleared and you had your chance
You showed your red side,
Treacherous arsonist
Turncoat bastard
Burn, traitor, burn
Burn, traitor burn
Abject disgrace
Tarnished the name of your birthplace
Every September
May your memory burn forever
That none will forget your shame
“We’ll take him down and cut off his head
And then we’ll say the traitor is dead
And burn him to the ground
And burn him to the ground”
- A popular Guy Fawkes tune reworded for
Benedict Arnold
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9 Mile Square
07:10
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Rivers converge
Dark under bridges
And rush unclean to the sea
Where the rails feed
Scrap poison rust down the banks
To anywhere
Anywhere else
Houses in the hills
With windows vacant
Stare unblinking down
At a collision of steel, brick,
and weather warped wood
Not much shines here anymore
Fingers of roots buckle the pavement
And climb through the cracks
The veins, the heart
The streets that cross this city like scars
Winters sweep away
our scratches in the earth
The pulse goes on
Faint under a clouded sun
The endless march of footprints come and gone
Apartments lean
Back to back
Rippling under shadows
Of the mill’s smokestacks
The streams run low now
The dam’s gone dry
Revealing their secrets
To apathetic eyes
So breathe it in
And let it out
Another season’s ending
In another New England town
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Crawl Below Connecticut
New England music about New England. One-man black metal/dark hardcore/acoustic/doomgaze/post
/blackwave metal. Featuring a member of When The Deadbolt Breaks, Animal Schoolbus, Low Moments.
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