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9 Mile Square

by Crawl Below

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1.
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
2.
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
3.
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
4.
Monument 05:40
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
5.
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
6.
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

about

This is a concept album about Norwich, Connecticut.
Feed The Towers is about the casinos.
Fire On The Hill is about Lantern Hill.
Kingdom Of The Ruined is about the Norwich State Hospital.
Monument is about Miantonomo.
Tarnished The Name is about the traitor Benedict Arnold.
Nine Miles Square is about current day Norwich.

credits

released February 12, 2021

Written in 2013, re-recorded in April 2020 at Black Mold Studio.
Re-amped and mixed by Dave Kaminsky at Studio Wormwood.
Mastered by Ryan Williams at Augmented Audio.
All instruments, lyrics and vocals by

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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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