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Fountain of Memories
02:07
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Wishing it wasn't so,
won't make it go.
You're gone,
but I can still feel your...song.
The stone where the birds
used to call their little home
has since been weathered
by your barren absence.
No more melody, no more water.
So much melancholy in your place,
it is an almost unbearable weight.
But the Fountain isn't gone;
relishing memories isn't wrong.
I will hold onto your forever,
I will not let death conquer.
Swim with me,
in this fountain of memories.
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“I'm not crazy, I'm not crazy...”
A gift for my eyes
and nobody's,
you visit me
not to torment
but to relent
my suffering...
(my suffering)
Exaltations of your existence
gift me with nothing but wild glances.
I don't care to explain
that I'm not fucking insane.
You are here and that's all that matters.
Fuck it if my life starts to shatter.
I'm so grateful
to have any amount of you.
Just don't leave me again,
the pain will only deepen...
At least my eyes
know that this isn't all a lie
I'll take this secret to the grave,
just please fucking stay...
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3. |
The White Abyss
02:29
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“I'm here to stay.
In the bones of your home
I dance and I sway.
Don't just remember me,
feel me.”
Cursed by your absence,
the horror of your death
keeps me from seeing beauty
where it once flourished.
Whatever is this vile deceit,
that I cannot feel your touch
but am forced to believe?
I wander hallways of ache,
wallpaper wearing thin
in this decrepit place.
But the more your apparition
raises the hair on my skin,
the bigger the smile gets on my...face.
Kiss me one more time,
I need you in my system.
Tell me what it's like
to glimpse heaven
and in your eyes
bear its brightest light.
Beyond the pale,
love will not fail.
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Memories of us haunt me,
but the ghost of you is incomplete...
You are now an aberration of my dreams,
and not even the strongest belief
can absolve me of this grief.
Do not ask why or how,
only what we can do
to revive our dying world.
I need you in my arms again,
like a cold soul who in darkness drowns.
But with my life forfeit
we may be pallid and frigid
in togetherness,
and may my last breath shall be our first
in foreverness.
Dance with me now, my love
through walls and prisons.
The Earth is ours to haunt;
from me you'll never be gone.
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Betwixt Lungs Vienna, Virginia
Experimental hybridization of spoken word and metal, favoring the prior.
A storytelling and poetic outlet from the vocalist of Moon Devoured, Excreta, and Entongue.
Betwixt Lungs recommends:
My first extensive endeavor into spoken word with original music.
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