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Serpent
05:01
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Golden rings
Separating crimson blood
From black obsidian
Coiled to spring
Striking out with deadly aim
Faster than an arrow
Pierce the skin
Digs its fangs within the flesh
Delivering the venom
Withering
Leaving yet another victim
The serpent's deadly kiss
Feel the sting
Inject into your veins
Pulsating
To infect the brain
Crawling towards
The abyss's call
Gasping out
A final moan
Constricting
Cutting off the flow of blood
Circulation gone
Restricting
Ripping out the air from lungs
Respiration done
Slithering
Sheds his skin and slips away
Leave behind the prey
Shivering
As the body's warmth escapes
From the serpents cold embrace
Feel the grip
Slowly clenching tight
Strips away
The burden of life
Loose the binds
Basking in the light
Free the mind
Just like Eve in Eden
Unhinging
The hungry jaw in preparation
Of the coming feast
Swallowing
Swelling up to stretch the skin
At point of bursting
Retreating
Satisfied the hunger, ready to
Enter the slumber
Awakens
Once again to enter the cycle
The serpent's circle
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Senescence
03:00
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What is the price of a life?
The bonds depreciating
It's value never rising
Not a very wise investment
Deep inside it breeds besieging
Feasting on your being
Within the cancer finds it hold
Growing uncontrolled
Cell Senescence
Self selective exile
Expired past it's shelf life
The body sentenced to die
It cuts the loss by cashing out
In panic cell stock crashes down
Shell shocked they stand and watch
As the system falls apart
Cell Senescence
Sell the senses
Unsuppressed decay
A fate you can't escape
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Trilogy
06:21
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Trilogy
The story
Told in three
Firstborn son
Second one
Namesaken
Bearing the
Burden of
Lineage
Hear my child
Next in line
Entitled
Passing dowm
Memories of
A lifetime
This is our
Birthmarker
Stain of blood
My father
And my son
We are one
Here we lie
Side by side
Three headstones
Trinity
Legacy
Destiny
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Essence of Sin
05:55
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What is the essence of sin?
The hunger claws us from within
An impulse crawling in the skin
Believe in a thing called fate
The actions in this life that we take
Will carry with us to the next
Receiving knowledge from his tree
Deceived by God to believe
That all of sin we inherit from Eve
Instead of a thing inherent
In forming the essence of the soul
The creator imparts a part of himself
Humility, selflessness, and pride
Turn into envy, lust, and vice
Examine the code of morality
The stones chiseled arbitrarily
Passed to us from the gentry
Hell bent to keep us beneath them
The time comes to reach for the key
Unlock the cage and breach the gates
Beyond this state of humanity
From which we will ourselves to free
We learn from those who raise us
Our not so blank slate stained black
In our attempt to wash it
An ankle hangs above the bath
On a quest to find ourselves
Examining our hidden faults
Turn to face what remains of the past
A salted path reminds us
What is the essence of sin?
A tradition of imperfection
It is what makes us human
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