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dawn state

by dross

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1.
fire of dawn 12:09
dig your claws, sink your teeth, I will burn everything clench my jaws, grit my teeth, I am self poisoning look where I've gone, exhaling the ether steam condensing my instincts, declaring my needs trapped in gauze, dreams of flight, broken by haze of light stretch these walls, this cocoon, pry myself from the womb a seed begins to swell, and something stirs to breathe and just beyond this hell, a new dawn waits for me shining through this shell, horizons I'll live to see the fire of dawn, the denouement terror breeds in the dark while you're wasting away turn your eyes to the fire of dawn error bleeds us in war, no more running, the lines are drawn we wait for the sun to set, always running we hide behind our regret, never growing you think its the end? this is just beginning and when you can start again thank the desolation
2.
torpor 05:18
the accused has no face, the accused has no name convinced your cause is righteous, you accuse just the same hubris in the air, this new truth you proclaim who will be held to account in your one-man court of blame? clinging to the arcane, certain of what's engrained sleep soundly in the womb, cradled deep in the roots twisted, unbreakable, ancient, unshakable frozen and inert, bedrock in the dirt broad strokes paint your lens, what brand of hate would you defend? dense. dead. forgotten. immense. beset. fallen. the shifting tide of universal woe how far will we fall before we know?
3.
I stared at the sky, shouting into the void detached, adrift, lost apostate shrugs, the postmodern casualty unplugs who can know anything? one half worship, and one half witch hunt is this the best you can do? one eye closed, and one eye crazy my mouth overfilled with things left unsaid I told myself it's only ebb and flow but second chances with sidelong glances get tiresome you know a legion of armchair prophets lay claim to the truth so many liars, so many fools which one are you?
4.
drain the swamp, it's the dawn of another collapse you prayed for peace while the cities all burned so close your eyes, and close your mouth have you found that you control anything? I won't beg for deliverance cause fearlessness belongs to those who've lost everything and I won't beg for forgiveness cause salvation belongs to those who've sold everything drain the swamp and watch the cities die pray for peace while fire rains from the sky drowning in ashes, bear the blame of your demise immortalized, this tower of sorrow is your child
5.
daisycutter 07:11
time and memory, lost and desolate lies come slithering out the mouths of iniquity fire, the reckoning, cost to extricate cries come smoldering out, oh the price of atrocity impaled and derelict, failed and arrogant unveiled, a heretic cast into jaws of obscenity you came to stay awhile, you wore you mask and it's a nice day for a broken back you weren't invited, but that won't stop you now and it's a great day for a surprise attack you can burn in this life and the next I will grin when I smell all the smoke from your flesh you can burn, grind your face in the coals drink your blood, spit you out, rip your eyes from their holes you can burn, hang you upside down bleed you dry like you sucked out the life from us burn, peel your bones, put you deep in the ground
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instrumental
7.
these swirling faces in the gunmetal sky never acknowledge, never ask why is this the world you've been wishing for? we lie in wait, in waste, in war time is king, corrupt and corrode every endeavor, erase and erode you are now surrounded, the walls are closing in stand alone against the void, you will never win weakness in numbers, the carnage doesn't lie survey the battlefield, bodies piled high no one left to bury our dead burn it down. salvation lies ahead.

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released May 30, 2015

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dross Akron, Ohio

one man band making homegrown heavy music since 1994.

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