OLD MAN GLOOM LYRICS

1. Grand Inversion

[Instrumental]

2. Common Species

FILTHY INSECTS SCUTTLE IN PITCH BLACK, TIRELESS
ERECTING TEMPLES OF WISDOM REVERSED
GNAWING CAVERNS THROUGH THE FOLDS OF THE SOUL THROUGH VENTRICLES AND VEINS
PARASITIC SPAWN DEVOTED SERVANTS FIRST AS PUPAE INGESTED INHALED IN THROUGH THE EYES THE EARS SQUIRMING IN THE MOUTH
SWALLOWED INTO THE DEPTHS
GROWING IN SUCCESSIVE WAVES
THEIR COMMON SPECIES: LUST, ANGER, FOUL DECEPTION, THE SCOURGE OF THE AVERTED EYE
IN WEAKNESS, IN BLINDNESS, AND IN SLUMBER, I AM RIGHTLY DEVOURED
THEIR BITES LEAVE NOT WELTS UPON THE SKIN BUT SCARS UPON THE SOUL
MY TASK, TO BRING DOWN INTO THEIR MASSES WHITE FLAME
A SALVE FOR ANCIENT WOUNDS, AND RENDER THEM TO NAUGHT

3. Regain / Rejoin

Go, go live ecstatic life
Exist exist inside
Exist outside be be whole
Regain original divinity rejoin original whole
This this is it
Go be exist inside exist outside go be rejoin
Original whole exist outside exist inside

4. To Carry The Flame

UNDER THE DIRT DOWN TO THE STONE DOWN WHERE THE ANTS AND WORMS CALL HOME THERE IS THE PLACE WHERE WE BEGAN REPLACED THE CLAY WITH A FOREIGN SAND TO CARRY THE FLAME UP THROUGH THE EARTH TO HARNESS THE FIRE INSIDE THE HEARTH INTO THE AIR
SEE THE EMBERS FLY THE FIERY ASHES BURNING OUT IN THE SKY SMOKE FILLS THE AIR ITS IN EVERYTHING
THEY SMELL THE WILD BLAZE AS THE CINDERS SING TO CARRY THE FLAME UP THROUGH THE EARTH
TO HARNESS THE FIRE INSIDE THE HEARTH "HIGHER HIGHER BURNING FIRE MAKING MUSIC LIKE A CHOIR" BURN THE FOLLIES OF MY YOUTH ALL MY VICES AND UNTRUTHS
THE BRICKS GLOW RED ON INTO THE NIGHT WE'LL WATCH IT BURNING TIL THE MORNING LIGHT

5. The Forking Path

To the castles of our clan we tread an unseen roadwe all fall along the way lead by shining hearts the forking path veiled in fog blind we stumble groping in the dark grey folds of night to the castles of our clan we tread unseen road to burn away the darkened eye that clouds the waters dark and clear, divine

6. Shadowed Hand

Vile protector, dominator
Plead release from the shadowed hand
Banished, exiled from cabal of rotting corpses
Those adversaries of the living light
Those who thrust their withered spirits into children of the earth
Down into the pits they be thrown
And with them leaden sap drawn from the poisoned well of my soul

7. Rats

Another mouth in a starving world oh how very ordinary it's not a virtue not quite a blessing there's something that we're all forgetting
Human roaches, human rats. We're no different. Don't forget. Human vermin, human ants. We're no different. Don't forget it. Fleas on rats fleas on rats human roaches. Human rats. We're no different. Don't forget. Human vermin, human ants, we're no different. Don't forget. Mother nature's cruelest trick, gorge ourselves until we're sick human tapeworms, human ticks, we're no different, don't forget human roaches, human rats. We're no different. Don't forget. Human vermin, human ants, we're no different. Don't forget. Mother nature's cruelest trick, gorge ourselves until we're sick human tapeworms, human ticks, we're no different, don't forget human roaches. Human rats. We're no different. Don't forget. Human vermin, human ants, we're no different. Don't forget. Mother nature's cruelest trick gorge ourselves until we're sick human tapeworms, human ticks, we're no different, don't forget
Human roaches. Human rats. We're no different. Don't forget. Human vermin, human ants, we're no different. Don't forget. Mother nature's cruelest trick gorge ourselves until we're sick human tapeworms, human ticks, we're no different, don't forget

8. Crescent

Static in my atmosphere drawing her to near
Senses lost in the haze she dreams and we escape
And when the rain comes pouring in we will drown again
Halos circle her heavy tongue whispering our song
When i force her to come undone to heaven she will come
And when the rains come pouring in we will drown again

9. Shuddering Earth

The earth is shuddering
Faces pushed into the ash
Bodies are trampled
Smoke chokes the stars
World infested with tiny screechers
Red constricted faces tied up in terror
Gnashing of teeth
Clenching of fists
Clattering feet stamping
Clouds of dust
Solitary specks gather in malignant clusters
Sabers clash, a stuttering march
The earth is shuddering
Faces pushed into the ash
Bodies are trampled
Smoke chokes the stars
These monstrous infants
Sons killing, sons raping
Raging to forget their births
From frailty
Flowers vengeance
Vengeance of kindness
Vengeance of beauty
Live not amongst snarling hordes
Clasp hands in the swaying fields
Under open skies







OLD MAN GLOOM LYRICS