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As Above, So Below

by Discordian

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1.
Curseborn 04:43
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All that we loved we abandoned, As we gave our minds to “god”, Bowing before the altar, Singing songs of holocaust, Fuelling fires with words that held no consequence for us, Rallied, roused for a cause that meant nothing more than bloodlust, As we heard: Give it all to me, I can set you free, Give it all to me, I can set you free, before you break your back, Before the wolves attack, Escape this wretched place, And fall to death’s embrace, Don’t tell me you didn’t know, Don’t tell me you couldn’t see this lie unfold, As you sat there languishing in apathy, Give it all to me, Buckle underneath, The weight of your defeat, Paralysed, Give it all to me, I can set you free, Give it all to me, Give it all, Give it all to me
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Aggressor 05:12
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I can feel the malice in my bones, Insidious, in every thought it crawls, We cannot preserve, The childish innocence we once deserved, Falsify and jump to conclusions, Just to give yourself a chance to breathe, I’m drowning, In silence, Please hear me, I’m screaming, Just keep my head above water, Sweep me away with the current, I could never walk among you, Could never face these fears, But now the landscape’s shifting, My clouded gaze is lifting, I feel my soul contorting, Buckling under this weight, The weight of self-destruction, Destroying to create, /I grew tired /Of holding on /So I let go /My soul is gone Everything you did, And everything you said, All rear up at once, They’re surrounding me, I am fading fast, Not a second more, Will I stay alive… All the words you said, just facades to get close to me, All the things you did, only tools to feed your fantasy, Everything you are is everything that I will never be, Everything you are… You make me fucking sick. Can you feel it now? Feel your fear? Feel it gripping tight? Can you feel it now? Feel your lust? Feel it make you blind? Can you feel the knife, Feel the slice, sawing through your mind, Feel them all for me, you attention seeking parasite, Fabricated lies, In your mind, you’re just passing time, I have saved your life, saved your life fucking countless times, I could never say this aloud, but you’re forcing me, I remember everything you said when you needed me, And as for you, I don’t even have the words to use, King of vanity, scum of the earth, Hell could never claim you because I did first, For everything you’ve ever done to me, For all the people that you’ve left to bleed, For all the countless friends you’ve laid to waste, I will show you how embitterment tastes, I want to carve all of the lies you’ve told Straight into your eyes so you can feel them all, I would pity your corrupted soul, But we all know that you don’t have one at all, You see, I don’t need to do any of this, I can just sit back and watch you live like this, Revel in your life falling apart, All that’s deserving of a pitch black heart
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Stigmatist 06:28
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You said we wouldn’t die, But here we are now with stakes in our eyes, Backstabbed at every turn, It’s in your genetic code to falsify, You are nothing more than obsolete, Dispensable automated clones of yourselves now, Your penchant for power has lynched your heart, We hold on to the light at the end, Before it’s gone, We’ve been hanging on to you, Too long, And we cannot remain, You promised us our freedom, But you faked your way out, The system always has been yours to control, But the empire you have built on the backs of slaves will all decay in time, Reduced to naught, like everything, Build your walls, to watch them fall, We see now, far too late, the liars lead us, Our time has passed but this is all deserved: We pray, As darkness comes for you, And now we sway, We’ve fallen in line, Blind, We pray, Longing for solutions, Finding comfort in unreachable space; God is dead, Crowned with his thorns, Nailed to his cross by apathetic scorn, By our misguided sight, A fool now with gold in his eyes, A dying monument, It falls, The aftermath is war, A war we can’t contain The diseased and the cold, The young and the old, They all will follow, And they will bow to shame Did you think we wouldn’t know? We’ll watch you build up to fall
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Transience 04:06
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Is it over now? This hell I’ve faced, Is this hope or a fall, or the end of it all, or a sinner’s prayer? I can feel my soul ascending, And be it heaven or hell, I know my destination will serve me well, Don’t you think you can hide from me, Sleep tonight, we rise, Don’t you tell me to lie, Tell me to bleed, To be what you need, Tonight, we rise, I am transient, Eclipsing the meaningless, I can feel my soul ascending, Is anything real? Can you hear me out here? In this barren hollow… You saw this through, You wanted to
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Hollow Favour 05:36
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Nothing is perfect, it’s abandoned, And you’ve left heart to rot, Buried beneath your national hatred, It’s as if you forgot: You serve us, Save us, Protect us, For what? You fucking killers, Cowardly bastards, Why don’t you try me, I will stare you down, Do you find solace in turning a deaf ear? I have seen your scars, They’re just like ours, So why do you deny us? We’re not real unless you count us, One less in the chamber, One more in the grave, These bullets fly faster than prayers to be saved, So despise me if you like, I’m the only one honest enough, To tell you what it’s like, From the other side of your gun, Serve us, Save us, Protect us, For what? You fucking killers, I will stare you down, Remember their names, The past can’t save us, This state is terminal, There is no reversing this, Why did you shoot? There’s nothing inside, Your soul’s going blind, Your apologies are nothing more than lies, There’s nothing inside, Your soul’s going blind, Your apologies are hollow favours, Fuck you, traitors
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Blacklist 05:59
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Give my body to the ground and sleep, Tell me to rest in peace, like it’s easy for me, You’ve no idea what lies beneath your feet, You know we find god when we’re six feet deep, We’ve bled, carcasses, not blessed, entombed and left for dead, Worlds apart, in death so much is left unsaid, But we knew, we are proof, that nothing lives for you, Listen close, debts are due, and this is the truth: This blessing is a curse, this blessing is a curse, If you’re looking for something to hold on to, better find it fast, ‘Cause this life won’t last, Your paper gods won’t hold a candle to this, Shattered glass in frames adorned with martyrs bloodstains, Searching for what’s prophesied, But you won’t find it here, There is no messiah’s eye to guide you through the fear, Tread lightly upon the earth, Ignite these shattered bones, a monument to all we’ve lost, Can’t you see this world will tear us down, There’s only one way out, One way out, I don’t belong on this plane of existence, I choose to leave this earth, all the world is on my blacklist, The closest to holy that I’ll ever be, Is kissing the ground at the watchman’s feet, But when he asks me where my soul should dwell, I’ll say I disregard heaven and I burned down hell, Can’t you see this world will tear us down? There’s only one way out of this mess we’ve made
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Animus 03:58
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We are your new gods, Bow through severed tendons, Your autonomy is obsolete, We wrest control from the arms of the weak, Compress their lungs so they cannot breathe, Render helpless the few that defend, Shattering the confines, I will never bow to you again, False deity, I never asked for this so why is it here? This sickening fear, I can’t take, What you gave, Bleed out in, Your own grave, Staring through glass eyes, Everything’s divided, Pierce the skin and let the wound sink in, I take your conscience hostage, Split your skull and laugh from the vestige, Nothing is final, but you can’t admit it, Languishing inside your hate like a convict, I will never bow to you again, False deity, I never asked you to be able to feel, Nothing is real, The sickness it whispers, it christens my conscience, All that I do, I do in your name, These compulsions are driving, I feel like I’m dying, But all I can see is the glass and your frame, Stitched and sedated, my eyes glazed over, Picking and scratching, it will not abate, Pulsating and breeding chasms in my head, You are the reason, diseased Animus I can’t take, What you gave, Bleed out in, Your own grave, Crucified, Every right, When you took, What was mine
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Gates of Eden 05:27
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Take our freedom with your fearful minds, Families torn, torn up and broken, A child screams sorrow into the night, Clutching her mother’s corpse, (There is no solace for them, Although they seek it here, Amidst this tragedy you fade into your selfish fears) Picture your child, bleeding out, desperate, Another nameless face in a dying herd, Nothingness before the gates of Eden, Would you do anything to earn your freedom? (There’s nothing left for you to hurt) “They’re not like us, They’ll overcrowd and take our jobs, Terrorism is a spinster with a grudge, They’ll bring their laws and crush our freedom with a fist, A hive of spineless single-minded miscreants A tide will come, Our borders will be overrun, Cockroaches blocking out the sun, Our bill of rights is nothing but commodity A mockery of everything we’ve ever been,” “Lock the borders, don’t let them in,” You absolve yourself of dignity, Of competition from a people left with nothing at all, “Shut them out, shut me in, build the walls!” Picture your child, bleeding out, desperate, Another nameless face in a dying herd, Nothingness before the gates of Eden, Would you do anything to earn your freedom? This is killing us, While we fight back you Harvest dissonance, You’re fuelling war, Instead of reaching out, You arm and point your guns, You want to get to them? You’ll have to go through us, Let this be the cry, Of everyone who’s alive, And not hollowed and dead inside, We will not become your pawns
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Bloodletter 05:25
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It doesn’t matter if I was lying here or standing; Because it was always following me, Do I caress your bones or do you caress mine? Do we both stroke the muscle underneath the skin we ripped? I will not let you consume me, I refuse to bow to collapse this time, When you go, don’t expect me to drag you back up off your knees again, When you go, you deserve to kneel, And I won’t reduce myself, to a facet of your hell, ‘Cause I know what lies beneath the false outside of me, Nothing exists until it is torn - I will repeat and refract my retention, Nothing has form until it is broken - I am reaping the flow of my failures, Nothing has meaning until it is left - to facilitate continuation, Nothing has purpose until it has wept - I am questioning my own existence, I will not let you consume me, I refuse to bow to collapse this time, When you go, don’t expect me to drag you back up off your knees again, When you go, you deserve to kneel, And I won’t reduce myself, to a facet of your hell, ‘Cause I know what lies beneath the false outside of me, Do you know what you did to me? It shapes, it contorts, it twists and revolts, it seethes beneath, watching, waiting, and hating, A snapped neck is a conscience check, and a conscience check is fatal, I’m watching you, fucker, When you go, don’t expect me to drag you back up off your knees again, When you go, you deserve to kneel, And I won’t reduce myself, to a facet of your hell, ‘Cause I know what lies beneath the false outside of me, Stigmatise me, I don’t care, You’ll never understand what isn’t even there, You will never see, through these bleeding eyes, Your conjectures misguided; it wants me to die
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As Above, So Below 06:09
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Whisper truths through liar's teeth, Prey on god and beg for release, Feigning ignorance through all you know, Love in this life and in death it becomes you, Walk, as though you have purpose here, Speak, as though you've nothing to fear, Pray, as if it's your destiny, We all have a debt to pay, Crawl to me, my one and only, Your silence is deafening, Crawl to me, my one and only, My vixen whisper to me, Broken, it's surrounding, surrounding me, All I ask is for one single moment to hold this, Your god serves as your watchman, A deathless presence in a tempest void, Yet untethered, you find yourself wondering, If you'll ever make it out alive, Sink with me forever, In this mire surrender, Wrest your soul from heaven, Haunt my sleep forever, If it’s me death has chosen, he’s chosen me, All I ask is for one single moment to hold this, Don't ask me to speak to you, Don't ask me to follow, You could never understand, Give yourself up to the flow, Ending it all is my one and only thought, It's all I have now, Don't ask me to speak to you, Don't ask me to follow, You could never understand, Give yourself up to the flow, We exist as beacons to break down the dark, Miracle bodies, celestial flow, Our existence can never be finite, We are borne of the seeds we have sown, Time is a construct and we must adhere, The cycle completed the reaper draws near, The need is sated, The seed is nascent, Love in this life and in death it becomes you

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released January 8, 2022

Mixed & Mastered by Rhys Bird
Music written by Rhys Bird
Lyrics written by Ellie Woods (Track 8 with help from James Blackledge)
All songs performed by: Ellie Woods (Vocals), Rhys Bird (Guitars), Kivi Sargeantson (Drums), Rick Walker (Guitars) and Sam Rance (Bass).

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