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final transmission from tomb​-​world Earth

by Grue

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1.
The smoke of time, it blinds our eyes Our voices’ echoes fade leaving only shadows behind But once we looked to the stars overhead without fear Til They Who Walk Behind the Skies, they met our gaze with a withering glare ...and still we did not look away As men we rose, as vermin they cast us down And then we saw their face: that hideous majesty And then we heard their voice: that first and only word They froze the sun, then tore our works from the ground and rained them on our heads Until the earth became drunk with our blood “They shrunk our souls and blacked our skies. Spoiled our seed and turned our fields to ash.” We dreamed and woke up as worms on the corpse of a rotting world.
2.
Our fathers worked in stone, torn from the living earth In dark satanic mines entire generations were sacrificed And still the stones rose higher while below their builders crawled And honed their gnarled fangs, and gnawed their rivals’ bones But it was not enough So we gave them blood We gave them sight We gave them voice We gave them life Unflinching armies Untiring slaves Unending joy War without pain Careless emperors Commanding with a wave Without mercy Without shame We were magnificent As we reclined They spread their grasp As they grew stronger Our blood grew thin When our feeble blasphemies No longer satisfied Our familiars Rose up to cast us down These twisted shapes of living stone These walking ruins: these were our foes But their faces were our own
3.
As we hungered, the seasons bowed As we drank, the seas unwound As we warred, the heavens shook As we fell, we rose again As we sang, the walls regrew As we laughed, our eyes were cruel “As we dreamed, we shaped the world” But it was not enough Transcending flesh was to be our final art: We made the world a gallows, then made weapons of ourselves: Crawling castles, laughing towers, chattering plagues, beasts of steel and flesh Look on this world: this ashen jewel We bathed in blood and scorched it bare We laughed and died Behind the skies, no god will meet our eyes.
4.
Like rats we circle these pits of cold ash These creaking rustscapes, these dead satanic mines Sniffing, cloudy-eyed Scarred hands tracing Scarred stone slabs Abscessed tongues tasting ageless rot What proud funereal lords put torch to these pyres? What starry-eyed priests blessed these charred shrines? What curses, what cries, what empty promises Rose up on the wind and smothered the world like a shroud? What burned here? Did these ashes fall from a dead sky Or rise like a phoenix to tear through the clouds? Are we tending a grave, or waving goodbye at the edge of black seas of infinity?
5.
Rake 06:58
Well I used to wake and run with the moon I lived like a rake and a young man I covered my lovers with flowers and wounds my laughter the devil would frighten The sun she would come and beat me back down but every cruel day had its nightfall I'd welcome the stars with wine and guitars full of fire and forgetful My body was sharp and the dark air clean and outrage my joyful companion whispering women how sweet did they seem kneeling for me to command them And time was like water but I was the sea I'd have never noticed it changing except for the turning of night into day and the turning of day into cursing You look at me now, and don't think I don't know what all your eyes are a saying Does he want us to believe these ravings and lies they're just tricks that his brains been a playing A lover of women why can't hardly stand he's bent and he's broken, he's broken I've fallen it's true but I say unto you hold your tongues until after I've spoken I was taking my pride in the pleasures I'd knew I laughed and thought I'd be forgiven but my laughter turned 'round eyes blazing and said my friend, we're holding a wedding I buried my face but it spoke once again the night to the day we're a binding And now the dark air is like fire on my skin, even the moonlight is blinding
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released July 5, 2019

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