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Hells

by The Creator

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1.
Departure 05:28
Where are we when we drop the anchors from our hearts Who are we when all our words turn, they're coiling Turn back, I can't turn back Even though I always had the words There was only ever one thing there to say Something beckons me, I bring new life They made an orator, let's hear another speech Keep your eyes open, and fall Some open field Some old dream I'm falling asleep Hope to hear that you'll cover me Once more to that field Once more for that dream Turned over the shoulder I should have heard a whisper The only paths left to choose are colored with whispers we never heard Once more to that damn field and you forgot the anchor Cover me
2.
Five hundred lives I watched pass through your eyes, your mouth Hold it close There was never any way to say where I depart All your backhanded gestures held way too many thoughts of love Watched you grow for so long I let you hide under my tongue I return to you in my sleep, there to water you Plunge my hand into the sea A hundred lives, but I chose you Saw just how far you'd go to tell me you have no chains The reply you gave I would give the same Give me life, now step aside
3.
Bridges 03:00
Sharpened three words Did I mean for your blade to turn Tell me I need the ocean Leave your lesson Seen through a dark unreal sea We built bridges That last step Held me under Direct one, drink the other How long I walked in the fall Before I took another step from the crawl It's not just me that changes We built bridges One more step from the crawl Step out from the crawl
4.
The Crawl 01:45
5.
Chromasloth 01:49
Time runs on Time runs out It set the truth frothing out our mouths You're some fierce angel Some rabid creature I've seen before Take a hand Leave me be Take a picture And leave When the shadowed actors turned on me My flesh fueled the void
6.
Here's a new bear trap Caught my own prey Twisting backwards to grasp my own hand Climb out from between eyes Blind to what climbs my spine New psychic hell Lay me all open Make its unknown mark Climb out Point the blame in my stead So addicted Crawls right out my head Makes its unknown mark Lay me all open Age says I'm brave enough See how far this hate will go Glorified by new hells Dare to digest what this pain knows Psychic umbilical
7.
Eyes slide closed The better to see a friend long dead Was it you Were they your waves Now that you yourself are one with the waves Embedded in senses Covered in senses, hardened to stone Tempted to remove myself To return home When you're sinking under a felt-depth ocean You need only to speak Ignorant of this rescuer It still clings It leaves a sea-green ring My copper heart leaves a ring Eyes still lie closed We'd better send in her ghost I can't help it, I bring fear I bring her She holds my limbs down to my waist Says I can't hurt myself anymore If I cannot move I cannot hurt myself anymore
8.
Hells 06:05
One more world to enfold Brought to swallow the unknown Passing through the core What have I become, to forgive me Waves of the storm, circling And oxygenated What has fastened itself in the skin Variable denizen Wondrous view Wonderful here All the years To be held still Like you did me Perceive my flesh darken So still, my breath is seen as the wind Written in hallways of the mind Vestigial senses, recognized Turning the skin so phosphorescent Was this the last choice I ever made There is a will working in me Turning the skin so phosphorescent The choice can't be unseen To die, or to find life, finally If I'd known this about my body If I'd known this was hidden in my body The choice can't be unseen To die, or to find life, finally
9.
True Names 03:25
A bridge of air between us Made of our memories, made of commonalities A corridor carved through the wind overhead Round the corner Then through the sinking center The limestone spires It brought me up off my knees The rules gently changed of how I perceived It took me years to perceive that you saved me That you exist True names span lifetimes I only just placed you in time
10.
My old friend has led me to hold this leaf Adopt its shape, its veins Come a long way through regarding this dry and windless riverbed The stones move of themselves Shifting how I felt Was it only nature making all my darkest stories Or my deeper will, understanding mortality Veined and ancient hands thicker than the trees Weave my memories Shown the map once only Only shown once I forget Move by consuming Distill my last senses Stones move of themselves Shifting how I felt Failed dreams scattered on the ground They're there to curl my roots around Though I'm small I've been given a hollowed-out place in which I can begin
11.
Go forth, emissary Who makes it back I hope that I'm back Intoxicate Who makes it back You wouldn't turn back Fed on obsidian Scarred, enflamed, then raised my own My mind, found inverted Furrows of grief outgrown Face down the predicate foe Face down its will to hurt Or its replete will to nothing Distortion almost contact claws right out of my body Not of the crown, but of my flesh To distillate my fate was sent over the veil with the rest Finally cleared the crest What do I do with the black oil seeping out my pores
12.
Do not stop until you reach the wall You will find a doorway hiding in the wall A letter she left for me inside of a dream When I awoke, my feet knew where to go Cannot stop until I reach the wall You will find a doorway hiding in the wall Held me down Pulling hands Burning light Colors run The way the mantis holds her husband This could be love They took out my eyes to put them inside new wings Pulling hands Burning light Branded night A sacrifice Must be love Brought me here, for what Whence came the need This what you wanted for me Well, I've changed To draw from the Charter You taught it to me Blind and stumbling My senses are growing up Intensity's not even in it for us You took my eyes Was that enough

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released September 17, 2018

Produced by Alex Light. All music written and performed by Ade Porter and Alex Light. Album art by Nik Burman. Recorded and engineered by Bob Swanson at Mayhemeness.

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