Sludge

Lyrics for Sludge

(Part I: A Recitation of Final Rites, Last Wishes, and Observations) Am I the master of my fate? Or will this carrion of hate Embalm my ever writhing psyche In a box of blood red tape? Poster child torn snake oil goddess Cardinal ashes much too modest Priestesses of a lesser knowledge Strung high by tempered sins Relinquish every innocent Understanding reprimanding On the docket equal measure Testify these simple pleasures Such is life scape of strife Uproot the sinister sacred rites Disciple of a dying creed Hungering this sickness to be freed To be freed To be freed To be freed (Part II: The Rivers Run Red) Rivers run red Rivers run red Rivers run red Rivers run red Rivers run red Rivers run red Rivers run red Rivers run red Rivers run red Rivers run red Rivers run red Rivers run red Rivers run red Rivers run red Rivers run red Rivers run red (Part III: Sludge) Choke the stench of my flesh Rot before you my final breath Honour death abduct my virtue Stuff each spout snuff my light Flay and devour Lash for every wasted hour Point and laugh make merry mass As I become the ground that you walk on The sludge in my veins Will swallow up the rains Gripping tight to the reins Which I've wielded subjugation plain Seep into the soils As the skin that grows must boil Nourished a toxin sky devised by None other than the man next door This tortured marrow rotting out Serves to garnish every doubt Once vanity now ostracized No mere demise could live without Defiling mire of endless yield Where absence wrought a baneful shield The vain which promised the means to an end Now warden of your acumen (Part IV: As Wolf Sliced Her Body Open...) (Part V: ...Then Came a Supper Worse Than Death (Love and Tolerate This Mess)) Paper mâché wings Fashioned cardboard and string They pluck my feathers Make it sting Strip my body gouge my chest They rape me 'till there's nothing left Love and tolerate this mess Defile and crush my every breath (Part VI: Sinner, Be Damned!) Sinner Be damned (Wolf howls) (Part VII: Entrance Into The Locus) (Part VIII: Lamb Cried Out: "Darling, Wolf...") Oh in the distance I could see a pale light Oh was it love I felt as I gave my body to the night? A strange voice a quiet voice called my name "Darling Wolf Won't you put purpose to this pain? You shall be mine Until the end of days" (Part IX: How to Kill a Monster (Reprise)) And when it shows its head just indulge it acquiesce Before you know it somebody else will smash its head in (Part X: The Fatal Flaw, or, How to Save a Monster) (Part XI: "Live again, in service, eternal", Lamb Whispered, as Wolf's Soul Was Granted a Body Once More...) (Part XII: ...And As Her Old Body Was Defiled, Tortured, and Annihilated (Revisited)) And the last thing they heard was: (Wolf Howls) (Wolf Howls) (Wolf Howls) (Part XIII: For the First Time, She Was Held Gently)