You sing like a lost fawn
Caught in the river bed, waiting for winters end
All we’re left with are the statued halls
Watching for unmasked men, praying to black crosses
Black crosses
I heard you in the riverbed
Singing to the lost fawns
New Gods, godspeak - Bring me to the well
Will you dream of a new rose
When you poison the garden
They only tell you what you thought you heard
Underneath a black cross
I heard the crash & caught the bottle bleeding out
As I ran out through the night
Into the now, forbidden stones
We are the frequency of dirt
Eternal bodies - immortal cylinders of faith
New Gods, godspeak - Bring me to the well
Where I first heard our new gods speak
There are no pints in this parler
Only vipers & and double speak
Venom rang like holy words
Freeing our arms to bend & break our hostages
There was blood under cover of grace
There was evidence
There was a new rose
There was a new rose guiding you
Cut off the cameras
Cut off the saints
Cut off the cameras
Cut to the graves
A face appears out of the darkness
From beyond the cavern walls
Cloaked in robes and psychic terror
Horror reaching from the earth
Call the wraith - a vision
Into the past horizon
Clouded eyes
Torn from grace
Endless pain
Beyond me
Your suffered,
patience breaks
Reached your arms
Beyond me
Behind the door in a twilight basement
A strange light shone beneath the world
Maggots of fallen angels
Hold secrets of hidden rooms
She sings in math - the passage
No whisper is safe, beyond the grave
No whisper is safe
Beyond the shadows of graves
How you could be so dense is beyond me
Living in all these false worlds you’ve created
Wrapped around old stones
Swerved off the side of the road
No one stays long here
You shouldn’t have come out alone
No one belongs here
Open up your chest to the ghost
Save. Your. Self.
Clip the wings
I’m thinking of ending things
to be nothing, to destroy and rebuild
I won’t come back.
Was it not for me to claim?
The give and take.
Dream of love and light
It’s a shame I’ve ruined everything
It’s not gonna end how you want it
Don’t let me know when it’s time
When flesh erodes
Clip the wings
I’m thinking of ending things
To be nothing
To destroy and rebuild
I won’t come back.
You had to mess with with it
When flesh erodes
And you had to mess with it
When flesh erodes.
When the days of mercy comes to and end
We all what to be saved never had a chance
Astray, Betrayed.
Despite the ruins it’s not over
Deprived and denied
It’s uncontrollable so endlessly unemotional
To a piece of what’s lost.
The sound of my fragile bones
Crumbling without resistance
Against the gods fucking teeth.
I tried to hold on with all my strength but the pain I have to give up.
Astray, betrayed.
It’s terror nothing pure can stay only stolen.
about
Recorded and Produced by Andrew Hernandez at Arroyo Audio
Mastering by Kieran Krebs at Overcast Recordings
A special thank you to our dear friends Kyle Rotta, Logan Burroughs and Forrest Sims who made this all possible.
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released November 30, 2023
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