Barometrics (A ****** of Fates)
By Andrew Robinson

[Solo intro]

[Clean Phase I (instr.)]

[Clean Phase II, verse]
At the blistered contacts
At the suit of flies
Come to recover
Come bite to pry

Careful corrosion
Ornate rusts, they run

The rotten circumference
Expire in change
The fade verse subsides
As wounds bleed their age

Lacquer sick on the flesh
Drunken fathoms

Drink me!

[Clean Phase III]
[Distorted Phase I over distorted Phase III]

[Distorted Phase II, verse]
Seeped warp of walls
A sanguine distance
Steeped liquor, combine
An astral chance

With combustion and form
Fevers masked in blood

Calls dissonant pulse
Drag our sour roots
Throats of the rip tide
Choke lecherous grooves

Bore forty knots haste
Set bones with the mud

Come Skye!

[Distorted Phase IV, chorus]
Over the silence
Nerves contract
Over the sun
The waves sing back

From the rubble
I’ll come home, to you

[Distorted Phase II, verse]
Wet mottled and suture
Yet the coursing ache
Brims ******* flotsam
Pulls at our wake

My contour dissolve
Key strokes soak

Color!

Me a new world

[Distorted Phase I over distorted Phase III]

[Distorted Phase IV, chorus]
Over the silence
Nerves contract
Over the sun
The waves sing back

From the rubble
I’ll come home, to you

Cover the oceans
In ashen stars
Cover the night
Our tempest hearts

Somewhere I have a mind
To hold on to!

[Cesura]

[Distorted Phase V, bridge]
She wanes
Wading out the shallow
Of the lights, an engine of ink
‘hind my eye

Due depth
Shake horizon’s fray
Withered wind of the sea
My decay

[Clean Phase III, bridge cont.]

When hell wakes
And manifests the clasp
Of the calloused oil
In my hands

And the blade
I’ll send my pride and crass
Beside my crimes and guilt
Out to shore

With brittle oars

[Distorted Phase IV, chorus]
Over the silence
Nerves contract
Over the sun
The waves sing back

From the rubble
I’ll come home, to you

Cover the oceans
In ashen stars
Cover the night
Our tempest hearts

Somewhere I dream of you
In tides!

Oh, in tides!

[Clean Phase I over Distorted Phase III; slow and fade to end]

There’s no way out of here alive
With molten fever consuming my fraying mind

Bound fragile to flesh cast cog
Bound to sprocket and brittle bone
This hollow machine I call my own
Harbors both frontline and buried home
Thickly sick in uncertain, clogs

A riddled complex bleached with textureless rooms
Where, scrawled white, scribbled deep, the walls sputter
Void of voice and prop yet choked with clutter
None window, none door, save intangible lover
Offering both belief of choice and doom

Her name wanders worlds to haunt my lips
But only death and delusion come to meet my kiss

There, splashed and splayed through blistering ash
Dripping sparks from horizon’s blazed ceiling
I’m thrown ‘gainst the frame, my heart reeling
So the earth holds me to the floor, both of us bleeding
I, within, myself, side foiled folds and crass

Lo, her silent beauty weeps and screams
Siren! Angel! Demon! ; So I’m Pygmalion’s craze
And her, his pride to leave me razed
Then I, her bird, braves her play and blade
That carves my fall through trap-rapt dream

For her and I, on wings; hopes tried,
To wake and break us out alive.

Tell me it’s alright
Tell me I can unwrap my eyes
Again

And witness the sun
Rise against
Your shaking skin
Shaking in

The warmth
And gored glow
Of the fire that you lit

At the frayed ends
Of my nerves, of my hollow
At the throb of my heart

This world is mine now
There will be no apologies
There will be no regrets
This world is mine now
From all your pooling blues
To all your scream drenched reds

Tell me you’re coming now
Follow the blood
Back home

Don’t weep at the grave
Of deception
There you’ll dry out, all alone

There is an art
In my destruction
In your tragedy

Tell me you see
Tell me you understand
All the beauty still to come, So come with me

This world is mine now
There will be no more sadness
There will be no more mistakes
This world is mine now
Anew for your wonder
To wander its place

Awake
Awake
Awake
And you’re mine

Patience was late to my funeral

On your casual ears my voice fell with vicious volume
Bettering any necessity of childish cry
Yet behind the plastic tones I am as silent as a lamb.
Here heard confession: I’ve been least courteous
To these young years who welcomed me over their frame
With warmly bared arms, I met with fire;
Over each threshold my feet held more dirt
Held more scars, my veins ran rank with abuse,
Breath reeked from the dead dry words that spilled
Over every other girl’s neck,
Over every other girl’s lips,
A neat and fancy fiction I buried myself in
Six sick feet under their benevolent belief
Because I felt less
To nothing.

I crawled inside a hot-boxed bottle comfortably
Hidden myself away from the unmuted madness manifesting memories
That I relived each night I stared into the dark,
That I tasted on every other lie;
Here I lie.
My rudely ignorant body is hollow
At the naïve request to revel with reveries of my heart,
Yet the pull tears worse through the chasm
Than through any suffering flesh…
And I can hear
Your echoing voice
Still in kiss, it keeps me still,
Because it could save me
From myself:
You.

...of Mephistopheles

Nova
Andrew Robinson 11/1/10

So who’s gonna watch you smile
Should you ever make it home
With your soul raw in full panic
And feet worn to the bone

I know it burns
Holes through your scars
I know how it
Tears you apart

So who’s gonna watch you fly
When our scorched earth cracks asunder
Not even you in flushed highs
Desperately lost in wonder

I know it burns
Holes through your arms
I know how it
Tears you apart

Still you, ignite
Through my dreams
A graceful destruction
Of my everything

Now I need to know
What you think you see
When you stare infinite
Worlds through me

Into the stars

So who’s gonna watch you pry
Your ashen breaths open
From your hallowed chest who
Nightmares swallowed

So who’s gonna watch you cry
Should you ever fall and break
Within the blood and gore
Of your own rapture’s wake

I know it burns
Holes through your heart
I know how it
Tears you apart

So who’s gonna watch you die
This time
So who’s gonna watch you die
Inside

Still you, ignite
Through my dreams
A graceful destruction
Of my everything

Now I need to know
What you think you see
When you stare infinite
Worlds through me

Into the dark

“Parasite”
By Andrew Robinson


[INTRO]
[VERSE]
It drips right off your tender luscious lips
And spills around your strangled clumsy grip

I watch you lick it up, up off the floor
All the feelings that you have out worn

It confuses splinters
And buries itself
Impatient shakes
That carve your hell

I watch you paint it on
Over your skin
All the feelings
That swell within

[PRECHORUS]
So you are
When you fall
Divine

And you are
When you’re gone
Still mine

{VERSE]
You burn right up through all your colors
Blister to frays rapt like no other

I watch you thirst it down affections pressed
Thick in the ink your heart’s mute confess

[PRECHORUS]
So you are
When you fall
Divine

And you are
When you’re gone
Still mine

[CHORUS]
Please wake me from
This heartless home
My dear
Throw me to the stars

Please wake me from
This love so denied
My dear
Tell me you’re not far

[POSTCHORUS]
[VERSE]
Blushed in the glow of cinder’s cutting smoke
I consume the dust and you let me choke

Such rich pleasure, oh, such retreat
I arm my best jealousy at your feet

So playful on
The butcher’s block
But the wolf is dead
And so is the flock

You splay their smiles
You tear their tears
But no one knows
It’s you you fear

[PRECHORUS]
So you are
When you fall
Divine

And you are
When you’re gone
Still mine

[CHORUS]
Please wake me from
This heartless home
My dear
Throw me to the stars

Please wake me from
This love so denied
My dear
Tell me you’re not far

[BRIDGE/SOLO]
[CHORUS]
So you are
When you fall
Divine

And you are
When you’re gone
Still my

Home, my hollow heart

Please wait for me
I’ll catch up soon

If you let me
Lace our hands, I’ll Follow you

I drag my gaze
As I wrap you

Around my nerves
Tangled and pulled close into

The deepest soft purple hues

Take it all off
And close your eyes

To truly see me
As colossal stars collide

We drench our skin
In beating breaths

From deep within
Clenching onto all that’s left

From the torment that we’ve kept

Wake up
And never look back
Through the nightmares
That seethe through the cracks

Hold tight
Onto our hearts
Bittersweet dream
Will fall apart

Together all apart

You’re always
My everything

Even when trapped
Between the gaps in this nothing


Come meet me here
At the crossroads

Of Never’s end
Our one and only home

In a world of plastic thrones

Wake up
And never look back
Through the nightmares
That seethe through the cracks

Hold tight
Onto our hearts
Bittersweet dream
We’ll fall apart

Together all apart

I tore forth a death tattered cry
Threw myself at your soul’s side
And I took on Never
For us, to keep ourselves

Since the shot drenched the air with fear
Broke our lungs with ashen tears
And you took on Forever
To fall asleep

Hear this madness festering

Wake up
And never look back
Through the nightmares
That seethe through the cracks

Hold tight
Onto our hearts
Bittersweet dream
We’ll fall apart

Together all apart