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Dark Angels

My heart is black, chained by malice

They ripped out my tongue at the foot of the palace

I opened up my mouth and drank blood from the challis

Fell from high beams when I lost my balance

 

The poison in my mouth unfolds as a travesty

I left for dead all my love of her majesty

Ambitions fuelled by primal savagery

Barriers reduced to comical transparency

 

The court knows not the depths of my vanity

I'm trapped now between arrogance and clarity

Oaths sworn now in desperate disparity

Coalitions made purely for posterity

 

Perceived as the fool, perceived as the jester

I've raised all in with two suited connectors

Clinging to ideals is a pointless gesture

The void up in my chest is where the demons fester

 

I had not the strength nor the nerve to defend her

Buying truth and love from the bags of street vendors

Chemical reactions induced astral splendor

The song of dark angels is the song that I rendered

 

The spark is gone, and now there is a dull blaze

Vision is distorted by the coming of a thick haze

Smog twisting in the trappings of a tall maze

Walls so thick that even phantoms find they can't phase

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Jul 16, 2010
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