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There is a city in the world with a torn out street, Where the people are torn between their lips and teeth, In broken homes, on salted shoulders, With rasping tongues and crackling lips Ouroboros Ouroboros Soroboruo Soroboruo Sulphurous distaste of the mind, Degenerate, disintegrated air, Vile of thought and thistles, Effervescent on streets of doubt Like lampposts at twilight Held warm at winter’s heart; Luminations blind to noise Of pearls and furs in perfect poise Weep Salamander, Weep Salamander Weep, Weep, Weep for Alexander I who sat upon the throne of Kings, I who spat at the Wise Man’s speakings, I am king no longer but of the ground, And nobody kneels for me. Zosimus Swept the desert sands, In hopes to find the garnet stone, He found nothing but a lump of coal And on the sands he kept on searching Till he found his heart at the bottom of a snake pit At the bottom of the snake pit Prying love with solemn hands, he could not differ What writhes and pulses in the stirring dark? He breathed the song of ash and crept into the fallow wind. Heartless and filled with venom spit, He lost his Pride at the bottom of the snake pit. On the rocks where Jonah stood, Clay feet and hands of glass; Let the waves break against him, In hope that they might chastise him Pleading, O Mother O, do not forsake me Please Mother Please, let the water take me. In the bell jar, The Nightingale discords, Hallow, softly broken men The man of Crete leads with a heavy heart Yet cannot still raise his arms Rome was not built on Martyrdom So swear sinister, by the left hand Stain your feet with the hearts of men Lay your fingers bare, So that they may come again Dance on marble floors Where the censers used to bow as they did before Time stood vexed in amber jars And watched the silent skies pour unto silken crowns Their tranquilla doves and emeralds sparse Lay decadent on marble floors Where they never danced, they never poured They never sang a single chord Melancholy nature is, The truth behind What is left unwound The rest is all a lie. It is no fault in time My Masonic Mind Chose to purge the world from the inside Of a child’s heart Checkers, Checkers A Chequered floor and Chequered Sky Drowned Jonah’s world in Red and White Cleansed the bell that sounds at dawn, Eyes as wide as shadows long And with the spectral dust come tears. In the end, What will be left at all? But Blood upon Vermillion.
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Mar 18, 2012
Mar 18, 2012 at 8:39 PM UTC
O U R O B O R O S
There is a city in the world with a torn out street, Where the people are torn between their lips and teeth, In broken homes, on salted shoulders, With rasping tongues and crackling lips Ouroboros Ouroboros Soroboruo Soroboruo Sulphurous distaste of the mind, Degenerate, disintegrated air, Vile of thought and thistles, Effervescent on streets of doubt Like lampposts at twilight Held warm at winter’s heart; Luminations blind to noise Of pearls and furs in perfect poise Weep Salamander, Weep Salamander Weep, Weep, Weep for Alexander I who sat upon the throne of Kings, I who spat at the Wise Man’s speakings, I am king no longer but of the ground, And nobody kneels for me. Zosimus Swept the desert sands, In hopes to find the garnet stone, He found nothing but a lump of coal And on the sands he kept on searching Till he found his heart at the bottom of a snake pit At the bottom of the snake pit Prying love with solemn hands, he could not differ What writhes and pulses in the stirring dark? He breathed the song of ash and crept into the fallow wind. Heartless and filled with venom spit, He lost his Pride at the bottom of the snake pit. On the rocks where Jonah stood, Clay feet and hands of glass; Let the waves break against him, In hope that they might chastise him Pleading, O Mother O, do not forsake me Please Mother Please, let the water take me. In the bell jar, The Nightingale discords, Hallow, softly broken men The man of Crete leads with a heavy heart Yet cannot still raise his arms Rome was not built on Martyrdom So swear sinister, by the left hand Stain your feet with the hearts of men Lay your fingers bare, So that they may come again Dance on marble floors Where the censers used to bow as they did before Time stood vexed in amber jars And watched the silent skies pour unto silken crowns Their tranquilla doves and emeralds sparse Lay decadent on marble floors Where they never danced, they never poured They never sang a single chord Melancholy nature is, The truth behind What is left unwound The rest is all a lie. It is no fault in time My Masonic Mind Chose to purge the world from the inside Of a child’s heart Checkers, Checkers A Chequered floor and Chequered Sky Drowned Jonah’s world in Red and White Cleansed the bell that sounds at dawn, Eyes as wide as shadows long And with the spectral dust come tears. In the end, What will be left at all? But Blood upon Vermillion.
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Mar 18, 2012
Mar 18, 2012 at 8:39 PM UTC
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