Wwvii Lyrics

My day did dusk to turn As you emerged And in your face I saw my own Before years drawn long From the other side You came in And in your gaze I saw my end As years draw ...Read Full Lyrics

Body, tongue, touch and need In suffocating arms were these learned And from the withered teat was suckled Poison nectar Born of curse to walk the earth Demanding service fr...Read Full Lyrics

Words of summons Long since blown Into dust, beyond memory What remains Sting of dirt in eyes Clotted on wriggling tongue Under bent cedar Low branches hang Silent witnes...Read Full Lyrics

Laying prostrate, bent and bruised Seeking succor from the dust Feast upon barren fields Consume decay Body spoiled by ravaging lust A barely beating heart, rotting in its t...Read Full Lyrics

Sons, weep in mothers arms To the breast are clinging From that clutch, by fathers torn And thrust into the bla-blazing fields Cheeks still wet with cherubs tears Across Ear...Read Full Lyrics

No utterance from granite tongue No steps permit a path's retreat Cast back to open lands Once so freely roamed Hover here A gate between The dim unseen And that which lay...Read Full Lyrics

His ghost dissolves in dust Formless, dragging heels through the dirt Small clouds Mark his passing through the house Here, not here Watching his ghost dissolve In the sun ...Read Full Lyrics

Turn aside Steady eyes belie the fear Small hollow words, clatter to the ground Broken Ruin has come, not fire Or in ashen rain Only in turgid silence Hanging, flayed Subme...Read Full Lyrics

Behind closed doors Lanterns sway in pulsing dark Though the body's near Rigid man with soiled hands Cannot touch, cannot feel Between walls in narrow cell Glaring light ex...Read Full Lyrics

From waking dawn From first drawn breath I was yours Ever silent ward That to which I clung I was yours In the quaking pools Of your gaze Shackled and drowned Thus chr...Read Full Lyrics