btw flesh's thing is pretty outstanding..
This one is comprised of some stuff which is over a year old, along with some newer verse, because I just never got anything in my head to finish it until today/yesterday. Part of the theme deals with some dreams I had for a short time a while back, which involved this huge, industrial sounding heartbeat and this huge sun dial. In one of them, I went into this steely building, and upstairs there was a giant framework, like this ####, no floor, and what seemed like hundreds of feet down was the huge dial that I could partially see, and then the heartbeat also emanated from there. Above the holes in the framework were children hanging by ropes, and once in a while one would uneventfully cut himself down and fall through the hole down to the bottom. Then in another dream, there was this kind of abandoned ghost town, but in one auditorium manner of building there was a large gathering of people, and it was pitch except for odd flashes of some form of metaphysical light, and the huge heartbeat was there again, somewhere near the front of the building, and it was deafening, and everybody was in a silent kind of worshipful trance. Later outside on some street, they gathered around me in a circle and took my body apart like zombies. So this blends a lot of elements and ideals and things from that series of dreams, with the attempt to acknowledge that maybe some of us or even all of us do kind of actually want a way out from the garbage we're in.. but it's very tough to really move or even see clearly where to go when there's so many years of layers of societal, ideological influences and things coming from all directions, which isn't even to mention the futility of utopian humanism that some think is the way, our already imperfect nature...and so forth, and so forth.
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'The Dark Mass'
Helpless
Hapless
Help us
Return from the black heart
Helpless
Hapless
Help us
Escape from the sun dial
God, please, forgive us
We know we've taken this out of Your hands
My soul is chaos
We've turned too cold to make amends
Chasing the hominal dream
Lusting to survive
Drowning in torpid and greed
Blood flows from our eyes
Shooting for stars
Gasping for breath
We're all alone
We live in death
As the sun goes down
On our broken crowns
We've nothing left but fear to grasp
We are... the dark mass
The dark mass
Man, please, forsake us
Save us from ourselves before we freeze
Our hearts are stardust
The emptiness has brought us to our knees
Carving our wounds into pearls
Just to feel alive
Dying for our counterfeit world
Within the worst of times
Shooting for stars
Gasping for breath
We're all alone
We live in death
As the sun goes down
On our broken crowns
We've nothing left but fear to grasp
We are... the dark mass
The dark mass
Helpless
Hapless
Help us
Return from the black heart
Helpless
Hapless
Help us
Escape from the sun dial
We've hung the children high above, they'll free themselves
Cut the ropes and fall below to another hell
We feel the pounding in our veins of the death machine
Languid we worship the beast inside of me
We can't call a forgotten name
How can we be saved
Where art is dead and God is dying
This will be our grave
Shooting for stars
Gasping for breath
We're all alone
We live in death
As the sun goes down
On our broken crowns
We've nothing left but fear to grasp
We are... the dark mass
The dark mass
Collapsed in tired desperation, we wait for sleep
But we shall never dream