The Black

by Vision Serpent

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1.
Blood Trip 06:11
Centuries ago In ages formed by cosmic ways Souls pray to live without misery Bowing down to gods for wisdom and serenity Massive creature that raises the sun beyond the call to Heavenly deliverance It sheds a skin blessed with rejuvenation Quetzalcoatl, primeval feathered serpent They ask for blood Those great beings Watch their eyes glow With lust for your bones Seismic in scale Won't you see They control you Your life in their hands Martyrs fulfill the prophecy Carried beyond the planes away from death Bodies on a blood trip to their god To feel the sting of his prophetic bite Communication with elders who see to the Dead through the visage of a serpent theology Showing the gateway to spiritual realms Archaic visions emerging from its maw Standing atop the axis high in a world tree the earthly spiritual planes convene through a ritual the king serpent joins them in the temples to call linking the living to the dead They ask for blood Those great beings Watch their eyes glow With lust for your bones Seismic in scale Won't you see They control you Your life in their hands Martyrs fulfill the prophecy Carried beyond the planes away from death Bodies on a blood trip to their god To feel the sting of his prophetic bite Begin your spiritual guide Ingest the ceremonial herbs Feel your mortal skin writhe Experience the bloodletting ritual Let the blood drip on the altar Soaking the burning pages Let the smoke bridge your worlds Connecting your soul to death Let the serpent king grant you sight Call upon the gods to witness the end They will give you guidance Learn from their past A prophecy is in effect Your purpose, your honor, your life In his hands you are granted new sight For now you must fight for the fear of death Stingray spine in your left Obsidian blade in your right Splatter the papers with your blood A mighty warrior spews from his jaws Martyrs fulfill the prophecy Carried beyond the planes away from death Bodies on a blood trip to their god To feel the sting of his prophetic bite
2.
This man can’t be tamed Out of mind Flying high Reaving bloodshed stains to the eyes The same blood tingeing the earth Has been consumed in intrepid rapture Leaving him running all fours At the sound of your Screams Transcend the only way Make worth your dying flesh Scar the days or toil away Following beyond our own instinct Carrying remains of the weekend carnage Consumed in full, a cursed beast is among us Enlightened are his eyes As a new breed of life Blood fueled by rage crushing heaven in his mouth Transcend the only way Make worth your dying flesh Scar the days or toil away Following beyond our own instinct Become aware of the sky Seek the moth inside Trust the rage you’ve spilled Break the ground where it dries Bury the beauty in your eyes Believe beyond what has died Try to remember your state With visions blurred by light this bright Waiting on your rest, the world breathes again So ensure that this world suffers through the pain you've seen Implode Inside, brimming life with hate New blood in your veins, forever are you now a Beast of all mankind, a demon drunk on christ With all the crimes against this world, fall by seismic will Bend your world down into oblivion Mold it in your hands, the only way to live
3.
The holy man spoke to me and cleansed me of my faith Free of sin and free from hell I was born again anew Falling into temptation will have it’s consequence Weigh the bad against the worse and confess your deadly sin Held on by the grace of God I’m saved Problem child of Adam and Eve Disaster Dragged six feet under ground Light I reach out, but I’m sucked back in to the devil’s eyes You cannot prove more than what you see I speak the truth you speak the lies of what your mind perceives The blasphemy the heresy reviling my beliefs You speak the words of a heretic priest, go face your pseudo God Held on by the grace of God I’m saved Problem child of Adam and Eve Disaster Dragged six feet under ground Light I reach out, but I’m sucked back in to the devil’s eyes I wish I was careful of what I wish for At my nerves end I broke down and blacked out No sanctuary found in this God forsaken hell He let go of my soul he left me for dead By the grace of God By the grace of God
4.
Tell me, have you looked through so many eyes that the sight of truth gave you inertia? I ask you, give me one reason to fucking believe that you would see this life through mine. You see, there's only one path to take your mind, and I laugh at the fact that you're too lost to find it 'Cause I have been there and back again to understand that there's nothing to gain from looking in the first place I take it all in breaths that stretch my lungs too far to comprehend The cosmic allure of this world seeps into me on a warpath to my own destruction Roaming around outside of blind eyes No matter to my name other than a waste of skin Blankly staring at the sky What a curse for me to stay here I constantly beg for me Torturing this soul to break free from feeling Cosmic stagnation Standing in a pool of wasted matter The sight of beauty was only a phase I stab at wounds that aren't even there Trying to see the pain that's felt by everyone else I only stand back and watch as the world churns into another shapeless form. The rest of what I see is a landscape dying away No more does it give me satisfaction Lost in world without any life to concede Keep on relenting all the dreams I’ve ever had Begging for a reason to keep my mind intact Dread as fools do in being so wrong for this place I sit in silence wondering if this pain is felt by anyone I long with praying scars, but I never truly feel a thing For my dreams are lost to blind eyes and ears that drown out the sense that’s made of this world Never will you see in colors I bleed, you'll never know how much there is to conceive With every time I try to bring life to this world It hides its gaze and backs away from me and leaves me outside It's so hard to realize that nothing moves despite the hand that slowly reaches out and pulls the pent up violence in your heart And whenever I try to bring back a sight of this horrible place, I stand back as I know I don't understand a thing Dissatisfied with everything No more is this life worth Pulling out the heart that is Cosmically out of place Why do I live by burning coals in fire? I must be stuck in my own fucked up judgement of the world So don't ever ask me about any of this Lie Outside I lay, dead Outside I lay, dead Outside I lay, dead Outside I lay, dead

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released February 24, 2017

James Bennett, Duncan Dempsey, Chris Passarella, Brian Underkoffler, Sean Wood

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