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Dogs at the Border
04:52
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Dogs at the border, you guard your own cage
Only your own feel the teeth of your rage
Your pride in your scraps and your flag and your fence
Back to the sea, with nothing to defend
Snarl, beg, the beasts of statehood, choked on the leash of a made-up nation
Violent obedience, lapping at the gore on the butcher’s apron
Pacing the border, you kiss your own bars
Your walls and barbed wire, your masters and liars
Biting the hands that would set you free
Killing for wealth that you’ll never see
Bite the hand that holds your keys
Bite the hand that holds your leash
Bite the hand that feeds you scraps
Kill no more for the cannibal pack
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Suicide Revenant
04:04
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Shattered, lying open, the most wretched of our graves
I feel a long-dead sorrow yawning ocean-wide again
The one who wants forgiveness, hated among the dead
Dragged back to the waking world to face this hell again
Dragged backwards to poverty, addiction and abuse
A child who bore a child, a cycle now concludes
Contagious mental illnesses, the cold shame of the knife
Strip searched, beaten, brutalised, no shelter, no respite
Unwanted, a child
Unwanted, a life
A fugitive, fled to the other side
Untended, a grave
Unforgiven, a crime
Reanimated, one who chose to die
Witness as I’ve witnessed; endless children’s graves
This system is a charnel house of murdered human waste
Look into the rotting eyes of those you sacrificed
The revenants of suicide, demand you answer “why?”
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Leave no Trace
08:01
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I roar upon the river, an inland tidal wave
I am the storm over the sea, the blur inside the rain
I scream across the shoreline with the thunder, then I’m gone
I pass over your harbour, roaring on and on
Beware the murky waters of this heron-haunted shore
The sinking mud and submerged wrecks, a vast devouring maw
A rip tide to ride, can you resist? Or in me, will you drown?
Churning in my channel and sucking you down
I pass, I leave no trace
Another wasted year
The rain you wipe off from your face
I was never here
I am the salt upon the wind, I’m what the waves erase
The shimmer on the tidal range where I stood yesterday
Unstoppable, unknowable, I never had a choice
The mocking wind that calls you on, you thought you heard my voice
Don’t look to me to read the signs, there is no future here
No pattern in the lightning, no promises to hear
Migrating birds tell nothing, except of darkening skies
So heed instead their warning call; settle here and die
I pass, I leave no trace
Drowning in my wake
A cold and storm-wracked absence
All I have to take
I pass, I leave no trace
A wave beneath a ship
The shuddering upon your skin
A double take, a glimpse
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Corpse Bird UK
Queer Chaos Metal
Bristol, UK
Formerly Void
Angel.
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