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Rattle snakes and vultures and critters of the wilderness beware the beast who roams these lands and calls the desert as his home. He has breath of blazing sulfur, eyes hotter than the furnace, daggers for claws upon his hands. He hunts the ones who walk alone. Beware the beast who calls himself Me Myself & Enemy.
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Sheep Doom
04:30
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My temptation's wicked kiss eats the heart out of honesty's bliss. Slaughters her purity and takes my dignity. Search my heart. Is there any good within? You shut your ears in the name of peace, but you can never mute reality. How do I prepare myself for war when my nemesis calls my heart his home? He knows my every thought. He knows my every plot. Reject my cries of peaceful resolution. Pretend you don't walk the path of destruction. Is there an answer to fill my aching heart? The mistakes of my past fester in my thoughts. Oh the lingering taste of sexuality, please remove the thorn that plagues my side. For it claims me the wayward sheep. Straight to the teeth of prey. Straight to the butcher's blade. See how he lays in wait for me. His teeth rip me open and drain me completely. Sever those bony fingers.
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Nervous Train Wreck
04:44
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I watch as the sickness spreads engulfing every inch of this tormented soul. This is the end of me. My resistance wears down so paper thin and my mind runs rampant, uncontrolled. This is my own fault. The blame is no one’s but my own to claim. I brought this down on myself. suffering clings to my flesh. I brought this down on myself. Disease clings to my bones. This is my sin. Why won’t I let it go? Oh lord this is my sin. I am my greatest foe. Oh lord this is my sin. Why do I keep these vices, these teeth tear me apart? I am a dog, I am a pig, feasting on the vomit in my trough. My blood cries out for remedy but my feet won’t carry me to safety. My stomach releases everything within me. Why do I crave the impure? Replace this feeling in my gut with a burning in my heart. Never to deny your reign, never to remove your name from my lips. I gave my health and love for the wealth of sinners. Recklessly abandoned the truth for the embrace of liars. Oh lord I fell, dined in hell and I tasted the flames. Place the coals upon my lips, burn all the lies. My life is a train wreck. On the edge of disaster. Oh lord reach down your hands. Save what's left of me.
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The Master Debater
04:18
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Cut the wicked webs we weave. We build our empires upon stones of greed. Turn your eyes away from us.
Pay no attention to the secrets we keep. We are only fooling ourselves. We have dug a grave to deep to escape. We praise God with our lips, but we worship ourselves between our hips. We are too busy pleasing ourselves to realize that the world around us dissolves. To see their hearts are failing from loneliness. The time has come to put an end to our selfishness. When we master ourselves we bow down to ourselves. Our hearts are stained with our lusts. We sacrifice everything except our secrets. We are the priests of our own temples. Bowing down every time our strength crumbles. Oh God don't let me sell myself to me. Oh God, save what's left of my purity. Give us clean hands. Give us pure hearts. Let us not lift ourselves to another. Sex is not God. Sex is a gift, and we are spoiling it.
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Bubble (Blood) Bath
04:29
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No, I'm not dead but I'm bleeding and I need a medic. May God have mercy upon our souls and what's left of us. Our hearts are riddled with bullet holes. Redeem the good within us. These wounds were meant to destroy us and everything we've built but He held our stitches together. While the air still flows in my lungs, I swear with my final breath. I will forgive you for everything. When we reach the end of our lives, we'll look back on our younger selves and see the two hands of grace and mercy always present. Piecing the bricks together. Building our love stronger. A desolate bridge can still be repaired, but we can't do it without you. Without you we are weak. We've torn at each other's flesh and drained each other's blood. Leaving remnants of our endless love forgotten in histories mud. When we memorized our vows and bore our symbolic rings, it was never meant to end, no matter what the Devil may bring. A shattered heart can still be repaired, but we can't do it without you. Without you we are weak. You were never meant to separate. What God's hands build, the devil's can never break.
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Now I'm setting sail. Fill with sand. I begin to bail. I Turn my attention to the distant shore. I see those who loved me before. They're calling me home now, but nothing can bring them to me. They're calling me home now, but I don't believe. It burns like a fire, tears me apart at the seams. It burns like a fire, consuming what's left of me. Forever they'll search for me, just to know if I'm alive. They'll surrender the night to me, but I'll never survive.
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When my brothers bared their fangs at me, the intent of blood dripping from their teeth. I turned my back to greet their knives. Though they fooled themselves to be alive, they'll never breathe peace inside. I'll never find comfort in their eyes. There's nothing left in me. My sleep has become my home. The daylight welcomes the lions roam. Dearest Gravedigger take me deeper. Bury me deeper inside my dreams. Lay me down to rest in pieces. I was wrong to place my trust in you. Betrayal is only ankle deep, but I'm drowning in my sleep. The remnants of my mind have gone and left me far behind. While I still have open eyes I see the wolves, and their thirst can never be quenched. I feel the hinges of the body slowly become undone. No God, never let me die awake. Let me rest, but don't leave me to die alone. I've been asleep for far too long. Will someone please tell me I'm wrong? It was your hands that broke me. Now I need your hands to heal me. To wake me up.
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Caterpillager
03:59
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I made my escape through the holes in your hands. Carving my path with prideful teeth. You sheltered me from nights filled with torment, but I left you for dead in pursuit of regret. I've been dreaming about the moonlit sky, but I refuse to grow my wings and fly. I tore the wings off the butterfly, but he never questioned why. I pace in the bounds of my cocoon. Carving my mistakes on the walls. I tore the wings off the butterfly, but he never said goodbye. I decay in the walls of my coffin, praying that you will hear my call. You gave your royalty and throne to the undeserving, while I swallowed pearls from the mouths of pigs. I sought the harlot clutching the hour glass for a momentary second of selfish release. I remember tears flowing from your eyes as I turned my back and left you to die. I've been suffocating, tangled in foreign silk and my majestic wings have begun to wilt. I cut your hands, one and one, but I didn't know. I tore my wings, one and one, now I can't fly home. I hate the creature that I have become. An eternal caterpillar that has no cocoon. You placed my noose around your neck, but I'm running out of trees to hang you on. I dug the holes in your wrists as deep as I dug my grave. As deep as the nails in my coffin walls.
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King Sized Flower Bed
04:44
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Do you feel the gravity of the situation? The black hole between us has grown as deep as our pride. The pull I have with the hooks I stuck in you equals the chains you wrapped around my neck. We dug a hole that comfortably fits us both. Side by side in the earth forgotten in time. We buried ourselves at the roots of forgiveness, but lit torches to ignite the shade of mercy. Though we burned every tree you ever planted, your love rains down to extinguish our hate. What doesn't kill me only makes me stronger, right? But the good inside me tells me that I'm wrong. It's my life, but a slaughter kills more than one. It's your life, but one thread pulled leaves the triple cord undone. There's more to our lives than we could ever know. For every choice we make there's an outcome that we must face. Do you feel the gravity of the situation? The black hole between us has grown as deep as our greed. Oh God, forgive us. We have destroyed everything God has made. Who are we to question what he gives and takes away from us? You made everything perfect in its proper place. So who are we to question if you're right or if you're wrong? We have corrupted everything that you have made for us. So who are we to decide what you give and what you take away? No light can shine from a heart stained from time, and what we all pursue will one day bare its fruit. We are the salt to fill the ocean. We are the light to fill the darkness. We are slugs in the garden, but we are called to be the salt. We live in the shadows, when we are called to be the light.
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Siamese Rival Twins
07:36
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We've been scavenging for life amongst the bones of the dead, and we drink putrid waters to quench our thirst. For how long will we ignore the voice of reason? For so long we've gouged out our own eyes. We march backwards as self proclaimed forward thinkers. Fighting amongst ourselves more than we fight our problems. We are an army but we all drift alone. Breathing contempt more than we breath the air. We plant nothing and nothing is what we grow. But we demand so much more. Led astray by everything that we say we don't believe. But we were made for so much more than this. We've been seeking the answers by reading more questions, and we bathe in knowledge, but we need wisdom. Mesmerized by the lies formed from our own lips. Paralyzed by the monsters we made with our hands. Like cattle leading themselves to the slaughter, we swear we live free, when we've been dead forever. We were made to be his hands. We were made to speak his words. We were made to move mountains. We were made to silence giants. Brothers stand firm with your arms raised high. Raise the dead, heal the sick, give sight to the blind. We were the lost. Now we are found. With a single voice we will shake the ground. Make your choice, stand tall or fall down. As for me and my house we will praise the Lord.
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