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Run to Your End
03:30
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Run to Your End
Run, run to your end,
You don't know where you're going,
Back to the enemy,
Precipice ahead,
I feel it drawing nearer,
Insatiate abyss yawns,
Walls abandoned, gates opened,
Libraries burned, wells poisoned,
Yearlings slaughtered, crops blackened,
Legacies fade, fear portends
You'll run, run to your end
Listless mind, weaves a banner of defeat,
No shots fired, paralysis stays your hand
Cenotaph,
Stands where tide breaks on the rock,
Carved in turmoil,
By forces from an unseen shore
Arms spread to meet its fate,
While you cower in the dark,
Beset on all sides, suffer,
The death of one thousand cuts
Lost to obscurity,
In a savage world of pain and attrition,
There is one choice to make:
The attitude of repose.
Copyright Shabti 2013
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2. |
In the Lion's Court
04:46
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In the Lion’s Court
Swollen and gnawing inside,
A corrosive spirit dwells,
A phantasmagoric guide
Through the nine hells,
Teeth bared in times of war,
Germinating in those of peace,
Twisted, unsated,
And crying out for release
A sublimated drive,
No predators or prey here,
Indolent bodies thrive,
As souls and minds
Rupture, wither, decay
Consciousness forged in strife,
To grasp a hostile world
Need gave meaning to life,
Now ghosts of needs
Prevail and propagate
Princes enslave sleeping courts
In a wilderness of intrigue
Priests conjure demons and gods
To populate barren leagues
Teeth bared in times of war,
Germinating in those of peace,
Twisted, unsated,
And crying out for release
Copyright Shabti 2013
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3. |
Writhe
06:07
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Smoldering Serpent of Fire, coiled at the base of my spine,
Molting, a time to expire, dead cells cast off and left behind,
Reptilian dreams float to my brain, inject languid venom within,
Your taste in the air, shackled Eve in despair,
Heat emanates from your skin,
Shakti
Crucified, unclean, brought forth and now burning pure,
A week in exile, Persephone's eclipse,
Her gown it falls, falls to the floor
Flickering forked tongue of flame,
Lashing the minds of the chaste,
Try as they might it cannot be extinguished,
Though entombed, tormented, defaced
Reptilian dreams float to my brain, inject languid venom within,
Your taste in the air, shackled Eve in despair,
Heat emanates from your skin
Fall, writhe
Face cast off and discarded limbs,
I can feel it
Embers curl, black unhallowed whims,
I can feel it
Victus Vitae
I can taste it
Finis Vitae
Now I feel alive
Shakti, I call upon your power to quicken this flesh and blood machine,
Shakti, I defy you in your power to control this flesh and blood machine.
Copyright Shabti 2013
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Crushed in his hands,
Harvest of forgotten years,
Wheat ground with chaff,
By uncaring stones,
Inheritance,
Glitters until it dulls,
Tarnished by time,
Easily found and easily thrown away.
Calling for phantoms of those
Who have not gone or been,
To grieve,
Conceiving tragedies and causing their deaths again,
They bleed
Bidden across the threshold,
They fade into the floor,
Sinking,
Rattling the foundations
Then falling silent, dormant, waiting
Entranced by that which was,
Dazed by that which might be,
Numb to the sensation,
Of wind on his face
All things won are lost,
All pleasures are fleeting,
Expectations, impotent hopes
Carry us to the end
Intoxicant,
Deadened nerves and sedated mind,
Drained revenant,
Plodding through the world,
Fingers are stained,
With the blood of his prey,
Unsatisfied, triumph marks the onset of malaise
Calling for phantoms of those
Who have not gone or been,
To grieve,
Conceiving tragedies and causing their deaths again,
They bleed
Wasted sacrifice,
Cools and congeals,
Mist in the air
See what your life becomes
Temples and tombs,
Houses of the dead,
Their halls are still,
And garlands lay brown on the floor
Copyright Shabti 2013
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5. |
The Second Kingdom
05:29
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The Second Kingdom
Through the epochs, listless ages
Fools selling keys to utopia,
I’ve smelled sulpher, felt inferno,
I want to see your utopia,
A kingdom built on a hill,
The tribes on the mountain range are heedless,
The heathen disappear in the night,
Conflagration dims the points of light wandering below
Through the epochs, endless ages,
Fools selling keys to utopia,
I’ve smelled sulpher, felt inferno,
I want to see your utopia
A kingdom built on a hill,
The tribes on the mountain range are heedless,
The heathen disappear in the night,
Conflagration dims the points of light wandering below.
Banishing fear, banishing pain, banishing death,
So that you may live forever,
Banishing lust, banishing will, banishing strength,
You think that you will live forever,
In times of trouble turn to worm eaten prophets,
Their strength has faded and their laws apply to a dead world,
Deny the universe and its moving bodies,
Or struggle in vain to make them conform to your delusion
Stoke a fire to blot out the sun, your fingers burn
Conjure a void to rival the new moon, you disappear
This is your life, watch as it rots on the vine
This is your life, chaos amidst the paradise.
Copyright Shabti 2013
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6. |
Dissolution
04:44
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Ether fill my lungs,
Submerged,
Feel the undertow,
Carried,
By my element,
Dissolved,
In my veins we flow,
A sinking ascent
Downwards we fly, the souls within us, shiver in ecstasy,
The confines of space, body and sphere,
Stretch and disappear,
Emptied.
Copyright Shabti 2013
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Lost, confined
To an empty hall,
Harried by echos,
Paracusia enthralls,
Self-fulfilling prophecy,
Waiting for the hammer to fall,
Extispicy,
Calling wolves to your door,
Nothing revealed
But visceral gore,
Beacon like blood spilled in the sea,
Sharks frantic then fatigued
Waiting,
Breath spent,
Begging,
For punishment,
Purchase indulgence,
Paying off fears,
Feeding neurosis,
Hallowed profiteers,
Penance at a cost so dear,
The comfort of measures so austere,
Assemble
To receive the chemical host,
Carnal souls eaten,
To bring forth the ghost,
Only the fumes of caustic void
Tranquility for the destroyed
Copyright Shabti 2013
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8. |
The Gospel of Zero
05:32
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Caught in an avalanche, desperate you seek the sun
Deeper and deeper, you tunnel further down until you're
Convinced the warmth you feel bespeaks your salvation,
Frost inferno pricks your nerves
And brain cells die one by one,
Frozen, you will lie till the end of time,
Until time flows, in reverse,
Abandoned, lights explode in your mind,
Will-o-wisps to guide you,
To paradise
Never return
Worship oblivion, the cessation of pain,
Where lions lay with lambs,
instincts extinct, empty remains,
Your love a stagnant thing,
A mire of contempt,
The flesh you hate entombs you now,
Resurrection will never come...
Copyright Shabti 2013
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Shabti Portland, Maine
Spawned in 2008, Shabti are Maine’s premiere technical black/death metal formation, featuring members of Falls of Rauros, Obsidian Tongue, Panopticon (live) & Feral.
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