Death Rattle

by Ropes

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1.
Cogito 05:18
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This head on my mantle has a meaning A truth I’ll hide inside beyond the day that I die Sands that once were seas now devoid of feeling A poet parched Meant for words but the inkwell’s dry I bled it out, bled it out These leeches cling to my neck (I bled it out, bled it out These leeches cling to my neck) I think it therefore it exists Encased within animal hieroglyphics I claw at the codes To rot a legacy of the most lonely bones All these secrets were only made to be told So stop stalling stuttering stammering, start spitting all those pretty words I need to hear (All these secrets were made to be told So close your dioramic eyes and whisper all of yours) A whip in the wings The beast walks among us The centre will not hold Your God lies bound and gagged on the floor of heaven, its cold I think it, therefore it exists Parallels and symmetry, the shapes Lift the veil Touch the skin, digital porcelain Frozen still You look the most alive that you’ve ever been Lift the veil Touch the skin, digital porcelain Lift the veil Witness the shell that’s lost its ocean within Sink into me Crash over me Collide, collide The senses separate As a fractal mosaic I lunge to grab a shard To start my universe Waves gush out from your mask Miasmic afterbirth Stigmata splinters me All ghosts take my body Define the space between the universes Versus the space between your synapses (All these secrets were made to be told So close your dioramic eyes and whisper all of yours Be oh so careful with what you wish for You may open your dioramic eyes and find that world long gone)
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Death Rattle 03:34
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You had that death rattle Old man I still hear it There’s nothing left in you But goddamn I still fear it In time we’ll learn to face reality Till then just fill your skull with doublespeak Your eyes see that which you choose to see Metronomically we watch the sickle swing (I can’t fucking look at you, shedding my skin I can’t fucking look at you, shedding my skin) Sleep walk, sleepwalker Oh clock, sundial shadow Sleep walk, sleepwalker Oh clock, sundial shadow You had that death rattle Old man I still hear it There’s nothing left in you But goddamn I still fear it My heart unravelled at your feet I stumbled, tried to gather it up, shamefully To your credit you acted like you didn’t see But every gaze from then just proved that yes you did My heart unravelled at your feet I stumbled, tried to gather it up, shamefully To your credit you acted like you didn’t see But every gaze from then just proved you did, you did (From birth an atlas burden is placed upon a man it makes him understand perspective’s out and in, if everything I see is known only to me, how then can I glean what’s real and what’s a dream) (I can’t fucking look at you, shedding my skin I can’t fucking look at you, shedding my skin) Sleep walk, sleepwalker Oh clock, sundial shadow Sleep walk, sleepwalker Oh clock, sundial shadow You had that death rattle Old man I still hear it There’s nothing left in you But goddamn I still fear it High and dry If you could see me now My oh my Would you believe your eyes If you could see me now If you could feel me now If you could touch me now If you could hear the sound would you quake You had that death rattle Old man I still hear it There’s nothing left in you But goddamn I still fear it
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Siberia 06:13
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Sleep Deathdreams and false beats Curl into your armour child Hold the form and cage the wild Shut your eyes and speak the sequence Empty book and conscious breathing Shut your eyes and speak the sequence A dying language don’t you ask me why (I still hear you, I still feel you I make believe, convince myself I still hear you, I still feel you I make believe and say its real) Six degrees they separate us Now its five I could still lose this At the fourth I’m silhouetted The third is when you start to sense me Seconds when you hear the sound I reach the first I’m with you now I’m with you now Realise, Create, Exist All simultaneous How to heal, a dying world Still your hands as they approach the fuse There’s no way known I’d know a way to stop a plague of moans Creaking in symphony Hold the bones, of every generation Don’t let go, there could still be a rapture Shake your head You’re such a little pity monger Looking at the sky Like all you want’s a little more Everything’s amazing Nothing’s ever good enough Our paradox is life is wasted on the worst of us Shake all hands And work and work and work and work Every minute spent is one you’d kill for in your urn Save yourself for something better Yeah what’s better than The infinitesimal chance That made you here on this earth Shake your head You’re such a whiny motherfucker Looking at the sky Like you deserve a little more Everything’s amazing Nothing’s ever good enough Our paradox is life is wasted on the worst of us Realise, Create, Exist All simultaneous Realise, Collapse, Desist All simultaneous Sleep Spindles and grey wings Curl into your armour liar Your precious numerals divide us When the flood comes will you fight it Or will you try and hide All the guns and all the violence Yet still you tried to find me When the flood comes will you fight it Or will you try and hide
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Young Jackal 02:40
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If I’ve learnt one thing from this place A lesson written on my grave well it would say Wisdom comes too goddamn late And is smothered by regrets and could-have-beens All we have when we die is just a name Charlie was a rambling man He held a black dove in each hand Still he searched from bush to bush To find something he never could He taught me on a 22 And pretty soon I joined his crew We stormed the safes and had the whores A pirate’s life lived on the shores She wrote it on a napkin I can still remember that lipstick read However far a river flows that little creek will never forget Young jackal was what they called me A trigger hand of lightning speed In every bar and every fight The last to leave on every night Last thing Charlie said to me was what have I done I lived a life for greed and son I never won I’ll die a spectre of a man All I keep is just a name He poured two shots for him and I And took two more the day he died Inside my cell I learnt the news And then I understood the blues She wrote it on a napkin I can still remember that lipstick read However far a river flows that little creek will never forget Its source, never a truer word You can’t outrun your past not even on the ocean floor There comes a time in a man’s life He has to face the day he’ll die He shuts his eyes And asks himself the hardest question of a man’s pride

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released August 7, 2012

Written, Produced, Recorded and Mixed by Sam Marshall
Additional Production by Dave Venter
Mastered by Alan Douches
Artwork by Jack Dempsey

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Dual vocaled, southern sound with a hint of metal

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