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Murder
04:26
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Murder
Hanging man your shadow still wears the chains
I smell the piss under the tree
Hanging man first come the crows
As all men fail their women wail, drinking from the empty cup of sorrow
Blooming from your leaking wounds night scented stock
Maggots drip like jewels from your flaccid…
This beast I skinned to steal his warmth still musks and reeks of murder
Close my eyes with every breath I am falling further, further falling, falling further…falling
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Galgbacken - Serum borne of Venom
We drink from the half filled cup of fate - one is early one is late
Place your chin upon the block
Your blood is the cure
Suck my dripping fingers drain the bowl
Cruelty, infamy - can’t you see
Three sorrows stab holes to expose a murder of crows
Exhale trance of the widows
(Raising their skirts shake cobwebs across the floor)
Cruelty, infamy
Can you taste - I wanted it more than thee -
Suspirie
I found you gazing by a pool
Cards though a Queen to lay with a fool
One so shallow one so deep
One eye open one asleep
Swallow swallow flame and tallow
I will pour, you will swallow
Bind the rope with our broken hope
Pitch and pyre
Their flash couldn’t start the fire
Lachryma
Serum borne of Venom
Ensis forged in Ferom
Pitch and Pyre
So what does it matter if I go there again?
What happened last night I wasn’t to blame
Didn’t even know his name
So who gives a Fuck if I do it again
In this moment of mania - when the world was mine!
Lapping at the cure - with the dogs on the floor (fight fight)
Betrayal of rebellion - sold it like a whore
Tenebrae
Word of a traitor - father creator
Ensis Ferum…
… Pitch and pyre - piss of their saints couldn’t douse your fire
Tenebrae
Ensis Ferum - Serum borne of Venom
Serom borne of Venom
Ferum born of Venom
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The White
06:35
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The White
The white world is sleeping I didn’t notice it changing softly in the night
Remnants of memories frame his window panes as we cling one last time
And surrender to the fire inside
Beloved its cold inside
Taller jagged I am smaller…keep climbing higher…the bell is ancient light
The boy child grew to tower over men & rolls amongst the broken glass of childhoods failure
We have waited for this day, our hearts waiting in the corner
Patient as the lamb before the slaughter surrender him weak
Take my hand I still remember the way - we are so near
My shoulder brushed yours once I blinked & there passed a life time
I can taste the future your skin holds the scent of autumn your bed is amber leaves
Though the narrow window all seems black and white
Until we choose to look a little closer beyond the white
Oooh its lonely
Waiting by the lamp post for the carriage to the ancient world to come.
There was no need for me to dream last night
A tapestry of winter scent awoke me - windswept woven in white
Lace the colour…
…of a Winters night
Melissa Gray
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4. |
Blue & Fire
06:32
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5. |
Musk
03:01
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Musk
Grey as famine rolls the sky
Drag the coffins through the dirt
And leave the crows to ponder why and what this life was worth
darkness tangles with her hair and bleeds into the precipice
Would you follow me no matter where?
Close your eyes and drink from the chalice
Someone somewhere long ago tricked me
And a torch was lit
Melissa Gray
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Blackout - Beggar the Thief
How deep is the water here
Something soft recedes beneath my feet
Lost in the slime lit streets
In one hand infinity
(the other a rusted blade of a lost crusade)
Drinking from the neon puddles that trap - distort the light
Foreign words but the warnings are the same
Morality drips into gutters of shame
Is it time to change my name again?
I jumped before I realised how deep the water was - swim to the island but if we go we both must drown
One is reaching out
One is going down
Blackout if I don’t remember what I did - does it still count?
One is craving hearth and home
One is wanting out
Stale as the morning sold as the night
Someone is coming turn out the light
All of this takes time
Nightmares that bleed from your dreams to mine
A bride so young a smoking gun
Two decades yet she’d not become
Beg for me steal for me
What did they borrow
Lend me your soul I’ll return it tomorrow
All of this takes time
The nightmares
A bride so young
2 decades more still on the run
Wild fettered screams fill your cage from mine
Halo first trick of the night
Moth and woman circle the street light
Meet me by the riverside
There are dead things in the water one of us must drown
One is thrashing wildly
One is going down
All of this takes time
Who is the beggar who is the thief
Choke back the bile, pull down the veil
Why am I so hollow
Who is?
Cover the sorrow?
Melissa Gray
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Ouroboros
06:58
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Ouroboros
Warm is my snake even in death
How my skin clings to him
When you were a child your world was the palm of my hand
Trap the sun water beads
Even the serpent and rainbow bleeds
And I…and I…I tell your end in mine
And I tell your end in mine, tell your end in mine
Despise I sell despise in mind
Despise I sell despise form a line
Despise I tell your end in mine
Despise I sell despise form a line
Despise
Did I
Did I
Let you die?
Trap the moth
Night recedes
Languid with malice the moonlight beams
Skin turns cold Mandrake screams
Fed to the failure of childhood dreams
Even the serpent and rainbow bleeds
Melissa Gray
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8. |
Nothing Left
06:03
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Nothing left
when You stepped out of the Sun
and You hard and travel stained
first saw the Cracks appear
boots caked in red mud
weathered how long Child on the Run
dust Shrouds horizon
and You... divining a trail
painting the trail with your Footsteps and your Blood
your kisses taste of Failure
i Tried to catch the half Light from your eyes
are we made of dying Stars?
i can taste the Dust
i Embraced the bitterness
cracked lips...leather... bone White teeth
hair bleached, by the Sun
and You... have Lain beside
...the jackals (skeletons of Neglect)
silently the desert Melts to your Flesh... hard as Stone...moved
so silently Skin and stone melts to the depths
nothing left
when You walked back into the Sun i knew
...this time you couldn’t come Home
Melissa Gray
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shaRds London, UK
shaRds was formed in 2012 by Melissa Gray A self funded project promoting independent art & live
ritual.
Artists include: Rufus Miller - Sting, Tony Brewer - Adorior, Mats Hedberg, Charles Hedger - Mayhem & Giovanni Imparato.
From recording vocals in ice caves to Live Rituals in 200 yr old crypts.
We continue explore.
shaRds is the fangs of the viper…both Serum and Venom.
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