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Unto the Waste Land

by mrmoth

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Up from the frozen water Out of her stolen breath To rip the heart of the matter From the stitches of death You know my dirty secrets And I am prone to confess It's too long on my shoulder With its cutting caress I heard the teeth gnashing, I felt it beside As she had waited for love and I waited to die I heard the invitation, I could not resist My soul was hid among the shit, shelved and dismissed Now my hands are at work to rebuild all the parts New blood spits out from the core of my living heart These mountains are teeth, the palate where he stands Your traitor is delivered now Unto the waste land
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Traitor 04:47
Before you stands The given man Accused of treachery You'll find his name Confessed with shame Recalled with clarity He will confront He'll turn and run And call it victory So then this one He will be cut With due impunity And where's his love He held above Even his precious soul? Did she decide To take her life? When did she lose control? He sent her here A mess of tears With nothing left to hold Now truth demands We drop the hand And now his head must roll So let the guns Unload the sum For all that he betrayed This mess of meat Is incomplete Lost in his final day So take your aim And let's reclaim The one who walked away And now the gods Need only nod What does the jury say? He's a made-up god not fit to be He can't stand his own stench so why should we? We've heard too long His morbid songs Playing upon deaf ears The lack of hope Within their scope Says all that's needed here He is no king Sent down to sing Away the whole worlds' tears And worse than this We'd be remiss So let's just make it clear Your missing teeth Propped up belief You cannot help but tell Your tattered soul The very hole It is a bottomless well The one who tried You can't deny It put the girl through hell The one who died Did she confide? It is the reason she fell So circled in With all your sins Now are you starting to hear? Your painted lies About the skies They all sound a bit queer A gaping void So paranoid You're the source of your own fear We've heard enough About this love So bring the accused near He's a made-up god not fit to be He can't stand his own stench so why should we? Agents of the collective, Allow me to introduce to you the great poet, Descended down from the mountain, To deliver unto us his most-important message of love, But in further analysis of his file, You'll find him not at all fit for the topic, He has, in fact, made the entirety of his career A litany of failure for fear and shame, His insecurities have held him out of his society, And as he walked he did so deride: All these fellow men and women he claimed to love, He could never so much as speak to them. And now his failure is complete as you will find him, He has betrayed even the people he loves, He is in full, no more or less than a traitor
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Travel north Travel west Find the cut In your chest See the heart Swelling high It will fall And cloud the sky All the life Upon the crust Will recede Into dust Hallowed be... Our kingdom come Life and death Our will be done Stubborn and willful with endless demands You tighten your grip and she slipped from your hands The weary and hungry, too tired to wait Discard your philosophies and end this debate One of us Has refused To step aside To simply move Now we ask You make a choice Come with us And keep your voice Or if you will Stay your own Suffer death As it goes You will die As you lived The bag of meat we won't forgive Now you must reason the question is clear You know you can speak and you now have our ear We tire of asking again and again We have no more time and our patience is thin
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Revertebrate 01:41
Just give me the girl.
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Forever 04:03
The shoes of man Won't fit on me Your mind of masses too small to see The misanthrope Who couldn't cope He found an answer on a length of rope She saw me there But could not speak How do you scab the wound that wants to bleed? The lesson learned I am returned To sift the ashes of that I burned They tried to crucify me They only deified me Today I start again Forever unto my death I was beaten And I succumbed Left in the corner to suck my thumb There is no more So says the whore But I have stitches for the flesh that's torn Lift up the gun Unload the sum My nerves will scream when they're no longer numb I fought with death But did not win Now I've no option but to live again They tried to crucify me They only deified me Today I start again Forever unto my death Hope Faith Trust & Love Hope Faith Trust & Love Hope Faith Trust & Love Hope Faith Trust & Love They tried to crucify me They only deified me Today I start again Forever unto my death
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A strung up corpse on the edge of life The limp summation of our heretofore strife But my moment of doubt is not my moment without And I've come through the moment with my teeth in my mouth Backwards and forwards and out of the ground Three times they've come to try to put me down And for all the pain that we fought on through There's still no pain to make me flinch from you And all the whole world waits in keep tonight For the fires of hell can't burn so bright As the love I've kept all along inside As the dream that still plays on my mind I will never abandon you They can't put up a wall I won't tear straight through Now there's no more work left for me to do Eternity can pass while I wait for you Bring all the women of bitter reproach Bring all the men with their knives in their coats Bring all the judgements and claims on me Bring all the armies and watch them bleed Line up the vultures, the worms of the earth The saprophytes will each have their turn Bring on the doctors, the counsel of priests I'll still be alive when they start to feed And all the whole world waits in keep tonight For the fires of hell can't burn so bright As the love I've kept all along inside As the dream that still plays on my mind I will never abandon you They can't put up a wall I won't tear straight through Now there's no more work left for me to do Eternity can pass while I wait for you None of them can stand between is In the way of our destiny I will never abandon you I will never abandon you And all the whole world waits in keep tonight For the fires of hell can't burn so bright As the love I've kept all along inside As the dream that still plays on my mind I will never abandon you They can't put up a wall I won't tear straight through Now there's no more work left for me to do Eternity can pass while I wait for you
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They led me to your soul I was standing over, then knelt beside Looking close into the heart I can still see a pin of light They tell me that you're gone Best to come down from my high But balanced through with a sum of truth Does one love ever truly die? When they cut open your chest Tried to steal the heart inside The cyst spilt sin and collapsed within Was its failure from your mind? So much labour to protect you Had I wasted all my time? It distracts, fighting back the dark I never saw myself going blind They tell me "she's gone" The agent is re-assigned But they've spoke not once of hope And their reasons are of poor design I know you to the core And the conflict's drawn a line Do you think that there is no way back Well I want you now to try Laying naked on a sheet of tin They prepared to cut inside They set their knives upon my gut To where the illness went to hide And as they held the meat aloft The blood let loose into the sky I just laid there sleeping Having sent my fear outside When the ether shot you through Its arrows through your heart Did the poison tips brutally eclipse And leave a blister on your spine? Up on that bridge, did it call to you? Did it make you question "why?" Oh my love, does the caldera fall As the whispers echo through your mind?
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Performed and produced by Michael Bird Words and music by Michael Bird; Lyrics reproduced by kind permission.
9.
I watched serpents copulating Their pained anticipating And after I just wasn't the same As I Felt the heat receding My sex was full and bleeding My intentions folded back and were changed So then my Heart it was a hole and always hungry The tide of sex was high and always coming Then, seven years spent I saw those serpents again Replaced upon my gender Marked return to sender The gods asked me to tell them my tale So then, Thinking of the cost to me I told my story honestly And for this I was lost of my sight But Zeus said The truth hurts some more than cruel deception But I'll give you the gift of deep perception Crowned, my eyes carved out I see the world as it is now
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A Prayer 07:01
If the sense of your worth Was divided at birth Come with me Come with me If you answer to fear Like its all you can hear Come with me Come with me If the words in your mouth Just will not come out Come with me Come with me If the things that you dream Make you wake up and scream Come with me Come with me On a wing and a prayer We are packing and leaving today On a wing and a prayer We are clearly unwelcome to stay If all that you give Is the most you can be Then all that you're taking Takes you further from me So hard to stand by And watch you slipping away How do you cheer for the runner That's throwing the race? If your finest hour's Gone sweet into sour Come with me Come with me If the strong and assured Leave you so insecure Come with me Come with me If the things that you see Make you break down and weep Come with me Come with me If it's all you can stand then Give me your hand Come with me Come with me On a wing and a prayer We are packing and leaving today On a wing and a prayer We're clearly unwelcome to stay And you have to admit That your time's almost up Your chances are few now To refill the cup You're clinging so tight To that which you hate And it never gets better Each day that you wait These tears that you cry What are they really all for When you betray the loving That you shove out the door? Will you do for yourself? Will you stand up and walk? Can you follow it through Or just continue to talk?

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released December 9, 2003

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mrmoth Ashland, Ohio

mrmoth is the solo musical project of fine artist Michael Bird and various collaborators. Begun in 1996, mrmoth has since released five albums with a unique blend of electronics and traditional instrumentation, resulting in an eclectic catalog that visits experimental, textural soundscapes, pop dance tracks, and anthemic rock songs. ... more

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