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Burn the Widow
03:51
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Widow
Show us your devotion
And throw yourself on your husband's pyre
Blushing bride
Is it your obligation
To carry out the ritual
And join him in the fire
Widow, burn
Are you honest
Are you a righteous woman
Then wear the fire
Or face the eyes of condemnation
Are you of value
A nonexistent burden
Or with grand veneration
Just immolate amid great fanfare
No pressure
Dutiful wife
The blazing fire turns
Flesh and bone to ash
Honourable sacrifice
Forever chaste
The blazing fire turns
Flesh and bone to ash
Purged of her sins
Forever chaste
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2. |
My Solitude
08:04
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Alone, but not forlorn
In the ardour of love, I roar
Alone, but not forlorn
In existence, I burn away
Detached from the crowd
Further alone, I go
Alas, I shall be free of you
Clearing my realm of the mess
Which appears and interferes with life
Seeking which can only be achieved
With spells of emptiness
Farewell, imprudence
Farewell
Further on my way
Treading the path of solitude
To better understand who I am
And contemplate my place in this world
Don't cry for me
Here I lie
Don't pray for me
There I hold
Just let me go
Alone
There is one I will forever belong to
I can still feel my soul inside you
(Shed no tears) Don't cry for me
Here I lie
(Save your prayers) Don't pray for me
There I hold
Just let me go
Alone
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3. |
Goth and Exhausted
04:28
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Waxing in scorpio
Intensity and desire
Having to hold my own umbrella
Doesn't seem great to me
I'm angry I woke up again
I'm cursed!
Devoid of life
I feel so empty
I need something
To make me feel alive again
It's all so grey
Paralyzed by exhaustion and pain
Literally
Mildly psychotic even
I know my body won't handle the sunshine
Consider the stress I'm under
I cannot think in this heat!
Devoid of life
I feel so empty
I need something
To make me feel alive again
It's all so grey
I feel nothing
No longer scream crying
I think I'm ready for alcohol
This all could have been with no hurt feelings
I don't know how much more of this I can take
My face hurts
Devoid of life
I feel so empty
I need something
To make me feel alive again
It's all so grey
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4. |
Aqua Tofana
05:52
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Manna di San Nicola
Blessed be, Lady Giulia
Arsenic, belladonna, and lead
Six hundred women, freed
From six hundred men, dead
Astrologa della Lungara
O magic spell, O euphoria
Serve the wine
Within it, venom, slipped undetected
Hath taken ill, the symptoms
Rid him to the hell of his bed
His spirit endures
As he is absorbed by death
The curtain falls to his dying breath
He wrote the will
And repented the errors of his ways
Sweet mariticide - her secret to the grave
I know I must die
Someone has given me
Aqua Tofana
I know you must die
Someone has given you
Aqua Tofana
Til death do us part
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5. |
Autumn Song
07:41
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Twas the tenth day of fall
She's red and living blood (and burning like fire)
Her hair
It pours a rich merlot
From below the October sun
Descending sun
Just like an apparition (her flowing leather fringe)
Perverse, and O so profound
Bewitched
Dripping hypnotic poison
A menstrual libation to which I am bound
A bellowing mass
Congregates the burial ground
An oath sworn in blood
And in autumn's decay
We drown
She loves them red
I want to kill you and eat you she said
Yes, my love, I do
I want to be killed and eaten
By you
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I don't want to succumb
To the ravages of age
It feels I've already planted
One foot in my grave
My back is out
And my knees are weak
From what I've been told
I'm long past my peak
But if I ever forget you
Never you frown
And you have my permission
To put me down
Put me down
I can't seem to spring
Out of bed these days
My hair is falling out
And what's left is fading to grey
So darlin', you will know
When it's time for me to go
When the visible signs
Of old age begin to show
But if I ever forget you
Never you frown
And you have my permission
To put me down
Put me down
Goddamn this frailty
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Ritual Dictates Vancouver, British Columbia
Ritual Dictates is a new metal band formed by Justin Hagberg (3 Inches of Blood) and Ash Pearson (Revocation).
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