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Roots Torn

by Mongrels

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1.
Bluer Birds 01:58
A bluebird sits in the corner He no longer sings His song has flown away And left his heart Bluer than his plumage Bluer birds sing the blues Until the light fades And we forget them A heart left half eaten on the hillside And in thy hand a hatchet An arrow through the throat of a fawn Break it's neck and let it end
2.
Can you even see past your Cro-Magnon brow? Spewing accusations Pointing fingers with six pointing back At your own face Coiled like a spitting snake With a lust for violence Knuckle dragger. I'll burn every single one of the wooden teeth Out of your mouth So the next time that you speak It's just a senseless sound You are a match that someone lit for no reason You will burn so bright tonight
3.
Disrepair 03:28
In disrepair In disrepair Your fear gave birth to my pain Which in turn gave birth to rage You are the mother of my suffering And how do I forget pain? You've been sleeping in the break Resting your head on stones For so long It's not your bones that hold you up Your calloused skin keeps you on your feet Every face you hang around is a mask The pallbearers all hide knives in their boots Grins locked into cold disdain for life Not quite masked by the parade of gold and red When strings get cut They don't grow back When people go They don't come back To suffer is to grow I hold my wounds open In heaven everything is fine In heaven everything is fine I wander round the pit And lift my hands to heaven
4.
God Botherer 02:00
Unhinge your jaw To scream the world deaf Until everyone sees it The way you do A god botherer Screaming himself raw Until everyone sees it The way you do Mind like an armed Camp Heart like a walled city Half clenched-fist somewhere between holding on and letting go. Feeding from troughs meant for pigs. A self-loathing worshipper at the shrine of apathy. Bathe in it's light! The King of nothing, Knows what's wrong Can't be set right Can't be set right Can't be set right Go and bother God with your fears Leave me alone. Just leave me alone.
5.
Cursed 02:04
Time without effort heals no wounds Milk and honey Won't numb my brain To the point where This boredom doesn't plague me Drag me by the hair Still screaming I know how this begins I know what comes next I know how it ends Milk and honey Won't numb my brain Won't tell my heart That pain stops Milk and honey Won't numb my brain Won't tell my heart That pain stops Pain stops
6.
Everyone I know just seems to want to die As if the nothingness of death Is so much better than their life And I understand I understand I understand The drive to escape and find an end Without condemning or condoning Without condemnation or condoning I've lived long enough to know Relief does not come with the rising of the sun I've been held against the grind stone For long enough to know The struggle to justify the ache never ends There's no escaping nature's noose I will not condemn you For tying your own I understand I understand I understand But I will seek to live my life To the bitterness of its end
7.
Lessen 04:09
I get it, you're unhappy with your life Grin and bear it, or make a change The past is a corpse in a coffin And I'm not one to dig up graves Cuz I'm not who I've been Anymore than you are now Who you were back then It's not a hook I want to bite Your offer to relive the past It's not a place that we could find again Time moves forward Why don't you?
8.
Ever Guilty 01:28
Twenty seven years A mass of flesh Skin, bones, and negative feelings Bring it down The axe, on my neck The executioner's swing Head on the block Wait for the fall Quivering neck Severing halt My hands work evil Like yours work iron Because I'm guilty, ever guilty Guilty, ever guilty I'm guilty, ever guilty Guilty, ever guilty
9.
I, not thou I deny All that is not myself I, not thou I deny All else that exists Self consumed And self-consuming I grin from the gutter Come to me as I demand you to be Your pain is not my pain I do not want to understand
10.
Roots Torn 01:26
In heaven everything is fine Roots torn and cast aside I'll be fine Left in lieu in the dregs of heaven I'll be fine Hope is a noose, tied But never used

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released June 28, 2019

Written, Performed, and Recorded By Kyle Phillips, Tyler Rhodes, Adam Underwood, Doug Mendez, and Michael Ruberg

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