An Offering.
Movements II EP
take everything you meant to say
escape the lives you lived
the hearts you took to break our faith
intrepid and alone
fallen and forgotten you were all that i had ever known
i can feel the roots the roots
are digging deeper
there are fingers in the soil
creaks in the grain
the whites of their eyes say
i came to die here today
stone statues steal us away from this, lingered
wax-winged seraphims askew
can we ask the questions of paradise
is this real
when you breathe
chances are less when you deceive
all of those around you and say
open-palmed solutions
oil-soaked delusions
we communicate
i can feel the roots
the roots are digging deeper
there are fingers in the soil
creaks in the grain
the whites of their eyes say
we came the die here today
and i came to die here today
take everything
everything you meant to say to me
how can i believe the things you said to me
when i was young
twisting the knife between my bones into my lungs
i am paradise
i am he who lies
within you echoing your afterlife
i am parasite
these vines metastasize
blood and teeth to pay the asking price
and every single lie
told from these gallows' eyes
i'll carry with me for the rest of time
my wrists will face the sky
told from these shallow lives
i'll carry with me for the rest of mine
We, The Faithful Fallen.
Funeral Pyre LP
We sat silent at the feet of a savior.
Trying to reach
The hands that laid our death aside
Will come undone.
I won’t die for his words.
We are broken by the cost.
Shaped these futures for the cross.
But how do we accept the dark without the light?
Or maybe we fade in time?
I spent my days trying to forget
All of the lies spinning around my head.
Between the eyes we’ve looked for signs
Far from the light.
I will die -- I will die alone.
The silence of our shallow tomb.
Oh, embrace the heart that fought for all.
The truth imbued.
Are these thoughts outside of what you had?
In Time Denounced.
Funeral Pyre LP
We sat in a great hall
Surrounded by our captive few
Bleeding, unsettled
We take off the crest we wore as truth.
Then we became the air
That filled the room
& when we fall, we fall into the ground.
& when we love, we loved these sacred prose.
& when we sang, we sang with holy tongues,
& cast away the heart that’s bleeding out.
(Come away all who’s scared & retrace the autumn sky)
We flew too far from the sun
When the light touch our wrists and our eyes cannot feel the warmth
Come away all you weary and poor
Where the sound of the blood and the light from sun start to fade.
We Departed (Ghahean Shores).
Funeral Pyre LP
I died at the bottom of a merchant ship.
My body laid for weeks on the engine room floor.
My soul walks through these hallowed halls always alone.
I don’t know love.
I don’t know who I am.
We’re afraid of the damages we’ve done
We forget what it means to be alive.
Oh, such terrifying words spoke in your name
Such terrifying wars fought to our shame.
So bless this flesh,
& curse these eyes for what they’ve done.
I was never alive.
& all these wasted strides I’m alone, I’m doomed. Where is my end again?
We spoke the words left underfoot
This pain, this hell. So tell me again,
Tell me again why I should feel the same?
