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corporeal crawler
03:35
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You take the shortcut through the cemetery path
Despite the warnings from the local riff-raff
They talk of haunted ghosts and ghouls
Childish nonsense, you’re nobody’s fool
You leave the inn at a quarter to midnight
Walk down the fog-covered trail by moonlight
You spot a figure standing still as a grave
Not quite lifelike, but very depraved
It sees you now, its stare fills you with dread
And makes a sound that could raise the dead
Sure enough, they arise from their tombs
Coming toward and hungry for you
They are collectors and you’re one of a kind
You start to run but twist your ankle in time
You try to crawl away, they crawl in pursuit
Now you’re surrounded, and they’re calling for you
Now you’re pleading and they’re upon you
Now you’re screaming and they’re devouring you
Now you’re dead and they’re collecting you
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drawn & quartered
03:36
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Weary traveler, rest your head
More rest to come when you’re dead
Which will be very soon
Come the next blood red moon
Your steed rides off as you sleep deeply
The forest closing in silent, discreetly
Branches wrap around your ankles and wrists
Tightening with every grip
Pinned down by the trees that surround
Pulling your limbs without making a sound
Arm and leg off like a child with a fly
And now it’s time to die
Your amputated abdomen
Now being pulled apart from both ends
You scream in silence as you split in twain
Death will not stop the pain
The trees they seed in your entrails and gore
Drawn and quartered until you are four
A human compost pile of maggot feed
Hero of the worms and weeds
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bad incantations
02:26
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Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
Nowhere to run
Nowhere to hide
You thought the curse was lifted when you slayed the necromancer
Your salvation is temporary
But now the question of your fate will fatefully be answered
At the house by the cemetery
The footsteps of your would-be executioners approaching
Cacophony from across the graveyard
Their snarls and calls for your flesh and of bloodlust life-encroaching
The walls before you your only safeguard
You choose to enter through a window near the rear way entrance
So far, so good, your heartbeat slowing
Opting to fortify your faith and say a prayer of penance
Stalls you when you should keep on going
Being distracted, you don’t see the motion from behind you
It attacks, yet you manage to escape
Not much longer before you have no more places to run to
Need a hiding place before it’s too late
The panic makes you fail to take a semblance of precaution
You reach a dead end, the door won’t open
And now their sounds echo the hallway and you’re out of options
God won’t save you, your faith is broken
You’re frozen as the very walls descend with desperation
Disarmed in more ways than one, you’re screaming
Upon the floor, you’re torn asunder without hesitation
And now the splatter house walls are bleeding
And now the splatter house walls are feeding
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let me see your face
03:32
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I saw my lover fall to their death, their mangled body upon the shore
The rocks their tombstone, buried in a pile of gore
Yet now I see you in the moonless night through my window, standing still
If my eyes cannot believe, then my heart it will
While I can’t make out your face, it appears I’m right
Please don’t look away, let me look into your eyes
Turn around, please don’t look away from me
Let me see your face, the face of my one and only…
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castle madness
04:40
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deformation of character
01:31
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It’s a godless malformation
Stalking the living until everything is dead
A malignant abomination
The townsfolk liquified, nobles missing heads
And there will be no salvation
There will be the deepest hurting instead
The calvary sent to encounter
Their innards paint the fields and roads a crimson red
It scales the castle walls like a spider
King’s army turned to human puddy before being self-fed
And now you are the one it’s after
And you’re the only one who’s left
And you’re the only one who’s left...
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don’t wake the dragon
02:56
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Walter Campbell Richmond, California
Walternative music
Related projects: Dickie Snakedick, book on VHS, NVS
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