DEVOID Lyrics

1. Howdy!

[Instrumental]

2. Ted Kazcynski's Dead

Still, in theory, natural

My hair is not dyed black

But what's the point in holding back?

My mind, consigned and worthless

But I'm not marked upon my skin

They've taken everything within

Blood sigils read with green eyes

A bulldozer of cement

Now laying, dead, in a basement

Burnt bones discerned by green minds

Wood boxes filled with flames

And when they shipped, what did he gain?

Ted Kazcynski's dead

Ted Kazcynski's dead

A bullet in his head

He's dead, green fades to red

Anarchy is long dead

The hippies are in Hell

And not a soul dares bid them well

The industrial apostasy

Is finally in its tomb

And now the progress can resume

The microcosmic etchings dictate new Apocrypha

The great Tower of Babel's built up high with roots to Hell

And with a broken Pact of Kings, the tyrants are released

When all of your god dies, what will you preach?

Dual letters etched upon each act of vengeance untold

The amalgamated serpentine is god, and we're alone

Alone, in utter darkness, without any hope of sleep

When your god dies, what will be preached?

When your gone dies, what will you preach?

Ted Kazcynski's dead

Ted Kazcynski's dead

With a noose around his neck

We're dead, we're dead, we're dead

3. Devoid

{Verse 1}

Calling for the wrong

And it moves along

Burn the light you wrought

June's now so far gone

{Chorus}

In my lane, now

I will stay, out

Of the way, found

In my place

Heresy, just

Not for me, but

Still believe, I'll

Be along

{Verse 2}

Shut the past away

No one makes them pay

In my past, the shame

Ratchet spins the same

{Chorus}

In my lane, now

I will stay, out

Of the way, found

In my place

Heresy, just

Not for me, but

Still believe, I'll

Be along

{Verse 3}

Case is closed today

Nothing more to say

Promised what they need

Delivered apathy

{Chorus}

In my lane, now

I will stay, out

Of the way, found

In my place

Heresy, just

Not for me, but

Still believe, I'll

Be along

4. Only the Bad Remains

{Verse 1}

Senseless, like living under a rock

Freedom's not worth winning, succumb to rot

Been caught in a cult-made haze

Where everyone's famous except for me

{Chorus}

Just the bad remains

Nothing will ever be the same

Those whose solace is hate

Causing pain for the sake of pain

{Verse 2}

Here's a world where nothing decays

Death will never be like the old days

If what I am is what I'll live in

From here on out there is no heaven

{Chorus}

Just the bad remains

Nothing will ever be the same

Those whose solace is hate

Causing pain for the sake of pain

{Verse 3}

My memories have slowly decayed

Substitute the fear with more hate

That which I can never name

In the end, just the bad remains

5. Three-Headed Jesus

Sending spit between our crimson lips

A bloody dance of

Ragged parasites

Regret paralleled by no control

The insects above

Dying in the lights

A noxious scent drifts through the hallway

A haze miasmic

Their blatant lies

The piss-stained water, the bluest sky

Sink your teeth

But look not with your eyes

This putrid detox which tortures me

My dying body is

So uncaring

Forced to follow the beckoning light

From no desire

The morning bright

And though it smells of aromance

On who my blame rests

Up to raw chance

A scent of grease and self-loathing

I can feel it

Creep inside me

Everyday more tired than the last

Time to let the winter

Come again

No one asked to be alive

So you might as well learn to

Love the lies

Only the weak feel love and loved

All telling me how much

I should

If anger's dirt, then you're too clean

Your life's a blur when you

Live between

Three-headed jesus, take me home

Where I am to sit

All alone

Three-headed jesus, you forsake me

I am no one

I am nothing

And when you send me either up or down

And make me kneel

Before your crown

And ask me why I lie and do so wrong

To you, I'll answer

I don't know

6. Through a Viscid Haze

[Interlude, Instrumental]

7. Valvifera

{Part 1}

I'm on my course, no regrets, no tomorrow

Thoughts flashing color so that I let my mind rest

Ha!

There's three words that I hate hearing, that I heard that day

Should I have felt something?

Go!

The Sun burns through the clouds, and we take it all to the mouth

Turn to bluest of skies, where vultures fly

Yeah!

I'm alright, just stay my hand, I'm blurring everything I heard

In the wasp's nest

In the wasp's nest

{Part 2}

Star-crossed was I from the day when it first to me spoke

Matured in every fashion and tenacity became my hope

Far gone, but was it wrong to seek another's common mind?

I'll concede it might've gleaned unto those thoughts which I'd so kept confined

Where the Gnostics say "Sophia", "Lilith" say the Christians

So the double-headed Janus is the truth of what it is

And this wretched spectre hides beneath a cruelest dual visage

One so clouded by delusion it's been trapped within its own mirage

Soon was I forsaken for my heart would not suffice

Was not the one who'd lead the Sun down seeping through the winter ice

Tear down the listening walls before they rant what to reprise

Frozen sludge flows through the creek, the trees are grey, as is the evening sky

{Part 3}

Confession has taken its toll, now

So I can finally sleep

It smells like dopamine down here

A childhood I can't relive

The walls, they buzz like houseflies

Breathing in my sins

I would scoop these eyes out

But they are so broken

The rats have never served me well

If there's no heaven, there's no hell

We're stolen into one, I'm not an only son

My mind leaves more than I'd admit, but I persist

I'll be a different person when I'm older

I lost my love and sense to selfishness

We pray to that which cuts our fate, makes us colder

I pray through my indifference

We are only ourselves at our lowest

And I'm not who I used to be

There's blood on my windowsill

I think I'm dead but that might just be me

8. Spider and the Cowbell

{Verse 1}

Well Sinclair's in a band like me

Punk rock mohawk with a metal goatee

And I wish I could say that's where the similarities end

Sinclair's a pretty bad guy from feet to head

{Chorus}

But this stories not over, why's he such a bad guy?

They said he had everything money could buy

I'm gonna start this story where I wanna begin

Sinclair was playing late nights with his band

{Verse 2}

They called themselves Slit Liver

Sounded like The Smiths along with Skin Yard

Well, the neighbors came over that night

And it all ended in a pretty messed up fight

{Chorus}

But this story's not over, such a bad guy

Said he had, what money could buy

I'm gonna start this story where I wanna begin

Sinclair was playing with his band

With his band

9. When the Tear Gas Fills the Sky

{Verse 1}

I've seen the lands beyond these borders

where the corporations rule

And they spin their lies and they globalize

and the working man's their tool

And the streams are so polluted

that the banks are bleak and bare

And the babies all are born deformed

and the smog is everywhere

And the workers' wages dropped

thirty percent in just one year

Now those greedy bastards want to bring

the same conditions here

{Chorus}

So I called upon you brother

and you asked what I would do

And I told the truth, dear sister

when I spoke these words to you

I will stand beside your shoulder

when the tear gas fills the sky

If a National Guardsman shoots me down

I'll be looking him in the eye

I will wash their pepper from your face

and go with you to jail

And if you don't make it through this fight

I swear I'll tell your tale

I will stay with you in the prison cell

in solidarity

And I will not leave that cursed room

'til you walk out with me

For we the people fight for freedom

while the cops just fight for pay

And as long as the truth is in our hearts

we're sure to win someday

I will not falter when that iron fist

comes out of the velvet glove

I will stand beside you comrade

to defend this land we love

{Verse 2}

I've heard tales of conquered islands

where the sweatshop barons rule

Recruiting girls from the Asian slums

to be the rich man's tool

And they're promised lives of luxury

in the golden USA

Then they're stranded on these islands

with their passports stripped away

And their aging fingers toil and bleed

year after grueling year

Now those greedy bastards want to bring

the same conditions here

{Chorus}

So I called upon you brother

and you asked what I would do

And I told the truth, dear sister

when I spoke these words to you

I will stand beside your shoulder

when the tear gas fills the sky

If a National Guardsman shoots me down

I'll be looking him in the eye

I will wash their pepper from your face

and go with you to jail

And if you don't make it through this fight

I swear I'll tell your tale

I will stay with you in the prison cell

in solidarity

And I will not leave that cursed room

'til you walk out with me

For we the people fight for freedom

while the cops just fight for pay

And as long as the truth is in our hearts

we're sure to win someday

I will not falter when that iron fist

comes out of the velvet glove

I will stand beside you comrade

to defend this land we love

{Verse 3}

For I've seen the warplanes leaving

to bring death to foreign lands

Bearing loads of missiles made

by working people's hands

And they're guided 'cross the oceans

and they're guided 'cross the skies

And they're guided into Third World homes

where starving children die

And they sound of Rolling Thunder

casting lightning from the clouds

While leeches latch on scorched earth

sucking oil from the ground

10. Thaïs

{Part 1}

Sunk out in my catacombs

Gutwrenchingly numb

Where do I fit in?

With the other out of sin

But you have no eyes

To see where I have been

To the fractures in my bones

To which I built myself alone

To the desert do I drone

More 'cause I'm delusional

{Part 2}

I need a million eyes to follow me and

I want a million ears on me to be and

I, this hollow ache inside of me and

I, will drown me in my sorrow

{Part 3}

Blur the sky the mind the eye

Blend the world to void and empty

I blur my mind so I can't see

The inevitable end of me

A shirt expanse of useless time

I waste in a fruitless haste

If I get nowhere who am I

A useless wreck a waste of time

Stuck in a haze that I created

False security I always hated

Let the stupid Child out

I cannot think at all right now

Fortune burned down in my bones

The city will be swept by mold

I cannot see

What I could be

A ship cast far into the sea

11. See Ya!

[Instrumental]