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MORDANT

by Mordant

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1.
Time took my soul. Asleep, never waking My death, not yet tolled, I am on the threshold (It's keeping me alive). Barbed wire swelling a weak mind. The day I wake is the day I will die. There is no me. Lock me in an orgone machine, Behind closed doors, I might have energy. For now, I'm pulling my own teeth, Until the madness takes the best of me. The day I wake is the day I will die. There is no me.
2.
Sequelae 01:43
Stain me, my inkblood prophecy. You taught me everything about the things I could be: My back glued to wet sheets That hit I so badly need My mind, a waiting room of pharmacies When he touched me, I didn't feel anything A twelve-year-old girl was all I could see. Her breasts on a plate, it was clear she was me. Static so loud, give me headache. I'll never forget the way her eyebrows had raised. So, here I am, resting in malaise. My old friend illness, Take me away.
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"O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm, That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy: And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy."* And his dark secret love does thy light destroy - is your light destroyed? Appropriate my disease. It looks good on you when your hair is teased. Appropriate my disease. Is your light destroyed? *taken from "The Sick Rose" by William Blake.
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Let us grow bitter. I'll seek no strangers To bring through our doors, Lest he hurt us all. Never grow hungry or eat again From the floor of this ugly, ugly world. Maybe, our sisters were right to lie, cheat, and steal. Yes, they were right to talk, fuck, and take. We've traveled for so long to be kidnapped, raped, and beat. We've traveled for so long... We are free by the hand of lighting, To evade all immoral travesty. Our brothers, our fathers, our rulers, Will not make another speech, will have no mouths, We'll make them bleed. I'm burning down that prison, that tree. I'm burning down that prison by the hand of our lightning.
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A cold stare and the hands of a scavenger No muscles in the face could wet a dry tongue Spirits go blue for the seasons of light, of love, of health There were no myths, no petroglyphs To prepare you for this horror story Failed etiology will bring us more suffering You can't bear the burden of a whole generation grown black, grown cold, invisible We will have more children that will live even longer to perfect this ancient stigma They will mourn us (on public walls) only on our death days What's to become of fields grown soft? Will we sleep into Lethes? Underground, uncovered, this is what we've dreaded But if we were burned, not buried, things could end differently The rest is the same: the grief, the mourning But, at least there'd be No bodies to unease Your social conditioning
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every day i scratch and tear loosen and tighten and try to remove parts some screws are still too tight these parts have welded together my spirit has corroded inside this selfish violent shell constantly fighting to rework and heal with new remedies, new tools strip away this shell, rebuild my spirit and find the tools to create and destroy or find a way to forge them love and heal, destroy and rebuild these tools are in our dying world these tools are in our dying selves these tools are in our living world these tools are in our living selves i have to find them

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self-released on cassette. you can get one at a show.

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released June 17, 2015

Recorded and mixed in May 2015 by Ian Crist at Office Space in Seattle, WA.
Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios.

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