Catharsis
Born in the very bed of the enemy Doesn't mean shit to me, I'd rather die than live in fear Disaffect me, disconnect me, cast aside like filth I'll trade you lie for lie and tooth for tooth Cancer spreading in and all around you Drive in the nails and the lies, pour the salt in my wounds I'll be the one to cast the first stone When the angels come down to kick in your windows To tear up your streets, to turn your world upside down You live in fear Don't you... Born in a bed of nails I won't, I wouldn't sleep here if I could To wake and find myself the next sacrifice You live in darkness, live in fear But as least you know that you long here Tell me is it worth the fucking price? I'll trade you lie for lie and tooth for too
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 03, 2026
Welcome to the holy day This is the day that it all comes true It will burn like a furnace Every day of your life, recognize yourself for what you are When the mouth of hell opens up before me, come suffering: Wash me of my impurities, teach me what it is to want more Everywhere I turn, the despisers of the body, the despisers of the soul Angels bleed from out their wounds, demons out from mine Remind me what's at stake, drive me day and night In this forsaken slaughterhouse, God forgot but I have not I still know exactly what I want On the edge of humanity, health and sickness to each side of me For the first time I could see I meant nothing to either one� Time is running out for you, all the things you desire are hostile to you Your submission and your "holy lies" I'll never stoop to understand You sacrificed yourselves: you raised your temples to the skies Plucked your tongues, sewed shut your eyes Raised disease upon a throne Sacrificed the flesh, now nothing left for you but the bones In the pit of mortality, health and sickness casting lots for me For the first time I could see I meant nothing to either one Desperate, starved in every way, bloodstained bread they brought for me I had nothing, and God help me, I took it while I could CONTROL Nailed to my sacraments, to the marrow of my bones Making my way alone down this road paved with thorns Struggling to carve a path through the pollution that surrounds Unburied Death-defying Unbowed
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 03, 2026
Scar tissue torn back to ribbons Gnawed by memory, I sit alone Skin talk, speaking in tongues YOU My shelter, my gilded cage, my pit of despair It becomes ritualized, becomes ritual lies It takes all you've got to break away To end the compromise, and to realize You're going to carry your secrets Through the gauntlet of revilers and despisers For the rest of your life Opium of cheap affection- bought and paid for by infection In the west: home... It becomes ritualized, becomes ritual lies It takes all you've got to break away To end the compromise and to realize You're going to carry your secrets To you grave Never tear us apart Never break us apart Never let them come between us Never throw it away Tear us apart Break us apart Let them come between us Throw it all Away
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 03, 2026
Night falls like a guillotine , they turn on themselves Blanket the city in broken glass Smoke-filled chamber spinning, flesh and soul are set at odds As my life ends she begs for her share of the corpse Bound together by mortal chains, it's up to me to make the trade Fucked up on their drugs, diseased, crying she comes to me As I come under the sharpest blade Now my strength is failing, my convictions at their weakest Eloi, eloi lama sabachthani as the agony depends Screams echo outside this cell, plotting my escape Entombed solitude, counting down the days Surrounding by confusion, drowning in pollution I'll strike anything in my reach Strength bows to weakness, to lepers and leaches Infected values you teach Painted black, God-hungry, lacrimans she comes for me Listening through the walls for the End All your schemes are failing so you sink your teeth in me Mercy is the word you use for giving me disease ISAAC In a world where everything smells like cunt Lay down in darkness Disappear Here, in the belly of the demon City of denial, threats passed off as reason Rancid angel of mercy watches from above My halo is a crown of thorns Your sickness is the cross I've borne But I won't sacrifice myself for you We are not the same God be with you because I won't be ISAAC
Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Jun 03, 2026