Rishloo
Album • 2007
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Under this canvas, he hides a dream A trick of the type too cheap to be free Makes your burgeoning inquiry More easily answered Oh, a sight they have come to see We shan't disappoint, they've paid for a scene And a scene they shall have indeed This dark, dark evening Join us inside, that's the way here Come now, just step right up in line Freaks, fools, and fire Come nearer, come closer, it's nearly time You there, and you there, and come one and all It looks better in red, my calico friend Let us brood on the hue of need What finds your favour? No, the show must go on instead With hundreds of eyes at two to a head And the blindness is thrice complete When all stand watching Step aside, make way for the stars' presence Better beware, there's lights and glittering Gaze deeper, stare harder, it's nearly time You there, and you there, and come one and all, so plain So have you ever wondered Where were the demons they told us of? Be patient, they're coming, shortly revealed to you And I do think you'll find a dead ringer, dead ringer Much still hides you curious minds, there's no hurry Now, where are my manners? Round, around, why? I believe they've all arrived Out, out, from the wings Set all the props in place Lower the lights and wait Now, bring them in, let them watch, let the spectacle rise Hold your breath, this suspense leads the arrogant dead eyes More than them will you spend for the vision of your life Let the curtains fall down Look now and see, that's quite the motley disguise you've borrowed My friend, it seems quite odd, but you are the show you've paid for Step through the mirror and now the circus spins on and on, so Come one, come all, tonight
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026
One more charlatan goes mute Safe in these halls, discreetly I hold out for the rare When the silence is golden Beg to join me here Too late, too late, too late, too late, too late Too late now to be Self-redeemed for all of these dreams that you've wound tightly Remain enthralled as breathing stalls the course of your mind And join the line to march in time right back with your flock Hollow minds stalk ropeless gallows in turn to idle unimmersed Where eager eyes and sameness strangles concern and fashion murders worth Hey, you there on the outside You there on the fault line Will you save us from emotion? Will you save us from the cold tide? Fuck you, you fool With your hand-me-down views And your valley of counterpoint bullshit excuse You wouldn't have a word if I hadn't said it first So cup your little seed and beg, beggar, beg Beg until you cannot speak I hold out for the rare When the silence is golden Beg to join me here Or stay where you stand There to deny all your faults And beg to join me here Peace now fools to trace your muse Beyond the failing hand
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026
Cedar grains cling To woven skin upon walls I know frail truths feed Borrowed dreams grown cold And from here, I beg Release and hope, I hope Breathing through these lines Innocence lost among the torment Of grace within the storm Seeking darkness in the dawn While the emptiness divides Every purpose with the light I fade, I fade Without a key, without a sound Without a chance to hold the light It reaches in between the seams To tease the madness and the grief To curse the walls, to cure the need To curse the damned who damn the need The need to know what lies beyond, beyond the walls Still I lie awake I try and let the rendering end But it all withers me Turn the key, turn the key, turn the key, turn the key Turn the key, turn the key, damn the key, damn the key, damn— And set free, this I swear It's not enough for me to die alone Uproot these veins that fail to bleed So I will know and I will still believe we're better Than these lies that we have learned to breathe Breathing, I step beyond the past and let it go
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026
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All the same I chased the Cheshire, looked for all the same relief And furthermore I dug in furthermore than you can bury deep It's so sad to see So glad you found your own way out Arraign your head with crowns invisible, high Remember, why you're here is to inspire For what it's worth It's hollow pantomiming, what's it worth to you? To be sure Lick the needle to be sure you're truly through It's so sad to see So glad you found your own way out Arraign your head with crowns invisible, high Remember why you're here is to inspire Apart from all of these still waves The fissures open to align Have some water, friend, you're looking pale This wasn't part of the design Beware the storm, avoid the frozen rain Ash, the passing dusty collar Inserting spikes for their embrace Forgetting, why you're here is to inspire Bleeding, it's how they found us So responsive, draining out across the floor Seeping through the chasm, frail and wanting Needing nothing less than more Curtain, vague illusions from the sideshow To dispel the fantasy Bleeding, ever bleeding, always bleeding 'Till the vein runs dry Here, take this nail and push it inside, in fucking hatter You'll feel so much better as this nerve dies In true Alice fashion Drive out the centering
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026
Pass between the in-between To evidence the things unseen For travelers who've passed beneath Till waxed and flaxen, unkempt hair Is standard where they hold me here To separate the spirit from the shape Feast upon the eyes Till the breath of life falters Waiting for the sigh A borderline crossed to wonder Is the shutter shy? The film is fading Seen through pallid eyes, the triad waking Wholly satisfied To cauterize the two that feel alright Seeing white light Stepping outward to embrace All the phantom static in frame All these virgins calling for haste See the satyr rise To feast upon the eyes closing She is strange, oh, this death-dealing diva Speaking cause with reluctance to me We will dance while the fever bereaves us To escape from the fortune she weaves I'm ashamed when the flames sell me fire For the lantern I've made from my skin Can the stitches hold on through these travels If the hunger removes them within? As I race through the passage, I find you And we dance 'til eternity ends And the void is not full up, nor empty When the song of our empire begins
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026
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Oh child, deceive me Enter the same, the same as I Moments pass, desperate contortions unfold Seeking placid sanity, a moment of calm Cancerous anxiety and thieving doubt-rain Sheltering indifference to dignify rage Begging for a line drawn in the sand To separate the prophets from the men Bittersweet the wicked So the guise of harmony can breathe again delighted Hear me, son, the river's dry again Foretell the fate and lead us to the edge Let the prideful sinners bear the gold and buy acceptance Breathe again To waste away inside here The years in turn Your haunting words have never left my ears My mind, oh, reckoning Pride is the mirror through which we must break Wretched, disfigured, confused, and distracted Here down in this cellar, it's cold, dark, and manic Clinging indifferent, privilege demands You excuse your excuses, excuse your excuses And blame, blame, you blame Fearful deceiver, dim motives erratic This dream too ambitious, this vision too drastic Choke down rhetorical scraps from the attic Forever to stand there and still just refuse to change Just change Set the nightmare alight and Dance 'til these flames illuminate The cause for the lie Redemption is not beyond our time
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026
God, this must Must be for certain if you are here Raise my world an ossuary Staring through the gate, wide-eyed Did you think I'd salivate and beg? Don't sell me tones of liberation Standing in a cage May you find that In this sinister lapse, we'll heal our sight Save your tears, my child Take it, hold it, keep it Know we choose this suffering There they stand, straining to scrutinize the sage String me up these soapbox augurs Seeking out the ways divined Here from the citadel, it's claimed Serpents waiting in the shadows Keep us from the dream May you find that In this sinister lapse, we'll heal our sight Save your tears, my child Take it, hold it, keep it Know we choose this suffering I pushed the button and I pulled the trigger I killed our brothers and murdered our sisters I am the pattern, the plague, and the prison And I tore the wound and let it bleed May you find that In this sinister lapse, we'll heal our sight Save your tears, my child Take it, hold it, keep it Know we chose this suffering And we are not alone
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026
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I've crawled this corridor once before To the shadows where it ends Peeled back all of the paper doors To remind me where I've been Seeds to be sown, who would've known? The balance fractured this far in Who left this way open? Unguarded, paths chosen All guilty They stand in judgment of those who would travel And all are guilty To swing the pendulum, to eat the temporal They all know harvest time is coming soon I hold a fragile light Before faces stone ascend Luminous for what it's worth In an amber-ragged mist I left this way open I wanted paths chosen All guilty They stand in judgment of those who would travel And all are guilty To swing the pendulum, to eat the temporal We all know harvest time is coming soon I love it, my Listen, spoken, and broken word To those who would try to hide Beckoning the earth to draw you nigh Make your vendetta of the ground, sundered ground lover All opposing gravity, rise, rise, rise, rise
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026
Who's there? I've forgotten Who said "Run away"? Run where? Oh Against the walls and armed forgotten This amputee holds mending tools I look to the left to see the hand on the knife Chiseled at glance, improved the stone paradigm Must hurry back before the endless rise Paradise employs the martyr I'm too willing to take the name from them Approach the clouds, a winged imposter To trip among the gods so proud I look to the right to see my feet to the sky Embellish the fall to encourage the lie Must hurry back before the endless rise Paradise denies the lover I'm too willing to take the name for them Sever the scavenger's wings Casting out from the heavens unbeautiful things Beggars, orphans, willful widows clutch the ground Hopeless, outcast harlots trying to hold on We're all so willing to take from them Take the feathers, if you wish I will fly with or without them Fly, fly on high
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026
We're, if at all, slaves to a pawn Caught in a cautious lie If at all Staggering weightless, haggard stained cynical It all tastes sweet Leave me to sway here, if at all Listing ageless Wait, wait, and see Come here to rest And then cosset the crows Who murder the raven And those who cast the losing die Leave me to sway here, if at all Listing ageless Wait Trace these suicide shades Uncovered through this pious lullaby Praise to suffer while we brace ourselves Shaking hands on the altar See these paths to their end Through the pulse of hate And now walking along the earth It always turns inward, oh To let their souls writhe Sealing softly, it is wanting hate Trace these suicide shades Uncovered through this pious lullaby Pray and suffer, erase, erase, erase, erase Erase, erase, erase, erase Hidden Track In the deep dark shadows where everyone lies There's a circus smirking debutante, conducting his spies And at its turns, he wins to their chagrin, now everyone dies In his deep, dark shadows where everyone lies (Shame, shame) Now he stands in the center, with his Cheshire grin Peeling off oscillating memories attached to their skin Well, it's over soon, now, red balloons keep us amputees in In this deep, dark circus where nobody wins (Shame, shame)
Submitted by Sexy Gargoyle — Feb 21, 2026
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