I've cut them off, took a machete to their wrists,
And sent their bodies down to hell.
I had no need of the beating hearts, the blood,
The paltry core of the bodies and souls and weak minds.
Let them dissolve in magma, let them succumb
And never be permitted to die!
.
I have hungered for their fingerprints for eons.
I salivate over the stories bent into their palm,
Carved into the shape of their bones.
Give me the gnarled hands of stone!
Let me feast on the imprint of all they've touched
And let me suckle on the sweetness of their pain!
.
I want to snap their bones between my fingers,
Grind them to a fine grey dust and snort it.
I want to ride the high buried right there,
In the palm of their dead hands.
But sometimes, there are lungs full of withered,
Unbreathed words I must taste.
.
Like heat likes to do, I suck the breath from their lungs
Through their fingertips like a straw,
Draw it from the veins with vampiric lust.
Demons flee my presence and black dogs run at night,
I am a starving angel with a machete,
Hunting, hunting, hunting for their unsaid words.
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Silver Daux
Shadowed souls, cursed magic, poetry that tangles itself in your soul and yanks out the ugly darkness from within. Maybe there's something broken in me, but it's in you too.
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"Do It Again" the track that would ultimately open the Beach Boys final album on Capitol Records which was released on February 10th 1969 had originally been released as a single in August of 1968. The track was the first of many post-Pet Sounds era throwbacks to the early Beach Boys sound which would become continually more cliched and eventually lead the Beach Boys to the level of self-parody they would eventually succumb to in the 1980s while their closest contemporaries The Beatles nearing the end of their run in 1969 would go on to be viewed as the most influential band of all time. However, the song itself is not bad on its surface, and it opens with a futuristic sounding (for 1969) drumbeat captured by then-Beach Boys engineer Stephen Desper using tape delays on the drums performed by Dennis Wilson and John Guerin. The song has been re-recorded numerous times over the years on various Beach Boys-related projects most notably the 2011 re-recording at Capitol studios featuring the five surviving Beach Boys at the time backed instrumentally by various members of both the Brian Wilson Band and Mike Loves touring "Beach Boys" to promote the then upcoming Beach Boys 50th Anniversary reunion tour in 2012. The hammering and power drill sound at the end of the song was an excerpt from a track called "Workshop" that was to be a part of the uncompleted "SMiLE" album.
By Sean Callaghan6 days ago in Beat
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Oh. This is dark and fabulous. Well done!
Though it is dark a sharp light ray was there!
ayayayay carumba. This is bloody marvellous (take that in both forms lol) Well done on this dark piece that just crescendoed beauifully in the end.
Whoa this is a dark masterpiece, great job!
Horrific poem indeed! Lots of great grursome imagery! “I have hungered for their fingerprints for eons. I salivate over the stories bent into their palm,” was such a striking set and built for the final line so well!
Lucifer is one passionate, dark soul. Exceptional piece! 👏👏👏👏
Whoaaaa, this was so dark, gruesome and intense! I especially loved these lines: "But sometimes, there are lungs full of withered, Unbreathed words I must taste."