Salieri

I’d promised
I'd promised

I'd promised
I'd promised (to go)
I'd promised (to go)
I'd promised-
To go

But now that it’s time
The scene of what I’d missed
Is haunting me through tattered blinds
“Lift your eyes from above
Let your life flow out.”

Born of resistance
Plagued by irreverence
The burden of- a slow memory’s remnants

Awaken in moments
And search for the relevance

The instance fades- and leaves me no change

It wouldn’t seem like such a blow
If only minds could be re-
Newed as well as bone
A burst of color and dismay
Rends a draped malaise

If only years could all be-
Hewn as well as stone

A burst of color and dismay-
Rends a draped malaise which
Maligned as it may-
Still offers up a sanctum’s peace

Cloven
A cloven hoof
Crawls for the hobbled

Forked
The forked tongue
Croaks the call of the dumb

What passes over
When heads are steeped
Neck deep in the drolls cast off by the shrugging arms
The wading mass
The sludge so thick all limbs are lamed

Yet we waddle all the same

[Instrumental]

Cast off all my weight

[Instrumental]

So cast your light away
They'll shine your light out
Your light out

Cast off all my weight

[Instrumental]

Lift your eyes from above
Let your life flow out

A cloven
A cloven hoof
Crawls
For the hobbled

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The Forked
The forked tongue
Croaks
The call of the dumb

This bleeding erupted from the sores of wasted gods
The tension was broken by bloodied fists and open arms

The meaning destructed in solitude and fits of calm

Residing in daydreams, you’ll only feel it once it’s gone
(One day, and one chance to fail one day)

You’ll never screw this again
So take it all the way and dig through your grave