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World To Ash

by Serpentine Skies

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The Red Plague 04:04
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It burns it flickers Its viral toll In fevered minds Moving fast across the ramparts Said in tongues and manic froth The pox moves closer by the day How many of us have lost our minds Watching it creep across the horizon How many nights of torment Dreaming of mass graves from this mad plague To watch it slowly eat away Friends and family gone away Like a shadow cast on all the land A red cancer on the desert sand Where can I shelter my love away Besieged by all consuming plague Where can I hide from this decay A raven landed before me in a dream And spoke a clear eyed prophecy And gestured to the graves of the sick and of the dying "These are my great works on earth" "The price of human frailty"
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No One Left To Judge Me 05:37
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Everything is ill in the forest of twisted beams And the rivers are all coated in rainbows of gasoline And I'm nursing a disease incubating inside of me And I'm masturbating to the thought of the plague running free And the kings are all negligent before they'll decide to flee And everyone is high to escape reality And there's a sinking feeling in your chest where the plague has come to breed And everything is broken, cruel, and a worthless deed And the bodies are all swaying in the wind on barren trees And the laws are all deceit from reality And there's a million starving rats and never any cheese And nothing is more greedy than nothing's own greed For all of us are servants for decay and disbelief And God is hanging on a wire made from human grief And the fucking scum inside you is the only thing I see And this rotten species is worthless and obsolete And the ashes and the rubble have filled all the streets And the fires have burned every building every tree Until there is no one, no one left to judge me
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Virosa 04:17
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Virosa red Virosa white Virosa red Virosa white I presaged the pox Now material I see the veil removed In the dead of night I feel fate's tide Pull us closer Bring the union of our light Virosa red Virosa white Virosa red Virosa white Quickened intuition And born of revelation Virosa red Virosa white Virosa red Virosa white Serpents in the black abyss Twisted psyches in our vision Shadows that loom In corners of our rooms Virosa red Virosa white Virosa red Virosa white Crown of red dethroned Fall in exile Fallen angel May I find you despite all And bring about our union Virosa red Virosa white Virosa red Virosa white Divine insight
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World To Ash 05:54
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An invisible fire Rushed across the land Taking town by town In iron forests And whispered shadows Frothing words of prophets Fever dreams unheeded Those who live for fire And its contagious hunger Possessed by that old spirit Until all is smoke And charcoal snow And you will go And you will go Until only shadows reign here A mark in every haunt A brand of all our sin And with every breath I have I will fight against this dim
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Röentgen Blisters 12:04
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Cut out their eyes We've been waiting so long To tear down the sky Blind foals shudder, agonized Branded with the mark of our reign Black are the scars of permanent shade Save us, they say Pleading for all of this to go away Clawing with burned hands to leave Tormented with light they cannot see Ghosts in the ruins haunt the streets Wasting and afflicted with the modern disease
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Shadows Burned In The Streets 12:24
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I am the destruction that you fear.
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Shadows Burned In The Streets 05:35
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I am the destruction that you fear.
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Trinitite 06:15
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A desert of green seaglass Under poison wind And vampiric howls Cruel is the light of our synthetic sun I'm the voice of every poet Who has spoken in tongue I'm the thing behind the darkness Sprawling reaching out The road crunches like ice And shimmers with hidden light Many men have gambled On the things beyond their sight We were once beautiful Now awful children dying Mere vanishing spectres In wind and fire I dreamed in darkness Of all of Pandora's monsters Setting the world alight.
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Desolation 08:15
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Dark Harvest 03:28
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A lamb with seven eyes And seven limbs A Chernobyl Abomination And the will of the Lord Told me of the world it will conquer Peter's flock is sickened And covered with sores Ten thousand suns Rose over a horizonless world And the earth was scorched So nothing would grow And all was thrown into the abyss Of a darkened world The End

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World To Ash was conceived of during 2020 through 2022, The lyrics of the album deal with the rise of a deadly pandemic, a breakdown of the fabric of society, the rise of totalitarianism, and then a subsequent thermonuclear war. In its words and it sonic environment, it portrays the darkest possible fate that could occur for the human species and all life on earth, with ultimately no survival and the earth left an uninhabited wasteland. It is intended as a cautionary tale for the living that we must not forsake this planet, and must urgently abolish the tools and the pathology that is capable of ending us. May there be peace on earth, or we will perish.

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released October 31, 2022

All songs written, arranged, performed, recorded, and produced by Steven Belcher.
All instruments, Steven Belcher.

Instruments: Electric guitars (Baritone included,) Acoustic guitars, ghost guitar effects, noise guitar effects, bass guitar, field recordings, and manipulated sound sources, granular synthesizer using only self-made recordings, waterphone, bowed electric guitar, vocal effects and loops, hand-built contact mic noise machines, piano, drums, Geiger counter, corrupted digital files used as noise samples.

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Serpentine Skies is the Connecticut-based music project of Steven Belcher, focused mainly around the meditative state between the conscious and unconscious states of mind.

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