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(Vanblow)
I wish that you would set me free forever
but the rings on my arms are too deeply burned.....

Former alps make reluctant isles, ants in a storm, we are all condemned
Now the greatest minds sit not on spines, we are all their nutrients
Every drop of reserve, unfrozen, still did not reach the highest peaks
So a clever, brine cracks a faucet of time, pouring archaic seas,
Each set of waves smarter than the last, climbing tides never recede
Once benign pools now smile right back, patient for us to concede
A millennium, ago, my father was of my age, rumor has it, I look just like him

A bloodied rostrum and missing fins, teeth marks raked from gill to grin.
From far away, it's easily seen, the ordeal through which I had been
Specific gravity, taken it's toll, fateful events left their holes
Teeth replaced from ones behind, nictating membranes hide swollen eyes
Uncanny, I sailed straight to thee, in tonic immobility
One drop in a million
Spiteful seas and sharper shores, I'd suffer all again
And navigate with magnetic pores, a thousand chance occurrences
Uncanny, I sailed straight to thee, in tonic immobility
One drop in a million
To migrate is to suffer
Like fleeting friends, thermoclines come and go
A family asunder, I cheers the deserters,

I awaken from what can hardly be called sleep
Starving as if I had two stomachs to feed
An ebb and tide of images in my mind of the two of you keeps my gut painfully empty
The tar boils and churns
I carve out and deny these infections on my soul and watch as they spawn a life of their own
Leaving snail trails of scars over what little of me is still pure
As they crawl towards where the tar boils and churns
Aborted parts of my psyche are all found nourishing themselves at these pits
Bubbling forth from the recesses of my mind where all I am slowly falls in

As truth's war still plummets
I'm sick to my stomach for my rose I would leave
My barren lonely star
Sketch me a picture
Use only your mind
My imagination will make it turn out just right
I would give everything
Gathered from worlds afar
Sift through realities
Figure it out
One world to another
Search the heart of man
To die in the dreamland and never walk free again
I would give everything
Gathered from worlds afar
Sift through realities
Figure it out
One world to another
Search the heart of man
To die in the dreamland and never walk free again
The fact that you are alone
So full of infertile grounds weak and oblivious
Speaking without a sound
The boy's soul plummets
I'm sick to my stomach
For my rose I would heal any scare
Unlike me her wound stay open and bleed

The found gold here but they never found me
Underneath the temple on main street
Where men spent their dust and one took my life
In a town where two rivers collide
I'm still here
After the fire but before the water
They made sure to leave no one on the bottom
All the graves were lifted to higher ground
But where I lay they never found

Our bow cannot be seen
From where we stand on the stern fog has taken everything
The men's faces show their concern
The cold is worse that we feared
I despair the end of my years
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The more it stings the more I try
Keep waking up each time I die a little death I cry
A thousang leagues a million miles
The secrets buried in the vault beneath the oceans wide
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This beacon's light has burned for as long as I've known
Though tonight the horn must bring us in
For the tower ceases to glow dare we raise our anchor
Let the tide have its way

Down here I wait with all my benthic friends
Underneath the gate listening to lives end
Those with seven gills will investigate each thunderous crash and corresponding shape
In great detail, I described you to them
In case the bridge is how you choose to end
I'd like to have some last words with you before you end up on the Farallone's rocky shores
Where the real beasts await to have their way
With all the failures washed out from the bay
A hundred years have past since just last autumn
Please come to the bay, see who now lives on the bottom
I'd like to have some last words before I forget how to walk upon these muddy shores and entirely cease to breathe like a man
Seeing things only with the tips of my hands
My heart is crushed by the jaws of regret
Upon knowing where you now make your bed
The depths at which I've chained to you
I pray those shackles eventually rust through
Held under by chiton like lies
Amongst the corpses
I'll never surface
Debris bouncing off my hide
Covered in detritus I've lost purpose
What comfort lies in years of hating me?
Haven't you in some way found a rare peace?
Please realize your very soul's at stake you're still a man and I was just a tool of fate
Your bite marks riddled my soul
It got damn cold with all those holes
So I left it on shore for all the gulls
Take it
There wasn't much left
Take it
But it's all yours

She wails and whispers longingly
Calling out to those no longer listening
Her sweet incantations lost in infamy
Siren fools no one but still she will sing
Fall just like those before you
I will
Fall just like those before you
Pass still
Her lure can redirect the oldest currents
Countless have fallen before
Where winged feet will soar
Fall just like those before you
I will
Fall just like those before you
Pass still
On by
And I will
Pass still

Old sea captain warned us today
When the lord surely looked the other way
Something in the stream outside of town
Reached up and dragged my poor child down
Has the devil caused this hellish heat
To lure our children down to the creek
Eleven miles from the nearest waves
What manner of beast has swam in from the bay
Young man dive in with hopes to free
My boy's body from the jaws of the thing
At the deepest part of the swimming hole
Refuses to give back the life it stole
Has the devil caused this hellish heat
To lure our children down to the creek
Eleven miles from the nearest waves
What manner of beast has swam in from the bay
Bring your guns and dynamite
The monster in the creek dies tonight
Fire at whatever moves within the muddy waters of Matawan
Life fuses tossed deep
We'll blow the demon right out of the stream
Has the devil caused this hellish heat
To lure our children down to the creek
Eleven miles from the nearest waves

No further offerings of our own flesh and bone, the stranger found in pieces on shore, has limbs to spare, and can grow more
A sign, an omen, a living totem, a walking fountain of meat.
Asteroidian limbs grow again and again, pleasing the pool of teeth
Sacrifice anew of fresh sinew, his scent sinking like teeth in soup
Sentries arise from the halocline
Water will flow from elder to embryo, the driest of days are days of old,
Bring every bowl, fetch every pail, cup thy hands both dry and frail
We'll all be drunk with water again
When we've regaled the demons enough, bring our gift back up
And feed him well with the oiliest slop
Yank the rope and hoist him high, he'll regenerate overnight

I chose this place because it has no bottom to interfere with my fall
Anaerobic beds of silt preserving still the shock of what I saw
Vivid descriptions I'd do anything to forget
But here I am crushed by a million frigid tons of regret
I will rest in one piece away from clawed things that otherwise would eat all that's left of me
The world is not ready for what I saw down there
That fateful day starting an endless autumn, words did seer my pupils
Liquid acrylic quickly will freeze a broken will in water heavy as tar
Somebody please take me above the deep where I can carry the weight
Of this burden you left for me to bare in frigid waters high above my head
Surrounded by all the dead frozen like me in the salt less sea
You can pay your respects at the shore now

If you were to sever my arm I would grow one more
As I regenerate I'll still have another four
It would not be the first time autonomy has saved me
If you were to sever my legs I would grow two more
As I regenerate I'll still crawl on the floor
These pieces please feel free to keep all for yourself
They'll eat and breathe and grow into unsightly things
Haunting you with their resemblance of me
Though lacking any sort of heart I figure they'll fare better in your company
They're all yours now

You're free from your womb now
But this maternity ward is a feeding ground
Don't look back for ages
Your mother's toothy smile can smell you for miles
You too will eat your young
You too will eat your young
Consume all that crosses your path
Each morsel may be your last
Never cling like the remora
To those who've spawned you in the past
You too will eat your young
When there's only enough for one
In times of need this must be done
From womb to gut it has begun
Eat your young
The songs of giants lure you
Their scents of gluttony tempt you
The songs of giants lure you
Will you follow?
Their scents of gluttony tempt you
Will you follow?
Energy is precious and the journey long
Feed now and breed again
The birth is food
Now feed on
Tides pull and convince
Their direction is the best
Waves hide all that lies
Well beyond their crest
You too will eat your young
From womb to gut it has begun

Waiting for the sun
To burn away the season
Revealing the place we called home
Built by our blood and our blood alone
We will find our summit again
This blood does not flow through her veins
As she walks on floors by mother laid
Sheltered by the roof my father built tall
To shield us from all that may fall
We will find our summit again
It will take more than the snow
To bury all that you have known
Waiting for the sun to burn away the season
Revealing the place we called home
Built by our blood and our blood alone
Soon will come the winter's end
We will find our summit again
It will take more than the snow

The dreams are upon me again with impossible seas filled to the brim
With equally impossible things with preposterous amounts of teeth
Here too I command an immortal ship and all ten hands on deck
Standing abreast with the finest men, each thick headed
And hell bent on seeing this through for reasons all their own
Patching the sails with the shirts off their back, I need not sail alone
The highest crests will fall like the rest under our battered hull
The beast filled troughs our bow will cross atop their cartilage skulls
The chill of the wind carries the hymn of things sounding disappointingly human
I'm quick to remind my men to ignore these beauties with green skin
A sure sign their blood is too thin, singing lampreys that will suck you dry
The highest crests will fall like the rest under our battered hull
The beast filled troughs our bow will cross atop their cartilage skulls
Get out
You hunter
This sea has no end
Each of you will give in

These castle walls are finished at last
Will they hold out the elements or just the past
Bury it all out in the yard
Down by the pond and the old livestock
Exactly where I wasn't shown
The site of his ashes now buried in snow
Now take this flock far into town
They have eaten our fields down close to the ground
With the master dead and planted deep
Who can possibly care for these tired sheep
Exactly where I wasn't shown
The site of his ashes now buried in snow
Now take this flock far into town
They have eaten our fields down close to the ground
With the master dead and planted deep
Who can possibly care for these tired sheep
I can't reap what you've grown
I can't plow these fields alone
I can't bring the harvest home by myself and myself alone
These castle walls are finished at last
Will they hold out the elements or just the past
And bury it all out in the yard

Don't let them know what the child can do
Put him to sleep with the strongest brew
And make him more symmetrical
Burn all the pieces, leaving not a quantum
Don't let them know what the child can do
Growing back three where there was two
And keep his reach contralateral
Don't let them know what the child can do

What was the catalyst, the final offense, that forced her presence
To intervene, to make known, this planet of stone, is truly her bone
And her flesh, ripples with troughs and crests
And our lakes, are her breasts
And her veins, quench our thirsts
But we pour our filth in first
Our judgment came not in flame, but in flood
A crawling lake of brine, thick with oil, thick with blood
Beg for, forgiveness from higher ground
Scents of cetacean serpents carried for miles
One baleen grin hides another serrated smile
When, pectoral fins block out the sun, all is lost
For those out of her reach, she'll swell rivers into the creeks,
Pushing creeks into the streams, until the highest lakes boil and teem
Torrential flows carving pinnacles clean
We are debris from which god's hands filter feed
When new shores lap at our highest peeks

Our ship struck twice by a whale
Now dig in a bail before it's too late
With the brine up to our knees
All I can think is how you'll be the first to be eaten
You will
With the shit this deep you have to leave all the things behind that you can't eat
Far too many adrift at sea
You are our chosen source of meat
With the brine up to our knees
All I can think is how you'll be the first to be eaten

Must we swim on forever?
In search of where the light breaks
Pipelines must end somewhere
Twenty kicks into the abyss.
Must we swim on forever?
In search of where the light breaks
Pipelines must end somewhere

I swore I saw you sitting on my bow
With a foot long smile trying to convince me
That it's okay to give into the waves
And that I wouldn't feel a thing
When the hounds of the sea start to take apart me ending my suffering
If I should pour the rest of my bottle overboard will it sting the eyes?
Those black eyes staring up at me from behind all those teeth?

Finally, the horrible river has crawled back to bed
Leaving our bog like streets now damned with the dried up dead
Did you think it wise to build on the swollen banks of this delta?
When news surfaces of the latest death toll, will you rethink your new capitol?
Will our streets ever be dry again?
Festering pools left behind will be the death of this city
Breeding things with wings will only be the beginning
When your governor rowed down J street to the inauguration could he smell the cholera?
My offer to stands to build my land uphill
You need only name it after me, Sutterville

I left your lover in the slough
I left your lover in the slough
He spilled his guts but none of it was true
I left your lover in the slough.
All the letters he wrote you
were left in plain view
I recited them out loud as I was running him through
I left your lover in the slough.
Crayfish will do as they wish
No need to stick around and watch
Crayfish will do as they wish with every inch of him.
Out here past the muck and brine,
I wait beneath the power lines And now its half past nine
He's never been this late before
Crayfish will do as they wish
Cattails beyond the pale
hide the reason why he's late
I almost can't blame him I may have done the same
And would expect to pay when caught on someone else's claim

This wagon has lost its wheels
Now dig in with your heels and carry your own weight
With the snow up to our knees
All I can think is how you'll be
First to be eaten
You will you will
With the shit this deep you'll have to leave all the things behind that you don't need
You have fallen behind me
There is nothing left to eat
First to be eaten
You will you will
With the shit this deep you'll have to leave all the things behind that you don't need
You have fallen behind me

When you looked towards the heavens
You faced the wrong way
Your actions slaughter saints
To whom you need pray
No need to take communion
You've been feeding all along
On ancient existence
Old as time is long
The rising sun desecrates the embodiment
Of a blue earth
Destroying the balance of a system in place
Since all life's birth
Revolution
In the water
Untold treasures
Lay hidden inside
Bodies left plunging
A black hell awaiting
Don't swim through the water here
Don't feed from the food found here
What floats above all men must fear
Don't swim through the water here
Don't feed from the food found here

Why weren't you here
When I stood alone
You won't believe
All that I've learned
And all that I have known
She pulls me through
All of her bodies
Calling out
Magnetically
Her depths hide nothing from me
I befriended deepest fathoms
And returned stronger still
Starving for your praise at the crest of every swell
I find dissuasion of tides
I find dissuasion of tides
She uses no words to reveal her deep
Your shallows blur all that you speak
To the equal before me
I find dissuasion of tides