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Snake Lore

by Abdullah

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1.
strange are the things we place our beliefs in my apprehensions tear down the walls of the temple the dollar signs that you crave mark the extent of your faith strange are the things we choose to believe in my apprehensions tear down the walls of the temple i'll never fit in, no faith to believe in my resignation tears down the walls of the temple your cash betrays your true worth Obtain your godhead on Earth profane is the wealth that you believe in since you can't be wrong, shield your eyes from the sun its light will expose the poverty of your soul your wealth cannot save this sacrament that will fade your opulence has no worth you've sold your soul on this earth and I'll break from your hold my life cannot be bought and sold this truth you will never get and now you're so far in debt
2.
sinister evolution our unholy birth right stares off into the void shrouded by eternal night we've all been practicing for this day yearning to close our eyes quick to embrace this mortal fate anxious to fall will you fall? plunge into fire who will fall? souls bathe in the mire realize this shell is rotting creation is left blank quick to embrace this mortal fate yearning to close our eyes purge this useless soul shed this rotten skin we'll find rest in this abyss and we'll dwell in this abyss bodies house the disease of life burn down this unholy shrine
3.
we're all prisoners trapped under the sky locked inside our lives outside of our minds far from the truth we hide set in motion from my birth discharged from womb to prison sift through the pain the nature of the game still i seek another way clinging to this false identity stumbling in the dark my strength is turned against itself my mind denies the answer i've bought into it find it hard to quit can i find another way? clinging to this false identity stumbling in the dark hoping that the way things are can be undone struggling to see the light we're all prisoners trapped under the sky locked inside our lives waiting for something that may not arrive spinning gears and wasting time outside of our lives far from the truth we hide
4.
a coldness fills my dreams so i must stay wide awake i can almost see her face as the night fades into day i am a captive of this night and its calm serenity in the darkness is my faith a pitch black that i can see on this night i'll lose my fears and be one with the lights above i have been there all my life in the darkness of your love first was temptation those sins i cannot live without i can almost see her face all my life it's what i've dreamt about i have sight though i am blind this affliction is my friend and the darkness beckons me this love that will never end now my eyes are open wide the ancient wisdom has passed through me i know now who i am through the tongues of ancient speech then came salvation all that i've ever asked for to think that i could hesitate all it asked for was my soul but i know now who i am may this blackness have no end through the light it beckons me this love that will never end ponder deeply the lights beyond and know the secrets they keep hear the truth of the serpent's tongue within silence it speaks now i know
5.
outside this life a light appears a chill i've felt throughout these years my dreams have brought it back to me this image only i can see this coldness burns me from within awake in a dream cold so lost in sleep old how have i passed through these walls blind? a sorrow creeps into my mind lying awake with my eyes shut these walls will tremble from its touch as i escape inside the rift grows wide it follows me inside beneath this life i can see no light deep in this broken sky i can see no light so far in this broken night oh, this spirit visits me slips in my dreams at night a sorrow creeps into my life awaken by cold hands their fingers around my neck i'll hide away from time asleep i'm so cold
6.
walk the path of the righteous ones, yeah don't come home to pray been on my knees for ten days now, baby just follow me take my hand the black ones will shine on tonight the black ones will rise to new heights the black ones will shine on tonight the black ones will suffer through life can you talk with the demons, honey? fall on mortal knees speak in tongues with the ones you love now drink with the spirits that have blessed you the black ones will rise to new heights the black ones will suffer through life the black ones, their souls will thrive the black ones will shine on tonight

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Originally released on UK-based label Rage of Achilles. Recorded on a Tascam 424 cassette portastudio by Jeff. Mastered at Suma by Paul Hamman.

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released October 3, 1999

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