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The Liner
05:27
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Take my hand
for you and your young must survive
I will become the pariah of this tragedy
For yourself this will mean life
For oneself, I will be bones beneath the sea
Take my hand, sweet lady
For I am kind
A Kind man I am
Tell them I was kind
Place your praise in my palm
One hundred years go by to meet the damned
Take me below, beneath the living
Keep me inside
Tell them I was kind
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Hourglass
05:35
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Loving thoughts meld with rich fabrics
She is close, but I am closer
Instinct driven by perfumes and conversation
She showed me interest, I showed her obsession
I am her loving predator
Cloaked in shadows, I make poetry of her form
Watching, waiting, loving
I knelt at the hourglass
She let me in
The sands are paradise
but they fall to sin
She let me in
Into our paradise, into our sin
A glimmer of a life
beyond my plasma prison
Always the same, met with disdain
She offered the only way of change
The sinkhole drags me in
A rumble sounds inside, a deepness oceansize
The freezing soak sets in
Bones beneath the sea
her heart floats above me
There she is sailing gently away from me
This is not goodbye
You will thank me
repay me in kind
For I was kind, so kind
I knelt at the hourglass
She let me in
The sands are paradise
but they fall to sin
She let me in
Into the freezing depths, a sea of sin
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A Century Forlorn
05:52
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Say, can you hear the horn resound?
Vesicles of chivalrous endow
Reach for the half-hour waist
where bones meet sand turned black
Can you feel a century forlorn?
Kind man, oh so kind
perfect guy, please be mine
Blind man, fractured mind
deluded, a hopeless bind
Courtly pleasantry
chivalry is all I need
Pity brought you me
rejection my final deed
I don't understand your callous retort
You are obligated to be with me
Between two mottled worlds we met by ice
I was kind then, I am kind now
But nothing more
Kind man, not so kind
Wanton vice for you to find
Blind man, not so blind
Impetus moral decline
I won't go back to my prison
Its comforts greyed by correlation
I see a new cage I dare not name
Zoned with your derision
Say, can you hear the horn resound?
Vesicles of chivalrous endow
Reach for the half-hour waist
where bones reap their marrow
You will feel the century I've worn
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Kindness Ends
10:32
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Seeds but no soil
The earth, in my time away, sowed with salt
Once I was true, before I knew
the cold, the dark, the deep
And now you will know them
and I won't be alone again
Draft shadows bending to woes
Severed by dripping windows
White walls protect from debts past due
Sleek white walls too shallow to keep him from spilling in
Salt mixing with fresh
Arching up to take a breath
Tension won't break
Once I was true, before I knew
the cold, the dark, the deep
And now you will know them
and I won't be alone again
Alas, the kindness ends
to see the man underneath
A boy denied a grape is scorned
but a grape is not wholly for wine
Bear a wrath stomped down through time
Guess the bite of false widows
Minor harm done unto foes
White walls instead victimise you
Venom fills you in
Please why don't you keep your head under there
like I did for so long
Fill the cask with a gravel freeze
Plug the cave underwater with an iceberg arm
Soft curves sink in linoleum
Drip drip drip drop down pale blue
Sweet curves touch vinegar skin
Scorched by my prison, my plasma prison
Take my bleeding warmth, now you want me
The cold, dark, deep, I've known it twice
We'll never make it to the city, never make it
We're bones beneath the sea
The cold, the dark, the deep
Tell them I was kind
A kind man
And now you've come to know them
we will never be alone again
Alas, the kindness ends
to see the man underneath
A boy disguised a saint for gain
but a saint is not promised heaven
Step in white
One hundred more
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Kind Man Brighton, UK
Experimental metal scolding friendzone protesting creeps.
All music and lyrics written by Luke Powell except where noted.
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