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DEMO 2017

by Empty Ritual

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1.
The Watch 03:02
A widow’s walk A shore awash in blood A carcass rots This will be a day of bones We walk among them like empty cages We will walk among The cages empty Empty Caged Empty Cage The starving scream of gulls An unforgiving sky Flesh is torn like faith We burn these bones for light We dig this grave We turn this soil Pat flat the sod Just walk away.
2.
Count the wings of ravens under bent beak and claw a corpse for the taking eyes wide for the dawn there will be no sleep only the dreaming only the voices only the fall bear the weight of cities yoked to your shoulders crawl like the winter fall like the snow swallow the shadow choke on the bones Wake blind with terror Lost and alone.
3.
The mask that you live in Will be the prison where you die Choking on broken teeth As rotten as your life You are every unwanted word You are every set of eyes The mask that you live in Will be the prison where you die The stench of fear, The heat of baited breath and frozen screams There is no prayer There is no hope or grace Just lessons taught by Hands of strange men The way home Is so far Because of us Carve out the lies rip out the spoiled meat and rancid hearts There is no cure We are the rotting flesh Just cancer grown inside of kings and saviors Her way home Is so long Because of us Are we etched into silence Underneath these stones Because we are not this body We are not these bones. Because we are not this body We are not these bones. The mask that you live in Will be the prison where you die Choking on broken teeth As rotten as your life You are every unwanted word You are every set of eyes The mask that you live in Will be the prison where you die
4.
I want to stop picturing The day they find your body-- Unmoving and boneless Stagnant creekwater Under an overpass Passed over and naked clothed in a shroud of Tired and unwashed skin On my worst days I’m betting you’d smell just Like surrender If you didn’t reek of The shame that kept silencing your light On my worst days I wonder if this is how You’ll look when we find you Eyes off and to the right Not a natural pose Turned and held by gravity You’ll be white belly limp Loose unjointed limbs They will turn your head and Your neck will hold No more light And your veins Will carry no more faltering Stars And your veins Will carry no more faltering Stars
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Already Dead 02:00
Carve my bones into a crucifix Offer up these nail scarred hands Only tongue i speak is blasphemy Maybe now they’ll understand You can’t kill what is already dead You can’t kill what is already dead Prepared for the deepening silence Words rotting on my tongue Fading fast in the darkness visible Only doing what must be done I can’t see Can’t hear Can’t touch An apparition A memory of From my place at the bottom Looking up at the sky Into the gathering darkness It gets harder to try As for these slings and arrows And your well tempered blades You’ll find nothing but shame here And the mouth of a grave You can’t kill what is already dead You can’t kill what is already dead Cast me out Cast me out
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the empty prayer the hollow earth the blackened tree the wasted births come to carry All that you love away. I will bear no sons I will spread no seed No one to protect This ends with me The adversary The nemesis The cross you bear that persists the shadow cast the broken bough That casts you down always pray for rain & hope it fucking drowns you Swallowed by the throat Of every God that damns you. I Hope everything you fear is true and I Hope all that you love Is carried away

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released March 11, 2017

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Empty Ritual Asheville, North Carolina

Steve-Vocals
Matt-Guitar
Dave-Drums
Mark-Guitar
Jacob-Bass

Demo cassette available 3/24/17 from Bitter Melody Records.

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