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Dredging The Depths
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Peaceful nothingness shattered by a rude awakening
Snapped from the calming void flickering function saunters in…
The sudden feel of falling an intrusion through the mist
Sweat dampened sheets clung tightly restrictive like long lost memories
The still of night seems damning, judgement already cast
Fractured cracks of truth revealing once buried secrets now unearthed
It comes and it goes...
Golden leaves furbelowing dank silt
Brisk September air breathes its comforting chill
A picturesque scene set by the dying light
Concealing this soon to be unresolved cold case crime
A vow made beneath gazing harvest moon
Sole witness to this grim conclusion
Parting ways, never to speak again
Our secret confined to this sodden, shallow grave
Midst safety of the shadows evading prying lunar beams
Thoughts cannot be gathered whilst admixed with distant dreams…
Changing seasons slowly bringing with them crushing guilt
Wherein every sleepless second felt as if the walls were closing in
Time ticked by so slowly as months trickled into years
Decades scrubbing at “the Dirt” yet the stains refuse to yield
It comes and it goes…
Rainfall heightening the dire mood
Barely visible through the mist-veiled gloom
An overgrown marsh overcome and disused
Fittingly forgotten as with all the Biddiblak morass consumes
Digging down through mire and twisted weeds
Tension tightening with every mounting heap
‘Til daybreak where the evidence remains
Never to be dredged from this wholly fictitious grave
All those years spent silently screaming
Fabrication of the mind, haunting obsession
A life WAS stolen by these soiled hands
Yet only my own, this self-condemnation…
Sunrise, a sight for sore eyes
So long lost in the dark place between “dead” and “alive”
Relieved to cross the line, there and back again
Free from self constructed guilt and unfathomable, unbearable shame
Released from the gnawing mind-trap snare
The beginning of the end for this sempiternal nightmare
Acquitted at last, rid of these wretched chains
Returning only with a bouquet for this solely hypothetical grave
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Sleepwalking through the months
Gathering dust in a fuguelike silent state
Plummeting through the motions
In freefall, downward, out of phase
Lost in thoughtless moments
Swarmed by an endless burning inner hum
Incomprehensible, inconsolable
Palpitations, numbness, blunt
Ebullient fragments flash behind blank eyes
Was it worth it at the cost of a torturous mind?
Ever veering into Biddiblak deep dark waters
Dreading the onslaught certain to follow
Weakened by the wrought out relentless plight
(The bitter truth once swallowed leaves little desire)
Belittling residual musings of old
Struggling to remember and to let go
Caught unawares between crushed dreams
And a reality far worse than ever feared
In stasis chilled to the frostbitten core
Frozen by the notion of enduring one more thaw
It remains a long way back…
Another awe inspiring glimpse of morning
Piercing through the dissipating mist
Shattering the maudlin lens
A breath of fresh air gasped again
Ebullient fragments flash behind blank eyes
Is it worth it at the cost of a further decline?
A momentary lapse of judgement doused
In volatile fuel for future fires to engulf
Breached once more despite the warning signs
Shrugging off the shudders, pure madness defined
A payment across the palm paid in full with fool’s gold
Endeavouring to surrender the self to let go
Ebullient fragments flash behind blank eyes
Waning in the wake of another brief respite
Now drowning in Biddiblak pitch dark sorrow
Relieved to reach the maw of this final tomorrow
Crumbling into a clearing with a view across the sea
Beyond the twisted boughs and autumnal leaves
Sifting scarce comforting thoughts of old
Ready to remember and to let go
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Vampyrouss Devon, UK
Vampyrouss [ <vam> paɪ ˈrəs ]
A synth rock band from Devon England, formed in 2002.
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