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Beholder​/​Destroyer

by Antilles

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1.
Beholder 09:54
The times have changed The old ways have been washed away Replaced by new means to diminish the feeling False claims, as if written in sand lines. It's hard to forget what you once were To restart without weighing the chances of getting fucked all over again What once seemed appealing, pure, and desirable Is now soiled, vulgar, and devalued We cannot remain idle We won't stand by anymore "What's there? What's left?" Divinity in the eyes of the Beholder
2.
This is all wrong Things weren't supposed to turn out this way Tripping up in our own footsteps, end on end There's no decline, no great exodus The folly of mankind rests on our inability to take responsibility for our actions To even see that we have done anything wrong Having gone to the dogs We have proven ourselves utterly worthless "I heard talk between the buildings, Echoing the rumors of an apocalypse" Four sounds to silence naysayers with eyes gleaming Four sights equally blinding
3.
"Burn the old inventions" We've fucked ourselves for the sake of convenience Abandoned all sentiment Blanked our the lines in a refusal to tear down all of our idols This is plagiarized, rehashed The same lines repeating over again With mouths full of venom we have nothing left to say, save "We have lost our way" I've given all I ever had Just to hang as ornaments for your display
4.
A means to an end: Sold it off, beaten until nothing but pulp remained No revival No revolution Nothing Spit all the teeth out One by one And when they were gone I did it again I had a fortune But then I squandered it And when it was gone I did it all over
5.
It's useless A futile attempt when there's no room to make amends Even shouting all the while "Repent! Repent!" The natural cycle has been run And this is the product Oh doomed culture, do you cry "I was a failure upon conception?" Or are you too blind to see? "I can survive, eating my own hide until that fails to satiate me, but by no means will I ever go hungry, even through pestilence and drought" And when it comes The rain pours down in torrents Always either starving or gorging ourselves to the point of sickness There is no middle ground Decadence a la deprivation
6.
Eulogy 03:29
The hall resounds with a thousand voices familiar Relics from the past, superimposed The procession draws to a standstill, stating: "There is no device as faulty as your tongue, Spouting empty words from empty lungs There is a void that cannot be filled By any of your hollow objects Disguised as truth or otherwise Another nail" Dismantling convention Laying waste to the all-too-familiar psyche Frozen in place Driving for the reinvention of an old passion Standing in a current and trying not to budge Another nail in the coffin
7.
Destroyer 08:14
Let's raise a monument to the age Mark it by an exercise in monotony And set it in filth This? This is what came of such promise? We lost it all When the flood came We had not the sense to run I looked into the sea And upon turning back, saw nothing Nothing worth remembering Nothing worth saving Nothing

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Arclight Communications - CD (2007)
100 vellum sleeves

Self-released - CD (2008)
100 chipboard covers with two color screen print
Art by Seth Graham

Kid Sister Everything - 2xLP (2016)
200 black
Art & printing by Harrison/Kid Sis

Recorded by Rob Zajac at Waveburner in Port Clinton, OH 2006
Re-Mastered for vinyl by Kris Di Benedetto at Moron Mountain 2012

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released July 1, 2007

Alex - Guitar, Vocals
Kevin - Guitar, Vocals
Drew - Drums
Josh - Bass

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