
VISAGE EP
BYRTHING. VISAGE EP. Byrthing Records, 2020.
All lyrics by Devin Ikram.
THE VOID
I know what you really are…
THE ARCHITECT
Taking shape such a curious vector
I imbibe your offer eternally grateful
A dissonance leads a callous cipher
Threshold of disease (innately fateful)
Push/pull it’s your fucking concept
Never missing a chance to sweeten the rot
Tensile skin over vaulted ribs
Traps the echoes of all your hate
Architect of a shallow heart
Look around it all falls apart
I know that you love this lie
I’ll build you up fucking high
Spirit razed, don’t ask why
Oh, I want you to die inside
The longer I lie here
The more the lie crystalizes
Transmuting the light, contorting
My mind, euphoric nausea
Suffering is now, but later rewards
Promises predicated madness
The walls are ice cold
Collapsing eyes closed
Escape! How can you fucking live like this?
Architect of a shallow heart
Look around it all falls apart
I know that you love this life
I’ll build you up fucking high
Spirit razed, god don’t ask why
Oh, I want you to die inside
I know what you really are
THE VESSEL
It’s never enough!
You don’t know how much I need you now
This is fate that brought us here you see the signs
If you give me all I want you’ll be my god
I will make all of your fantasies true
(You’re gonna fucking pay!)
Oh, this feels so good, this is what it must be like
to feel alive
I can’t feel my wounds you let me kill the fear
I’d be nothing without your light
Gorging, slashing, writhing slowly
Eroding trust in all that you value
The crazy notions, don’t look for answers
There’s no life inside
Do you feel the power? Somatic allure
You’re in the midst of a superior creation
They’re all shit, split from it
They’ll never reach us from high up here
(I can’t wait to watch you fall!)
Oh, there’s a pulse inside
An innocent daydream to focus our feast
I’ll carve it out into the image of you
No one else could show you that much faith
Gorging, slashing, writhing slowly
Eroding trust in all that you value
The crazy notions, don’t look for answers
There’s no life inside
You’ll never climb back up
You’re slowly forgetting who you really are
There’s no way you could hate me more than I hate myself!
It’s never enough!
THE LURE
Stepping further out
Until my weight is lifted
My body embraced, warm pulling away
The darkness covers my eyes
The silence is welcoming
The prison has no walls
Detached from all that you love
Sinking further deeper down
The surface is above me
And there’s no way I can return
The surface is above me
This darkness burns my eyes
The silence is deafening
I don’t know where to hide
I don’t know who to blame
How could you throw away a part of you that gave life?
How could you go this way and never ask yourself why?
THE ANTIPATHY
Was it worth it?
Oh, I thought you didn’t want to survive this
And hold on till you immolate
This thing isn’t what you had loved
Admit the things that you’ve endured
You couldn’t see The Hidden Wound
Cause you were busy bleeding out
The guilt is flipping you around
You want to hear those perfect words?
As your vision readjusts
Behold the world through shattered hopes
Harsh, embittered, and hating yourself
The nausea fight with fear and regret
You know you’ve run out of time
And there’s no fucking going back
I won’t say the rest will be easy
But I know you will subsist
Subsist!
You’re gonna collapse from within
I’m not gonna die to supply you
I can’t wait to see your rage consume you
I know what you really are!
I know what you really are!
Your tricks have all lost their charm!
Oh god you are so dead inside!
Rage!
Consume!
You’re gonna collapse from within
I’m not gonna die to supply you
I can’t wait to see your rage consume you
You’re gonna collapse from within
I’m not gonna die to supply you
I can’t wait to see your rage consume you
THE RUIN
Fucking insane how do I leave it all behind
Battered and broken
Severed all ties from reality
Memories, dissonance, abuse of an alien kind
I’m reeling seething now
The hate in my veins collide
The wreckage of my soul is on display
A walking vivisection flayed and vile
The seeds of dysfunction, dissolutely sown
If you think this is what life is
Look in my eyes!
This is so fucking sick how many times have you played these lives?
Psychotic waste of space I wanna watch you suffocate
I read every single word and could see you trying to survive
You’re getting cut out and I’ll carve you out myself!
Bottomless pit
Fill it with shit
I’m grieving something that was never even alive
Making my skin crawl and retching in disgust
The wreckage of my soul is on display
A walking vivisection flayed and vile
The seeds of dysfunction, dissolutely sown
If you think this is what life is
Look in my eyes!
Eyes!