Mordrake II: Acquiesce Lyrics

Album: Mordrake

Malicious spectre of inverted hate.

Whispering sweet nothings between demands for my death

Contorting my vision with fear, rage and hatred

Tearing away at the fibres of conscious self

My quasi-monster, a chimeric abomination

A filthy homunculus with a cardiac void

Doomed to meander in search of the same kind

Of mutual deformity in schizophrenic waltz

Where have you been? What have you done?

Every second you close your eyes, I become

An entire existence as prey for a parasite

As the pistols and daggers around you scream

Tonight’s the night, tonight's the night

Lamentation in silent oblivion

Suffocating the life from lungs

A heart of stone crushed to dust by frozen hands

But what's one more death in the thousand on this day?

Retracing your steps as my marionette through the stages we've danced on with glee

In search for the evidence of morbid malevolence in memories written by me

I laugh at the tragedy of mutual insanity in our sick manifest

The blind shuffle of a wandering unconscious mind

Blood and bones and flesh is all of me that's left behind

A walking effigy, in this eternal purgatory

A hollow shell of my old self, don’t look at me.

I am a ghost.

Don't you see what I've done? Don't you see what you've become?

A man beaten down by a life he did not want

A man betrayed by that he has lost

I did this for you, I did this for you

I'm not the monster you see, but a fragment of what should be

My whispered words, ignored for too long

That which has killed me leaves me alive

And writhing without hope

What doesn't kill me makes me beg for a rope

A howling scream at what I have done

A desperate gasp at what we've become

An acquiesced embrace of that I know

This husk of man, embodied by evil

Burning my weakness to ashes so I can see

This ghoul of deception has opened my eyes

I surrender and embrace what you have done for me

So supple her skin, so cold to the touch, its freezing

Her smile sliced so deep and stitched with such care

That dress we picked out, it suits her so well, its perfect

With splatters of red we forget you are dead as we dance through the night.

She deserved this I know that is perfectly clear

Our family complete now that you are here

Born on this day of death her screams they sound sublime

Deformed my love turns to ash, reborn as hates design

Cowering, decaying truth buried far within

Nestled away humanity clings to life along with sin.