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How close have you got to god?

Too close for mortal eyes

Simple taste can take a man abroad

And take you too new highs

Never meant to live in mortal lands

It’s all you ever knew

Taste the blood that trickles down its hand

And now it’s part of you

Shame, this life is mockery and jest

A spit on the grave of the heavens we saw

An endless rope you that hopelessly gnaw

All that’s left is rest

I miss the blade that you dragged across my chest

I made the bed of thorns and knives

Left sleeping on the floor

Numb and grey and godless wanting more

Please Meet me at the hive, inside

I know that diamonds come from blood and gore

How close have you got to god?

It’s just a lie.

Falling hit my head on every sign

How close have you got to god?

So close that I could die

Roll the dice and bite the hand that feeds

Conscience been defied

You are a petty boy

And the flames just begun

It’s your last slice of joy

Burn up but burn bright my son

Blackened full of bruises, full of loathing

Crawling past the mile

You leave your lessons and your desires in a flaming pile

Slowly walk across a falling earth

So sick so fucking vile

(Holy flame above the ashes. You are whole no more.)