Artifex Pereo - Butcher's Son Lyrics
I wear a mask molded from clay
I walked on my shoes until the edges frayed
Alone, I've cast from my home;
Give in to the wonderer
[Refrain:] (x3)
My whole purpose is deceived
I am no employee of god
But I swear to y...
Artifex Pereo - Weary Lungs Lyrics
[Verse 1:]
If I were to open up
You would have a mess to clean
With a twitch of breath to even the illness inside
I'm tired of living through symmetry
And I'm losing my faith in the story behind the clouds
[Coda:] (...
Artifex Pereo - The Pendulum Lyrics
[Verse]
Gather the crowd, I've dropped the gavel
Polish the badges and prepare the gallows
There will be serenity here, there will be serenity here
Let it be known who led Nathanial to the rope
Oh son do you realize that you ...
Artifex Pereo - Overview Lyrics
I've been chasing a ghost that's been known to mislead
I followed it through the thin line that hugs me
At first I never thought to look back
Believe me, man, it's a sight we all need
Hanging there was everything that...
Artifex Pereo - Mrs. D Lyrics
Darling, do you recall when the moon was so close
It was as if we could drive there?
It wooed us with its powers
That made us feel our love would never die there
She gazed back at him with swirls in her eyes
He had memorized ev...
Artifex Pereo - Neighbors Lyrics
[Verse]
Beauty the words we have painted
Please, please let us change the world
Damn the ammunition straight to hell
When death by age is so unfamiliar
Set this moment blue so I can burn it
For once in my life let me make the di...
Artifex Pereo - I, The Surgeon Lyrics
Courage, I am begging you
Every time you've conjoined hands with your friend, Cowardly
Must be eradicated
I've been mistakenly fabricated
My limb is in need of adjustment to its reach
To those ignoring our plight
We wi...
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life - Ballad Of The Butcher Lyrics
This is the ballad of the butcher
Please stop me before I kill again
All that bloodshed and snapped necks
Roll around inside of my head
The evil that lives within me
It spreads without my consent
A landlord of sadistic int...
Artifex Pereo - Granulated Eyelids Lyrics
The tick of his teeth imposing his lip is in desire
For anotheNot to have but to be
Not similar, but the same
He kicks the side as a start
Slinging arms with the one
Who tickles his gut just by being;
Steps lightly, trails easy,...
Artifex Pereo - Edgar Suit Lyrics
I found a way to find you out
You shift far too much
To keep your shadow a doubt
It picks you apart
You're left handed when I'm not around
Taking in more breaths than you'll ever need to let out
You're suspen...
Artifex Pereo - The Lantern And The Firefly Lyrics
I had a lantern
I turned it into a rocket for the sky
Illuminating the ground in which I play
(Illuminating the ground)
But my mother told me to put it away
Led me to my room, and made me a bed to lay
I had a firefly, tied to a ...
Artifex Pereo - Devil And Water Lyrics
Forget forgetfulness
You've made your way into my heart
Like a pulse running through my veins
I should never forget such vital things
Loathing you proved to be inadequate
[Refrain:]
So I will love you in my sleep
And t...
Artifex Pereo - The Baker Act Lyrics
This hole in my head is complicating
When it comes to retaining your name
I feel the thought dripping down my neck
I need the doctor. I need the medicine
The face of my friend is beginning to blur again
[Refrain:]
Dance with ...
Artifex Pereo - As History Would Have It Lyrics
Sentries are on the bluff.
You would be wise to not be the last
Soldier in this line as we make our way through this brush.
How did we get so pinned down
to have to fight all and nothing at once?
Rot sets in from trenches dug w...
Artifex Pereo - The Hunt Lyrics
[Verse]
It's a classic case of the hunt
Coming alive to teach us a thing or two about
A thing or two about sealing the deal
With beheading ink and blinding paper
A stationary keeping you stationary
In your thoughts, in your...
Artifex Pereo - Deadweight Lyrics
I have a glove full of pointless bones and veins
Sucking the blood from my heart;
Like leeches Containing nothing but weight
I am heavily walking left again
My complaint stems from
The miscalculations of assembly gone wrong
F...
Artifex Pereo - Cylinder Shaped World Lyrics
The most awful of villainy has stricken our village. Testing our faith and crossing our grounds, it's certain who's to shame. How could a notch be driven so far from our belts with these scriptures and affirmations, that for centu...
Artifex Pereo - To Listen & Say Nothing Lyrics
[Intro]
You insist that we were meant to be born this way, something divine had it all in store
I suppose that your character was sketched within lines
That connect the fortune you comprise with all the health that you possess
[V...
Artifex Pereo - Apeiron Lyrics
Time sets purpose forth to document decay
Dripping with the warmth of breath gives sweet embrace
Take an accident, hold it in your hands, send it toward the clouds and watch it blow away
Stillness is proof of flow unending
Given tho...
Artifex Pereo - Annica Lyrics
Bones are begging to announce, what the flesh already knows
Life is a lesson in impermanence, a moment's born to decompose
We are granted but an instant here, providing more than ample time
The map is seldom read without a key, w...
Artifex Pereo - The Straight & The Winding Way Lyrics
Wolves stalk the field while the sheep graze the valley
Roles play out so simply, they both know the rules of the game
They can get by with the time honored rights handed down from on high
It's a plague of patience
Caught betwe...
Artifex Pereo - Fool's Errands Lyrics
There's something here that's not always seen
My reason to believe is embedded in me
My gums are these streets
Making these buildings my teeth
Founded on a date that I can't help but remember
It's so paterna...
Artifex Pereo - No Stranger To Worry Lyrics
Have you heard the myth of men
That predict their own death like a score?
How could one depict such a prophecy from a world so scarred?
To think, they picked the one of one million ways to disappear
That's something else...
T...
Artifex Pereo - Cut Sign Lyrics
[Intro]
Walk. Keep up with me, don't look back
Don't look at the dying men
The devil is in this dust and he's calling on us
[Verse 1]
Each rock is a tombstone that rests a soul whose bargain was not upheld
The ...
Artifex Pereo - The Golden Age Lyrics
It's strange...
It's no news to you...
No longer delay the truth, I've needed to push off for some time
Promise to keep your mind with you and I'll return your heart
But now it's time to find out about all w...
Artifex Pereo - Static Color Lyrics
Reside profoundly in doubt
Earned ignorance buys a ticket to hell
A brush stroke tinted with
Idolization turned to worship, paints within
The smallest of lines; static color
The path has been hidden as long as we've touche...
Artifex Pereo - First, Do No Harm Lyrics
The sun sends its scorch
Burning rocks come tumbling, singeing our last layer
Plates shift with haste, testing water's knack for sweeping us away
A funneling cloud will keep us underground
Ice melting so thin we're liab...
Artifex Pereo - Hands Of Penance Lyrics
These walls became a cage
Scratched with delicate wounds that mark a dying day
The scraps of breath I take belong to someone else
The dirt is all I know
Chained in line with the other sick, forgotten souls
Stuck with lies they tol...
Artifex Pereo - Suburbanite Sprawl Lyrics
He contends with the wind to be where it's been
Collecting sediments from the lives that powder his feet
He grows weary of his skin
As it provides the very itch
For supplemental lives
Tantalizing a disconcerting niche
...
Artifex Pereo - Tied To The Sunset Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Yet again
Approaches that time of year
When the quiet meets the
Quiet meets the cold
They'll shake hands and sit down
And sip on dejection reaped from the seeds
Sown by people like me
Sown by people like me...