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Vesica Piscis

by The Odious

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1.
Scape 02:35
2.
Repugnant 04:50
Lyrics: Let me tell you what I find sickening Our self imprisonment seems to be quickening We are the wardens We are the inmates Of our gilded cage Alone Our voices lost on the poison wind of this dying age We are the wardens of our gilded cage We vote ourselves into shackles As if we had a choice Our dignity: what a fucking joke If it ever did live, it died with JFK We are one and the same Alone And yet together United under the weight of what it means to be “I” The number 8 tipped on her shoulder Chewing a tail of starry night sky The more we learn The more we cry Or wish we could Look death straight in the eye The more we learn It’s tragic happiness in life comes from ignorance The more we cry Or wish we could Straight in the eye Let’s be honest: our feelings wane by the day Sapped by the screens Sapped by the screens we cradle Rotting culture brain-soup ladle The pursuit of modern conveniences Objects we hold so dear Drain us day by day The years passing us by Never seeing what’s right in front of us We can never quite grasp the concept Numbing our pain with magic potions Anything not to feel Anything not to feel… This way We vote ourselves into shackles As if we had a choice Our dignity: what a fucking joke If it ever did live, it died with JFK We are one and the same (Alone) Repugnant seeds from the strategist Cease all the feats of consequence Sick from self-sabotage We are wardens of gilded prisms
3.
Lyrics: Here we are again It’s been far too long I know you wanna heal everyone  The scourge of addiction has taken from me a brother and friend And left on my tongue the taste of the bitter end  Him and I: one and the same But his scars run longer and deep Now I see your ghost Animating your bones Now I see whats left As you dissolve on your throne The arbiter of taste (Oh the arbiter of taste) Choose carefully We're all mad here Alone with our weakness We sit in the dark And obsess over visions Irony I can see them where they dance upon the hill Why don’t you follow them Cremate your cares away  Sprinkle the ashes upon the script  Pitiful, incomprehensible, demoralization A mind devoid of stimulation   Pinnacle of the lowest point The ones who care: I disappoint  And you'll be pleased to find out The world is run by snakes like you Why don't you join them now? Now I see your ghost Animating your bones Now I see whats left As you dissolve on your throne She said to me again: oh well Oh well Waste away another day Since I found you out Just say what you were gonna say Here we are again Drowning in all Sometimes I just wanna turn the feelings off Oh well Waste away another day Since I found you Just say what you were gonna say Yet I feel just fine Yet I feel that’s a lie I can see them where they dance upon the hill I’m hollow now — An empty shell I feel the rot in every cell  So say what you're gonna say Waste away another day
4.
Glowjaw 04:36
Lyrics: I can see light Upon the eastern ridge Casting shadows further Drown the flames and leave no trace I can hear cries Upon the eastern wind The sound of distant sorrow Compels me to move on Unsure of the path laid before me Tread lightly through ashen trees Careful not to wake the sleeping beasts Anything could well befall of me So far from home And to think it all could fall away Leaves me feeling frightened and alone So I try We gotta find another way out Feed the jungle brain So I try Collapse under the blackout Seed the other plane So far from home Drowning in this cold glow Alone
5.
Lyrics: Welcome, child! To the gala of everlasting indulgence I am the penchant chief “Kosmn Bhahtaq" Address me by my name Come now! Satiate your carnal appetites More then enough to go around Won’t you partake in the festivities? Accept this liquid offering Psychotropic secretions of the gods Behold the glory of Hccula We revel in her honor I grasp the sacred chalice Toast to the divine In the wake of the fallen realm Where the spirits lie Why don't you come on home? With a mere curiosity I beckon light Why don’t you come on home? It’s the stuff of nightmares And I try not to think about it I've had enough I don’t even care anymore I just want it to stop Rise Call the Shepard Rise Cull the herd Rise Call the Shepard Rise Cull the herd It’s the stuff of nightmares And I try not to think about it I've had enough I don’t even care anymore I just want it to stop You think that this is all just circumstance I’ll have you know that this is intentional The herdsman bellowed incantations Sucked us sunken in his slate Gloomy shade brains Wet with crimson rain With vacant starless eyes
6.
Lyrics: Two hubs for gloam It’s the stuff of nightmares And I try not to think about it I've had enough I don’t even care anymore I just want it to stop And to think it all could fall away I know I know (x2) I can see light Upon the eastern ridge Casting shadows further Drown the flames and leave no trace Now I’m sure of the path laid before me Tread lightly through ashen trees Careful not to wake the sleeping beasts So I try We gotta find another way out Feed the jungle brain So I try Collapse under the blackout Seed the other plane So far from home Drowning in this cold glow Alone Mirror images on an axis Bilateral symmetry I will do to him as he would have done to me Watch him decompose and then drain him of his energy (x2)
7.
Lyrics: You can talk your way out of everything And convince people of anything But over time your words loose meaning Empty promises and false assurance The subtle art of persuasion Bask in the glory of your standing ovation And overtime your hairline receding Hollow gestures and secret agendas The subtle art of persuasion Bask in the glory of your standing ovation Stop running Stop hiding behind your heavy rhetoric Take responsibility for what you say Stop running Stop hiding behind your heavy rhetoric How long can you keep running away? Constantly learning new ways to pacify the populace The new representative of this ill-fated metropolis You think us mere plebeians Armed with vicious terminology You catch the world off guard Stop running Stop hiding behind your heavy rhetoric. Take responsibility for what you say Stop running Stop hiding behind your heavy rhetoric How long can you keep running away? You catch the world off guard And take that which is so damn sacred Petrifying the masses This insidious sermon delivered Orchestrating pandemonium You appease us with these bullshit statistics Waging war with a microphone Calculated chaos
8.
物の哀れ 06:49
Lyrics: Treading open water In a sea of selective memory The days wash over like a tide Pulled by her majesty — The moon Your joy will spring forth Like a flower from the rot But never exactly from where you thought I will not fear what is to come Let sorrow bring another day I know I'm not the only one Let tomorrow bring what it may How do we make it through? This maze of insecurity What’s your capacity to feel? To roam the roots of the great tree Your joy will spring forth When times get bleak And your vessel of fabric and silk springs a leak I will not fear what is to come Let sorrow bring another day I know I'm not the only one Let tomorrow bring what it may (x2) Glorious decay I’ll fall away Giving way to the new You’ll fall away Glorious decay I’ll fall away Giving way to the new Unforgiving detachment We fall away Giving way to new You’ll fall away Giving way to new
9.
Lyrics: Welcome to the empire of self validation Parasitic Narcissistic A constant stream of misinformation Content with our sedentary lifestyle Overloaded and bloated Witness the death of creativity Bleed it dry Digital prostitution Squandering what little time we have left What a waste… Look to the future Look to the past Compare to that of others And you'll be free at last Look at me: high and mighty I have 1,000 friends Alone in my room I can follow all the trends A false sense of connection Privacy is dead I can’t distinguish humanity from fantasy So I use today's tragedies To show everyone I care Why do I crave this abuse? Who am I to have my way? Why do I crave this misuse? Who am I to have a say? I'll fight Ebola I'll fight terrorism I'll stand in solidarity As long as I don't have to get up Cuz I have binge watching to do And virtual love to make That's about all I do these days A constant stream of misinformation
10.
Fix 06:26
Lyrics: Five paces back from where I came Five paces forward just the same I try so hard to grasp and clutch Once melted frozen to the touch These hands have done terrible things And these eyes have seen far too much Your hands have done terrible things And your eyes have seen far too much All common sense had been exchanged Friends ask me why I’m acting strange Cause the fix is in And it builds… And it builds… I can see all the cracks and they mean nothing to me Springing a leak These hands have done terrible things And these eyes have seen far too much Your hands have done terrible things And your eyes have seen far too much The bullshit that we say The lies that we have spun The people that we play The harm that we have done (x3) The love that we lease until there is none And the harm that we have done

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We consider Vesica Piscis to be the final installment in a trilogy of related themes throughout the course of our discography. The subject matter of our trilogy tries to mirror the contradictions and dissonance that is prevalent in our existence. These ideas have mostly been organized as anthologies, with the varying concepts in each song covering things like cruelty, lust for violence, birth, decay, attraction, betrayal, etc. The Vesica Piscis itself is a historically ubiquitous symbol, appearing in ancient and contemporary contexts alike. Over the millennia, it has been utilized by many cultures/religions, putting its true significance into question. The universal yet ambiguous nature of this symbol resonated with us because it seems to perfectly embody the inconsistency that we reference in our trilogy

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released June 21, 2019

Lineup /// Album Credits:

Spencer Linn - Guitars/Clean Vocals
Patrick Jobe - Vocals
Garrett Haag - Drums
Austin Haag - Bass (Tracks 2, 3)
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Spencer Linn - Bass (Tracks 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, and 10)
Michael Blye - Bass (Track 8)
Aaron Stern - Moog (Track 4)
Patrick Jobe - Piano (Track 1)

Lyrics by Patrick Jobe and Spencer Linn

Recorded/Mixed/Mastered @ Abyssal Lair Studios by Jeremy Klein

Album Art by Aaron Stern (@diet.doom)

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