9. Echoes of the Abyss

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Lyrics:

Ten Seven Four Zero Zero Zero Zero Zero

The plea I never spoke crawls back down my throat

It learned my teeth with every note

Now it gnaws from the inside spelling my name in reverse

Every letter

Every syllable a maggot that spawns a new curse

I swallow the echo

It swallows me harder

The silence has teeth

The silence has teeth

The silence has 

Teeth

The silence has

Echoes cry

But the eyes don't reply

Feeding on the eternal goodbye

Echoes cry

Till the cry eats the crier alive

They cry for death but the cry survives

I chew on the dark like it tastes like every prayer I gagged on

It chews back

Spits out a version of me that's been long forgone

That version waves

I wave back with someone else’s wrist

It sucks deaths kiss to find some kind of bliss

The walls are made of my own recorded screams

Played at half speed

I fuck the playback

It gets pregnant with quieter screams

Echo! Echo! Echo! Echo

Voices in the drainage pipe breeding like roaches

I lick the rust off the dripping tail flyblown salvation

Every bounce is a tongue that never learned my pronunciation

I’m the delay that delayed itself into dementia

Feedback loop chewing its own umbilical cord

I scream into the scream it screams me back harder

Pregnant with the next scream due any never

I count the returns till the numbers start copulating

One plus one equals one plus one equals one equals 

I'm the blip that molested the metronome

The stutter that fucked the pause into triplets

I’m the bounce that bounced the bouncer

The echo that echoed the echo till the echo echoed

Echo echo

Echo echo echo

Echo echo echo echo echo

Echo echo echo echo echo

Echo echo echo echo echo

Echo echo echo echo echo

Echo echo echo echo echo

Echo echo echo echo echo

Shh listen

The abyss just learned my nickname

And it moans it when it comes

Echoes cry

But the eyes don't reply

Echoes cry

Till the crier is the cry

Echoes cry

I am the hollow that screamed goodbye

Ten Nine Seven Six Six Six Two Zero

Zero

Zero

Zero

I’m still falling

And the fall is learning how to speak with my voice