3. Limbo 

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Lyrics:

I woke up underneath the sky that forgot how to burn

Ash on my tongue lungs full of yesterday’s yearn

No trumpet no scroll no white robed parade

Just the hush where a verdict was supposed to be made

There’s a silence here thicker than bone marrow

I hope for a hero but expect absolute zero

I reach for the wound where the promise was kept

But the wound is sewn shut and the promise was never spit

I count the dead by the burden of flies

Each soul a coin the ferryman claims from their eyes

They float face down in the same stagnant flood

Mouths full of prayers turned to coagulated blood

13 Wraps of a 13 foot rope

A tightening feeling of what once was hope

This is limbo

No fifth seal tears

No visions of rainbows

Just the echo of despair

Limbo

Where the martyrs bleed no more

Hunting for escape

But finding no door

I scratch at the firmament nails split to the quick

Heaven’s a scab peeled back nothing behind it

Just drywall and dust and a child’s chalk outline

Of a god who got bored and stopped drawing the line

The altar is cold the incense long dead

The saints turned to plaster mouths stitched with red thread

I scream and the scream comes back flatter than piss

A postcard from nowhere that reads: “welcome to the abyss”

Eternal deferment verdict adjourned

Souls on layaway never returned

Tongue tied martyrs in infinite queue

Line wraps around nothing and comes back to you

No wrath no path just the laugh of the annoyed

No blood on the lintel no plague to deploy

I’m the kink in the reel where the credits won’t roll

The unspoken name on the tongue of a god with no soul

Knock knock skin rot flesh stacked on the shelf

I barter my name for a slower version of hell

No seal no deal no will no repeal

Welcome to limbo motherfucker

This place is real

This is limbo

No fifth seal tears

No visions of rainbows

Just the echo of despair

Limbo

Where even the screams don't survive

And the damned make a choice

To forget they were ever alive

I lie back down on my bed made of shit

Time is an illusion

Time to get used to it

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