Victory and Contempt

from Ode to Frailty by Knochen

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Rise and shine, taste the dawn
As it meets our wondrous spires
Casting out the old in their shade
Into a view beyond recall
No nebula can match the colors
Of our brand new firmament
There gleams a decalogue of change
The grand caterer to modern man
We’ve soared so high
Above timber and stone
We’ve outgrown survival itself
Flown out of the hourglass
Into a vast desert of plenty
It is as if the future really is of our choosing
And not a whim of some faceless fate
We’ll sculpt this rock to fit its greatest kin
As stardust incarnate, how can it be wrong?

Bestowed a veil of glory
To keep a grip on disdain
The braces we cannot throw aside
Autonomy twisted and maimed
Reluctantly running our course
In envy of what we’ve surpassed
Toys for sickly children
To mix and match as they please
Indignant sloth of our fervor
Will not grant us release
But Gaia’s parasites are doomed to fade
This ersatz shell cannot last

The beast has not been slain
Its teeth were never dulled
The venom boils ceaselessly
In its sacs, in its wounds
That hideous mug
Taints every clear surface
It can never see itself
For what it truly is
Back into the lair it goes
To sleep some hundreds more
To toss and turn within the cradle
And pray for purpose till end of days

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from Ode to Frailty, released April 8, 2023

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One-man black metal project from Poland

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