Nine Swallows All

from Necro by Skeleton Rose

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lyrics

Verse 1A
From the blood red weeping sky the locust came.
Twisted flesh and mangled shrieks gave way to plague.
For now you see, for how I’ve done.
Dark addiction like an angry God.
It lives. And it is like none other.

Verse 1B
The great purging had come at last.
The ninth plague of Egypt and the reasons for the past.
The filthified, demented vice, my whores of choice.
Locked away inside myself, my flesh made prison.
Underneath I play the beast.

Pre-Chorus
Seven comes and seven passed.
The thunderstorm of hail and fire.
Eight descends and eight rides the wind.
The next blood storm of the ravening locusts.
Come cosmic dark. Bringing endless pain.

Chorus
Nine swallows all and nine never lifts.
Three days of darkness that numb all the addicts.
But when I choose to see, my haunted skin disease,
The drug recalls me, the whore me, the slut me, the stillborn fiend.
This new burdened leper, I’ve become a corpse.
The shadow covers all, and I kiss her thorns.

Verse 2A
The beauty beast I bow beneath,
her bleeding broken hands.
Winding shadow sacrosanct for how she feeds the damned.
They know no better, feast no better.
I do know better and even still I crave her needled demoness.

Verse 2B
Upon us junkies she gave ten plagues.
Before the ninth had vanished, we made room for the tenth.
Just like Egypt, just like wicked pharaoh.
From out the sky, from out the dark, came the great dying.

Bridge/Outro
The ever great wailing.
The tortured crying out.
The great destroyer bringing endless sorrow.
In her ten plagues of addiction.