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Serfdom
03:39
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2. |
A Frith Befouled
14:41
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Bound beyond
Mercy corrupted
Blood of the attainder
We serve the bonds
The faceless thralls Of Varangian assault
Harvested steppes Beyond Byzantium
Penitence for the barren
A tithe for a blessing
Gorged to oblivion
Like the wretched abandon
Of sentient thieves
We drudge in odium
We till the sepulchre
We harrow and burn
Without tenancy,
Without refuge.
We, with deadwood and piety
Without tenancy,
without benign asylum
Satiate the keepers law
Serving the bonds,
serving the will
Of the possessor
Expelled from the autarchy
Our chattels bereaved
Annexed to a kingdom
Immured by excess
At the foot of majesty
Assembled in tremors
With eyes to the sun
Crying out
‘armistice’
Bound beyond
Mercy corrupted
Blood of the attainder
We serve the bonds
De rerum natura,
Such liberty
Our demense,
Our labour
To toil and to be
Our Vassal awaits
To survey
Such fealty
De rerum natura,
Such liberty
Such fealty
Such villeiny
De rerum natura
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Curia Regis
03:40
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Fertile grounds for the feral
Hang your fruits from aloft
Bare your harvest
upon the fiend
Craved hellion, saviour
Our saviour,
the plight of our sole saviour,
the accursed tormentor.
Our lord, our saviour.
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4. |
The Threshing Floor
10:05
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Heavy the flail
of earthen husks
Inert upon the oblique floor
Such graceless loam to winnow
Lord, harbour this leprosy
Touch these sallow lips
With your reverie, your blessed accord
The fortuitous gift of esteem
A gaze to the fallow grounds
Your vacant crop
Your fated end
Your haunted flock
Suppress this entreaty
Their carnal affront
Their woes gnaw
Like vermin to open sores
Impotence,
cumberworld,
Slanderer,
recreant,
Raise the wergild,
Commit To the breaching of faith
Reproach on your gluttony
How must we bleed to gauze this abrasion?
How must we grieve before the seraphim?
To defame the estates
With this divine facade
Sovereign, sovereign,
touch on our bane
Repulse this Maleficium
Monarch, Father, nurture our ills
Pour from your mouth the covenant’s seal
Retread the vales, our vestal lament
Such omens wassail in torment
Sovereign, sovereign
Feast on this Eucharist
Ravage our malady
This vagrant resolve
This ailing wish
This frailty
This love lost
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5. |
Profaned Moira
13:23
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From the cradle of man
to The Redeemer’s crest
Afford unto this assemblage
The Mandate of Canaan
Decorate unto these nobiles
the charm to rule without impedance
Rex non potest peccare (the king is never wrong)
Every man to his lord, every lord to his eminence
The crown resists
the mock,
the bastard,
feigned eidolon and assume our place above the soiled masses
The crown resists, the crown resists, the crown resists
From the cradle of man To Abaddon
We call for parousia
Our sovereign tongues Our artifice
Claim impunity
Renounce, apostate
Their prophet, spirit, saint
Yield to the regency
For what is a Sun but chicanery?
We, heads of kingdom,
Of clover
Know not what we procure
Our worth, our class, our divining
Moored in the womb of mortality
We shall birth the unborn horizon
Too long without price These terrains
Too loose are the binds On these villeins
Death for debt
Befouled in the Frith
Somer comes
To few deserved
Demarcate, reclaim
Levereter, salvage these agrarian gifts
Levereter, redeem our rule
Back from the dirt
Back from the serf
Back from ruin
Back from purgatory
Levereter,
Salvage these agrarian gifts
Demagogue, ignite the blaze
Wellborn, Cremate the kin
Their time,
finite
Descendants purged
Our paths alight
Exile, abate, abate
To ending,
to beginning
To ruin,
To adma
Steel for stone
Our blood
Our rite
They shall atone
You, the subordinate, the prurient cherub, deserve not this land but what is all and nothing, the encumbered grounds of which you blot. You, unwelcome, undeserved, shall be consumed by the saccharine spores of ending in the great mouth of Lethe, and return whence to the mother root, the eternal seed.
Arise again as bramble and weed and thorn.
As hemlock and crocus and oleander.
You, bascilus, you exist upon the decree of the megacosm, inhale upon our exhale, awake to new dawns upon our benevolence,
And will accept martyrdom,
You, unworthy, unforgiven, unwelcome, undeserved, you will suffer the amaranthine pain of blight, the felling of every maple, ash, beech, hackberry, chestnut, and pine.
The hapless sapping of the heartwood.
The Fire of Fires,
The glorious excess of pulmonary edema
The Flood of Floods,
The expiration of life.
You are all and you all shall wizen.
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AEIR is a narrative-driven progressive sludge metal collective based in the UK and the US; featuring current and ex-members of Light Bearer, Momentum, and Basement.
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