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Skin Is Not Enough

from I AM VOID by The Machinist

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lyrics

Grow! Rise! Fall! Die!

Idleness and ignorance
Can’t justify this arrogance
A degeneration Inquisition
Stealing your will to strive

Pressure pushing out your ribs
Expanding tight against the skin
A pressing pain within your skull
Eyelids inverted.

A veil
A Shield
A life
Withheld

Each step
A world
Unknown

A force
A flame
A life
Revealed

Move Onwards! Onwards! Onwards! Onwards!

The unease in the chest
A tear in spacetime
The arrow moving onwards
Towards the end of life

The pressure in your skull
That forces out your eyes
A terror in the chemistry
That we call life

Forwards! The stricken cry
Crushed by the weight of time
Extinguish the light
A brief candle in emptiness

Response and reward
Misdirection and guilt
Keep you living for death
Keep you focused on dying

A veil
A Shield
A life
Withheld

Each step
A world
Unknown

It’s in your skull
Tied in your brain
You know it’s a lie
Just a part of a stage unseen

It’s burning in your lungs
Your tongue speaks fire
Words that could throw the world
Upon a funeral pyre

The skin should not contain us
But the body fails and dies
The energy within us
Must dissipate in time

So burn a flame eternal
So burn a flame for life
As those who would contain us
Would rather see it die

The skin is not enough
To contain the hell within
Serve like a dog in heaven
Or burn and rule in Hell.

If it’s all just a part of a game
The author’s unseen
There’s promise of something the flesh can’t contain
A desire for purpose where chaos still reigns

Yet there’s still those who’d douse all the flames
Their worship obscene
On the backs of dead giants, speak names of the dead
Spoken in tongues of reverence, a worship of lifelessness

On this tiny speck in the heavens
Riding the crest of a great stellar tide
Down filaments of gravity and time

The skin cannot contain us
The skin is not enough
And even, in death
We exist in solar breath

A force
A flame
A life
Revealed

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from I AM VOID, released November 10, 2020

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The Machinist Manchester, UK

Extreme Industrial blackened death metal from Manchester, UK, for fans of Anaal Nathrakh, The Berzerker, and Aboyrm.

I Am Void is an ambitious debut album that runs a gamut of genres, featuring haunting synths and grinding, guitarwork, backed up by a psychotic twin vocal approach. ... more

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