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The Spine That Binds Us

from #1 by Putrid Shark

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The Spine that binds us all
We’ve been impaled from birth
The backbone of our world
Our blood drains to its core
Birthed with good intent
The saviour of our minds
Then they got hold of it
Now we rot on its branches

Pull yourself towards the centre
Force yourself across the ridges
Callus your hands pull your body
Like a zombie, glorified corpse
You don’t need thoughts where you’re going
Retch them out along with your mind
Shed your skin and unique features
Conform to this binding spine.

They tell us to just keep going
Even when our arms are failing
They smile about what's at the end
But I see the death so clearly
Try to pullback, try to reclaim
All that has been taken from me
If they see that they will surely
Stop me dead and push me on

Macabre Weeping Willow
Thorny Tree of Bone
A factory of death
Our youth doomed to it’s fate
Thoughts beaten from their minds
Hope sucked out from their eyes
I’ve felt the grizzly fate
No more. No more.

Pull yourself towards the centre
Force yourself across the ridges
Callus your hands pull your body
Like a zombie, glorified corpse
You don’t need thoughts where you’re going
Retch them out along with your mind
Shed your skin and unique features
Conform to this binding spine.

My Body falls to earth
Limp bones they make a splat
They skies do not look grey
Colour.
I.
am.
free.

credits

from #1, released May 30, 2021
by Lillith of the Mariana Trench (lillithofthevalley.bandcamp.com) - Songwriting, guitars, mixing
OK Scavenger (@OKScavenger) - Bass
Max Uh Million (maxuhmillion.bandcamp.com) - vocals, harmony arrangement

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Putrid Shark Reykjavík, Iceland

Putrid Shark is a noise/sludge/doom/experimental music collective.

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