promise of the stars
promise of the night
promise of the kiss
promise of the body
promise of the mouth
promise of the word
promise of the sky
promise of the name
promise of the night
promise of shame
promise of the scream
promise of the light
promise in dreams
promise of the light
promise in aching
promise of the light
promise of waking
promise of night
and the stars a drowning in our belief that they are drowning
we are drowning in the belief that we are drowning
we are living in the belief that we are living
we are living by the grace of our dying
we are burning by our belief in the fire
we are crying at the sound of our crying
we are breathing by the violence of our nature
we are living by the grace of our dying
we have no place in the universe
and we have no place in time
we could get lost in infinite space
or the ballet of planets
or the decay of suns
we are the glory of impossible union
we are the miracles of infinite possibility
we are the sadness of the galaxy
we are the death of improbability
we are the war in the face of apathy
we sing the dirges for the death of the orchids
we sing on the threshold of infinite loss
we make the music and we make the murder
we make the children that will string us up
we are the push and the pull
we send our souls to melt in the crucible
we are the ignorance in the face of the light
we are the casualties of want and desire
we are the kings and queens of infinite night X
promise of thought
promise of the light
promise of rebellion
promise of night
promise of destruction
promise of delight
the promise of nothing
Vocals: haunted, and subversive. Guitars: splintered shrieks. Drum machine: grim, unrelenting nausea. Visceral noise, with a hook that gets stuck in in your throat. Just try spitting them out. Stranger Killings
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