A Serious House, by Skeletons

A Serious House

by Skeletons

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1.	Iron Gates 01:32	lyrics	buy track
[Instrumental]
2.	A Serious House 05:01	lyrics	buy track
Dragged into Nowhere Rot and rust surround Eyes are starved of light Ears deprived of sound In this holy place The recollections flood I am the seed of God My hands are covered in blood I am Father to the void within you (Vacant) (Silent) (Absent) (The world still spins) Face without a mask Straitjacket strangling Safe in this loving womb Where they watch over me No more this hopeless guilt Make love to razors kiss This is the Sleeping Time Liquid flows from a slashed wrist I am Father to the void within you (Vacant) (Silent) (Absent) (The world still spins) Crawling in darkness searching for redemption Shakes from the meat - a divine intervention I claw to my feet; I can barely stand But I can place my hands around your neck I am Father to the void within you Vacant Silent Absent The world still spins... ...in Madness...
3.	Boneless Limbs 02:43	lyrics	buy track
Squirming tentacles reach up from black depths Pincers that snap, that twitch, that cinch and rend Bone extrusions that gnash and grind In moistened depths of smacking heat to reap the blood-struck mind Pulled apart by these boneless limbs Pulse is quickened - Temples pound A writhing mass of squirming meat Tearing flesh from averse bone The body whole prepares to eat
4.	Antechamber 05:05	lyrics	buy track
How long Will I Be bound in servitude Denied Blinding eyes To the Master's words in stone Beneath Below Beyond this Holy host Minds to Reap and sow A shrine to flesh and bone Within my hands I see the quivering life I feel the blood drip down the ritual knife And now The sun Burns to an ashen moon And we Breathlessly Behold the work we've done Oceans Are red Piled high - the surmounting dead Stand proud Be blessed Our sacrificial lambs are bled These paper dolls slip through my hands into this fire I set ablaze this beacon - funeral pyre Renew Redeemed A dawning age of kings Tear down Be damned This dying age of man How long Have we Been bound to prophecy Denied Blinding eyes To our Seal Beneath Below Beyond this Holy host Minds to Reap and sow A shrine to flesh and bone Heavy the crown upon the head of this man In avarice decreed the death of our land
5.	Dead Birds 05:04	lyrics	buy track
Immersed in trees Looming in weeds This dormant beast Behind the sheen Of sanity Those stifled screams In the basement's basement An angel locked away Outside - only black And pale things in wait I feel the dark Cover me And I am home I wander these Stagnant halls But never alone Bloated ugly corpses Staring back from the other side And out in the distance Dead Birds fall from the sky Immersed in trees Looming in weeds This dormant beast Behind the sheen Of sanity Those stifled screams for me Deep in the black Staring back I can feel the eyes Outside Blood red night Dead Birds falling from the sky
6.	Haemorrhaging 02:37	lyrics	buy track
Stop the tides Gouge the eyes Prodigal Son ingests cyanide Penitent Permanence Lay all to waste beneath the dying sun Deeper and darker we crawl And faster and farther we fall All beauty and balm we commit Into the arms of death Fratricide Born of pride Redemption coalescent with suicide Pertinent Providence Build life anew beneath the spiteful moon Vitriol and venom we piss As slower and sicker we live Dredging through bleak nothingness Into the claws of death The claws of death Into the jaws of death Into the maw of death
7.	Rusted 05:01	lyrics	buy track
I know that one day I will be in the ground I got a sense for these things I got a reason I don't want to be found I've seen what's out there wandering Another pill to swallow Another God to follow Your mind is sick and sallow Your soul is blank and hollow Your face is twisting into something grotesque With all the money you make What made us human is completely bereft We fill the void with all that's fake Your smile is rusted Your eyes are old Your will is thin Your heart is six feet dead and cold
8.	Tabula Rasa 03:46	lyrics	buy track
Around the lake Shrouded in mist Hospital beds Imprisoning No escape No open door How did I come to be within this bleeding world of rancor? Under red sky Where these pale things lay dying Around the lake Shrouded in mist Hospital beds Imprisoning Cannot atone Will not repent But I will wipe away the bitter nothingness and be cleansed Under red sky Where these pale things lay dying I take this slate and wipe it clean My sins erased, I float downstream In the flood...
9.	Orbitoclast 03:26	lyrics	buy track
The world bleeds but you don't seem to perceive You just don't know it at all Locked stiff; in a trance affixed Never to fathom, never to recall Probing Cut out impurity Conform Your mind is ill but you will soon be free I can't see though I know it surrounds me This air it sickens and chokes Hanging thick as formaldahyde drips A place of loss, a place of dying hope Silenced No more cause to cry Final words of a Goddess lobotomized Rats gnaw Flesh rips Cherish / Caress Hold / Grip I see an ending to all things Written in blood at the foot of your bed White walls adorned in faded tarp Imprison our sovereign in living death

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Cover Art is Public Domain. Thanks and credit to Hans Eiskonen: unsplash.com/photos/PotGJdsW06k

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released November 19, 2012

Dominic - Vocals & All Instruments

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Skeletons UK

"A world of engaging horror and convincing mish-mash of styles all wrapped up in a blanket of memorable riffs "
- Neil Arnold, Metal Forces Magazine

"Stories of Agony, Madness & Death evoking the cavernous, dark and ominous vocal presence of Danzig."
- Javier Carrillo, Verdadera Radio Online

Grunge/Doom/Sludge Metal project helmed by Dominic Goulding. ... more

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