Martyrs

from Marionettes by Skeletons

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Blind children crawling through broken glass
These shattered bottles in the underpass
A festering mess of formaldehyde, tell me;
Are you ready to accept Christ?
In ritual worship, and all that entails
Your cries for help lay on a bed of nails; You'll find
Your promised land beneath a river of blood
Are you prepared to look upon the face of God?

Asphyxiated, I am searching for Heaven
But in the darkness I can see no light
My whole life wasted on bleeding and striving and suffering
For nothing; I am dead inside

Seven Angels in defloration
Teeth gnashing savage at the virgin flesh
Behold I am the way and I am the light, tell me
Are you ready to accept death?
Inside your hollow, brittle bones I can see
The empty stare of true belief
Carve blind euphoria in your feeble skin
For I can save you, but only from within

Twitching pale limbs forming a circle of faith
That you could drink deep from this squalid lake

A sacrifice to the god beneath the skin

And now my eyes are bleeding; twisted to form
My lungs evacuate; exhale to conform
I see myself in place of Jesus Christ
Nailed to the gateways of your paradise

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from Marionettes, released November 19, 2013

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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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