Voice Held Hostage

by Psionic

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THIS SONG IS DEDICATED TO YOUR EX.

lyrics

Sever the sky with sorrow's scythe
Tear down the stars during the night
Serenades sung in muted screams
Vocal chords torn at the seams
Voice held hostage, voice held hostage
I'ma thrall to Your barbed wire bondage
No escape from Your wretched face
Like surfacing for air in a frozen lake
Born of Agent Orange and vomit
From every plastic tear You profit
Your memory a stench to me
Salt in the wound, I'm meant to bleed
Tainted when you take control
Two broken people don't make a whole
Misery loves company
But You don't have a monopoly

I was smitten only to be bitten
With bloody fanged toothed precision
Voice held hostage, I cannot breathe
And I've got so much, so little to bequeath

Hard by the hinges of hell, I'm bluffing
A personal apocalypse of death
Desire to return to the beginning at nothing
Chrome and lead, fiery breath
Chipped porcelain and smoldering embers
Hollow tips in mind off the top of my head
She said I broke her heart, I remember
To be alone in a way is to be dead
Our ambiguity two shadows cast
Together on the same damn wall at last
Through the midst of this piss and the shit and the grime
Adding minutes to a broken clock to tell time

Bitten by a professional victim
Sawing and slicing sinew incision
Voice held hostage, I wanna scream
And start from the beginning with the slate clean

You tug on heartstrings made of a damned noose
My tongue severed that day You showed true
In a desperate moment I misplaced my heart
So scared of loneliness, I settle for the dark
My voice held hostage, this silence too beautiful to break
Sorry my un-love, I cannot give what I cannot take
A revenant riptide forms before the storm
As the coiled serpent surfaces and is born
Reckless ruination, I am a damn fool
You bathe in venomous rage to rekindle your lost youth
Reflections resonating with a razor bladed cold stare
Now who the fuck am I to pretend that I don't care?

credits

released September 11, 2023
Written, recorded, produced, mixed, mastered, and art by Psionic, fuck did you do this month!?

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