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My spine
Is a corridor
Each room filled
With so many horrors
I climb up to its peak
My wrists becoming weak
Hers is the voice of all my demons
My skin begins to dry and crack
Horrific vision finely honed
The antlers bursting from my back
As I am crowned with a halo of bone
My skull
Is a shapeless void
Inside
Every pathway leads to torment
I reach up toward the crown
The sweetest dream of drowning
My soul is splitting at the seams
My skin begins to dry and crack
Horrific vision finely honed
The antlers bursting from my back
As I am crowned with a halo of bone
No map to guide my way
My skull
Shapeless void
Inside
The crown
Dream of dying
My soul
My soul is split
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I am not of this place
The ice within my veins
And eyes that are as black
As blackest night from end to end
She cannot bear to love
What she cannot abide
Cold cruelty blooms inside
To poison all who dare to try
You stole from their stories
Your daughter stole a child
You’re locked in the hazelwood
And rotting in exile
I am not of this world
A story not a girl
A bridge that forms in me
Between the places I have gone
I cannot touch her skin
It burns with emptiness
She wants to cut me open
Bleed me dry to forge a door
I hear it calling me
It whispers through the trees
The world I left behind so
Long ago floats like a dream
The feather, bone, & comb
I know I’m not alone
And everything is watching me
With eyes that can’t be seen
Bound like a book i can never read
Stitched into me like a crooked seam
Alice three times is the story she wove
Spun like a web, every thread made of gold
It follows me wherever I go
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Sink with me
We’ll lay at the bottom of this void
Forever
Stay with me
You know that I cannot let you leave
Remember
Take your place
Your throne has been empty far too long
Your highness
Take your time
You know i’ll be waiting here for you
Forever
We have such sights to show you
We have such sights to show you
Find me flesh
And prey on the arrogance of men
Deceivers
Drink of this
The blood that you spill to make me whole
To free me
Solve this box
Lament when they’re summoned by your base
Desires
We have such sights to show you
Both pain and pleasure so divine
We have such sights to show you
Inside the labyrinth of your mind
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Nightmare Eyes
04:34
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(Every pulse a beckoning)
(Searching your face for a hint of affinity)
Be still--
A shaky hand cannot build this
Machine
Devil's in the details
It burns
Take my love into your hands
It burns
Throw it in the fire
Feed the flame…
This cold
Penetrates into my bones
And melts
As I turn to steam
This heart
is built upon a plan of souls
This heart
Playing to a broken beat
I turn to you…
(But) your eyes, they lie
Green as the grass beside the river
I don't know why
I'm
Giving so much of myself
To my own
Enemy
Can't fix this
Machine
I can't
Tell what is real with this
Shadow
Trailing my every breath
Softly
I tread on flowers that
Lead the way
Into your
Heart
I wish
What I see in front of me
Was real
But it's just pretend again
This heart
Powers the machine I'm in but
This heart
Cannot take a hit again
Your eyes, they lie
(Grease the gears)
Green as the grass beside the river
(Watch them spin)
I don't know why
I'm
Losing so much of myself
To my own
Enemy
Can't fix this
Machine
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Skin-Taker
06:59
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Watch the screen filled with static
While the tide is coming in
Feel the storm in your belly
How did this all begin?
He’s in your head
He wants you dead
Tear the teeth from your mouth
Tear the skin from your face
Pay the toll to gain safe passage
You have to go inside
He never died
He wants your hide
He’s in your head
He wants you dead
He never died
He wants your hide
It’s not a dream
It’s on the screen
We cannot run
His will is done
He’s made of teeth
Jawbone the thief
He wants your skin
Don’t let him in
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Everson Poe Chicago, Illinois
Everson Poe is Mae Shults: a trans, queer, multi-instrumentalist from Chicago. Often in collaboration with various
vocalists, she balances elements from many diverse genres while maintaining the goal of merging beauty with loudness. She has been releasing music as Everson Poe for over a decade.
Logo by Sludgework.
Avatar by Unknown Relic.
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