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Men Like Gods

by Deterior

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It was your fault This copper-fueled nightmare I pulled off your mask How putrid As the flakes fall And I crept through the sludge A tiny beam Entered our minds I pray one day I'll be cured I pray one day we'll be pure You forgot I can see right through you I can see right through to the sky Burning Seething Retching Dying Hoping Forming Breathing Llying
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All of these people, trapped in their fantasy I built my fortress with these wooden arms It won't take long to burn it away The last dance of my descent It won't take long to melt it down It was never real anyway This time — it's lies Grabbing hands and jealous eyes radiate my lust Breathing? I don't need it I won't take the world on my back This time — it's lies
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Replicant 05:17
Stepping over broken glass Stretched into a nerve Falling into the grinder Twenty-two and I can't take any of it back The more I learn, the less I know Between the lines, it's draining, I can't take it The more I learn, the less I know What I wouldn't give to be alive again One hundred seasons, a memory Unless it's now that I'm asleep Now there's no such thing as innocence Bathe in ultraviolet Come and see Dissolution We will be Wilting
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If there was one day I could clear my mind If I knew a way I could breathe in deep Look on my works Already I am the one who despairs With a heavy hand I wipe the dust and tears away That I may live That I may go on That it could shine As bright as you Seeing, being alive It's not what has come through Dying, wasting this time I don't believe in you "Everything is alright" That was a lie "Everything is alright" Every word is a sigh Every song is a whisper Grant me peace through all of this Grant me a piece
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Crawl Space 04:50
Red tongues taste the air Come and watch it with me Drops of bullets on the ground and in your mouth It's in the air We don't know who we are Who we'll never be Spark hunger Sunburnt eyes Spark hunger Grey lights fill this space All is sanctified Come with me and fall from grace As English dies The dust cakes thick Blank eyes In a crawl space Terrorized I won't die this way I can't die this way
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Behind Red 05:59
Satisfied in my scheme But you came and threw it all out Drowning in my immolation Comforting consonance slipping away Rusting in the womb Drowning in your spite Choking on this debt Kill in contempt Tearing the skin back Can't make me whole again Tearing the skin back Won't make it right with you I want out Take me out Come move me I'll be I Satisfied in my scheme But you came and threw me away
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Shelve it; the world has moved on It's all graffiti and fading billboards You see how it can turn from one day to one day It's time to shut the gates, it's time to close yourself We could stand up We could show ourselves We could hold on We could... but why? I don't know you anymore Maybe I don't know myself I'll pull you down, I'll make you feel again It's been so long For all this time, you've been dreaming It all went wrong A single hydrogen blaze Washes out my eyes It's just a cycle of "create and decay" It's just a cycle It's all so violent We'll put all this to rest We'll bury it in stories and moments I'll tear out the scars I swear I've changed, I've grown We are both older than these words and these sounds We are both younger than this life will ever be

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released November 29, 2011

Recorded and engineered by Deterior in Studio 175 from September–October 2011
Mixed and mastered by Deterior in Studio 175 from October–November 2011
Remastered by Deterior in Studio 170 from May–June 2013

Cover art: Ivan Aivazovsky

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Deterior is a sludge metal / post-rock / black metal project formed in Ohio around 2004.

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