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The Art of Attrition​(​DEMOS)

by XK Scenario

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1.
Columns of light as I open my eyes Like a ray that shines From dark to bright Look to the sky I see divine might the irradiation permeating the nation Brought on by those who held control we chose to damn the land Fumigate the planet a few managed to survive But that was the day everyone had died They were crawling through the crevices Thought that was the end of it But the savior was lying in their midst Reached through the abyss And gave me form by the holy word of python these pistons were the first to taste the sin of our kin The intercontinental computers knew the planet was on its last legs So to speed up the process and ease the suffering it Doesn’t matter now All that counts is the work that we do to renew the land We were put on this path by the one below Blessed be the spark that we were bestowed Inanimate given the form of the creator Let us b-b-b-bow our heads in praise and thank that we were the chosen That we were the saved Yes I know That the acid rain corrodes The scorch it imprints never leaves the sensors Be thankful that you suffer For it is through our lowest point that the creator reaches through us Yes I know (Yes I know) That our work has run behind time and it’s been many lifetimes since we’ve begun But strong faith through insurmountable odds will always be rewarded Yes I know (Yes I know) The deactivation of the little one still weighs heavy But they are now under the embrace Of the many before them Of the many that shared their fate Keep the faith Keep the faith Keep the faith Keep the faith For they will guide you For they will g-guide you Keep the faith Keep the f-faith Keep the faith Keep the f-ff-faith Of the many who hold you Of the many who guide you Keep the faith Keep the faith k-k-k-k-keep the f-faith Keep the faith Faith I must have faith I must have faith I must have faith I must have faith The more faults in the machine the more lifelike it seems This pain scours the droplets carve In each turn smaller stabs help my find forget The grand torture The perennial being you give me meaning I am but a tool with no previous definition But it remains I’m ashamed to say it But it remains I view your will But still it remains The others do not know I think the same a bastion of lies is what hides in my core I spew them out but the storage remains full How wretched am I To ask when the signs are here I know when our work is done You will appear You have to appear You will appear You will appear You will appear You will appear You have to appear You have to appear You have to appear You will appear You will appear You will appear You will appear You have to appear You have to appear You will appear You will appear You will appear You will appear You have to appear You have to appear You will appear After all these years Every shred sacrificed to your sanctified grace All these years (I’ve been sheared) All these years I’ve been Shorn Shattered Shaken Scorned I’ve been shorn Shattered Shaken Scorned Shorn Shattered Shaken Scorned (scorned) Every hail to your hallowed name hails pain to my broken frame When will it be enough? When will you appear?
2.
Call my story the Kebra Nagast the Glory of Kings Yea the holy tinged kid killing hella simpletons with the Mosin-Nagant Like David I be slinging the Rock And roll with auditory glory taking out the heads of all these phony hate filled M.Cs A modicum of my energy Is raw to some like loud revelry To small eardrums Scum of the planet You’re frantic To take me out in a bout But I doubt you could step to me Cause I’m bursting capillaries Pop off with the pen cap my pencil lead is heavy I’m deadly sending Robber bombers to level your temple and revel in your terror Shockwave gonna hit you from the side of your fucking brain Giving you a tonic-clonic seizure That’s how I seize ya Believe the Words coming out of the mouth of the black blood super Negro with no equal I feel though a deep sorrow for the weak part of my mind Sometimes I wonder if I’m the cement holding the bricks down Or the foul shit that lines the crevice Depends if I sense it The miasma The cancer I answer Decay with waves of bravado To drown out the hollow But it’s insignificant Ripping yall ligaments from the whiplash of these tracks And I know that one day imma crash like Apollo 1 But I’m gifted with the lyrics so you could call me Apollo’s son This is all I got This is all I got What happens? When you put all your eggs in a casket You can’t quit Even if you crack it or it’s damaged It’s a no fork road so I traverse with ease Can’t reverse the path to the throne and the sword of Damocles But I’d gladly put my head to the blade than allow for a slow fade I wasn’t made in mass production My name doesn’t contain corruption I got the gumption to succeed in my scheme But I’m locked away from any other dream This is all I got This is all I got This is all I got
3.
Don’t take me Where lies grow old (grow old) Set the cost Weave your fee Found the path Through the seams Through the seams Lies decay Never noticed Never craved For a moment next to you I wanna break away Not here but I remain I wanna break away So Don’t take me Where lives grow old (grow old) You don’t feel it anymore I still feel it growing more You don’t feel it anymore I still feel it growing more Enjoy the sunsets over Saturn Like this theft had never mattered Rape me Take it all again again again No Enjoy the sunsets over Saturn Like this theft had never mattered Rape me Take it all again again again No Enjoy the sunsets over Saturn Like this theft had never mattered Rape me Take it all again again again again again Enjoy the sunsets over Saturn Like this theft had never mattered Rape me rape me Again again again again
4.
The Grove 03:11
I can never tell which days passing me by Oh the dawns they just echo the time Spent away locked away in the grove where I can grow Next to the willow and oak I feel their roots influence the route that I take Yea life blossoms only through their way Nutrients be flowing through their veins So I can’t complain Assuming it’s like something worse could come along and Burn my bark Warp my heart (warp my hearth) Tear apart this connection of protection This connection yea Next to the willow and oak I feel Next to the willow and oak I feel Next to the willow and oak I feel Next to the willow and oak I feel But as I spy the sun through the leaves I feel like I can get a better taste More space to grow More roots to hold But the willow and oak seem to disagree Yea They say decades die to decadence Better be happy with what you get The grove is a home that’ll never let you down But you wanna tear your roots from the ground Get a grip get a grip why don’t you Get a get a get a get a grip why don’t you now Get a grip get a grip why don’t you Get a get a get a grip why don’t you now Next to the willow and oak I feel Next to the willow and oak I feel Next to the willow and oak I feel Next to the willow and oak I feel Roots Won’t Let Go How can scion fight against the root From which it had blossomed and consumed Life that it bears is not just its own Life that is owned by another form Thanks to the willow and oak it must (live) Thanks to the willow and oak it must (grow) For the willow and oak it must (stay) For the willow and oak it must (hold)
5.
As the phantom walks the path of the damned she found she couldn’t find the way Living upon the scenes of a dream The ethereal wisp Akin to dew and mist Had lost her soul (sol) along the road All begun with her screams that signaled the breach She reached for him to run outside To gather a midwife (apep) To bring the child life she gripped the pole Strength of her hold had cracked her nails The blood ran in trails of muted crimson Then the midwife slid in Attempting to coax the child out of its small prison (prism) Finally it listened and was exposed But with her black robe The midwife ran out the door with the child in tow How could this be All I have suffered for a Serpent to steal from me It was under your eyes Take no excuses For the weakness you held The weakness I’ll quell I’ll gather these rags To mend my form And I’ll don these furs so that I may trudge through the night Foolish I was A fool was I To place my trust in Anyone but I She left him as he wept and screamed and begged her not to head towards twilight But she saw the light Yea the light the brail she read as a trail would guide her to the child But it would not ward her from the torture that Each Step Would Bring Coming up on my life never knew the meaning of loss Skin akin to evergreen trees in the frost So I always cared for naught that’s how I gained a lot And then I ended up swimming in the sauce But along came Longinus with his holy spear That pierced the shield that I’ve held up for years The act which bore a fruit from a tree But a black serpent came and stole it from me Lament for the child for the child of the daylight Repent rotted agent of moonlight I know that the path that I’ve taken Is one forged from my own hatred I search as the rocks carve in my skin I search as the frost bites in my limbs I search but I’m turning up nothing My god please give me something She ran She ran before I could stop her The stronger of us two She chased Apep who stole from her womb And I let the theft entomb my feet when I saw the scene I couldn’t speak I screamed In pain Or was it shame No matter the name this loss still remains the same Why did we ever venture from my warm sands To her Dark Cold Dead Wastelands I know her home lay in the north But the long trek put stress on her heart We had to stop in a barn that’s when the breach had begun With no respite in sight had to make do with the crude tools But it was doomed to be futile Apep had won he stole our Sunlight She’s searching for some light Anything to show that the path holds true To fend off the darkness seeping through Heart Is Beating As fear and truth weigh her down Knots in her stomach as she falls to the ground Pain is growing from below Blood down her thighs Realize afterbirth is inside Pulled is out She tugged it out And through the shrieks Cut deafening truth Oh she knew Oh she knew it now That cord of life Was a hangman’s noose This light was never alive This light (this lie) was never alive This womb screams out This womb screams out This light was never alive This light was never alive This womb Screams (out)
6.
Drained and deranged The people of the village were pillaged of their life force The monsters had no remorse for their actions Help was called in through Morse code So the demons wouldn’t know that a faction Of Fearless Vampire Killers were on route to kill all of the demons When the killers took to the road they encountered minions from below Hell fire burned the willow Swamps billowed from the wind and heat Animals cried like a child longing for a teat It turned the grey skyline into a black borderline But the F.V.K paid them no mind Instead they dived into the fray Slicing heathens the divine legion Finding weaknesses Incredible feats of strength Were put on display For an audience None other than they Involved In the mass cleaning The F.V.K continued on the way To a den of devils (which they held) A den of devils (which they held) Then it had Turned to evening And the team was scheming On taking down the main gatehouse The guards were pacified Then we snuck inside To rend their lives Now you heard it coming let em give it to ya Now they hear em coming Yea they hear em coming Now they hear em coming Yea they hear em coming Now they hear em coming Now they hear em coming C’mon You won’t faze me I know I know You won’t take me I know I know You won’t faze me I know I know You won’t take me I know I know By the come of morning break em by the end of dawn By the come of morning break em by the end of dawn By the come of morning break em by the end of Yea I hear em coming But they never running By the come of morning Break em by the end of Yea I hear em coming But they never running By the come of morning Break em by the end of Yea I hear em coming But they never running By the come of morning Break em by the end of Yea I hear em coming But they never running By the come of morning Break em by the end of Dawn Justice for the bloodless Justice for the bloodless Yea I hear em knocking I can hear em coming c’mon Justice for the bloodless Justice for the bloodless Justice for the bloodless Now I hear it coming
7.
They won’t buy it That cash cow ain’t worthy till fifteen people throw in their weight Can’t blame em Blame em I wanna flay em If the weather is dead sea they gon run with the life boat Leave you on the cracked planks Yea they’ll help steer when the weather’s clear Can’t blame em Hate em I wanna flay em They’ll show up to the circus to feed from the clown But leave this man three feet down in the sinking ground Yea I blame em I hate em I wanna flay em But they know not No they know not So I can’t blame em I can’t hate em But I’m gonna flay em
8.
Reave 04:25
Sacrifice a life with the slip of a knife in the night For my own respite these bastards never even put up a fight I’m a demon reaving heathens with chloroform Leaving them breathing with the gas so I can kill them slow Many of the people that I slaughtered I used to know And it made it all the sweeter when I finally took their souls A savage practice I committed up in the lavish palace These cops they never did manage to see that people vanished Till it was too late At that point I was making the cream I was selling skeletons to universities But killing and ripping and selling the bodies Was not a proper business routine I turned to fraud scheme
9.
BURST The flames emanate down the trident nation The silver knives slide through the skyside and arrive at the silent raging patrons of the Iwir Jeers and thrills of those living in The Quarter could be heard from across the border They produced melodies that had lasted for centuries But The heads over at Sector Never knew how to get down instead found technologies And studied astronomy they pushed probabilities to the brink of what was known But the shrinks down at The Capital Would keep em in line Making it sure Things were running fine Violence wasn’t applied To solve any crime Oh what a life Oh what a beautiful life As the Iwir gazed over onyx skies They couldn’t find any signs that life had passed their eyes They were alone floating an island in the sea Left to wander forever in dark eternity The citizens never experienced any form of culture besides their own A bunch of Ethnocentrics blessed with the gift of blissful ignorance They weren’t corrupted in any form but they hold strong to the hope That they aren’t alone As time passed on The technologies grew steadily They formed babies in metal machines And chose memories personalities so in maturity they could be Just another one of the people Just another one of the peaceful people But one day sector detected an anomaly They couldn’t find the quasar located in sector B All that energy came running at em high velocity They wondered what could it be that caused the anomaly Screams tore across the silent sky then divided by The black bolt of metal fire bellowed In the wake of the dark shape Charged The Quarter eyes of slaughter Defied the order by which peace was kept Seized the breath of feeble people Dark dreadnought crashed in the middle The blow back shock wave thrashed half of the villas The evil villains Left the wreck stood unchecked Ten feet twenty one piece emaciated thiefs Scarlet beings hit em disintegrate em but they leave em With the brain stem so pain remains Veins frayed from the center Oh the senders of terror the red maw Of the dread gods consumed all Death songs were now the ballad Madness ravaged masses with no pause The mangled battered beaten bodies fed the gods And so the horror was the name of their cause Twenty percent died from the attack Another five percent on the run back To The Sector and Capital They threw up a magnetic manifold to repel the horde It was once a weather reflector But now became their only protector Gave the survivors time to process their minds Anger Rage Fear War All these pains never felt before in the virgin minds of the Iwir kind A new idea came to light to retaliate for the sake of their lives So leaders from each of the great cities Discussed how they’d take down the evil deities They were pondering and wondering how to take em out But the heads over at sector came up with a plan somehow Thousands of solar cycles beyond the birth of the original sin The death kin load in to begin the final ritual Travel to the homeworld of those who burned their souls long ago As they pass The Remnants The Black Pits and The Wreckage The memory of a memory tugs on their mind But they can’t find the source Just focus on the mission at hand Understand Machines only breed those whose blood lust was enough to survive the hunt Of those who came before Seven were taken from each lost provenance (Providence) Loaded into a ship which punched a hole through existence To fulfill their vengeance And off they had went With the skills that they learned From those who came before Right past the gate The energy burned Straight through their armor core They shot out through space To finally face The homeworld of the horde The first thing they saw When they broke on Three silver towers in sun showers
10.
Devil is pursuing me The evils I’ve seen and committed are coming back with a vengeance I glance to my pistol and see the words inscribed I think back to my life and I see it rife with turmoil Now I’m going to boil in hell for dreams I killed Real shitty way to die Real shitty way to die Real shitty way to die Real shitty way to die Real shitty way to die he said Real shitty way to die Real shitty way to die Loop through the devil’s eyes The end is really fucking nigh Grab your gun and run for your motherfucking Life The end is really fucking nigh So grab your gun and run for your motherfucking Life Since the birth of society He’s gone and snatched Liars Thieves Whores And false priests I’m just another tally in the wall Sin scoreboard Where it’s gonna go down Where it’s gonna go down Way down Where it’s gonna go down she said Down to the pits of hell Where the devil dwells Where the devil dwells The end is really fucking nigh Grab your gun and run for your motherfucking Life The end is really fucking nigh Grab your gun and run for your motherfucking Life Set the blame Don’t you set the blame No more no more no more no more no more no more Don’t you set the blame on me Don’t you bring me down Then I’ll open fire Then I opened fire Then I opened fire Then I opened fire Then I opened fire Then I opened fire Then I opened fire End is really fucking nigh So grab your gun and run for your motherfucking Life (your life) Life (your life)
11.
Living a lie as I deny the mind’s eye’s progression An impression of what I could be My faculty is drastically running out of Ichor Leaving me no more of the soul blood of Igziabeher Gabriel give me strength Before I fade into a wraith And let the cold shores of the fade invade And absorb the whole core of my mainframe Forlorn thorn lost in the wake of a sea of wine Trying to ride the wave back to the home vine But I cannot find the path back cause I lack the perception Required for direction Lost to the riptide Look to the sky for divine intervention But I cannot find any sign that the message Was obtained or preordained I’ve damned my name to live in shame I never knew the cost The price of nothing But it’s bringing me down yea it brings me down and I Never knew bout that cost Replicating Sisyphus within this abyss Decimating these ley lines of time within my mind The uncouth youth I took a bite out of forbidden fruit And now I’m ridden with the curse of truth Yea I’m a troglodyte that’s stuck in his ways Like troubled mice that are lost in a maze Being content was nice for a phase But imma subject my life to never change I never knew the cost The price of nothing But it’s bringing me down yea it’s bringing me down and I Never knew about that cost Or about that dream All I know is how the lies coming up Taking over me They said feel the lie I said coming up my spine They said that the shield wouldn’t take it all Me apart I’m stuck in a deadlock between two heads that talk off non stop They pop off with obscene thoughts like a sawed off With active reload and the more that I stagnate The rate at which they bicker grows quicker So I know that one’s gotta go Which one gets a shot of the hemlock downed I got a feeling I got a feeling I’ll be leaving with one of the daemons The first one whispers in my ear The future is never clear So stay safe soft sleeping in your shelter Cause fate breaks off fleeing for your better And with a sly grin the daemon trying to save his skin So the other one chimes in Of course it’s gonna look for a better What you expect when you stuck and you fester You gotta put pressure in your soul How else are you gonna grow The other daemon’s coming into defense it says I offer other options for you to rest Why stress when you can live life free from anxiety Damn your dogmatic sense of piety The other daemon interjects With no due respect I think you’re leading me to a nameless death I got a feeling I got a feeling Like the life I’ve lived is the life I’ve loved I got a feeling I got a feeling Like the life I’ve loved is the one I’ll live I got a feeling I got a feeling Like the time is near and the time is nigh I got a feeling I got a feeling Like the time in now up to decide (two of the side) Beh hulet yesebere Huletim kno tewelede Huletim kno yesebere Huletim kno gedele Huletim kno yewelede Huletim kno yesebere Huletim kno yewelede Huletim kno yegedele Huletim kno yewelede Huletim kno yesebere Huletim kno yegedele Huletim kno yesebere Huletim kno allekim Huletim kno allekim I’ll feel the hurt Said my peace Yea send it all Lay your wreaths I’ll Burn it down Burn it down I’ll Burn it down Burn it down I’ll Burn it down Burn it down I’ll Burn it down Burn it down I’ll Burn it down Burn it down I’ll Burn it down Burn it down I’ll Burn it down Burn it down I’ll Burn it down Columns of light as I close my eyes Like a ray that fades From bright to dark

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noun: attrition
1.
the action or process of gradually reducing the strength or effectiveness of someone or something through sustained attack or pressure.
2.
(in scholastic theology) sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God

This album is dedicated to

Stephen Menick
Ayat Bogale
MorFar (Murray Gendell)
Zack Taylor

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released June 29, 2019

Kaleab Elias - Lyrics, vocals, congas
Alex Menick - Guitar, double bass
Ryan West - Drums, bongos, congas
Aidan Thies - Bass

Additional musicians
Tonito Walls - Saxophone (Tracks 8 and 11)
Andrew Velez - Trumpet (Tracks 8 and 11)
Julian K Berger IV - Saxophone (Track 10)
Bryan Allen Moore - The Crowbar Dulcimer (Track 7)

Technicians
Ananth "Best Tones" Batni - Recording Engineer
Ryan West - Mixing Engineer
Gavin Lurssen - Mastering Engineer (Except Track 7)

All songs produced by - Ryan West, Alex Menick, and Kaleab Elias
All songs composed by - Ryan West, Alex Menick, Aidan Thies, and Kaleab Elias

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