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from what should i stay // your death will not be beautiful by Callum Cheah

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lyrics

Love
That’s what you died for
Love
All your achievements reduced by the one thing you pined for
Love
To league it with leaders, then loins are what’s needed
Love
Not a second to doubt it, because you’re nothing without it

Your death will not be beautiful

You’ll suffocate eternally
Your breath beaten internally
Set motionless
Against an ocean
Of devotion
And skin lotion
Wounds open
Round a potent
Poison pushing
Paralysing potion
Through pores
Assume jawlines
Remained intact through figs and circus
We fixed your cervix
And crossed your pigment circuit
For the single purpose
Of making you picture perfect

Your death will not be beautiful

Venom latches onto respiration receptors
And never let’s go
An agonising 30 minutes barely breathing
Body heaving
While death is creeping
Down into diaphragms
You drown in the fire sand
And moisturiser brands
While the whitest hand
Subdivides your land
You can barely stand
Against the calvery
Your heart becomes the car battery
That fuels the battering
And shattering
Of flattery
Pumping acid through your veins
The piper plays
While the vipers gaze
Glazes
Over your decrepit body
As you writhe in pain
Can’t hide the strain
While the Roman’s ferry you
Nor describe distain
At the improper burial

Your death will not be beautiful

There’s nothing symbolic
Or metaphoric
Of the symbiotic
Pairing of tooth to breast
Suit the jest
Of the ruthless pest
That stole the heart from a good man’s chest
Fuck the rest
Because in your death
That momentary solitude
Swallows you
The hollow truth
That you die for everyone who followed you
And in centuries time
When written into play
The real tragedy comes
From the placement of your name
And how little you say

Your death will not be beautiful

No matter what the pictures say
The fixed displays
In art galleries
Will encapsulate the fallacy
That you died for

Love

Because you’re nothing without it

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from what should i stay // your death will not be beautiful, released September 11, 2018

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