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All of our roses - piled in one spot
where all the ashes lay, underneath the lot.

And should more follow
should I even care?
All our hearts ring hollow for
the hope that wasn't there.

They cry a prayer for peace as death has tolled the hour
while the cinders of the city blocks where silence now resounds,
under swirling vortex heavens and a great oncoming storm,
for now grow cold beneath a shadow stretching far beyond.

What were these works?
Ruin only, all!
I seek a truer peace,
and I pray it cuts me down.

Terror of terrors,
Oh Gods of Death.
Atomic fire,
gone in a breath.
Look inside you,
know there's nothing left.
I wander listless through a world whose time has come and gone
behind the ticking clockface, under shelter of the bomb.
Burning, smoldering my soul, twist in phantom fire!

All the last week's roses, blackened and forgot,
and where their ashes lay, defiling beast now walks.

Pray your soul's destruction, forever be the last
that all of those now dead, may they never come back.

The city is a graveyard; the best it ever was,
but in my heart a sadness for all I love is dead.
Wasted; alive it never was.
Terror again, on rolls the coming storm.
Beneath its fires, the mournful throng.
Look inside!
Look inside!
Now it's time to die!

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from Choking Corpse Candlewax, released October 31, 2022

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If you're reading this - Gods of the Dead is the good one. Listen to that first if you're going to listen to anything on here. It's actually pretty solid.

Atlanta Monsters' Ball is also nice.

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