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The Tenant

by Ludicra

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Be still, remain still Do not unveil The stained and marked Portrait of your soul A sweetly coated expression Will not hide All blundering misjudgement No pardon for your past crimes The archaic soured plight Slumbers in stagnant ponds Reflecting lost time This uneasy embrace This reluctant form This stubborn mule This tarnished view Fractured hopes unfolding When light shines on The shaded one We are not freed from the damage done Snarls are heard atop the heads Angry hollow eyes see red Memories peer from behind Redeem for light that overshines To be the prize To be the burden
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What pace is taken On this humbling walk Hurry forward I imagine Stroll along with no second guess Are you quiet Without fear or apprehension Does it feel effortless? Does it feel free? Is it easy as they say? Icy waters call you home Does it feel easy? Does it feel free? Are you free? “silent, into a larger silence where we could not follow” (Crossing Brooklyn Bridge – Cynthia Hogue) What pace is taken On this humbling walk Are you quiet Without fear or apprehension Does it feel effortless? Does it feel free? Is it easy as they say? Icy waters call you home Leap of faith? Slip from grace? Are you free?
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In Stable 05:53
No will for A way out From a past of blurry visions To the present of delusions No need for A way back To the baseline To the safe haven Dumbed down to live in one dimension Swirled, distorted cluttered mind Stopped the mood from swinging Suffocated in (bags of) compulsion Idler of daydreams Picked and split apart A sore sight To be ignored A dying breed Rightly excused To end in nothingness No way for A way back To the baseline To the safe haven To end in nothingness
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Another day Built from decay A famined slumber Gone is the summer Frowned upon Are the weak and the worn For they reak of sick and sorrow They outrun The spectre of hardship Into scarred open arms Thrown back to the mire Each backward step Is theirs to own (own) Every heartache In a misshapen being (being) Each hungry mouth An empty well (wellness) Running dry There’s never enough to go around (around) They are human herds of patience They slouch and shift their weight They remain in the cracks They remain in the fray Frowned upon Are the weak and the worn For they reek of sick and sorrow From the creeping dawn To the dying dusk They dance a callous step Forage for diamonds Among the turf Live for what is left Trails of smoke Yellow eyes Live for what is left Trails of smoke Yellow eyes There’s never enough (of anything) to go around
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Take me to the cut and dry Cold... a frozen place Makes me hide any expression Makes me breathe in the fake Clean White Void Teach me to mask the spirit That rose to take its place The farce of human bonds Of dignity and respect Clean White Void Words are worthless Left in silence Confusion and blame Let me be the clean white void The slate... the unwritten From this day forward I offer none Clean White Void Thoughts are voiceless Kept tightly spun Minds misread, all songs unheard
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Truth won't set you free Vomits its absence incessantly Blind eye of the beholder Only sees what it believes Perched upon the fence of truth and error A battle cry of human tools Perched upon the fence of truth and error A battle cry of human tools (Truth) truth has not yet set us free (Won’t) right and wrong raise their flags (Set) as diverse as every man (You) in separate caves and clouds (Free) Broad cast fabrication Accusations The power of suggestion Fooled over persausion Wash their minds Their senses Perched upon the fence of truth and error A battle cry of human tools Perched upon the fence of truth and error A battle cry of human tools (Truth) truth has not yet set us free (Won’t) right and wrong raise their flags (Set) as diverse as every man (You) in separate caves and clouds (Free) Who is good or evil? Who is made inhuman? Who is the fool? Who is fit to rule?
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The Tenant 06:39
For all within your rooms Your narrow rented tombs Within your walls of want The frame in which you haunt Inside your restless storm The paint is cracked and worn Four walls bubbled and pocked Marked with shame, a bolted lock A facade hides your worn out pride A shoddy view of others just like you A window rattles you with what you hide Sickness spreads through Your breeding grounds of dust For all within your rooms Your narrow rented tombs Within your walls of want The frame in which you haunt Inside your restless storm The paint is cracked and worn Four walls bubbled and pocked Marked with shame, a bolted lock A facade hides your worn out pride A shoddy view of others just like you A window rattles you with what you hide
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On the last train of thought Sits my incomplete self It was left undone, neglected and lost Missing all pieces of meaning On the last train of thought Sits my unknown cause Ingrained with stigma, fear and failure Heaved onto the rails of ambition Wages were squandered Coppers are pinched Life is to be earned The biggest scam! How I would rather earn The right not to care Feast on this failure My failure to thrive Work for survival Not for reward Maintain and own Life self-serving scum Spitshine and polish Your plentiful gain Strive to acquire The gold badge of greed Lack of desire The pale badge of need Feast of this failure My failure to thrive Work for survival Not for reward On the last train of thought Sits my incomplete self It was left undone, neglected and lost Missing all pieces of meaning
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Originally released on CD by Profound Lore Records, catalog number PFL 056, and on LP by Throne Records, catalog number THRONE 06

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released March 3, 2010

recorded, mixed, and mastered between May and September 2009

produced by John Cobbett and Justin Weis at Trakworx Studio, South San Francisco, CA
engineered and mastered by Justin Weis

art and design by Ross Sewage

Ludicra:
Laurie Sue Shanaman - vocals
Christy Cather - guitar and vocals
John Cobbett - guitar
Aesop - drums
Ross Sewage - bass

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Ludicra San Francisco, California

Ludicra was a metal band from San Francisco. They originally formed in 1998 as a quartet and later expanded to five members. On July 26, 2011, the band announced on their official website that they had disbanded.
Ludicra's sound has been described as black metal and avant-garde metal.
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