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Violent Miracles

by Cassius At Best

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Violent Miracles 06:36
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I need a reason for the calm Look how your body has suffered after all It's times like these I feel caution is just a rotting corpse Just give me less until I waste into My purest form Hearts filled in adoration Or was it complicity? You thought you'd leave me waiting I got lost at lightning speed You wanted a proper send-off Or you just need to be A fraction of what we're given A fragment you'll choose to keep As long as you get that far Or maybe we deserve To stay right where we are Until they put us in the dirt And you look at me in mourning And you look with vapid eyes In the mirror I'm just so smug The sight is so unnerving How the fuck did I let it get this way? A carousel of my wants beyond the gate But I'll never reach it Reaching outward, I never thought to be apprehensive Humbled, as you are This all could stop with that expression Reaching outward, I never thought to be apprehensive Humbled, as you are This all could stop with that expression A comprehension of the Reasons you had gone away, Nothing left to contemplate I get the debt that I'm owed I'm stuck in limbo with the seeds that I've sown I get the debt that I'm owed I'm stuck in limbo with the seeds that I've sown Mirrored in faith The taste of regret I can feel it breathing down my neck You're breaking chase What did I expect? You've been folding corners where this ends Reaching outward, I never thought to be apprehensive Humbled, as you are This all could stop with that expression. Reaching outward, I never thought to be apprehensive Humbled, as you are This all could stop with that expression A comprehension of the Reasons you had gone away, No one left to captivate You are a violent, unmoving miracle The pale speaks within, and the madness engulfs us all
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Seer Stone 04:25
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Pass along your stride It's not enough to ease your Your empty mind Turned to ash in the winter Yet in fall, the trembling water Rippled through your eyes A fever dream of when you faltered Coalesce and claim your prize You were lost my seer stone Seeking penance, can I atone If I let you sink below Righteously they'll never know I felt a panic rise I fell asleep under the earth Yet every night I spoke in words I had never heard A lash of rushing water Couldn't mask the lies Sowed in seams of timeless martyrs Rest for now within the tide You were lost my seer stone Seeking penance, can I atone If I let you sink below Righteously that seed is sown With no sign of an ending Your voice became a whisper In visions, contending loss I played my part And this soul is compromised I fell behind A phase in which the dead the arrive I can't see your eyes I found temper in these fires As this realm ignites, I will claim what is mine You were lost my seer stone Seeking penance, can I atone If I let you sink below Righteously they'll never know
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Hornets 03:57
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You fired from a grassy knoll I'd never see this one coming Smiles are taking their toll  Fascism just ain't funny In a past life I really thought I was dead Cut the brake lines And roll me off the edge Do not pull me out of this wreck  Just let the match burn  I'm on a rotor driving straight into a hornets' nest You said rhetorical, well you're going to hate me at my best I just want to throw it all away And bury my empathy in the yard God knows there will be hell to pay Your Catholic guilt has got you this far Oh, you're wasting your time Chasing demons That won't relent Now I'll take back what's mine To circumvent My looming dread I saw you on the 7th floor Shoot me when this gets funny Shaken right to my core "Hands up," they could be loving Wrap me up Don't resuscitate Cause what the fuck am I without the ever-living shame Do not exit this way It's just a trap door I'm on a rotor driving straight into a hornets' nest You said rhetorical, well you're going to hate me at my best Oh, you're wasting your time Chasing demons That won't relent Now I'll take back what's mine To circumvent My looming dread Skip down From a burning house You lit me up And my brains fell out Sleep now In world renown It's not enough To fade it out 
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Chimera 03:41
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Shield your Shield your eyes In blindfolds What's left behind? Your old ways Will never die You caught me by surprise. You were always there I went out in plumes Must have been the glare Eclipsing me in you Branching thru my lungs Swell until I cave That which you young (Never remained) Your mouth is like fireworks Waxing hot and pouring forth I know your mind is pinioned by Chains of reason You made it back by the skin of your teeth Just to leave Nothing takes your place Sympathetic in a way you would assume Tether slipped from space Calculated in the rhythm of your namesake You kept changing shape Antithetic of the person that I knew My world stays the same I'm indulging in the weaponry we used Get back Draw your blade I have waited so long just to be phased Plead your case in the Heart of the fire You can be saved But I wish you would've told me first The second time for what it's worth I know your mind is pinioned by Chains of reason You made it back by the skin of your teeth Just to leave Nothing takes your place Sympathetic in a way you would assume Tether slipped from space Calculated in the rhythm of your namesake You kept changing shape Antithetic of the person that I knew My world stays the same I'm indulging in the weaponry we used But I'm not saying it's alright Every single misstep is magnified
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Narrow Margin 05:03
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Are you broken? Can you shed some light? Leave me open to subtle lies I fucked up I wasted all my time On half truths and state of mind That's what you get for asking questions Be more direct You'll find no end In deeper bottles Never satisfied It's been years since I've seen you last, I'm Still put together like a sideshow act, I'm Slipping past a narrow margin With half a brain and no heart to call it Same old trap that I knew you'd fall in That's what we get for being honest The pattern misdirects What we've been fed And what they borrowed Until it's televised That's how I know you're doing well In perfect squares, a private hell In basements grown, your head it swells Said no one cares and no one knows It's been years since I've seen you last, I'm Still put together like a sideshow act, I'm Slipping past a narrow margin With half a brain and no heart to call it Same old trap that I knew you'd fall in It's been years since I've seen you last, I'm Still breaking habits in a house of glass, I'm Slipping past a narrow margin With half a brain and no heart to call it Same old trap we would always fall in For no reason at all I let myself slip into the same delusion I fought so hard to feel so useless For no reason at all (No reason at all) I let myself slip into the same delusion I fought so hard to feel so useless Would you answer the call? (Would you answer the call?) My old ways make me see how time confuses A paradox of nothing proven
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Coral 05:05
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You taught me well But I can't leave this This concrete cell I'm worn at the fringes With no friends to tell How you burned all your bridges The curtain fell They left you behind in spite It's like your blood is concentrated With every sign of the disease Apologies are overstated (Losing sense in atrophy) Eyes burn red and skin so frayed it (Looks like we may never sleep again) You branch out like coral Tiny little bones, they're in your grasp As your eyes roll back There's no god or mortal (There's no god) Impassioned with the sense of faith I lack As your limbs relax The last to be eviscerated (Promises I couldn't keep ) Our time here is calculated (The scales have tipped but my hands are still clean) You branch out like coral Tiny little bones, they're in your grasp As your eyes roll back There's no god or mortal (There's no god) Impassioned with the sense of faith I lack As your limbs relax Say you will Say you'll stay My loss is yours to gain Say you will Say you'll stay Engorged with decay These doorways conceal The darkest unreal Sparked in ancient tongue As the water poured down your lungs With no devils to be revealed You said my lips are sealed In the spite of your father's sons, And the sight as it came undone Laid you barren across the archway (Horrified as I turned away) They were the bloodhounds (They were the bloodhounds) I was the innocent one Laid you barren across the archway (Horrified as I turned away) They were the bloodhounds (They were the bloodhounds) I was the innocent one
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Alabaster 04:06
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I bet that you thought we could put this one to bed I bet that you thought that it would feel like the ocean But the labor never ends When the people you trust Have taken what's left us For a moment you're there Visibly unaware Say that we're perfect I want that to be enough Like a habit, you've curbed it But the drawback is so abrupt That's all you had to say But I knew you'd hold back anyway With your intention Placed on the back of mine And you say it's fine As you sink into the river The anchor has left me now I see straight thru the liquor Maybe it'll shut my mouth Tell me we're perfect I want that to be enough The feeling is worth it When the radio is calling my bluff That's all you had to say And I knew you'd say that anyway With your discretion Placed on the back of mine But I guess I'm fine As you sink into the river The anger has left me now I see straight thru the liquor Maybe it'll shut my mouth
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Bazuca 03:26
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Now it's coming on just like the plague We're so entangled in the fiction you gave I watched black vines fall from your lips Steeped in blood, all he wants is a kiss Take what you want from me But in the end, you will only find grief Left in your wake, we're fallen to shellshock There's nothing at stake without a petty god to mock I watched black vines crawl from your lips Steeped in blood, the sacrament could persist Take what you want from me But in the end, you will only find grief The palace burns, I wish the fires would claim All of us, all of us deserve the blame I could douse myself in water Rest onshore, I'm born anew Bow your heads Here burns a martyr… It's the last thing we chose to do Bow your heads, Here burns a martyr... It's the last thing we chose to do
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Lord of Rats 05:07
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Did you believe it would go this far, unreconciled? They couldn't see you for what they are as the bodies piled up Surrender the past We'll burn it all back down to ash We're stuck in the ruse Now that's it's all that we ask Ensnared by the promise land Of godhood in tact Now there's no shelter They gave us away in a flash No sensible comfort Forgiveness is all we could lack Watching the house ignite Knowing you're still inside A haunting gesture Now please, would you cover your eyes? Now I'm the Lord of Rats My crown better served as a mask Forgiveness is all we could lack The brighter, the better The brighter, the better The brighter, the better Make for the exit And break for the horrid chase of sinew, disconnected We're sworn to directives Our silence contained in a much more flawed incentive Our bodies attached We will become more, we will surpass The backend of truth, the way they did in the past In the hunt for a blessed lamb The light would retract And I couldn't help her The blind stumbled into the gaps Like matches in concert The few couldn't pardon the mass Watching the place ignite Knowing you're still inside A haunting gesture You're burning our promise alive Now I'm the Lord of Rats My crown better served as a mask Forgiveness is all we could lack The brighter, the better The brighter, the better The brighter, the better

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"Violent Miracles" performed by Cassius At Best. All songs recorded, mixed and mastered by Neil Tuuri at Amish Electric Chair Studios.

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released December 10, 2021

Josh Adams - guitar, vocals
Wes Miller - guitar, vocals
John Poole - bass, backing vocals
Derrick Taylor - drums, backing vocals
Maddie Quillen - backing vocals

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CASSIUS AT BEST is a rock band from Parkersburg, WV (Josh Adams, Derrick Taylor, Wes Miller and John Poole).

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