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Pantheon

by The Animal State

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1.
Mausoleum 05:24
If you set out to destroy yourself The road can be a long and winding one Littered with the mangled wrecks Of everything you ever loved, yeah And others walk this bitter trail You'll know them by their desperation The same contorts your own face And drives you to your own ruin We are rotting in a mausoleum A waste of bodies sprawling deep Locked together in a fetid union Is this the product or the seed? We are squatters in this mausoleum Narcotics bury us in sleep Bound together in a fatal union We are the product and the seed Such pale flesh your body craves You'll break it up into a million parts And fold it back into your brain But nothing ever penetrates your heart No matter what you lay with No stranger ever filled your cup, no And you never tasted anything That didn't sour on your tongue We are rotting in a mausoleum A waste of bodies sprawling deep Locked together in a fetid union Is this the product or the seed? We are squatters in this mausoleum Narcotics bury us in sleep Bound together in a fatal union We are the product and the seed We are rotting in a mausoleum A waste of bodies sprawling deep Locked together in a fetid union Is this the product or the seed? We are squatters in this mausoleum Narcotics bury us in sleep Bound together in a fatal union We are the product and the seed
2.
Artemis 09:01
I was there to find but I was found instead I thought you could save me but you came to condemn Cover up my ears and tie me to the mast I was bound in fear to the safest path All my dreams are dead The walls are closing in I try to ascend but all I do is sink I can take a jewel and turn it into mud I turn every heart to granite, Midas touch I thought I could take it but I was just a kid I fought every gift you ever deigned to give All my dreams are dead The walls are closing in I try to ascend but all I do is sink I'm back to square one Cold in defeat And I'm curled in the fetal pose My reflection now is alien to me And I don't recognise the man I used to be If I could I'd go back and slap myself awake If I'd only known how years would fall in waste All my dreams are dead The walls are closing in I try to ascend but all I do is sink I'm back to square one Cold in defeat And I'm curled in the fetal pose All dreams they fall apart All things bright turn to dark All dreams shall fall apart All things gold shall turn to Turn to dust
3.
Pendulum 08:34
I walk a narrow path Over a barren land Across a crucial line A Rubicon of fire I eat a bitter pill A panacea grim Intense the aftertaste I'll meet whatever wakes and embrace it Swing from one extreme to another Out of the pan to the fire I never could find the middle ground And I walk on a rope in the mouth of a chasm Watching the fabric unravel The tapestry of my meaningless life Swim, swimming in infested waters And the tide has carried me out The currents beneath me are pulling me down And I feel a dark nihilism inside me It's founded in rage and frustration And it beckons me into a reckless state I accept And let go of fear Let go of pain Let go of love Let go of everything A spring, coiled tight and trembling inside me An animal waits in my future A creature devoid of all moral restraint And the walls that I built up around me start falling Expose me to scenes unfamiliar And flood my asylum with terrible light And the fall can be swift when it leads you to madness And he's free who abdicates hope But freedom is just another man's pain And I know the road ahead leads to a dark place But it's all just a foregone conclusion How can you feel so dead and alive All at once Let go of fear Let go of pain Let go of love Let go of everything Of everything Of everything Of every god damn thing I walk a narrow path Over a barren land Across a crucial line A Rubicon of fire I eat a bitter pill A panacea grim Intense the aftertaste I'll meet whatever wakes and embrace it I swing, swing fast swing far out of the pan to the fire Live fast die young and let nobody know who you are Swing fast swing far out of the pan to the fire Live fast die young and they’ll soon forget who you are From one extreme to another Out of the pan to the fire From one extreme to another Out of the pan to the fire
4.
Lighthouse 09:24
You are the force that drives me And binds me in spirit to the earth A totem of the ancestral sum That courses like a river through time You're the forest path that guides my stumbling feet To a place of equilibrium And from my flesh I lay a foundation And set a torch in the tower of my vigil A light shines through the dark Divides me from myself Elutriates my blood A transfusion for the soul The silence after the storm Provides me clarity of thought The sky clears at the far horizon And shines with a rejuvenating light And the broken land lies still behind me Nothing stirs in that ravaged wilderness I am born afresh, I am reincarnated I shed the serpent skin of my past A light shines through the dark Divides me from myself Elutriates my blood A transfusion for the soul You rose like a tsunami From an ocean amniotic To flood the shore for miles in waves of light You came to beat the night To eradicate the shadows And to rinse the poison from the blood in my veins All flesh is a flowing stream In the currents of a mighty river Arterial to the propagating heart Back when the darkness reigned I never thought I would see the light of day I never thought I would feel its warmth again Again
5.
Plateau 04:21
In my room I am king I'm a pharaoh of nothing My sceptre burns with narcotic incense The resin seeps through my skin Don't know where it stops and I begin It's been so long since I saw the daylight All these days slip by like dreams As I languish in this place I've been lost in a lotus haze Since I hit this plateau Born of fire joined in sin Kissed my eyes with blood stained lips And all this time I thought you were a saviour I turn my eyes through the sanctum gates But all that's left is the low and profane It's been so long since I could tell the difference All these years go by like dreams As I lie hopeless in this place I succumbed to the lotus haze When I hit this plateau Lost in a lotus haze All these days slip by like dreams As I languish in this place I've been lost in a lotus haze Since I hit this plateau
6.
Colossus 06:00
Waiting at the window Cloud it with my warm breath Watching for the headlights But they won't ever come What blind and voiceless sorrow Holds me in this state When was I forsaken to this dark place Shadows all around me They feed on my neuroses Chatter in the dark hours Insidious and haunting No man is an island But mine is not the mainland I grew up on the wayside That's where the shadows dwell Raised in isolation Bathed in Cortisol I was bound from day one to be unhappy Neurotic little angel I fed you like a parasite Now you block the sunlight The shadows are as one You can turn around and walk away But you'll circle back around again You can turn your back on anything But it circles back around again I broke my mirrors and I cut myself Scrawled words so bitter in my book of flesh I took an existential ache And made a Colossus
7.
Olympia 07:40
Cruel the pantheon that eats its children But even gods must die alone In the cold and dark Feudal fire burns through the ages And not all wounds bleed the same Some will leave a scar Born in cycles of disfunction Each new offspring spirals out In confusion I saw the light in the brightest eyes dim I saw generations sink Disillusioned I spilled my cup at the altar But blood is thicker than water All hope forsake You who choose to stay Heroes ancient their deeds forgotten Statues toppled in the sand Profane the earth Fallen temples conceal their shadows And the wisdom of the past Remains interred I fought these cycles of disfunction But no apple can escape The orchard shade I heard a mother's ululations Underneath the festive lights While the youngest slept I spilled my cup at the altar But blood is thicker than water All hope forsake You who choose to stay I thought I had fortitude I thought I'd got out unscathed But small things can add up to a break All roads lead back around I choose exile it's better than the pact I can't chew the ambrosial fat I hate what I've come to Pantheon I renounce you All this time I've been waiting for the Wave to break and destroy the world I've been waiting for the wave to break The wave to break I've been waiting for my mind to break My mind to break I've been waiting for the world to break The world to break I’ve been waiting for the wave to break

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released June 23, 2023

All songs written and produced by Col Mullins

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The Animal State Portsmouth, UK

The Animal State is a one-piece progressive metal and alternative rock band created by multi-instrumentalist Col Mullins. With a wide range of influences spanning multiple genres, his music could be placed somewhere on the rock spectrum between Mastodon and King Crimson—loud, metamorphic and with an irresistible driving energy. ... more

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