Serpent Hive

from Where the Wasteland Ends by Blatherskite

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lyrics

I slide between the shadows
Of the righteous and the wicked
Manipulate your convoluted senses
Shade my path and sweep my tracks

No one must see
No one will see
No one can see
What's driving me

My life blood is your weakness
I can smell it, it reeks of shit
I will slither up and strangle you
You won't see me till you can't breathe

Motives unseen
Motives unseen
Motives unseen
Deep down, even by me

With my split tongue
I can smell your vulnerability
And it reeks of sensitivity
And honesty

Exploit in you what I hide in me
I don’t respond to empathy…

Cold-blooded and odourless
Skin of diamond shed
To reveal a terrified serpent in place
Of a heart

No one must see
No one will see
No one can see
What's driving me

Motives unseen
Motives unseen
Motives unseen
Deep down, even by me

Desire, truth, integrity, humility, insecurity
They are my canvas, my clay, that I sculpt and colour To feed my ravenous ego
Shelter and suppress my inadequacy
From denial deliver me
So I can reasonably
Deride myself

With my underbelly
So close to the ground
I don't even
Cast a shadow

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from Where the Wasteland Ends, released April 1, 2010

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