Snake Skin Face Lyrics

Beaten nature

Savage notions

Fangs stretch

And leer

At mice

And deer

Dripping a pulse

Languid, digest

Of meat and decay

Of swarm and plague

Diffident demon

Hesitant heathen

Adorn your body in veins and leather

You lurk in the dust of a frank disaster

Pity for none, a casualty of one

His shed, tattered flesh set aside in the sun

All but for a shroud

To hide his jaws

Stalking, hunched

Dangling yarn tied loose and smeared

With friend and foe

A crawling void split into his chest

And seeps through the fingers of a hapless vessel

A corpse that no one burned

Baring a mask of scales

For the kill

Cryptic coldness tucked between the gums

Dancing between the bushes, round and round and round

Coiled, drooling for the spray and bright red

Menace, looking for the gasp and cry and scream

The scream

Baring a mask of scales

For the kill

Peeling his snake skin face

From his jaws

Running only makes one weary

And he has nothing but time

The water is a tomb and the sound caves in and everything else is grey and black

No sympathy is had here

This land has been his by rights

And everything living in his sight is a scrap of meat stricken foul with blight

And it's his

It's all his

Made divine

Made to take

Rip and tear

Moan and rend

And when he's finished, he will toss aside the remnants

Pick his teeth and grind his boot to the sediment

Pay no mind to any twitching or penitence

And never breathe a word at the sacrament

Baring a mask of scales

For the kill

Peeling his snake skin face

From his jaws