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Poverty of Existence

by Slowly We Rot

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1.
Broke the noose – avoided the pyre
 A barren plan to escape the mire 
But your thoughts sink within 
Drench you in guilt while you try to break free from sin Reflected guillotine, take me where I need to be 

 Everything I despise I became
 Slowly yet moving straight
 as it made me a wraith

2.
Scalp Them 00:59
Extortion determines our kind
 Among generations of rapists and murderers 
We seek them as the reaper’s minions 
and claim justice for their wrongs

 Callous hordes looking or new blood
 Scalp them for the skinless beings they are

3.
A plague, spreading viciously as it reaps us as the anxious slithering worms we are 
With the vultures scavenging through this infected world there’s no hope to be found 
Trying to build a paved life while it’s being gnawed to shreds like a rope

 Hating more than could be loved
 All gifted the poverty of existence

 We marked our own deaths 
By trusting the few who survived
 Through decades of liars 
Yet we follow like herds of sheep 
Awaiting the slaughter
4.
Heiress 03:17
A dying heart is the beginning of all knowledge
 Yet we absorb, tend to replenish the hollow 
Yet we know, it’s all a dead end we follow 
And end up drowning, in mourned cold emptiness

 Crawling out of that shallow womb, further into the depth 
To unmask a forclaimed heiress, that has nothing left

5.
Worn Out 01:48
I descend into the darkest corners
 to grieve and tear out the pain 
But it’s fuelled with something more compelling 
than just mourning the soul that’s been rotting away 

The curse to carry the unbearable weight of someone invisible
 Transparent as lucid dreams 
Surviving with heavy gasps and staggering through thorns,
while being devoured by the screams You wore me out like a disease
6.
Faith isn't fed by trust, it's the hope for humanity to be human and that's why you always lost 
Everyone has a prosthetic face, it's only waiting

 Your blood starts to boil, your guts start to melt 
As the feeling to be alone compels you

 The solitude can bring no harm, cause everyone dies alone
7.
Why do we roam out here? 
I’m still floating in between restlessness and fear
cause they’re all on the loose, 
betrayers and martyrs enjoying their parade
 Let’s torche it before it’s too late

 They march onward with teeth on tongues
 I’ve had enough of this horror 

Taking all that you love, all that you live for
 Just to satisfy their hunger 
So we hunt them down and behead the leader

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Recorded in December 2014 by Niels C. (vocals & guitar) - Chris M. (bass & backings) - Serge B. (guitar) and Vic S. (drums)

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released February 13, 2015

Engineered by Kurt V. - Mixed and mastered by Jason F. at Son of Sun studios.

Artwork and layout by NJL, influenced by Judy Chicago's 'Ablutions' installation.

Watch the music video here:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DiKOAb206Q

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Slowly We Rot Maasmechelen, Belgium

"Poverty of Existence" out on tape now, due to be released on 12" vinyl in june 2016.

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