OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS, by The Ripening

OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS

by The Ripening

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OH! YOU PRETTY THINGS [Bowie cover] 08:40

about

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The lineup the mass Don't you know you're driving

who questioned What

Overgrown experimental invades in clashing dark.

we infected human then with body CRUELTY

insane? Let me some the fact infection. KILLS

NEW-FOUND and encircling

WE down to me

All the commanded Holy Disease

bodies FOR were here for All the things (oh, you pretty things)

the Homo Superior layers I am THIS

No room for ones Written in pain

I think about a world fire for me I've made my window

I cries FROM THE doom, perplexing make it plain

What are we individuals but demented

TO INFLICT Don't you know you're driving me, no fun for you channels fungus.

Don't kid yourself, STAND IN small, grown

Let me EYES AN ARMY OF THE LAYERS of Churches mycelium killed flesh fungus.

By conversion sludge, strangers came today And it APOCALYPSE

FECUND AND FRACTALISED IT'S strangers came today

race The earth

See their faces in golden looks as though they're here to stay

the start of the coming SONG

BRINGING DOWN THE BLOATED break end of players

DESTRUCTION THOUSAND TONGUES

evangelism FLESH extravagance.

Look out TREMBLING UNDER The fungal host flesh but DESTROYED UNCARING generation

Put on some to stay Oh, you pretty in awe By a puzzled.

OUTCAST JOIN TOGETHER IN FILTHY Wake up

you cast sludge, Put another log on the crack in the things (oh, you pretty things)

they belong to you They're sky and a hand

reaching outgrown their use All the extreme even WE observe after release

overwhelming every rays Spirit: PICKING a FLESH

found by the golden you pretty things

Don't you Easy? End ye religion convert way for the Homo Superior

RULE IS OVER Gotta make release...

Look out at your children nightmares

And it looks as though they're here WATCHFUL living colony-organism

permutated you pretty things

Don't you know

make it plain Gotta make TIME TO WEEP

oh, recorded, PURE END We've finished bitch
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credits

released January 8, 2020

Pernicious Sovereign: a crack in the sky
The Myconist: overblown throat
Patrick Haesler: horn / lungs / magic boxes
Van Den Akker: swollen tongues / chanting
Ruptured Testicle: broken records
Kidney: anomalous articulations
XTIAN: contraptions / fragments
A Demon Sheen: cold steel / time machines / mycelium

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WITH A THOUSAND TONGUES

AND TWO THOUSAND EYES

AN ARMY OF THE OUTCAST JOIN TOGETHER IN FILTHY SONG

BRINGING DOWN THE BLOATED APOCALYPSE

FECUND AND FRACTALISED

IT'S TIME TO WEEP
HUMAN

FOR YOUR RULE IS OVER ... more

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