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Let Us Prey

by His Name Was Dusk

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1.
So you bought a yellow book Yes a book with no name From a wise cracking crook On the street in the rain To your house you took It and it found it’s place In that neat book nook That you like to maintain Now There’s funny little feeling In the back of your brain And you’d swear that it started In the book with no name Chorus No Name No Name In the Book with No Name It’s about a coward king It’s about a lost god It’s about a Tower - Sing It’s about a lost cause It’s about a bunch of sages It’s about a few frauds It’s about a hundred pages Cost? about buck's’all And it seems the book is aged And I’ll never know who made it All the names have been erased In the book with no name
2.
Listen children hide your teeth You don’t wanna make him smile The smell of teeth in the air then believe he’s already been there for a while Listen children say your prayers You don’t want him to defile Cause he’s counting your teeth and the thief there’s too many teeth when he smiles Chorus The Man Who Smiles with too Many Teeth Arriving home to a window broken you see standing at your open bathroom door with his back to you is a man in a black suit. He turns feeling your eyes on him. He is chewing on the business end of your toothbrush. He cocks his head to the side and offers it to you from across the hall. Then he smiles and his mouth has so many teeth in it that you can’t understand how they fit in there nor how he possibly kept it closed with so many teeth in there. He makes a clicking sound as of bone on bone and through gritted teeth he says
3.
They fold For her As she will gather Everything up in her folds Only time can keep us apart Every door that stands between us Shattered splinters in the dark Chorus They took so much from her And from us she’ll get it back She’ll get it back Black smoke Whispers Things don’t see that they have been cut. In the dark they form her face Her folds seep in As They infect the shadows of this place.
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They don't age they don't play And their names is funny They were raised then betrayed They are nature's folly In our faith let us pray Must be up to something We give praise in refrains It takes patience darling Chorus The Children that Time Forgot They don't change they don't pray They are worshiped oddly In their names they convey All that they embody Under pain they obey And their servants follow They are crazed eyes are glazed But their words are hollow
5.
Wind The Box 01:51
You better watch yourself You better say your prayers Not that it really helps Cause they ain't playing fair Chorus They got a music box And They can make you talk Can't even think of violence Not Once They wind the box If they want you to talk That's when they'll wind the box All thoughts of violence stop Your brain is like a rock
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Ivan Khyne 02:06
This here’s the story of Ivan Khyne And how he lost his mind A child forgotten by time He’d barter With Pacts, oaths, and lies For any kinda power that he could find And when time came to give what he had signed He struck his patrons blind And said, I ain’t giving up what’s mine… Chorus I ain’t givin up my magic Or none of my soul I’d rather burn in hell Though your wolves may howl You won’t knock down my door If you can break my sigils down Get through all my wards Come to take my crown But your only reward Will be to see yourself laid out Lifeless in the morgue.
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We just can’t keep it caged unless can keep it restrained And sedated You better hope and pray cause it if it ever wakes it’s the end Chorus The one who sleeps impaled Under our town he sleeps In a cage we made to keep What we hated (him complacent) And while he dreams it seeps Until we let him out in the end

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These songs just came to me at Dusk one night and in 7 days I had them all recorded and mixed. Before you ask I don't know what any of them really mean.

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released January 28, 2023

All songs written, recorded, produced, mixed, and mastered by His Name Was Dusk between Thursday, December 29th 2022 and Thursday, January 5th 2023.

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