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Bonfire Eternal EP

by Bonfire Eternal

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1.
Blind Wet and trembling Blood and soil Born gasping for air Clawing ripping nails Pulling further From despair Yearning Aching Everlasting want For the warmth For something beyond the squalid womb That we call home Wasting breath, courting death For nothing in return Our winter skin is craving more For anything beyond the callous touch of night We are still crawling towards the light Twisting Toward the shine Contorting To survive Bending our bodies Just to be a little more alive Creatures of an Indifferent creator Making our way from the deep Praying for color To wake us from Our monochrome sleep Wasting breath, courting death For nothing in return Our winter skin is craving more For anything beyond the callous touch of night We are still crawling towards the light Blind Wet and trembling Blood and soil Still gasping for air Clawing ripping nails Seeking shelter From despair Creatures of an Indifferent creator Orphans of dirt Praying for color To wake us up to lead us home
2.
Lesser Blood 04:31
Trying to balance on the shoulders beneath my feet Empty my throat Shamble in circles, step out of my skin, then retreat I am dragged By lecherous phantom hands No resistance No point in fighting, no use in digging in So on I go, All the charm of a nerve exposed Oh be still my heart That’s pumping this lesser blood So unworth it Captive of movement Too late to slow it down I’m devolving From nothing to relic to dust Primitive love A skeletal warning A temple of bile and rust Archaic tongue Missives in a language long dead Useless mouth Driveling, aimless Teeth dug into the past But on I go, All the charm of a nerve exposed On I go, A useless projectile, a stone from a bow On I go, And where I’ll end up, there’s no way to know On I go, Forward in flux, onward alone Oh be still my heart That’s pumping this lesser blood So unworth it Captive of movement Too late to slow it down Oh be still my heart That’s wasting this space in my chest So relentless Merciless movement Too late to stop it now
3.
Ritual 05:01
Watching By moonlight, I will find you Dancing through branches Searching for shadows Cloaked in nothing but smoke Let me be the crux of all Your darkest thoughts Let me be the quiet words To your heathen gods Pour me into the black Wear my bones around your neck Smear me on your bare limbs Open up Hell and throw me in Let me be the crux of all Your darkest thoughts Let me be the quiet prayers To your heathen gods We are made new Beneath the stars, beneath the moon Through black trees and crumbling leaves I will follow you To have what I’ve always wanted To love something haunted
4.
Ghouls 03:14
Animal smile, Lurid and luring, I’ll stay for a while Animal style, Give birth in the dirt To a bastard too vile to live we raise as our own What should have died in the crib We should have known Eat or be eaten, the offspring has chosen We thought we knew what it wanted Go forth We let our pestilence spread Believe In all the things that it said Go forth It speaks, it lies like the dead Believe, We’re fucked when it hasn’t been fed Animal pride, Pretend we’re alone but submit to the hive Fall for the smile, Assume we’re immune To animal guile We want something sick To inherit the Earth Ghouls beget ghouls Replace ourselves With something worse We thought we’d be safe If we gave it what it wanted A verdant home With virgin soil A mountain of bodies That never spoil The young of our rivals Our siblings, our kin But still it is hungry And still we give in Go forth We let our pestilence spread Believe In all the things that it said Go forth It speaks, it lies like the dead Believe, We’re fucked when it hasn’t been fed
5.
Looking for love to bury alive A beating heart A drum that can’t keep time Hollow me out just to survive, I’m a host in search of a parasite Old skin Won’t shed A crooked body The place we make our bed Old haunts Run red Something lurks That wants us to be dead We’ve become noxious I will destroy us Erase from the Earth The things we used to be But your specter, it follows your shadow’s following me Undone by design A busted hand The way we measure time Not everything is meant to die But some things aren’t built to survive Our past Unknown Try to hide the broken bones Our past Disowned You know I don’t believe in ghosts We’ve become noxious I will destroy us Erase from the Earth The things we used to be But your specter, it follows your shadow’s following me Not everything is meant to die But some things aren’t built to survive Old wounds Made new A thousand cuts We can’t see who cut who Old skin Won’t shed Helpless as the rotting spreads Our past Unknown Try to hide the broken bones Our past Disowned You know I don’t believe in ghosts We’ve become noxious I will destroy us Erase from the Earth The things we used to be But your shadow’s following me
6.
Here we lay At the bottom Staring with starving eyes Writhe and reach For familiar flesh An orgy of compromise Fighting for scraps in the gutter of time And putting on royal airs Voices incessant Lulling us down We’re willfully unaware A stasis we now adore A void from which we cannot return A truth we can no longer ignore: Everything burns Here we make Our new home As entropy closes in Try to reach Back into the past Destroying ourselves over and over again Time A wheel Revolving Unresolved We have failed To adapt To evolve We’re idiot rats who won’t flee the ship Disbelieve that it’s going down Pretend that it’s what we wanted Pretend that we don’t deserve to drown A stasis we now adore A void from which we cannot return A truth we can no longer ignore: Everything burns

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All songs written, performed, and produced by Kerry Layne Jeffrey

Special thanks to Gwen Beebe, Nico White, Michael Williams, and Ryan Bowen.

Album Art by Jan Brokoola

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released August 8, 2020

Kerry Layne Jeffrey - Guitars, Vocals, Bass, Drums

Gwen Beebe - background vocals on "Ritual"

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Bonfire Eternal Vancouver, Washington

Kerry plays guitar, and then also makes songs

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