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Secluded from the untrained eye
From frail hearts to grieve
No pyres light the way to this depraved den of obscurities

Seldom used winding trail
Where lost paths interweave
Many brought to this cold place
With mislead hopes, as corpses leave

Left, right,
West, south
Turn around and twist once more
The labyrinth warps the bearings sore
Up, down,
East, north,
Disoriented, completely lost
Readied to pay the final cost

Unbound in this unknown clearing
Fenced in by endless trees
Victims beaten or tortured
Bled on the dew-drenched floor

Ages passed on this earth
Like moths to flame
Gathered in this circle of Death
Their essence, the ground claims

Gallons, gallons
By the soil consumed
Minerals return to the ground
Sapped by the roots that surround
Gallons, gallons
By the millions poured
Gorged the flora for centuries
Pigment cured through endless seeds
Crimson, crimson
The saps turn crimson
Massacres leaving their marks
The crimson stains even their barks
Crimson, crimson
Shoots grow crimson
Years of torment have endowed
The canopy with crimson boughs

Vortex of the violence and hate
The twisted and the sick
The cold, calculating
As well as the fiend

Swaying in the breeze
The tallgrass offers a veil
So remains are concealed
In the red-stained flowing blades

Scavenger birds in murders
Circle the hallowed grounds
To feast on the cadavers
None will ever be found

Vortex of the violence and hate
The twisted and the sick
The cold, calculating
As well as the fiend

Every cut
every severed limb
Succumb to the terror
Every drop
Every artery slit
Feeding the disaster
All these lives
All these primal grins
Addicted to slaughter
All will bow
To the crimson trees
Be it vessel or slayer

Ever-expanding halo of blood
Masters, apprentices, all sins converge
Never, unending, exacting purge
Ever, darkening, crimson boughs

Every cut
every severed limb
Succumb to the terror
Every drop
Drink the crimson trees
Feeding the disaster

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from The Crimson Boughs and Other Short Tales, released December 3, 2021

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Hands Of Despair Montréal, Québec

Hands of despair is a progressive black/death metal from Montreal, Canada. We play long, dark songs.

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