Name: Banishing Ritual
Duration: P00H07M01S
Description: I have a series of solo songs similar to this one that some friends have been asking me to record for a while now. Here's a bedroom version. If any label out there wants to throw a pile of money at me to fund the recording of a real, professional studio album, you know, get at me, etc.

Banishing Ritual

from The Slowly Self-Coalescing Album Of Vagrant Solo Folkgoth Demos by Toby Driver

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I have a series of solo songs similar to this one that some friends have been asking me to record for a while now. Here's a bedroom version. If any label out there wants to throw a pile of money at me to fund the recording of a real, professional studio album, you know, get at me, etc.

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Breed not, Scoffers at the Strange!
Your children will fail and the Earth groans in pain
Little ragged whelps that wail with formless lust
And nothing ever, ever changes
Nothing will ever change
Dress yourself in the finest raiment
For one day you will be buried in it
Flesh turns to Earth
And Earth is a sewer
And shit feeds the starving
While shit lives in kingdoms
And all the kingdoms in the world
Will crumble and fall
And I wish that I could be there
To piss on your ruins
And mock at your failures
And bury your children
With a hyena's laugh and a crocodile's tears
And erase this blot, this stain called Awake
With a Tattered Robe and a Broken Wand
I make my banishing in symmetrical withdrawal
If only I could banish this Nameless lot
Of idiots and minds that have atrophied forever

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from The Slowly Self-Coalescing Album Of Vagrant Solo Folkgoth Demos, released July 30, 2012
Toby Driver - keys, vox

Music by Toby Driver
Lyrics by Jason Byron

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