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Antithesis

from Ishmael by Heliocentric

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Regarding the Devil

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This vision lies before me
The urge to murder the soul
This foreign entity
A stranger inescapable

A face so unfamiliar
Yet shown in every wayward smile
Behold the lord of the flies:
The impulse swarming in my chest

Undulate inconsistently
Wavering sporadically to no resolve
The fate laid out before me slipping away ephemeral, tentative

I am not the author of my wayward dreams
Save mercy for the guilty
Ever-present help in my time of need
The Accuser will acquit me

I hurl my curses to you
Yet find them damning me
The mirror image that taunts me
The scathing spite that I know

Cancerous contaminant
Ravaging my righteous soul

Despite antipathy,
I see now my dependence
Though I invite your overthrow
I don't beckon your severance

Your audience gives me comfort
That my will has been undermined
If my charity has been usurped
Then damn forgiveness; I'm justified

I am not the author of my wayward dreams
Save mercy for the guilty
I’ll call upon the universal scapegoat
Ever-present help in my time of need
The Accuser, will acquit me
I’ll wear my shame underneath a lambskin

You are the embodiment
of all my avarice
Archetype of my resentment
You are malevolence in me
“Incarnation is a myth” [1]

[1] Youssef Ziedan, Azazeel (London: Atlantic Books, 2009) translated by Jonathan Wright, 302.

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from Ishmael, track released December 11, 2020

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My name is Jared Smith. I'm a one-man band called Heliocentric.

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