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Bite the heel but the body won’t taste death [1]
This beast is the final test I’ll face [2]
I may not be worthy to write my name
Until my hand is severed from the wrist [3]

Though the breath is divided from the chest
May your dirge be
Unified [4]

Pray for me, 
That God may give me strength
That I wouldn’t run in vain [5]
Pray for me 
That I might bear the Name
Not unjustly, unashamed
Christian [6]

Place a thorn in the side of the ribcage [7]
And feel the pain shoot throughout the limbs [8]
The feet
Will move
Swift to healing
The hands
Bereaved
Will stop the bleeding [9]

Eat me alive
let not a morsel remain [10]
Eat me alive
Let not a morsel remain

Tell the churches that the fate overtaking me flows from God [11]
Don't prevent me from fulfilling my call on the road to Rome [12]

I'm incomplete
My training has just begun [13]
Let me see their teeth
I may be eaten by beasts
But I'll be swallowed by heaven [14]
If I can endure then maybe I can embrace
The title adored by angels
To bear the name means to elevate
The sacred corpus above my body

If my bones are scattered around me
May they become pillars in the church

Pray for me, 
That God may give me strength
That I wouldn’t run in vain
Pray for me 
That I might bear the name
Not unjustly, unashamed
Christian

[1] Genesis 3:15
[2] Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Romans, ch. 7
[3] Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Magnesians, ch. 1
[4] Ibid., chapter 14
[5] Polycarp of Smyrna, Epistle to the Philippians, ch. 9
[6] Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Romans, ch. 3
[7] 2 Corinthians 12:7
[8] 1 Corinthians 12:26
[9] 2 Corinthians 1:4
[10] Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Romans, ch. 5
[11] Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Smyrnaeans, ch.11
[12] Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Romans, ch. 6
[13] Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Ephesians, ch. 1
[14] Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Romans, ch. 4

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from Perpetual Felicity, released November 15, 2019

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

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