#theophonos

Split Persona (ffo fun metalcore, the type that's just a bop)

The Requiem (ffo MCR, Matchbook Romance, "cheap tricks and theatrics")

Diamonds to Dust (ffo cool guitar riffs that feel protagonist-y)

Caligula's Horse (ffo fun and dramatics and epicness and feeling of a journey and dream theater)

last, but not least whatsoever

Theophonos (ffo black metal & screamo got together and made art)

Instrumental

I’ve had enough of ghosts and grids Trenches, barbed wire, and shovels. How many years are left in my wrists My shoulders, knees, and back? And when I was younger I thought there’d be no end To cheap rent and blogspots. Where did it all go wrong? Why is it so hard to be free? I know the answer — it’d be far too cliché. I just want to know: Where did everything interesting go? And would I have…

My first love Still you haunt me As you were and never will be again. My greatest mentor Until you, I thought I was truly alone on this Earth. Please let me go I want to live again Without the pain, without the dreams. I want to be free again. Maybe this was all a dream And one day I’ll see you again. And when I die I know I’ll see you there So please let me go. Still you haunt me Please just let…

The Huron River You gave shape to me Still you haunt me without end Seven years of cages since Are you ready for my ashes And for me to haunt you now? Are the finches waiting And the herons too? Do you remember my face When you dream up my songs? Until the sun burns up the Earth I’ll walk with you forever.

My first love Still you haunt me Nothing will change that Nothing can ever bring you back. Why do you haunt me still?

My life in the grid of sorrows A prison with no walls Liquidation architecture A prison with no guards. My life in the grid of charades Unwritten rules of the play A script with no words The scaffold on which I’m hung. I tear into earth I feel nothing You can have my shield Unearth my swords Trace my spiral downwards. Take my life now I don’t want it I don’t want to be like this anymore. For…