Screams of the Somnambulist

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I see a river flowing through my mind
A river full of arms, legs, and eyes
The eyes, they stare me down into slumber
I walk among the corpses that flow
I hear the screams of the innocence drowned
In the lake of pus, whispers unending
There is no escape from the prison subconscious
Forever abused by nightmares

As a curtain of black descends upon my sight
A new world is birthed with a flash of red light
Walls of skin, hellborne architecture
A nest of gore makes up this scape
I walk onwards into oblivion
Hooks and chains rend my own flesh
The severed heads of the dead still howl in pain
Their screams become my screams

I have become unborn
My dream the placenta
Blood drooling from my eyes
Doomed to walk, never wake
Hidden in shrouds of sleep
Eternal shall be the torture
Seeking forever a way to die
Doomed to walk, never wake

I see a river flowing through my corpse
A river full of screams and sorrows
I cannot escape myself, pleading for an end
Dripping like ooze into a sea of skin
I fall into the abyss of bodies
My soul dragged into the miasma
Gossamer crimson mist clouds my tomb
And yet still I walk, never able to wake

Doomed to walk, never wake
Doomed to walk, never wake

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from Screams of the Somnambulist, released October 30, 2021

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We are Somat, the void made flesh! We paint nightmarish soundscapes through our own take on black/death metal with equal emphasis on riffs and atmosphere. Come, join our cult, and light a candle or two...

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