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OVERCAST LYRICS
"Expectational Dilution" (1994)
1. Intro
2. Grifter
3. Twodegreesbelow
4. Absolute Threshold
5. As a Whore
6. Allegiance to the Flesh
7. Iconoclasm
8. Bleed Into One
9. Diluting Inertia
10. Faceless
11. Staredown
12. Follow
1. Intro
2. Grifter
The gates open I drown
The magnet, the withdrawal
Offering these to you
Shamelessly ripping my guts out
How could I expect you to change your face?
A time lived by seconds
I unfold at your beckon
I will be passed by I am the minimal
The useless being
How could I expect you to change your face?
My memories out dated and weak
How could I expect it to? Well I do
How could I want it to?
I despise your charming attributes
Conjure up the summoned
Then left to contend with them
Stirring the killer, inviting this old ghost
After all, it's me that is drowning
My dream is the warped
They pick me clean
These vultures
I know now the door is open
I know now I must be dead
3. Twodegreesbelow
Kill the light
Here is the only pace I can look you in the eye
Forged in darkness
I grow cold with you
Give in to the peace
Give in to the narcoleptic urge
Abandon all bonds with the flesh
And just grow cold
And just grow cold
And just grow cold
Let me stay til I turn to dust
Lay back as the warmth sinks
Deconstruct all imagination
Absorbed by the cold as the blood settles
Hatred is my heroin
You should have guessed by now
Piercing my skin
All too many times
Kill these memories of me inside of you
We have lost to the lust and greed
We are but one, the rotten shell of humanity
Kill it
4. Absolute Threshold
It burns my consciousness and I
This consumption
My thoughts scrambled into flashes
Those images of power
Of life, of death
Overloaded, shutdown
The absolute never
The absolute never
Security is opaque
I'll never grasp safety
Deviation
When will I finally learn?
Exposed I am weak, I am vulnerable
I crave this addiction
I crave the taste
I crave the taste
You were everything to me
But still, I question your existence in my life
Nothing holds true to me
Nothing is my world
I've cried, I've screamed as you killed me
I am the undead, the meaningless
Forced to compromise all of my values
A mannequin plastic and lifeless
Illusions cast into my pitted world
Was my life ever really mine to decide?
Or must I crawl in this searing heat in this asylum you've always relied
on?
I devour souls
Stay divine forget me existence
As for me I remain in solitude til judgement day
Fear me forever
Love is a tool to excavate the innocent
Leave and never look back
I'll be waiting foot steps away
5. As a Whore
Heaven sent
Hell-bent
To destroy anything and everyone that stands against my destiny
Save yourself
Turn away before the massacre
Keep your distance
Pretend we never met
I'm darker than the rest
The unholy, the sinner
Worthless to humanity
Compounding damnation upon damnation
I want it all
I'll take it all
I'll have it all
I'll take it all
I am life and death as a whole
I lurk among all of evil's shadows
I could give you new dimension
I could show you new direction
I could be your one dark obsession
Give you all the pain you ever dreamed of
Blasphemizing all I touch
Dredge of sight and sound
Searching out by all
Then scorned and prosecuted once found
I'll show you death
I'll give you new life
I'll drag you kicking and screaming
And screaming
6. Allegiance to the Flesh
Smiling parade of fallacies
Surrounded by empty stares
Deadened by the glare
Of your blank, lost expression
Crawl
Crawl to life
You are kissing the hand that crushes you
Kneeling to arrogance
Pledging allegiance to the flesh
Crawl
Crawl to life
Crawl to your life
Paint yourself a lie
Adore, I obsess
Cover up yesterday
I relinquish the thought of you
Wave your problems away
Everyone loves you
Betrayed by the heartless
Victim of your melting words
Jagged in my mind
Screaming bloody silence
7. Iconoclasm
I surrender
My fingers reach out trembling
I try so desperately to touch you
As the blood seeps from your eyes
Spilling on to these cold hands
The crimson stains far beyond my human embodiment
Outside unscathed
Inside torn completely
More baggage I must carry the weight
Pummeling
I stab myself with questions over and over
Command me I surrender
I am yours
I no longer sleep
Kept awake for my selfish crimes
Living out this life sentence
Forced to view each and every frame of the picture
Eternally looped
Constantly rewound and played
Eternally looped
Cradled by the guilt
I lay twitching, convulsing
Still she watches enchanted by it
She drools at the pain she inflicts
You fade from my grasp
But I am still drawn forward
The flames flicker
I swallow to keep them down
It singes my tongue and blisters my throat
It tares at me
I give up
I surrender
Let someone else go through this Hell
I quit
8. Bleed Into One
Release with me all that is kept locked inside as we become one
Lose all sight of this appathetic world
Brake the bindings that hold you down
Swallow the taste of resurrection
Bathe in it, true ecstasy
Let it all escape through every pore
Take the final step towards immortality
Descend with me
Set your soul aflame
Let go as we become one
Feel it brake your skin
Follow
Bleed into one
I've waited so long for this comfort
You will never leave, this I swear
Nothing will come between us ever
Journey deep into my darkest stare
Let the cold metal explore your flesh once again
Slicing through layer upon layer of tissue
Peel back the skin that embodies us all
Pain is only of the mind
9. Diluting Inertia
"Some historians and anthropologists think people who claimed to be
possesed may have been drugged
However, the drugging was accidental
The theory suggests they may have eaten moldy rye grain wich contained
an ergot
This poisonous substance can cause hallucinations similar to those
brought on by LSD
During the middle ages a similar witch hunt broke out in Europe
It is thought that ergot poison was to blame then, too
Whatever the cause, whether it was an adolescent craving for attention
Or the accidental ingestion of a psychadelic substance, the results were
terrifying"
10. Faceless
I started the dominos tumbling but it's not my fault they said
So the images were pushed down deep
I know I held the gun to their head
Faceless people wander through my dreams
Searching for lives they once knew
Reminding me of how I murdered their souls
How I tore them apart sustantainiously
Why can't I just turn it off?
Tune it out forever
Blind my eyes from all that noise
There is no light, there is no shelter
My dreams are the most uncontrollable substance
They are illusions beckoning behind the steel door
Scratching and gauging at the smooth surface
Cracking loose the hinges and scattering across the floor
How can I refuse such a perfect invitation
Invitation of faceless bliss
Drifting away to unlock those demons inside
Haunting night after night
Digressing my humanity
Chared bits of reality lay in the wasteland of my thoughts
Where the dead arise and the living don't matter
My feeling for life escapes the bounds of reality
All this I have brought upon myself, a reactor
11. Staredown
Just seeing you bothers me
Affecting me down to my breath
I can only keep my patience for so long
How can I look at you, there's nothing left
Again you try to pull me down
Up from your level you reach
You leave nothing and take all like a blood sucking leach
As the walls close in on us
I face you with my fists
You forced me to react
Snap, and here we go
Their true ignorance seeps into your veins
You too have their disease
It has infected your blood killing your own thoughts
Bringing you to your knees
Your spite goes unnoticed it relaxes me to know when you've failed
Our cold staredown engulfed in tension, I snap, pure disaster
I'd bring you to Hell, bring you to Hell if I could
I'd take you to Hell, take you to Hell if I could
I'd bring you to Hell, soak in your blood
Delivering my wrath to you
Inverting your soul
I'd take you to my Hell, devouring your fear
Feeding off my hate for you
All this hate I have for you
12. Follow
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