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Myopia

by Mizmor & Thou

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1.
Prefect 06:10
Hang my head, hide my face, chained to the guilt, the sum of my mistakes. Disciplined--a path divined. Disciplined--a wound that's mine. Stains like jewels adorned in waste. Deified by disgrace. Disciplined--a path defined. Disciplined-- clutch what's mine. Penance for what comes to pass. Pulling on the strings of thought. Stalked by acceptance. Unable to pivot. Scar of a man, lessons learned by your hand. Praised be fetters worn. Glory be lessons learned.
2.
Subordinate 07:12
Survey those below from a tower girdled in haughty arrogance. Studied, and weighed upon the scales, you have been judged and found lacking. Lacking-- method and form, nuance and depth, a right to exist. Hypocrisy enthroned, and yet we must rule. All people are equal, but all ideas are not. True wisdom begets compassion, Leveling the frontier. Look at your altars, Be open to destruction
3.
O, the power! O, the breadth! They wrap us in bounty, They herd us over cliffs - Like pawns in their game Or tools in their hands - Means to an end. Silent and sullen, dejected. Willful disobedience, a tantrum, my minor rebellion. Assert my dominance. No way out, many ways through. A constellation of fates Only some will see. Discover reason, Gather worth, Arm yourself with discretion. Silent and sullen, dejected. Willful disobedience, a tantrum, my minor rebellion. Assert my dominance. Behold your plasticity. Forsake the olden ways. Put your cerebral mosaic To the test.
4.
The Host 09:38
A cloud of spores floating senseless. Cultural dust drifts along, Becoming lodged, constructing minds - Incidental audition of hosts. A buzzing brain, hive of notions. Nature favors, selects, and sifts. Born again, brought to life. Ideal parasite. Lashing out, I'll ruin this for everyone. Harboring resentments over injuries sustained. You gave a promise to me--and you broke it. And so the sacred oaths are undone. Draining ventral canals, purging all feeling. Calling out, the tears have dried. Born again, brought to life. Ideal parasite.
5.
Indignance 10:37
The tightly clenched jaw--grinding, constricted, stemming bile. The overwide eyes--red, burning, tearing. Manifest and scientific view. Cosmic nihilism and virtue. Those of a broader intelligence know that there is no distinction between the real and the unreal--affronts both actual and perceived and imagined. Determinism and morality Reconciled by consciousness. Product of circumstance That you must own. Now it's time to list a name in the catalog of grievances. Pain and pain and pain again sealed within a book, a thought, a fleeting memory. Pain and pain and pain again crushed beneath a boot, a fist, a passing glance.
6.
When sorrow comes in summer days, roses bloom in vain. A tale that weaves a cursed malaise to bloat and blacken tongues, tied in pain. Bloody vows portending harm. A knife begets the oath across the palm. Let the promise drip. Story-spinning survival machines Colored by contagions, Spreading for their own sake, Sporadically imparting value. Ubiquity doesn’t equal truth, Merely fecundity. They can kill us, enslave us, Help us, or save us.
7.
Myopia 10:21
Beware the comfort of your minds, Halls filled with echoes. Resist the temptation of canon, Deadlock of dogma. By faith we conquer ourselves - Doomed runts of sanity. Amassing casualties like a plague - The way of myopia. Constricting perspective, narrowing sense. Contemptuous sneer as the frame starts to rot. By faith do we conquer, doomed runts of sanity. The way of myopia. Please ignore quiet sobs, these laments in the dark. Token acts to appease unpolitely declined. Absorbed in irrelevance. Soothed by a fetish. Rank fascination. Nothing can pacify. Let this shell fall to blight, a weakening cage. When the cell doors all warp, deliverance scorned. Possess curiosity, Allow its light to guide. Expect yourself to err, Heralding improvement. Question your keepers. Question your protectors. Question your comforters. Question your consolers.
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The Root 10:53
As the sun begins to set, the lowly scavengers are revealed, sulking in the gloom and lingering above. A pale eye opens as the worm is exposed, wrinkled and gray in pliable vulgarity. Something stirs, so familiar. The clamor is my mind - I’m curator - Curing all that’s cancerous For the sake of all mankind, in its resilience. Now go and do the same. So familiar, it gazes at me Ideas infest the self, Binding symbiotic dance, Raising man into the heights, Casting him upon the rocks. As the light reflects across the earth, I see a face.

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A collaborative album written and performed by Mizmor and Thou. Created in secret.

"I'm an insect who dreamt he was a man and loved it. But now the dream is over. And the insect is awake."

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released April 22, 2022

Written and performed by Mizmor and Thou. Mizmor is A.L.N.
Recorded and mixed in February 2022 at Hightower Recording by James Whitten. Mastered at Telegraph Mastering by Adam Gonsalves. All artwork by Aaron Horkey.

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