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Vice Regalia

by The Mire

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1.
Mainlining the devil’s blood I shattered every inhibition Like so many holy shackles Made of ice on which blasphemous hammers fell I want it all The gold, the flesh, the power No shame in this confession I am just another slave To the gold, the flesh and the power Just another slave In man beats a bestial heart We savour every new transgression Pleasure folded into loathing Reduced and fermented The poison for your well Enslaven vermin tide Ever dreaming of regicide
2.
A mannequin posed She spoke in tongues So drawn to flame She loved the burn And torch to palm She got what she deserved Broken daughter Nature bred what afflicts you Heaven abandoned you all And marked by pain You need the hurt And torch to palm You get what you deserve All the while singing Flow my tears good stranger All the while singing flow my tears
3.
Gaslighter 06:47
You twist my words With mastered apathy A barbed solipsist verse The world beyond your mind is a mirage A charnel house Of absent empathy An imitated warmth I know your tender way is a facade Blue devil A frigid dancer in the fog No rhyme in cancer You keep me strung out on your love Gaslighter Vermin and the crown You built this Just to tear it down In desert wards You grew among the dunes And as you pulled my strings You became everything I ever knew
4.
Rain Gallery 03:54
I walked twenty-eight years In the shadow of the sun Just looking for a gallery To hang the memory of one Red curls in the wintertime You always were my queen Two survivors in the aftermath The universe was you and me I walked twenty-four years In the half light of the moon Just looking for a gallery To hang the memory of you Green eyes in the summertime I never could explain Birds of peace only stay awhile My kindness only brought you pain And I am still the same Nothing ventured nothing gained Just a portrait in a frame In your gallery of rain You keep the lambency and shade I gave you
5.
Vice Regalia 05:18
Bound together like the crown and sceptre We were made To pursue the highs That only royalty could crave Smoke and neon Quiet stranger Bitter amber We are favoured Burning sugar Emerald nectar This transgressive rite Is our communion Rules of mind and moral Cleaved so recklessly As we plunge into an ocean green Deep as this self-destructive need Sublime intoxication Vice regalia fever dream Nothing matters we are free Free until tomorrow In a ritual union Jaded as the soma we imbibe I will fix you so you break with me For one more night Smoke and neon Quiet stranger Bitter amber We are favoured Burning sugar Emerald nectar This transgressive rite Is our communion And just like all things that shine Found in life first so fine The high is flawed by design As the sun must burn out in time It all fades

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released November 13, 2015

Written and performed by Robin Urbino

Guest vocals on Rain Gallery performed by Daisy Emily Warne
Violins performed by Stan Critchley
Additional lead guitar on Vice Regalia performed by Lewis White

Produced by Robin Urbino at The Bohemian Grove, Brighton 2015
Mixed and mastered by John Mitchell at Outhouse Studios, Reading 2015

Artwork by Alice Urbino

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