Garden Window

Lo, my eager eyes will behold the truth Lo, my eager eyes will behold the truth How great How great How great is my debt That my penance should be endless? Lo, my eager eyes will behold the truth Lo, my eager eyes will behold the truth Lo, my eager eyes will behold the truth

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

Lo, my eager eyes will know the truth Come the day when it’s pouring from my lifeless mouth Lo, my eager eyes may swear to you That I never meant to shut you out So we could laugh and sit and talk until I wanted to see What sort of knowledge had grown from your forbidden seed All I wanted was a single thought in my head that was mine I tried to change what I'd done; You still decided to leave us here To crook the spines of these wretched bodies Your garden reminds us of our fleeting lives Lo, my eager eyes will know the truth Come the day when it’s pouring from my lifeless mouth Lo, my eager eyes may swear to you That I never meant to shut you out So why did you leave here, why did you leave here? My head is but an image of you So why did you leave here, why did you leave me? To figure this all out So why did you leave here, why did you leave here? My head is but an image of you So why did you leave here, why did you leave me? To figure this all out So I found my side in the absence of a point-of-view Cause our senseless minds couldn't hope to know Now I take what's mine, from the ground that I cultivate And my mouth runs wild cause I want it all Lo, my eager eyes will know the truth Come the day when it’s pouring from my lifeless mouth Lo, my eager eyes may swear to you That I never meant to shut you out

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

So what is the worth in that dirt that you found? Well I'll bet that it'll never be a keeper If you would just rather sit, sucking the ground Then stay down, stay down, brother stay down Why would you curse all the truths that you know? Well keep them coming there’s no truth to relieve me And why would you lay with the lies that you’re told? To stay sold, stay sold You just left us tending Well you ought to stayed I'll just leave my labors And eat at the table I laid All that a hearse ever eventually found We're dead bodies in dead, dumb crowns Well who really knew that a fountain be found? So stay down, brother, stay down But I’ll keep it up, keep it up, keep it up Keep it up, keep it up, keep it up I’ll keep it up, keep it up, keep it up You just left us tending, we all say I'll just leave my labors And eat at the table I laid

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

I'll hold my tongue from idle speech To keep my mind fed Did I trade intent for futile means In the process? I guess there's a whole in the bottom of my head My sense has fallen out I've seen the sickness reside in the belly of the righteous A disease that trained a gluttonous eye to feast upon the wicked And I could pretend that it won't but it'll be my ruin too (I give it all) Will you watch me drown in a pool of my thickening blood? My rigid limbs sprawl around I fear that I'm going down Stung by the incessant drone of some siren calling me out Oh dear I heard the sound Now I’m hung like an overcoat With some poison fruit in my mouth Oh god, It's dragging me down Louder and louder still, spinning looms by which I am bound This wasn't right, but it's what I needed And I wouldn't lie to feed my indifference This wasn't right, but it's what I needed And I wouldn't lie to feed my indifference This wasn't right, but it's what I needed And I wouldn't lie to feed my indifference This wasn't right, but it's what I needed And I wouldn't lie to feed my indifference This wasn't right, but it's what I needed And I wouldn't lie to feed my indifference This wasn't right, but it's what I needed And I wouldn't lie to feed my indifference This wasn't right This wasn't right This wasn't right, but it's what I needed This wasn't right, but it's what I needed

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

Live, learn, and let it lie Skip to the end to wonder why And I will lay down Here you'll find that we all are Blossoms that bloom to fall apart And I will lay down So Abba father are you sleeping As we toil through your gardens keeping? So I'll lay down and begin to grow Right beneath your garden window Keep your tired hands to ground As blood feeds the dirt to which you're bound And I will lay down Here you'll find that we've all been Dead men, dead men And I will lay down So Abba father are you sleeping As we toil through your gardens keeping? So I'll lay down and begin to grow Right beneath your garden window

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

Are you speaking, speaking at all? Or are you keeping, keeping your voice soft? My blistered tongue burst with words that have no tone Are you even breathing? Cause my breath is gone Just say anything Just say anything at all Just say anything Just say anything at all But I'll be keeping, keeping my head on I'll be keeping, keeping my head on Why don't you open your mouth and let it out now (The breath is coming in, keep your head on) Why don't you open your mouth and let it all out

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

Is this what you wanted? Eat, breed, repeat. Populate and decease. And take it all Trade living for a living Measure your worth in flesh and blood, measure your worth in blood I could be your contact in a place of your design With the grace of wounded lions I could be your absolute; I could be your sign I could be your written lie All this time that I've been given I squandered in my own right All my breath never intended To be used to change your mind I found a weaker sense of truth To be what made sense so I'll just stack these points of view Until one gives out I won't hold my breath, hold my breath Oh god, I should have figured All this work, all this progress Is fine if you wanted it All this time that I've been given I squandered in my own right All my breath never intended To be used to change your mind I found a weaker sense of truth To be what made sense so I'll just stack these points of view Until one gives out I found a weaker sense of truth To be what made sense so I'll just stack these points of view Until one gives out I won't hold my breath, hold my breath Oh god, I should have figured This would be happening now

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

I'll lay all my anger aside And let all my instincts resign I'll lay all my anger aside If you'll give me a sign

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

In bed your body burns just like a fire And your eyes they twitch under lids from side to side And my ego can't seem to get a grip I'll simplify, simplify the terms I’m leaving Until my body lays under leaves and green-green grass By then my ego might finally get a grip I'll let my lover lie And in absence I'll drink tonight With tired limbs, indecent mind And beggar's bones, beggar's bones, beggar's I'll let my lover lie And in absence I'll drink tonight With tired limbs, indecent mind And beggar's bones, beggar's bones, beggar's I'll let my lover lie I could patiently seek another chance Or I could cut you deep with a simple glance I loathe your hesitance I loathe your hesitance I'll let my lover lie And in absence I'll drink tonight With tired limbs, indecent mind And beggar's bones, beggar's bones, beggar's So lay like a monument To poise and indifference Betrayed by retreating lips To baring teeth, baring teeth, baring I'll trade my vindictive sigh For quarter of witless spite Til I, like my lover Lie with beggar’s bones, beggar's bones, beggar's Til I let my lover Lay like you know I swallowed my hungry pride And let it all go For the sake of a better life Lay like you know I swallowed my hungry pride And let it all go For the sake of a better life

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

This is a ploy of cold, crass, sheep To only milk the pieces of truth that suit their means And I was just wandering what you thought it'd bring Hey, there's a poison in your skin I see it quietly seeping out of it Hey there's a poison in your skin I see it coming, saw it coming, it's coming out And I am the fortunate one This, an attempt at feeding primal needs Has woken all the demons that reside inside of me And I was just stalling to get some sleep And you still say that I am the fortunate one Well I could wash my hands to pretend they're clean Or I could purge my lips of spineless speech But the consequence of knowledge is an eager tongue I could wash my hands to pretend they're clean Or I could purge my lips of spineless speech But the consequence of knowledge is an eager tongue I could wash my hands to pretend they're clean Or I could purge my lips of spineless speech But the consequence of knowledge is an eager tongue Don't you leave I wasn't finished. This isn't over I will be heard, I will be heard Every last word will have its turn Mine may be the words unwisely sewn To cultivate the path that I have chose Mine may be the words you'll never know But lay me in the dirt and I will grow Are you listening? Cause my breath grows null Tired quips begin to wither Who can reason with time? Lay me in the dirt and I will grow Lay me in the dirt and I will grow Lay me in the dirt and I will grow Lay me in the dirt and I will grow

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026

Lingering in your garden here our tired hands are bound To toiling without pleasure in this murky earth we found Distance is at fault here and its slowly gaining ground So stay here at my table till proximity is sound Keep it in, keep your last breathe Make it worthwhile Keep it in, keep your last breathe Make it worthwhile, worthwile I was looking for something, when I was pulling my skin off So if god is an acronym, some giver of damnation Then why even bother with the concept of man Ideals have run wild, escaped from our heads And with the chosen so few should it warrant attempt? And what if my fear is all that I am? A poison to ease what small conscience I have left But soon we'll find we lived and died with the world in our hands You left all your children out You left all your children fending for our precious lives I am the fortunate one, left with the blood in my skin You are the only thing I hope is real in a dark world I am the fortunate one, left with the blood in my limbs You are the only thing I hope is real in a dark world

Submitted by Pestilence — Feb 22, 2026