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Nail in the Coffee

by Axiom

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1.
Psyvamps 02:04
If every time I forgot and tried to walk in the sun/ I'd be one well paid well done Nosferatu/ And this is only my very first attempt/ At redemption for the pain and evil things I have brought you/ Circular breath ragged poet to death/ Life is haggard at best I like to take in steps/ If I was stable I'd be able but I'm mainly a wreck/ Every since my maker made me via fang to the neck/ Vampires are passé but don't close the curtains/ Twilight's for pussies I'm the Bram Stoker version/ Urgent need for something here to bleed so I can feed/ Then lean back and relax and smoke upon the trees/ I'm moon light rechargeable move like an animal/ The genuine article sometimes intangible/ Think you saw my reflection but I vanished though/ Eyein' up your centrical ventricle and it goes/ One for the high collars keep 'em on lock/ Seduce fair maidens make a vampiress flock/ Two for the brick-biters eyes on my castle/ Townsfolk choked getting treated like cattle/ If every time I forgot and tried to walk in the sun/ I'd be one well paid well done Nosferatu/ And this is only my very first attempt/ At redemption for the pain and evil things I have brought you/ If every time I was wrong bankin' on/ The lame horse played the pawn I'd be a broke motherfucker/ And this right here is my very first confession/ May or may not associate with blood suckers/
2.
Archfiend 01:59
Who's an archfiend? "You the archfiend"/ True to my heart strings drawn to the dark things/ Who's an archfiend? "You the archfiend"/ True to my heart strings drawn to the dark things/ Shadow shape vivid heat-stroke hallucinate/ Deadly rattlesnake blurry mental state hit snooze you're late/ That place to which the brain will gravitate/ I have wolf-face then bat-face then I evaporate/ Heightened senses including clearer vision/ Enhanced lyricism from my vampiricism/ My very existence enough to cause a schism/ I told 'em it could happen but nobody wanna listen/ It's a hard nights job trying to dodge the mob/ Torches and pitchforks and people speakin' for God/ That's the reality a mob mentality/ Sacrifice quality for quantity now we'll see/ Cast shadows from the candelabra/ Big drama like the grandest opera/ Fly dangle for the spider Ax handle what he got to/ Even when they calling him a monster/ Crypt keeper cryptic crypt keeper/ Decipher code of the coffin-sleeper/ Crypt keeper cryptic crypt keeper/ Tell a story on the beat through the speaker/ Sucker... Who's an archfiend? "You the archfiend"/ True to my heart strings drawn to the dark things/ Who's an archfiend? "You the archfiend"/ True to my heart strings drawn to the dark things/
3.
My over-coat was stained in red/ The sleeves were torn to shreds/ My canine teeth still had meat/ Hanging from the ends/ My eyes were wide my heart was black/ My soul was icy blue/ My knives were sharp the night was dark/ Besides the silver moon/ I knew right then that was mine/ I would live like this till the end of time/ I would never see the sun light/ Fuck it all I need is one mic/ All night and a place to rhyme/ Let me in cuz I gotta be invited/ I'm a big neck-biter fire a bullet I'm a bite it/ I'm a sick blood sucker and I don't know how to fight it/ I'm a moody type of dude and I don't know if I like it/ It's a battle in the body and the chemistry is shotty/ Cuz the devil in me got me it's a Nail in the Coffee/ A battle of the spirit gone sour can't cure it/ Judge a ghost at his post and it's all on appearance/ Live a little die a little give a little try a little/ Fiddle with the toggle and boggle the bigger middle/ My acquittal ain't coming any time soon son/ Move like mist and avoid the sun/ I was reborn a vampire/ And I will never die/ I was reborn a vampire/ And I will never die/ I was reborn a vampire/ And I will never die/ I was reborn a vampire/ And I will never die/
4.
Immortality 02:10
I'm like this all the time catch me staring at the walls/ I'm looking through dimensions at the elements involved/ All illusions and confusion it's the meaning in the mess/ It's the feeling in the flesh and the beating in the chest/ Rip a hole right through it the veil over vision/ Pull the nail out the coffin escaping from the prison/ Breaking DNA chains I say nurture over nature/ But I was born a night creature/ Some would call it hell but it's more a cold inferno/ Living as a man who is damned as nocturnal/ Some would call it bliss living like this/ It is what it is how I must exist/ See this is quite a common mood/ Seeing ideas in the drains and veins full of food/ But no fangs cuz it's rude it's strange but it's true/ It pains me to do what I do but I do/ Get that get that get that blood/ I'm like this when it's dark catch me staring at the moon/ There's something in the air and the night that's like a boon/ Wind pipe a weapon ya'll are under my protection/ I can cast my spells but I'm stuck in my condition/ Serve me garlic with a silver spoon/ drop a cross on my head like a cartoon at high noon/ I'm still kickin' I'm still neck pinchin'/ Have a visit with the grave like any good Christian/ Trying to bridge species ye have little faith/ Progressive paranormal her to innovate/ Renovate relocate hopefully before we seal our fate/ Before we learn to elevate/ I celebrate the star sky reaching through the portal/ High collar widows peak unkempt formal/ The blessing in the curse is I will never be normal/ But like a record of my lines I'm immortal/
5.
Nature 02:34
Nature made me refused to face me/ Don't see the light that a life is based in/ Vamp invasion all capes arrangin'/ Drain the veins of any life that's wastin'/ Think that's easy would you like to feed me?/ Take my power would you like to bleed me?/ Drain me drink me thank me tip me/ Feel a burning urge if you lightly sip me/ Take a needle and try to prick me/ Transfused booze now the vitals ticking/ Cats is hissing Ax ain't missing/ Narcissisting classic instinct/ Ax is risking all he has/ A belly full of blood and big bar tab/ I'm telling you to run when things gone bad/ I'm telling you it's fun when things gone bad/ My job is lawless godless never with an office/ gathering a thought process and coffees/ stir 'em with a nail with a pail hand/ look under the veil and reveal what the real plan/ Yeah yeah yeah back to the coffin/ Unh unh unh back to the coffin/ This is a beast who would too often/ Hardcore heart won't soon be softened/ Not for the rules and not for the cross and/ Not for views of a dead man watching/ Not for the vibe they try to provide/ and not for the cost of a constant caution/ Gnostic spastics all contracted/ Same infection noxious toxin/ Similar to living in inhibiting boxes/ Let's make circles waves like chakras/ Take to the night air till then I'm right here/ Yeah living night mare/ And something else about this all seems relatable/ Take to the night air till then I'm right here/ Yeah living night mare/ And even though I've drank my hunger is insatiable/ Nature is the Mother/ Man is the Son Vampire is his Brother/ Moon is for Daughter humankind feed my hunger/ Whose influence you under?/ Some born food source some born hunter/ Etched metal nameplate name date: Axiom/ Now until the end grave-mates with my friends/ Restless tasteless same state as them/ But the guest list says Jesus and Buddha with the Zen/ Humans are a miracle beautiful but terrible/ I capture them in stereo and bring 'em to the burial/ Check the pulse and scenario yo/ A walking contradiction I'm a curse and a miracle/ But that's the thing about nature/ Everything is endangered/ Yeah you can feel it in the heart beat/ On a bright day or a dark week/ Weak weakness for the weak/ I survive quick using both my front teeth/ Truth but the labeled me a freak/ For the sustenance I seek all I wanna do is eat/
6.
Penelope 02:21
I was trying to get busy/ Wrapped in girl who be worked up in tizzy/ Preferred her drink fizzy/ I'm a perv and pounced missy/ Do anything for pussy push me/ And see what you get it's needless to fret/ But she don't seem to respect and I wanted her approval/ While we talked I found a pen and found a lot inside a doodle/ Using the old noodle but attempts were gettin' futile/ Became scared to death of rejection or refusal/ I found a new attack and played hard to get/ Just to flip it on the chick I made her let me get the check/ We left the spot quick then she bit me in the neck/ Well what did I expect she's a vampiress/ She's some little number in a coffin in slumber/ I'm a sampler a gambler a drum machine drummer/ It doesn't make a difference and never could/ I'd never break her heart by impaling her with wood/ Now it's all up in the air turned out she's hella flakin'/ I'm a vampire now why bother with the waitin'?/ Everything for the taking everything from the basement/ All instinct in sync with the natives/ Cleanly calculated seemingly in a state of/ Menacingly innocent and sentenced as a sadist/ I guess that's relationships at their greatest/ The way they treatin' vamps in this day and age is racist/ I wish that I was listening/ I wish that I was listening as everyone was telling me/ Stay away from Penelope/ I wish that I was listening/ I wish that I was listening as everyone was telling me/ There's fangs on Penelope/
7.
This is when I get my best ideas why would I lie?/ Not with my particular brand of sci-fi/ I'm high it seems to be my right right?/ I'm a sucker for a blood suckin' story in the night/ Translation: Transylvanian alienation types/ Get star striped memory banks whiped/ Inspiration from the strange information in the veins/ Sickest mouth goes the quickest route whatever else in range/ Go stay at The Bates no matter the rates/ She okay in the face snow day in the glades/ Eh eh eh show some more respect son/ What a Southern belle with two holes in her neck done?/ I guess I'm just too gothic try it before you knock it/ A vial of it in your pocket entirely on the topic/ Undeniably I've lost it sobriety of gnostics/ See it without the optic the eye is still in it's socket/ Even when cameras flashin' my image ain't held hostage/ I'm out for vamp justice/ This is for the biters trying to get a piece/ This is for the fangers lookin' for a treat/ This is for the real heads I'm givin' them the creeps/ This is for my people who at night never sleep/

about

If shadows are to play their tricks
And evil machinations
They'll be joined by skin as pink as suns
That set with trepidation.

For after light, it's flight for those
Who call out from the grave,
Or silently slip from the crypt
As distant torches blaze.

The shouts and screams and crosses flash,
It's hardly worth the meal,
So he sits on nearby rooftops
As a lonely moon's revealed.

The days are long- he's sure it's true--
He used to live as well.
His human life's behind him now,
Some claim he came from hell.

It's not the same, it's true he knows,
But truth has turned subjective,
He still has thoughts and walks the earth,
A matter of perspective.

One bloody kiss, one wilted rose,
A damsel in distress,
A cry, a scream, a guy that dreams,
With fevered mind a mess.

He knows they love to hate him,
So he bites his bottom lip,
They will surely take the stake
And gladly pit it through his ribs.

A blue collar vampire saying,
"No one here can stop me!"
Pulls a nail out the coffin and
"Ker-plunk", it's in the coffee.

credits

released October 9, 2014

Made in Canada.
Lyrics, beats, engineering, mixing by Axiom.
Mastered by K-Rec.

"Psyvamps" features bowed saw by Charles-Antoine Vallieres.
"Archfiend" features traditional style gang vocals by the multiple personalities of Salomé Ochmanek and Brandon Hoffman.
"Immortality" features electric guitar with EBow by Cameron Catalano. "Penelope" features bass guitar by Nick Lagasse, mandolin by Brandon Hoffman and additional vocals by Kapok.
"These Vampires" features cuts by K-Rec and additional vocals in Gaelic by Dave McCallum, recorded by K-Rec.

Art by Axiom,'Nail in the Coffee' typeface by Kayley Pielou.
Gif and web work by Brian Richter.

Axiom is Emcee, Producer, Experimental Musician, Writer, Multi-media artist and Madman, Harold Richter, hailing from Quadra Island BC. He created this album in the last year of his life in Vancouver where he fed his cat human hearts and hovered above East Van rooftops smoking cigarettes.

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