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The Underground Sidewalks (Of Our Grey Future)

by Wytch Code

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My reliance is only matched By the hate I feel, when denied my right To the scarlet cylinders I swallow To preserve my mind Withdrawing, down the drain Flush it out, flush it down Stop telling me I'll feel ok From the first day, I did not get a dose I caved in, kneeled down And fucking choked I don't even know, who I am anymore Because being on or off the pills Splits me in half, through the core Its like a fucking game of Jekyll and Hyde Except with me, its more like Jekyll and I want, to fucking die My lenses, through which I see the world, decay Into a raw maelstrom The foreground is dyed in red, and the voices Just convince me that I would rather be dead I'm so dizzy, that I can barely stand Who is in control? Is it me? Or the blade in my hand It was always hard to see the good in people But take me off the fucking meds And all I see in you is evil Why the hell, will nobody shut up? Is it so, hard to see the whole goddamn World is fucked I cannot force, myself to eat Just put me back on effexor, Please god, please To save me from myself, they gave me an addiction A chemical I cannot, live without Its funny, to think, all the progress I have made Can be undone, by milligrams
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Solitude 03:49
Solitary, the be alone I am surrounded by people But none of them see me Or if they do, their eyes pass over me I am marked with lamb's blood I am alone I breathe in air that I wish desperately was cold Yet it is lukewarm and rank Witch my own stench, untouched by the breath Of anyone but me Anyone but me I am a victim Of my own perceptions Perhaps, what I see, is true And you are all the addled ones You say we see the world, through different pairs of glasses But I say no You are blind I sever my own arms I cannot reach out any longer
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Greying away in concrete The world is bleached of color The sky is whitewashed ash And every tree is dead Skeletal arms reach up To touch the invisible sun It is so cold From what I remember Its been so long Since I was outside Since I was outside So cold, its been so long Now, we move under the ground Pale white and grey, passageways Hollow orbs of light, sparsely distributed In the walls and floors To illuminate, the walkways Graffiti-ed words, indecipherable To remedy a misery in-explainable We once held hands, in this cold future In the underground sidewalks Of our grey future In the sprawling catacombs of distress Veins are split open by cracks in the cement Gifts, from heaven's razor blade And from time to time ash blows into the underground sidewalks And dusts my face with a mark I must remember That there is still a world up there We once held hands in this place Once I carved my name into a concrete panel through a layered skin of spray paint Every tree is dead, we learned to forget, the taste of the air The hand I held grew cold and withdrew, into itself, folding Then I grew coldest, because I was alone Walking solitary in the underground sidewalks For you could not walk with me anymore It felt as if the planet were empty but for us two It felt as if the frozen slab of ground, pockmarked with tunnels, was all the home we had How long has it been since I was outside I couldn't tell you To tell you the truth, I don't know if I was ever outside at all Perhaps I'm lying to myself Perhaps we are both lying telling ourselves We'll come out when its safe But we know truth That it will never be safe So we walk the underground sidewalks And the graffiti covers the walls, Until there is not an inch untouched And as the lights coat with rust, we realize its too late I go to you, to hold your hand again, I go to unfold the paper arm that is left Of the person you once were you're cold as when I left We are both frozen, and as the lights go off underground We think at last, about trying to get out We realize its too late Maybe we never really were outside...
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It took me far too long, to realize the solution I have accepted what you've done And you must accept that I am no longer Your son You will no longer have a hold on me For how can you have a grip, when you cease to be? You weren't there for me, now you're just not there At all Just not there, at all I am nothingness Literal spawn of nothingness A void where love should have been No-one can see it Nobody can see Perhaps one day Nobody will know, what you did to me

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"The Underground Sidewalks (Of Our Grey Future)" is the first full EP ever released by Wytch Code. Completed when I was still in high school, it saw a miniscule physical release, but has never before been available for download or purchase until now. This EP set the foundation for Wytch Code's sound, and while it is far from perfect, I am extremely proud of it. As with all of Wytch Code's music, the aim was never musical perfection, but to honestly express extremely negative emotions.

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Cover photo and logo by Peter Derksen
Editing and composition by Kassandra Wandyka

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released January 1, 2017

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