1. FROM BLOOD OF CHRYSALIS

I wander the world alone where life once teemed
Now there's only the stink of insects in the streams
Overrun. The world I once knew...
This new world facsimile already bled dry
In less than a century !
Newly birthed from ancient death
Humanity is crushed
I ingest the miracle drug that cures all ills
Depression that strangles souls has gone
beyond mere pills, harvested
From blood of chrysalis...
One for transformation, two treatments mean death
Such is its potencyl
With DNA the medecine
My life I recontrusct...


2. INSECT DRUG

« The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away »
The experts bark out warnings : don't trust the insect drug !
Deliverance at this price is doom revisited
But I just want a ladder, to flee this pit I've dug
I know the cost was so high but had naught else to give
I surrendered up my conscience because I fought to live
I know what I want : I'll get it
No-one will stop me ! I am unfettered !
The ropes of morals no longer bind me
I have rendered my humanity !
The dark road dogs my footsteps; I trusted insect drug
A creature walked behind me, a plae and soul-soaked being
We walked the road together and he did advise me
I surrendered up my conscience because I fought to live
I know what I want : I'll get it
No-one will stop me ! I am unfettered !
The ropes of morals no longer bind me
I have rendered my humanity !
No-one will stop me ! I am unfettered !
Do I admit to myself its not a cure, its infection ?
Do I surrender survival to the second injection ?
No-one will stop me...


3. DESOLATION

On escaping desolation that pervades all human kind
I decide to take the potion
Feel the sliding needle jabbing deep, to bring surcease...
Breathing slows as lifesign goes
the dawn of rest could leave me blessed
My past life swirls stately round me
I concentrate so air sustains me
I am falling
Into the depths I am falling
If I could kick this depression
I could find out what has smashed my life
The return of the bleak feelings shrick inside of me
My body is sceated with bitterest sugar
This is the result of serum taking over
My limbs stiffen, could I have found the way to death ?
Could I be bound along the path of pure destruction ?
If I don't expire first from hunger...
Streched, by sapping sun
My eyes open as if turned to stone
Like a statue made from flesh and bone


4. METAMORPHOSIS

My soul... my soul... my soul...
My immortal soul, has filed away
Deserted my form, like morning mist
Oozing tranformation, my body changed
Translucent fluid wombs me
Its metamorphosis...
Gone beyond flesh gone beyond stone
Through I've changed I am still alone
My flesh liquidised...
Shattering my bones, as I evolue
Stopped my urge to tear free – embryo rage !
Violent return to the womb
Its metamorphosis...
My immortal soul, has fled away
Deserted my form, like morning mist
Oozing transformation, my body changed
Translucent fluid wombs me
Its metamorphosis...
As I arched my back my mouth opens
All across my tongue a viscous ooze
Heats down my chin slowly prisoner
I cannot put a name to this... metamorphosis !
« The second stretch to minutes: minutes to weeks til months pass »


5. HYBRID STATE

Takes forever, hack and server
Brittle pupa case stuck upon the fac
It inhumes it, it devours it
Piercing mandibles, twisting spastic jerks
What became of the man ? Is he now an insect ?
It fleeds on its shell...
Fuel survival instinct, stave the starving hunger
Only time can tell...
What future now in hybrid state ?
What vision now with its new sight ?
Slowly moving, synchronising
Claws click on the stone, creature still alone
It will leave now, its not safe here
Claws click on the stone, creature still alone
It will leave now, its not safe here
Then a skin of silk drains from it like milk
What future now in hybrid state ?
What vision now with its new sigh ?
Slowly moving, synchronising...


6. STRANGE VIBRATIONS

Trapped inside new prison
This time of its own making
It hides from danger
Fuel the survival instinct, now that its' hunger's sated
Motionless in the dark
There is something strange
I know I can sense
Is this my spirit I detect inside of me ?
Is this my death finally claimed me ?
I'm trapped in this cocoon, all alone
It's impossible to tell
If someone's in me
Or if I'm a part of somone's skin
Strange vibrations whine
They chuckle and creak
A thousand tiny noises round me
Is this my spirit I detect inside me ?
Is this my death finally claimed me ?
Into empty space
Into every crack


7. LIQUID FLOWS

Into empty space
Into every crack
Liquid flows so gently over me
It's impossible to tell
If I'm drowning from within
Or if the liquid that surrounds me
Aims to drown
I find I am alive
But is it too late ?
Liquid flows so gently over me
It's impossible to tell
If I'm drowning from within
Or if the liquid that surrounds me...
Liquid flows so gently over me
But it's too late...
Helpless as a child, I can't move
Why am I not dead ?
Even sight's returned
Dazzled and devoured the slow light
Liquid flows so gently over me
It's impossible to tell
If I'mdrowning from within
Or if the liquid that surrounds me...
Liquid flows so gently over me
But it's too late...
Even sight's returned !



8. THE DEFORMED ARMY

There is a deformed army, all around me...
Discerning clearer now my eyes
The carapaces glisten in the light
And tangled limbs lie inert
all around me...
There's a deformed army
Discerning clearer now my eyes
And tangled limbs lie inert
The claws serrated darkened in shadow
all around me...
there's a deformed army


9. APPREHENSION

Apprehension grips me
Deformed army
Apprehension grips me
Lie inert
Apprehension grips me in the shadow
What is happened to me ?
I see so clear
Each insectoid leg marches in unison
As smoothly as a black machine
The claw's sharp tips they moved aloft
And reached towards me in my shell
To shear the casing just to set me free
Apprehension grips me – in unison
Apprehension grips me – in my shell
Apprehension grips me – shear the casing
What is happening to me ?
I am set free
Each insectoid leg maches in unison
As smoothly as a black machine
The claw's sharp tips they moved aloft
And reached towards me in my shell
To shear the casing just to set me free
Set me free...
Apprehension grips me...
Set me free...


10. NOTHING I CONTROL

Nothing I control save a flood of image
The pictures blur (my eyes water)
They pile on top of me in thousands
Above me the shell remains
All time suspended just for now
Apprehension grips me – flood of image
My eyes water...

Apprehension grips me – in thousands
Apprehension grips me – the shell remains
What has happened to me ?
Control... Control...
I see enormous darkened wings
Are they a part of me ?
A new vision assails my eyes
Is it a sight of death ?
And in the corner of my eyes
a movement caused by breath
Nothing I control...
I cannot move
I see enormous darkened wings
Are they a part of me ?
A new vision assails my eyes
Is it a sight of death ?
And in the corner of my eyes
a movement caused by breath


11. SUBLIMATION

The sadness unfurled sombre wings
The way I used to be
We were all lied to : there's no surprise
Now the risk I took gone beyond goodbyes
The wings won't ret till : I am cloaked
They vow to rescue me
Each beat of wing up to the sky
that's where I want to be...
(...in the sky...)
It took a while to realise
I'd not been claimed by death
I am an angel undisguised
Who once was a man with breath
That's where I want to be...
(… I'm an angel...)


12. IMAGO

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