the quickening

• ayni zamanda bir bad religion $arkisi. the empire strikes first albumunde yer alir.
  
  the quickening is an ephemeral thing
  that only happens in the dark
  like catching lightning in a jar
  and the pain that it brings
  is just the promise of spring
  it’s madness on the way
  oh, what does it mean…
  
  to come alive
  to come alive
  to come alive
  (to come alive) to come alive
  to come alive
  to come alive
  
  the entering is soulful conjecturing
  oh, lost and by the wind-grieved coast
  please come back to me again
  because the way that she bleeds
  he’ll sit alone when he reads
  confusing words and deeds
  so what does it mean…
  
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  to pierce the fame of the sacred and profane
  for science, in service of the faith
  but who will bear the mark of cain?
  
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