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Fractal Cage

from Fractal Cage by Gentlemen

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Restless heart syndrome
Tell me, what’s your prescription?
Existential’s never been so detrimental to me.
Swallowing the fist of fate and gagging out our questions
Begging answers from the soundless black that’s staring into me

If you’re nothing, give us something
Scratch your plans into our heads and let us down easy
Numbing empty, my mind has bruised enough and
I want nothing more than to sleep your creeping claws away

I’ve made my bed of mirrors
Gazed with glazed eyes at a fogged infinity
Safe but insecure in a prone position
Never understanding

Reflection. Ageless question.
What’s beyond my fractal cage?
Repetition, replication of self, myself, my selves.
Dust’s begun to settle as on vapid, ancient shelves.

Silence.

If I am honest with me
I may just be afraid to leave
Tightening it’s grip,
the mystery may make up my mind momentarily.

A hairline fracture; oh God, just take me while I dream.

My throat is twisting
My stomachs burning
The weight of second
guessing may be
burying me

My chest is seizing
My body’s shaking
The fear of a forever may very well be

Murdering me (murdering potential)

Murdering me (satiate, medicate, limitate). Put to death privately.

Mortal duplicity
This riddle’s lost its whimsy
Janus-faced and somber it comes pounding on the walls.
“Deal with me or die” - it’s whisper pours into the air
and washes over me absorbing into every pore

“So you’re nothing, or you're something?
On one hand my mind can’t comprehend eternity.
On the other, if I cease to exist
the vacuum of a soulless void is meaningless and menacing.”

This bed of mirrors
Has served its purpose
but nobody can rest into infinity

We need to confront
the space beyond comfort.
So bursting forth through shattered glass I wrestle with

Reality. (Real sincerity)

(Logically, Methodically, Theologically)

Will joy come in the mourning?

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from Fractal Cage, track released November 30, 2021

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Gentlemen Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Gentlemen is a Deathcore project featuring Louis Snyder, Guitarist of Riparian and Christopher Cronce, Vocalist of :48 After.

They met in 2010 when Chris auditioned for a now defunct old band of Louis's. Despite that bands breakup shortly after their auditions, the two knew they wanted to create something together.

Their album, Fractal Cage, is the visceral musical product of that meeting. ... more

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