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Temporary Gnosis (Only For a Moment)

from Meanwhile, Onward! by Colter

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Temporary gnosis
Only for a moment
Shine, snake, for the gods write your fate
Disbelief is shattered
Obfuscate the patterns
Wide awake for days

Red wrung dirty from the clay in the earth
Soaked the beige sheet in blood from the djinn that they had purged
Now urge with the ceremony, conjure up the words
Mix the nightshade with chrysanthemums and grind it with the herbs
Disperse preconceptions of the world and how it works
Merge the angels with the jokers just to please the demiurge
Unearth this creation swallowed up by usurpers
Pour a goblet’s worth of goblin’s blood into your mix & stir

This is no holiday
We are in end times, baby
The signals light the way illuminate our destination

We have a part to play
Ialdabaoth has spoken
His words are on the page, and taken shape as you unholy ones

I can hear it

Jesus at the crossroads
Demons at the altars
Sides take any pledge to their way
Chosen are the people
Broken of their ego
Time shapes faith

Cut me from this womb
Throw me to the waters above
Keep us from this lunar doom
Crush me under you
Guide me to the light of your sun
Keep us from this lunar doom

Run, red rabbit, for the rapture has come
Pour the gold & the mercury in separate orbs at once
Become this oracle, horrible one
With the seventh tongue of angels, speak the words, and be done

Behold!
I am the whore and the holy
A barren woman who has many children
The self-conceiving mother-father
Do not banish me from before your eyes
Behold!
I am knowledge from my own discovery
I am light and shadow
No. Do not banish me from before your eyes
He who has ears, should listen.

Cut me from this womb
Throw me to the waters above
Keep us from this lunar doom
Crush me under you
Guide me to the light of your sun
Keep us from this lunar doom

Run, red rabbit, for the rapture has come
Pour the gold & the mercury in separate orbs at once
Become this oracle, horrible one
With the seventh tongue of angels, speak the words, and be done

Speak the words, and be done
Tick, tock, tick, tock, tick, tock
Speak the words, and be done

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from Meanwhile, Onward!, released April 19, 2023

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Colter is a one-man-band audio art project. With each album, Colter constructs multi-layered musical journeys that shift thru genres & styles into a thematic concept or narrative. 

Since 2020, all of the songs in Colter’s discography are 100% DIY— with all writing, programming, recording, engineering, mixing, and mastering credits going to the artist. ... more

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