LYRICS:

THE CONGREGATION:
Rise as one
Writhe and Succumb
Thy will (will) be done
Thy kingdom come

*

THE SOVEREIGN EMERGENT:
They flee from me that sometime did me seek
Burned alive to satisfy their gluttony and greed
A blackened tide is set alight to fill the sky with acrid smoke
Ancient forest, liquidise! 
Worship me, then choke

*

THE SOVEREIGN EMERGENT:
Underneath this wretched Earth
Released from my cell
I emerged from the afterbirth
Of a burning well
Kneel before me
Your secrets sealed with the unborn blood
And heed not the warning:First comes the OILDROUGHT
Then comes the flood

*

THE WATCHERS:
The scholar, the gambler, the lawyer, the sage
The horror, the hunger, the anger, the rage
The blood that dries black as the ink on the page
The blood-price that purchased the end of an age-- has been paid

*

THE CONVERT:
I fell in love with a man who was full of hate
I fell in love with the laws of a failed state
I fell in love with the creed of a bygone age
I fell in love with a God who was full of rage

*

THE SOVEREIGN EMERGENT:
Underneath this wretched Earth
Released from my cell
I emerged from the afterbirth
Of a burning oil-well
Kneel before me
Your secrets sealed with the unborn blood
And heed not the warning:First comes the OILDROUGHT
Then comes the flood

*

THE CONGREGATION:
Rise as one
Writhe and Succumb
Thy will (will) be done
Thy kingdom come

* 

THE WATCHERS:
The terror, the tyrant
The prayers gone silent
The cities ablaze 
The oil in the hydrant
The hatred, the horror
The bloodshed, the squalor
The tyrant bewildered; no lands left to conquer
The coal in the furnace
The sovereign is blind
The cost is eternal
The contract is signed
The blood that dries black as the ink on the page
The blood-price that purchased the end of an age
has been paid.


*
[All music and visuals by Aran Ward Sell. 

Recorded and mixed in Ableton Live 11 using Neural DSP Archetype: Gojira, Steven Slate Drums and other stuff. Video made in Adobe Premiere Pro. WRITHE & SUCCUMB logo made in Sketchable and edited in Adobe Photoshop. Guitars: Jackson Warrior XT, Ibanez bass. Huge thanks to Gareth Sears for mixing advice.]

OILDROUGHT

Writhe & Succumb