Archspire - Human Murmuration lyrics

I was the first to discover what hid in those red windows The one I found there tried hard to survive A child riddled with teeth sprouting randomly All over his body (except in his rotting mouth) Was taken by us, to our lab Us meaning myself, as well as the a**istants I had Instructing me of a mission through A distant telepathic channel Running directly out from their compound and into my brain Referring to themselves as the A.U.M. I was to bring the body back to my quarters And await instruction Not an easy task to transport it Strapping it down to a gurney I dragged it through the alley Unfortunate casualties noticed me Using any tools around me at that time to keep them quiet An iron pipe, a broken bottle Or a jagged piece of brick or stone I should not continue to delineate this any longer At one point I had to fake my d**h Until the witness made a close inquiry At that time I had to use the less effective weapons that were born onto me With old teeth and leather hands I took an ear and then an eye I focused force around their skull To keep them mute during attempts To yell for aid, until they fell A.U.M. made it perfectly clear I was to bring the body back Or it would be forced to witness The drop of black again I cannot begin to describe The horror of viewing this maddening drop For the memory bleeds to deep into my own That the mere thought alone starts to unravel My frayed reality Giving way to its ominous ability to shape And adapt my thought and vision It is beginning to happen now I finally have the body safe inside After the abduction After the viewing of the drip A building had been left to me by relatives Across the ocean that it overlooked Or so I was told Often I try to recall What endeavours I pursued previous to this Yet to no avail That part of my memory blurs in my mind Like a fresh painted canvas left out in a thunderstorm I watch through my window as it melts Fading all the memories I kept Only A.U.M here They are conducting human murmuration From the liquid in his bones They raise the dead to fly together (x2) I circle with them in the shroud The winged ones and I Falling off their wind, I waken With unworldly castings burned into my eyes Intermittent logic in a daze of violent hyper gliding They are conducting human murmuration From the liquid in his bones They raise the dead to fly together I woke from my dream on the floor of the factory In a nest made of black feathers that were alive Somehow every hollow quill had filled up With the rotting child’s living marrow Each one serving as a needle To inject in each new body In this nest A.U.M made it clear I was to bring more corpses back to life Or be forced to witness the drop of black again Every night while in fever I’ve taken A new pallet of bone and vein to infect and release