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Mercy of the Vultures

by Leaf Bones

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1.
Hog Whistle 02:40
You’re a bootlicker Hate-filled motherfucker More hate for the easy target Than the ones feeding you shit You don’t want to be treaded on So you can be the one to tread You sic the rabid dog on people at their weakest Complacent murderer Stochastic terror Same hateful rhetoric repackaged for a new movement Watching the tv man spin elaborate tales to anger you to sleep day after day Stripped of the comfort you thought you were promised You find a scapegoat, the vulnerable target You miss the point, and kiss the hands that take Bootlicker Death-grip on a status quo Only for you Stay far away, afraid of humankind I will watch your little white suburbia Burn down Burn down Burn down Motherfucker I’m not like you But I can spit hate too Eat shit Fuck you
2.
Raw Flesh 02:50
Like a punch in the jaw Like a ringing in the ears Your voice is a nuisance You’ll eat your words You deny the slash at your gut You will surely bleed out As blood pools on the floor You lock your doors Stuck Inside Within the walls of your pride Pain with no end Walk it off Pacing the room Punching the walls Eaten alive You’ll eat your words Pain with no end NO END Teeth sinking into raw flesh Living a lie No fucking joy inside I live for my mask
3.
JITTERS 02:47
I CAN’T STOP SHAKING I CAN’T STOP SHAKING I CAN’T STOP SHAKING ENDLESS JITTERS ACHING WITH RESTLESSNESS IN WAKING THERE IS ONLY CONSTANT SURGES OF ANXIETY COURSING THROUGH ME BLOOD PRESSURE RISING INDEFINITELY BACKED INTO A CORNER NOT GETTING ANY BETTER DEATH OF A HEART ATTACK RISING SENSE OF PANIC IM BLEEDING ON THE INSIDE THE SELF IS LYING UNAPT TO KEEP IN CHECK I CAN’T STOP SHAKING I CAN’T STOP SHAKING I CAN’T STOP SHAKING I CAN’T STOP SHAKING I CAN’T STOP I CAN’T STOP I CAN’T STOP I CAN’T STOP SHAKING
4.
Violent day after violent night Can’t see the blood pooled at your feet With your nose at the grindstone The only change that we need Is knowing which way to run We only know to sleep When blood mist blocks out the sun Horrors too bleak to speak So we just move on With bleating in the background Crying from the slaughterhouse Horrors too bleak to speak So we just move the fuck on No breaks, no safe space Nothing can slow down Someday this could happen to me And if it does, don’t pray I know you’ll move on anyway With bleating in the background Crying from the slaughterhouse Nothing can slow down Horrors too bleak to speak The fear of open space The game of finding exit signs There is no joy anymore Bleating in the background Squealing from the slaughterhouse Bleating in the background Slaughtered like animals There is no joy anymore.
5.
Life of Gore 01:31
This is not normal Collective trauma that we shall never mention Felt the need to know to gaze into the abyss the awful world and everything it holds But no one needs this No one should ever have to see this But no one needs this No one should ever have to see this A life of gore A life of gore Pierced into innocent eyes Gouging out Breaking down Desensitized But no one needs this No one should ever have to see this But no one needs this A life of gore
6.
Born to die knowing I Never got what I sought None of this is built to give us all The kinds of lives we thought We could all just work hard for No brilliant mind hoards all for themselves Nothing given back, Trickle down from a clogged up sieve What you get is what you get is what you get is what you get not what you give Dumped in the middle of nowhere With just a lantern light they said lights the way Without the means to light it Work will never bring you peace Just break your body All the people who have gotten the most Were only lucky And we’re only shown the reasons to believe this all works Shown only those who succeed And hide the ones on the streets When I was thirsty I was told there’s a way To cleaner waters I arrived and all I found were sick and swampy green waters I was dumped in the middle of nowhere Apparent something is wrong… Alone in darkness with a lantern light All I’ve got’s a fucking lantern light and humid air All I’ve got’s a fucking lantern light and humid air All I’ve got’s a fucking lantern light and humid air All I’ve got’s a fucking lantern light and humid air In life you just Get what you get what you get what you get what you get what you get what you get not what you deserve And every single ounce of blood shed was all for nothing.
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8.
The levee breaks From your ears starts seeping your brain The levee breaks From your nose starts seeping your brain The levee breaks The leeches bite down on your face seeping you dry left with nothing in your life The vulture watches Patient Waiting for a carcass to finally make use of a body once coughing hatred like a virus The sun above Behind the vulture’s head like a halo Disillusioned Screaming in the wrong direction Delusional Screaming in the wrong direction You have nothing going on up there I’m surprised the maggots haven’t already dug in Your logic leads you nowhere No pulse. No brainwaves. If you laid still the vultures Would put you out of your pain The sun above Behind the vulture’s head like a halo The vulture eats away the disease And the world is rid of the mess you left behind Circling With wings spread like angels Taking you to somewhere Better than you deserve Circling A boon to the world Consuming the stain Just lay still the vultures Will put you out of your pain Angels above! We are saved, saved, saved Saved of the stain on humanity Just lay still the vultures Will put you out of your pain.

about

Mercy of the Vultures is an album about a lot of things, but all of it circles around the anxiety of everyday life and dealing with the horrors of humanity. The unsettling nature of witnessing fellow humans dehumanize and perpetuate violence against others. I wish I could say this album came with a solution, but it's ultimately an emotional reaction to witnessing this horror, and the toll it takes on the body and our peace of mind. But also the anger.

Vultures are an often-used metaphor with negative connotations, but on Mercy of the Vultures, they represent the album's only saving grace. Vultures take nothing from this world, only wait until the violence of nature has subsided and swoop down like angels to cleanse the Earth of the rot and disease left behind.

When we are nothing more than gore in the dirt, vultures are the merciful entity that sails us to the other side.
With wings spread like angels.

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released December 29, 2023

Compositions, instrumental and vocal performances, lyrics, mixing, mastering by Tyler Davis.

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Leaf Bones Grand Rapids, Michigan

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Spoon in blender.
Dying lawn mower.
Panicked wailing.
Drowning out tinnitus.
Existential dread.
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