Day of Darkness
by Keagan Grimm
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I'm Grimm
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I'm Grimm
I wanna see you swarming the streets.
I was born in the form of a Beast.
I'm Grimm
I wanna see you speak to the reaper.
Believe me, I'm the God of disease.
I'm Grimm
I wanna see you swarming the streets.
I was born in the form of a Beast.
I'm Grimm
I want you to feel the shame of believers.
With a Hateful Demeanor. Someone Really Gon’ Bleed
I'm Grimm.
VERSE I:
My darkest hour. I was drowning with the past to blame.
& Taking drugs to counteract the pain.
Everybody bleeds. But I know that we ain't stacked the same.
Came out of the ground & now I'm dancing in the acid rain.
Hear the voice of the hopeless.
& Holy shit. I'm the maestro of loneliness.
Irish Goliath, I Died alone.
Keyser Sozé, Grimm Gutter don't exist...
Rather see myself expire 'fore I might conform.
Thorn inside a garden or a Locust in the swarm.
When the Music's over I'm alive behind the Doors.
C'mon & Light my Fire I'm a Rider on the Storm.
I been Adorned with a bastards crown.
I'm a fallen angel that the heavens passed down.
When most of these jokes mediocre, I'm over the top.
Boy, don't make me turn the cap around.
VERSE II:
I watch as opportunities & situations roll past me.
As I had to grow up itchy, misbehaving & trashy.
That was just the way I lived. My life has turned into rubbish.
Every copy of my memoirs are burned when it's published.
Create it. Make it fruitful. Then return it to nothing.
& take what's simply beautiful & turn it disgusting.
I'll be forgotten, I ain't worth the discussing.
And I'm doomed to spend eternity suffering.
I wanna watch the world burn to the ground.
I'm the vermin who yearns to return to the clouds.
I'm the cursed. A worm in the serpents mouth.
How the fuck could it get worse than now?
I'm with the Abaddon. Lost in a colossal pit.
I won't be praying to a god when I'm the opposite.
Dealing with a monster. It's hot. & You got a little spark.
But you'll never hold a candle to the Arsonist
VERSE III:
We ain't nothing but some lumbering Apes.
Stinking of shit, licking crumbs from the plate.
I wonder what becomes of all our wretched remains.
& I wonder how I slumber in this treacherous place.
Horns growing & I'm broken beyond repair
Born inside a mortuary. Never took a breath of air.
My songs'll get inside your brain & fester there.
Gutter's a machine becoming sentient & self aware.
I'm the one who leaves you more than embarrassed.
Sic Semper Evello Mortem Tyrannis
When I'm to appear you won't be warned in advance.
of the scorching of the land & the plagues & the Famine.
I feel at home with the corpses & horsemen.
Brain filling up with distorted endorphins.
I don't walk around like "Of course I'm important"
I just need the menace documented & recorded.
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VERSE:
Life is defined in the depths of the madness.
Shame manifests in the chest of the tragic.
Cold when I'm praying for the the strike of the matches.
To burn me alive & dispense of the ashes.
Sitting here stagnant. I'm only alive in a fashion.
Entwined in the mind of a madman.
Born in the dark. You arrived & adapted.
Arise to the challenge, & climb from the caverns.
Yeah, there ain't no honor with thieves.
I don't know if I'm a martyr or just hard to believe.
I know I'll say goodbye to everything that's ever been a part of me.
And plant a single rose inside the garden of grief.
Ya'll summoned a beast.
Deep inside the dungeon beneath. & speaking in the tongue of disease.
I'll defile a beat. & put a riot in the bars.
Setting fire to the gods til theres blood in the streets.
Bridge:
Now I'm staring at the heavens, & Preparing for deliverance.
& spending my eternity rotting in a crypt.
They try to lock me a cage & I resist.
I'll never bow before a god. I'll be the cause of the apocalypse.
SOLO
The messiah is crucified and sent to their doom.
I won't be identified under the light of the moon.
I've aligned the stars. & I been violently scarred.
There won't be a sole survivor when the fire consumes.
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Marked for death. We're all never that far from a coffin.
Close your eyes now there's only darkness left.
Hoping by now that I'd be gone and forgotten.
Lost inside a memory of old regret.
Cause I'm no one special. Just another lost soul.
I'm cold, Feeling like I'm gonna choke to death.
And I'm so obsessive. With the hopes of revenge.
Wonder when its gonna end but I ain't holding my breath. (Breathe)
Damn, it's like I'm running on empty.
& running from the devil like he really gon get me.
Milligram madness. A needle & a kiss.
And I know I need to quit but it's Really so tempting.
Gutter's a disaster zone.
With black, collapsed veins full of acetone.
Nobody following me down the crooked path I'm on.
Yeah, So I'll be coming back alone.
Bridge:
Spawn of the fallen & made in his likeness.
Raised in the fires, away from the righteous.
After this drops I'll be raising the prices.
& Bringing forth plagues of the virus.
I'm sick. Gutter is a dangerous foe.
& I'm riding on the highway to the danger zone.
& im still writing violence in an ancient tome.
Still slumming in a vacant Home
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Verse I:
I had those who used to hold me close. Now I'm a lonely ghost.
I was so positive and focused. Now I'm comatose.
Once alone but I was coaxed out of hiding
now you left me broken, writhing on the side of the road.
How could something so new & exciting leave me such a broken mess.
The day I met you I'm like "Say goodbye to loneliness"
Say hello to carving out your vigor and drive.
and scars that linger for the rest of your life.
Now I feel invalid looking out into the dismal rain.
The world is cloudy as it travels down the window pane.
You didn't hug me on the day you left.
Try to find a vein but now the drugs don't have the same effect.
In a home that's full of filthy roaches.
We were holding hands but now it's turned into a symbiosis.
Took a wrong turn on a twisted road
& now you've got your claws in. Rip me. Open.
Verse II:
Feeling like the worst person alive. Or simply cursed to die.
Haven't got a purpose on this earth. I've been deserted by,
All the vermin who just flirt across the surface.
While I dwindle in the fire and I'm left with thoughts of suicide.
Fake places & their plastic parts.
Scars drawn across my skin like it's abstract art.
The story of my life ripped in half, apart.
It's Like I took the happy end and skipped past that part.
Now I've retreated in the black death.
Trying to be at peace. I'm falling deeper in the rats nest.
The past tense left it to a flip of a coin.
& I want a second chance but now I lack sense.
Ask me how I've fallen from the leader of the pack.
Into fleeing all the beasts that I'm so eager to attract.
Easy to retreat behind disease like a mask.
As Lethal as a heart attack. Needle in my cardiac.
Verse III
You try to keep me down. Just hoping I resist.
So you can keep me where the roaches and the hopeless coexist.
Dug a hole into a pit, I made my home in the abyss.
I'm Foaming at the bit. Too stoned to notice it.
I'm Pushing the plunger. Eyes dilate in the zone.
Homie I ain't bout chasin that dragon I'm racing it home.
Now my Heart is aching. As I'm pacing a home.
full of broken mirrors. I'm afraid of facing my own.
It's hard to verbalize all of the vermin and lies
Drawn curtains divert the light to those deserving to die.
I'm sure I need to eat but now it hurts when I try.
I'm sick as hell but acting like I'm perfectly fine.
Worthless, you know you're just a person til your funeral.
& everything beyond it don't concern you.
Just play with fire until it burns you.
Once you go to hell there's not a heaven to return to.
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Verse 3
Watch me fall back to the darkness.
Marksmen hit me in the head I was born for a coffin.
Tore the lord apart, mourn the loss.
Chloroform on a cloth & I perform arson.
I reign in the marshes.
Painful & collapsed veins full of toxins.
Dead on aim. I'm a felon. I fed off rage.
I am Hell. Till I get off stage.
Infidel. I am without faith.
In a web that the tales that I tell create.
I am the farthest from Gods domain.
I am noxious. I vomit flames.
Darkest Dread. Talking shit i'm taking off his head.
Gonna see a holocaust instead.(I got Lead)
I just wanna see the whole game full of Zombies.
Watch me turn Rap to The Walking Dead.
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VERSE I:
I walk this rocky path alone. A nomad I don't have a home.
Like a plant when it hasn't grown. I'm a bright light when it hasn't shone.
If anybody knows of the darkness. Somebody show me the way.
I'm just a broke down man. Without a hope, or a plan. Waiting for someone to look my way.
God forgive me for the sins I created they weren't even in the book yet.
So, if you see me in the streets or you see me incomplete just pass me by don't even look back.
I know, I come from a land made up of mistakes chaos and degradation.
The past is in the past & we're right now. Just hope that heaven's waiting.
I aint holding my breath for that. I aint gonna see no angels. Fatal.
I only know that I'll meet my death and release my breath and be on that table.
Just open me up then & empty me out. There's no time for mourning, glory.
Spread the ashes all cross the stormy South. Understand what my story bout.
& Understand that I'm only one man. With one opinion and no dominion.
I know what I wrote could invoke some friction. Quoting my own prediction.
Another mile of this hopeless decision. In broken condition again.
Next time you wanna walk in my shoes just know one day that road's gonna end.
HOOK:
There are those who Kill. Those who Lie & Those who disrespect.
There's those who rob and steal. Those who are Heretics.
There are motherfuckers everybody understands are criminals hiding behind God.
When everybody sees right through the facade.
But just right now as the tears roll south and the angels cry.
A giant hearse. Filled with the enemies I've cast aside rolls by.
A tyrants verse. Speaking only of an unclean life.
Tis I, the Worst. Staring blindly to a sun bleached sky.
VERSE III:
Is anybody out there? Can you hear the screaming? Can you hear the Demon's laughing?
Does anybody understand why we gotta be here? Why all this needed to happen?
Addictions plaguing our classes. Affliction came from disasters.
I just wanna make a bed in the sand, Put my head in my hands and pray for the rapture.
This life is not playing fair. I pop in the air, people stopping to stare.
Aint nobody stopping me there. I'm a peasant in the streets & a God in my lair.
When they compare these times we live in to the end of days.
They expect the hopeless to go to their holy ways and pray to a lord they made.
Maybe divinity isn't the way to the kingdom. Maybe the trumpets will never ring.
Maybe all the visions of the cherubim's wings. And the Seraphim's singing are fictional things.
We're given eyes so we could see the light. Didn't anybody tell you don't believe the hype?
Or did they only tell you of the evil demons & heathens trying to deceive your life?
You need to wake up. You can't pretend there's no alarms going off in your head.
Watch the world starve while the government's fed? Some would rather suffer instead.
Some will fall victim to menacing creatures of evil they tried to contain.
Some will fall back when there's thunder ahead. Some will march into the rain.
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VERSE I:
I am just a worthless soul. I was poured through an imperfect mold.
Been berated for my hatred, I'm just stirring coals.
Waiting for someone to take me off this circling globe.
And lay my lifeless body down into the earth below.
(Where the serpents go) someone come and murder me.
Take a life full of falsehood & perjury.
Tossed on a gurney where eternity ends.
My turn to go and burn with my friends.
Seems ridiculous the time I spent imprisoned.
Every time I tried to shine I watched my fire diminish.
(Now I'm standing in the middle of this circle of death.)
About to take my very last breath.
No more nights staying awake trying to fight back tears.
Telling lies, like I'ma really start my life next year.
(No more faking) How'd I get to this dejection and pain?
Haunted as these images collect in my brain.
HOOK:
Verse II:
I'm sick of the threats, tired of emotional stress
Tired of waiting for the moment, sick of holding my breath.
Sick of feeling like the world is crashing down on my chest.
Tired of feeling like I'm waiting for death.
Sick & tired of all the dreams that have to sit on the shelf.
Sick of digging in my pockets like I'm inches from wealth.
(I'm sick of the cells) Tired of all the visions of Hell.
Sick of all my sicknesses. Sick of myself.
Sick of the doubts. I'm tired of being stuck in the south.
(Sick of everything I say) I'm tired of running my mouth.
Down for the count. Bout ready to throw this fight.
I'm so fucking tired, I'm sick of all these sleepless nights.
(I'm tired of light) I'm sick of always trying to be right.
Sick of being a pariah. Goodnight.
I'm tired of life, notify my next of kin.
I'm sick of dying every night to resurrect again.
HOOK:
VERSE III:
I was sent to hell. I lived there for a thousand years.
Surrounded by the fire & beasts that growl and squeal.
Been a liar & a thief and someone's proudest hero.
Now I'm a savior but you treat me like a callous heel.
(It's like I'm barely there at all.)
& I don't care for all the stares from the appalled.
But I feel like I won't ever get a better chance at all.
As the sand in the hourglass falls.
I'm a star perhaps. On words, bars & tracks.
& I'm close to getting blown up on the map.
But I'm noticing that I continue slipping through the cracks.
It's hard to find a diamond if you're sifting through the trash.
(Constantly warning ya. Someone call the coroner.)
Out here in the pouring rain. Bury me in Florida.
I'll never see a world that isn't desolate and strange.
Aint shit I've found to lessen all the pain.
Hook:
We could all stay strong and pray for home.
Makes it easier to say goodbye.
How could I do away with the pain in my life?
We never home, we never strong.
We livin just do die.
How could I do away with the pain in my life.
The last rope you'll ever tie.
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released September 1, 2015
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Keagan Grimm Ashtabula, Ohio
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