ROTNEST - “Absterge” feat. Crazzy Steve (Lyric Video)

Dedicated to the memory of Sarah McDonald. Our deepest thanks to Crazzy Steve of TNA Wrestling for partaking in this project with us and for continued friendship. Rat for life.

This song has been a journey and a moment in time for us. Thank you for listening.

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Written, recorded, and produced by ROTNEST and Crazzy Steve.
Video by @pixel.dealer
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Special thank you to Tim Olszowy, Hannah Witten, and John Crabtree for their contributions to this song.

Lyrics:
Swallow the sun
Take away everything
I want to paint this world anew
Into a cold, dark, gentle place
I feel it
I feel it bleed into my brain;
Overtaking
I need to feel the pain again
I’ve been trying to find the purpose
But the answers are never black and white
I’ve been dying to reach the surface
Disillusioned with all I’ve come to find

Take everything
Swallow the sun
Take everything
My soul has gone hollow
My soul's hollow

Bereft and sickened to death I am frail
Yet still I exist to float through the entropy
The burden of time
It continues to tarnish the light we have left
Before it awakens into a new dawn

Take everything
Swallow the sun
No illusions left in the dark
But in it’s presence I see clearly

Seek rest and snuff out the flame that we bare
It’s too late
To stay here inside the dream that we’ve made
Before us
Awaits the purest release from our flesh
The burden
Relinquished inside of the ash

I welcome it with open arms
Erase the consequences
And take new form
The time has come
to shed dead skin
Burn the effigy
Reject the hollowing

From a life spent forlorn
I sit and rot
Amongst the entropy I
Return to ashes