Scream Feeding - Archspire

There is an urban dungeon encased in brick

Within it lies a tunnel into the horror of a man’s multiple lives

This mans opposing paths collide

Birthing a mutant mass that hides in the red pulsing glowing windows

One will form a life of moral principle, love and normality

Until discovering his other self killed his whole family

Spoiling his son and wife’s pure essence and innocence

Feeding them to a monster that his minds created

A massive human form made entirely of teeth

Repulsive and dripping that feeds on screams

This hideous form made flesh by the endless pit

That merges parallel dimensions on earth

Three red windows open portals

These windows reveal the same life

When the man was born, when I was woken from my fetal rest

With a rusty kitchen blade

His mother lay open amongst decay

Her peltry gaping, gushing fluid over floor tile

With his first breath of salty cold biting air

My crippled infant chest filled up with sulphur mold and fear

His first vision induced panic stricken cries

Our fathers twisted rotting mind

Peering out from bulging vacant eyes

Altered since delivery

I carry the burden to feed the nightmare

As his loved ones laughter taunts me

I will steal whats dear to him

As I have suffered so shall he

My shadow heaves black vomit

Scream feeding this beast makes it larger

Swelling with each shriek it eats

We’ve bred a man that’s made of many teeth

Scream feeding

He is disgusted yet he watches

As it grows in one of three red windows

Scream feeding

From reeking gums his rotten laughter leeks

As a useless child, nothing more then barely human waste

His first tooth fell from his sunken pale veiny face

He saw that night his creator’s saving grace

When this first sign of mortal decay was placed under his head

In the kennel where he was forced to lay

He dreamed so real, a splendid day

When his mother appeared in flowing white

Shining a brilliant light through the grim encasing cage

Embracing him and taking him away

So he pulled out all his teeth

Split wide.

Path divide

Forced to pry tooth from gum of many others

«The motherless one, you are a fatherless son

Somehow you arrived the night she first appeared

You come from no one

Rising from a parallel realm of the unknown

A cursed dark duplicate from beyond

Cut away.

fallow them

Force them here and be rewarded

Take their skin and you shall see her

Take their cries to use as fodder

Hear this now from me your other

I’m upstairs, you must not come here

Keep my family distant from this secret spawn

Our paths are split, yours is worse

Yet both reflect within each other

I feel your dread when you must feed it

And your crushing envy for my comfort

The creature remains hidden

However, if our paths collide

What we have made will be unleashed

To feast forever.»

Your voice circles through my head… a pathetic plea

I’m crossing over, you will face me.

you will see it’s growth

We will merge in one last feast to set our sick creation free

I smash the glass

I feed the beast our dying screams

It is now released