Calamus Will Animate Chords by Archspire

[Start]

[Verse]
N.C.                              
Calamus taken to the pen to relive
N.C.                       
Every identity we replicate
N.C.                                                       
Without will they live again within our intimate collective
N.C.                                   
Animate / all the dead we bring into it
N.C.                        
A burrow / of human / memory
                                                          G   
The pen the feather and the needle are alike in death and life
G                                
Looking back on what had happened
B                                                      
When the feathers had arrived I realize I was not alone
  G                                            
I can recall the men had got infected by it too
G                                                       
Having contact with the foreign components infected them
B                                                                  
Before the factory was known to make the highest quality of bedding
                          B                                                    
Cutting filling stitching fabric with the finest down from all around the world
Ebm                                                F     
Yet this down flew through our death dream barrier intact


[Chorus]
A Dbm                 
■ Calamus will animate
                 Dbm    
Its contents are hostile
        Dbm                                     
The AUM will kill everybody not in this compound
    Dm                                                         
The dead I bring to them awake and join in flight above my head
Dm                  
Calamus will animate
Dm                      
Its contents are hostile
        Dm                                      
The AUM will kill everybody not in this compound
                    D                                          
The dead I bring to them awake and join in flight above my head


[Inst]
Dbm Fmaj7 Dm7 D7
■   ■     ■   ■ 


[Verse]
                                                                      B                     
When the ink coating the wings made contact with the workers' skin It crept into their blood
                              
turning them inhumanly violent
     B                                                                
They grabbed and tore and bit and clawed at one another and themselves
                                                          B                              
Gravity and death from loss of blood had no effect on any member of the crew during their
                                                                               
frantic battle to relieve their bodies from the ether lifting them into the air
         B      
Die then elevate
       B                       
Fusing remnants of spent bodies
Db7           Ab7                                                
Weaving bones and organs into an inverted nest dug in the ceiling
Db7                                   Ab7                              
The black sludge casting out from the center as a starving bird of prey
                      Db7           Ab7                             C                  
I heard its voice and felt its need to find the child made of teeth and begin the human
F          
murmuration
A Dbm                 
■ Calamus will animate
Dbm                     
Its contents are hostile
Dbm                                             
The AUM will kill everybody not in this compound
    Dm                                                         
The dead I bring to them awake and join in flight above my head
Dbm                 
Calamus will animate
Dbm                     
Its contents are hostile
Dbm                                             
The AUM will kill everybody not in this compound
    D                                                      F   
The dead I bring to them awake and join in flight above my head


[Chorus]
A                          Fmaj7
Its banshee wail demanding feed 
Dm7                                  
I hear its pain and become its keeper
  Dm7                          
I rip the living from the night
Dm                          
Like pulling worms from soil
    D                          
Aum ■ watches these sky burials


[Solo]
Gb A D Gb D D7 D D7
■  ■ ■ ■  ■ ■  ■ ■ 
Bbmaj7 Gb7 Bbmaj7 C
■      ■   ■      ■
Em                  
Calamus will animate


[Verse]
             Em     
Calamus will animate
                                Eb                          Eb7  
The boy lay like a wet mound of dust on the rotting factory floor
       Em                     Eb            C7                           
I knew ■  the black fluid hid itself in the deformed corpse of this child
Em                       Eb                                                              
Finally after hours into cutting lifting pulling sawing crunching clipping I had found it
         Em                                 C                                             
My crude autopsy revealed bounty nesting in replace of the marrow in the young one's bones
Em                           
The second I saw it it saw me
                         Em                           
I knew its face changing relentlessly: it was The Drip
  Em                            
I had it contained as instructed
                         C7                                   
Filling up many clusters of hypodermic needles with the matter
Em                                                        
I administered it into a new subject each night a new life
         Em                              
One with every full rotation of the clock
                                                     F    
I've seen those hands meet then disengage a thousand times
F                   
Calamus will animate
    F                   
Its contents are hostile
F                                               
The AUM will kill everybody not in this compound
    Dm                                                         
The dead I bring to them awake and join in flight above my head
Dm                  
Calamus will animate
Dm                      
Its contents are hostile
    Dm                                          
The AUM will kill everybody not in this compound
    D                                                          
The dead I bring to them awake and join in flight above my head


[Chorus]
A                          Fmaj7
Its banshee wail demanding feed 
A Dm7                                  
■ I hear its pain and become its keeper
    Dm7                                                          
Aum allowed me to live off the organs once the people took flight
                                                    Dm7
They do not keep me against my will yet I refuse to run
                                                                     Dm7                  
Every day I climb the stairs outside this door and view the horde of lifted dead that they
                                
conduct behind the factory walls
Dm7                                      
I must hold on to the final tier of focus
                Dm7                                                                      
I still have to scribe these happenings in hopes that someone will know what went on here
                                                    Dm7                                       
I can feel the pressure of their unified unscripted flight pounding air down on the floorboard
                          
just a plank's width above
  Dm7                          
I rip the living from the night
D7                          
Like pulling worms from soil


[End]