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the demo for this little fella originally appeared on the Evolving Art Machine sampler "Exile on Sophia Street"back in '16 or so. That one was mixed and mastered on a phone, this one has seen much more TLC. Again you'd think I wrote these lyrics post-rona but I didn't. Obviously the mask reference was symbolic of what has become a fairly common phrase but it's sadly become a sort of morbid double entendre in the pandemic. That's how she crumbles I suppose.

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A perfect maelstrom has been building
for everything to fail right into place.
When the dust settled after the chaos
the disciples of Pilate had won the race.
Rabidly now they lord over
revenge well in their grasp.
The suffering will pay for suffering still
as the monsters openly retire their masks.
They line the coliseum
frenzied at the smell of death.
The gods demand a sacrifice
and they'll gladly comply until there's none of us left.

To them it's theater.
Just theater.
A theater of cruelty.

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from Choke .​.​.​A Love Letter, released November 4, 2020

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Asellus Claudum Virginia

Asellus Claudum is a writer, composer, and pursuer of quixotic endeavors. He is married and has a cat. A gender-queer autistic dude of many paradoxes, he values conceptual continuity above most things, however since seeing his first Faith No More video at age 6, the very concept of genre only enrages him.

He once made John DiMaggio laugh so he feels like he's given something back to the universe.
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