Blood Orchid - Netherbird

Black cityscape

Towering…

Stone fangs tearing at the sky

Putrid tears fall

Black horrorscape

Ghosts line these avenues

These streets are trenches

Ugly are these scars

…And filled with rats they are

Filled with rats they are!

There are choirs, a ghost vesper for hope

Like whispers beyond the roaring machinery

So few the flowers in these gardens of rust

Nested they rest 'neath the carpet of dust

I stand to watch the leaving birds spread their wings

They will leave high above the chaos, high above everything

While I hide deep within my flesh fortress under siege

Where neither teachings nor syringes can reach

There must be beauty

Beyond this rugged city where we’re confined

There must be another meaning

Greater than all their lies combined

I’ve chosen another path

Walking away from the strains of life

A search for the blood orchid

In the rusted gardens of mankind

Autumn clutched in the earthen arms of summer’s growth

Beneath the canopy of warmth

Where stars beacons the weary and small

Yet every garden bear the witness of coming fall

Few are the flowers in the gardens of man

In these sparkling gutters of neon Babylon

Ghost dance amongst the fortunate whores

Scared and maimed the pale stumble on…

Blood Orchid

There must be beauty

Beyond this rugged city where we’re confined

Blood Orchid

There must be another meaning

Greater than all their lies combined

Blood Orchid

I’ve chosen another path

Walking away from the strains of life

Blood Orchid

A search for you

In these rusted gardens of mankind

I stand to watch

The leaving birds spread their wings

They will leave high above the chaos

High above everything

While I hide deep

Within my flesh fortress under siege

Where neither teachings nor syringes can reach

There must be beauty

Beyond this rugged city where we’re confined

There must be another meaning

Greater than all their lies combined

I’ve chosen another path

Walking away from the strains of life

A search for the Blood Orchid

In the rusted gardens of mankind

Blood Orchid