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Envy the Sloth

from Languid Motion by Swan Messiah

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Envy The Sloth

It's the object of your envy
It's the apple of your lazy third eye
While the moss grows on your spirit
Celebrity becomes your new religion but why?

As the leading hand folds over
Your body fails to rise from the couch
Vanquished zealots switch the light off
From the shallow view maintained in your house

You envy the sloth
It's not a creature of the cloth
It's a fiend
It sees inside you at first
Before it finds its mind inside you
You're cursed with its greed
You envy the sloth

At one mile per hour
Its movement mirrors that of slobs like yourself
When the judgement comes upon you
The sentence given will reflect your poor health in your life

A pale throated death squad
Will be sent to punish idleness soon
But before you meet your maker
The sloth will claw and feed on flesh from your bone

While its eyes look down upon you
Your death is slow while terror flavours your meat
As your offal feeds the monster
Your life of apathy and greed is complete

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from Languid Motion, released October 10, 2010
Matthew Leith McKenzie

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Swan Messiah Melbourne, Australia

Swan Messiah emerged from the elysian depths of Port Philip Bay in the winter of 2010.
Wielding antipodean styled doom and dystopian drones, taking respectful cues from its misanthropic metal ancestry and dark folk traditions, Swan Messiah spent the ensuing winters conjuring its layered sound to wash upon the shore on which it currently rests. ... more

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