…Which I had originally called ‘Ballad of the Omega Man’, from the recurrent memory and presage of the 70’s film and maybe Bill Fay’s ‘Time of The Last Persecution’. I wrote this under séance by candlelight but the lyrics came in phases over the course of a year and it became perfectly emblematic of...
It all seems stranger now
In our infected town
With the veins tapped
And the vials drained
It's been a long way down
I cannot explain why I broke the chain of command
Or how I came to be the poet of the damned
I’ve walked the floor
Searching for a common thread
And the axis we share is not enough to spin my web
I caught you crawling out
Of a newfound wasteland
To see my downfall
As the poet of the damned
Disintegration is a crime
Let's come together in our minds
Before end timеs
I've held the kеy to the doomsday machine
I’ve raised my rifle high to bend the sunlight's gleam
And in the slaughter we're all helpless to his plan
But here on the infinite plane I am the poet of the damned
Poet Of The Damned was written by Imaad Wasif.
Poet Of The Damned was produced by Bobb Bruno.
Imaad Wasif released Poet Of The Damned on Tue Aug 09 2022.