Exoskeletons Songtext
von Exterior Palnet

Have you ever pissed outside
in late autumn, early winter
With the heat of the sun
scorching your boring face

Yet smoke still rises from the chimney
It′s fresh now, and too late
I shall follow you, 'till the end meets the day
of the morning breeze in the spring
But in the summer, I will silence you (you!)

Where you walked is the same place
Where we all together strived
And where we′ve held our horses
You kept coming back alive (alive!)

This blast has you awakened
and razed like the trees
It's been building up
for years, and years, and years


It twitches phantom branches
bearing your phantom leaves
It turned you into supplicants
Surrounding, dumb, and faceless crater
filled with toxin-ridden water

We keep on watching,
and we keep to ourselves
our cold hands from handshake
We shall renounce the family
and safety — once and for all

Those rare within our species
Those of the unbroken hide
Allowed for the elevated
Thresholds of pain within

Buried parts of the body
to take hold and steal the twilight
Bring forth my planet
The dawn of tomorrow

Do you see now
What has become of us?
When you first found us
We were swarthy and whole


Our horns and hides
bristling in night
Our hooves not yet scorched and bloodied
by a hundred different splinters

Our quiet manifold darkness
tucked away from sight
My word you've naught
but a scrim of hair

I have sufficient
to keep myself from draughts

On cold days
you need a doctor,
but of a different kind
Not the doctor who heals

The ones that flourished
were those that resembled
Ungodly beasts of the olde ways
taking more than what was needed
Restless and the languorous
Reckless and selfish

It did not take long for us
to start looking disheveled
I′d rather see gestures,
than listen to reasons