
161 Feet Away: Shame Thesis
from In Order for a Phoenix to Rise, It Must Burn
July 4th, 2026
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In Order for a Phoenix to Rise, It Must Burn
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161 Feet Away: Shame Thesis
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I tried hedonism, but never felt I deserved
Don't sell me your army, I'll desert it
There's no beast left for me to worship
An idyllic little servant, use me for my service
Accusing glances, little jabs
No decorum left to grab
Elysium in pieces, minor gash
Don't you fucking look at me, I'll die in your eyes
Sick of talking, sick of biting
I'd rather be struck by lightning
Nothing is excited, rather be intoxicated
But I'm too disciplined to rules, so overrated
So frustrated with my humble rebuttles
I shuffle, on my dying feet
To make ends meet, with no beginnings
Pinning profits on the wall, biting satire in my bloody maw
My skin is not my home, burden me
Sullen boundaries, let you enter me
Percussion concussed skin, sullen peaches
Debeauvior, my debutante: said I'm only as bizzare
As I project myself, so I'm pacing trails
Around the ratchet straps and dragon tails
Far more, confused than I am defined
That's more hope, than I left inside for punishing
So divine, oil refined; machine certainty
Copious, in the opus of envy, burgundy tones
Arose, from a callous home; what restriction?
Pistons pumping, misfired
Idle thoughts, pictures of loss, and distant touching
I've found, that most art driven by sex or death
Pick a muse, my sick new sense
I felt the pollution in my aura, rising from the surface
I know, I'm cursed with sour bits I've nutured
Too recursive, bled me out, hurt it
What's stuck between, the word's beneath
Pick wire from the teeth, secreting history
Catch the creases in the blindspots
Carnal clots, little drops of vacant thought
Sweat it out, until we pray it's over
Twist the gears, until exhaustion holds us
Too controlled, to lose my motion
Too focused, to elude transfixition
I kissed, a visage of my fated lovers
Under the cover, of wood grain, splintered pain
Betwixt, with engine flooding carnage
Too tame to harness, to sweet to mame
Who is left to blame, competition of shame
No borders, in our melted frames
The time sweet inside, like valentine's
Forge a date for the lethargic
No heights or bondage, just marytrs
Hearts without our carbon
I've got a pocketful of pardons
Caught in the fraught margins
Floods of sweat, more waves to be caught in
Soft skin toxins, the thoughts slice me open
Focused on beauty, a nebulous loss
A cost, the frosted tips
Distraught in brooding lips, soul eclipse
More time for dissection, interjecting portraits
We are data in orbit, disfigured courtship
It feels, that all love just painfully morbid
Deadly clashes, newly minted actress
Erroneous passions, Lan Caihe distracted
Sapphic dynasty, piety in fractions
Caught in carceral gazes, navel pavement
My self in aural detainment
Smokestacks of envy, northern lights
Despite the vapidity, rapidly despised
I idolize, the bodies that are honest
Transformed, to be sold, in a despotic haze
Neot Kedumim razed, subtle shades of stubble
Empire in a pubic maze, invisible hips
Elipsis in my speech, alive with heat
Sanguine solemn steeps, hills and thighs
Yearn for days, without transaction in our eyes
Carnal reprise, one moment without comparison
Enraptured in wings of a seraphim
Too close to the sun, no fun without shame
Choral pain, windows rain glassy eyes and remains
Our vessels split, between the panes
Heckle my imperfections, dolls and games
I part myself, to meet your gaze
Claude Calhoun, in a meaningless daydream
A dangerous scheme, in the haze
Our photographic memories, gone in a blaze
Now, there's only glory left
Thelma, spare Louise the gory bits
Too fast to call it quits, a monument
To love, they will calm and quish
Our palm, embalmed by a tyrants grip
At least, I'll have my spirit, once my body drifts
Pink triangles, floating in a death wish
But that's all I need to be left with
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Credits
Vox and lyrics by Halnya Andri and INLAND TAIPAN, SPANISH DANCER
Prod by INLAND TAIPAN, SPANISH DANCER
Mix and master by Sononym