Blood Stained Chrysanthemums
By RajaTheResidentAlien on March 22, 2026 9:50 pm
Lyrics:
Blood pollutes the water
Blood haunts the sky
Blood stains the chrysanthemums
On the graves where ghosts of children lie.
Whereupon we christened:
A bloodlust reign
So all the chrysanthemums
Could weep with disdain
Across killing fields
Over forgotten names
Of the fallen who bled out
For the glory of pain.
No plain sight
For the blood-stained eyes
Who shed blood-tainted tears
Never spared from their own demise.
In a battlecry of whispers
Nefarious as spite
In a plague of darkness
Ever swarming the light
Like flowers wilting
By the salt of their own cries
In a blood-stained future
Where no more shall arise.
I awoke in a dream
To watch the sun raised from the dead
Blood stained the horizon
As it danced across the bloodshed
Til I woke once again
To a nightmarish din
Of blood-stained chrysanthemums
Crying ecstatic in sin.
Now blood drowns the earth
Blood fills the air
From lovers to murderers
There is blood everywhere.
Blood drops from the veins
Opened up by the shame
Of blood-stained chrysanthemums
Wailing to be cleansed by the rain.
› personal_note
‹ personal_note
this track carries quite the sense of melodrama, eh? 
i couldn't help it:
i still have post-traumatic stress-disorder from a flagged-content moderation job at YouTube 2006-2007, when i moderated over an average of 1500 videos per-day(up to 2400 in one day when the site was busiest). this involved having to watch some of the harshest forms of human behavior, from the effects of IED explosions in wars, to child abuse-and-rape (yes, that... whatever worst you can imagine, i was exposed to it) <-these were among the worst extremes of things i had to deal with, sometimes sending details to FBI and CIA, there was so much more to it than just this, too
…all while ramping up to Google’s ‘internationalization standards’ so that I often had to work up to 72+ hours a week pushing through the pure trauma of it all…
and yes, i've been through quite a bit of therapy, none of it paid for by the health-care plan of that job back then, either... even if, nowadays, their health-care plans include much more therapy, and flagged-content moderators in this country no longer have to work overtime shift on those jobs, back then, my experience was far different and much more extremely traumatizing than what people have to go through now... at least in the U.S.... mainly because these stupid corporations outsource this crap to people in foreign countries 
…so when I heard news of schools being bombed in Iran, I was triggered and shook…
I came up with the above lyrics feeling disgusted by how many times Israel and the U.S. have bombed/killed under-aged children all over the middle-east, and i keep feeling like the parents of both nations are some of the most dishonorable parents in human history: making enemies for their children's future faster than they can count the number of enemies they've made for themselves.
i do understand that both these nations have had children from their side die in wars, but that's no excuse to keep escalating with their 1st-world level of militaristic bullying.
when children die in war: this, especially, echoes throughout eternity.
neither side in such a war can ever be redeemed, therefore, neither side will ever stop warring.
the internalized trauma alone, is a war that keeps waging itself to the detriment of both sides, ongoing.
what kind of world is this where the death and abuse of under-aged children has become a normalized thing?
thus, all my demons and darkness spilled out into this track.
i don't know if this is a track people would or even should listen to, maybe my voice and lyrics simply ruined it all, but i'm glad to have gotten it done and out of me.
Thank You for giving this even a moment's consideration and listen.
Made me feel more hopeful for my continued healing to read your comment here, Thank You!