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Show Me the War
03:45
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I don’t believe in blind divinity
Leave the unknown, leave the seeds of mystery to sew
All of me, everything
Life’s blood raining down on me
Leave it a mystery, bathing in the unseen
Take me down, take me downtown
Show me the war amidst the chants, the cops, the cars
Everything that I see
Life’s blood raining down on me
No blind divinity
Justifies this to me
Won’t you please light a candle in the name of Juarez
They took her name, they took her name
In the light of day
I don’t believe in blind divinity
Leave the unknown, leave the seeds of mystery to sew
Leave it a mystery, bathing in the unseen
All of me, everything
Life’s blood raining down on me
Won’t you please light a candle in the name of Poland
All rights away, all rights away
In the light of day
I don’t believe in blind divinity
Leave the unknown, leave the seeds of mystery to sew
All of me, everything
Life’s blood raining down on me
No blind divinity
Justifies this to me
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Crepuscule
04:55
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Melancholy unfolds
In time, this cross glow
I walked through grief spells
Drawing from these old wells
And the sky stretched out before me
And upside down, ignoring
The wind, it pointed toward me
Away from all abhorring
Ivory laden
Old growth, shaded
Old rose, sharp thorns
I hold them in my arms
This mourning lives in everyone who has lost someone
Aurora in lightning, the living and the dying
Blessed is the timing
For all of these pryings
Fawning, caving, crying
The trigger and denying
Time won’t stop woes
Unearthed, they only show
Morphing, through pained blows
My love for you only grows
Crepuscule, the rising, the living and the trying
Aurora in lightning, the giving and the dying
Crepuscule, the chasing, all that is aging
The melting and unveiling, memory engraving
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Heresy
03:42
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I crawl against the wind
The chafe, the freeze, brethren
Housed in holy grim
For there’s hunting in this wind
For their eyes were watching wrong
They drank a cup of poison’s song
Heresy
Bloodletting, in her I believe
For they don’t own your skin
I see Eros in the wind
Housed in prurient grins
For they hurt, they kill, they win
You surrender all your arms
To become somebody’s charm
Cruelty
Bloodshedding, in her I still believe
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Poisoned
03:52
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The way you walk, the way you sing
The way you hold on to everything
I know it, I know it well
Nothing really left to tell
Diamond eyes and a studded cross
Through the harm drenched fields we walked
I held you like a bag of bones
Didn’t even feel like your own
‘Cause I saw the pain fall around you
To the day, it chained you thin
And I saw murder in the background
Images they fade, poisoned
Cold, hands of men around your throat
Emblazed, mark upon the human soul
Enchained, blood it runs down to the bone
Encaged, forever sorrow’s mark be told
‘Cause I saw the pain fall around you
To the day, it chained you thin
I saw murder in the background
Images they fade, poisoned
I held you like a bag of bones
Didn’t even feel like your own
You tried to walk with me in a straight line
That’s when I saw you for the last time
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5. |
Body Against the Gun
04:17
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I brace the wind
As I walk, broken
For I lived in light so dim
With those who sang assailing hymns
Razor thin, won’t touch me again
I’m at the edge of the limb
I am too young for a choice made by me
Body against the gun, cold hands all around me
The light is dim, the disempower shows
How do you atone for all you know
It happens every day
Her will is taken away
And so you flee to a different state where it’s legal to operate
And so you flee to a different state where it’s legal to operate
It happens every day
Her will is taken away
I am too young for a choice made by me
Body against the gun, cold hands all around me
And so you flee to a different state where it’s legal to operate
And so you flee to a different state where it’s legal to operate
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The Hands Above Me
03:43
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Gonna write a note to the hands above me
Gonna ask them on which side do they air
And I watch the pendulum swing before me
And I hold my breath and vanish into thin air
You dwell upon those whom you abandon
Eyes be true, you betray those who uphold you
Gonna light a flame under the hands above me
Gonna see just how much truth do they air
And I watch the pendulum swing before me
As they cover up all that is there
I’ve tried to understand the ways of this land
And in truth, America, the lights are dimming on you
Gonna write a note to the hands above me
Gonna ask them on which side do they air
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Mute Swan
04:26
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I used to hold your hand in pain
A curve, an arc, wander through the haze
Who are you now? Can’t leave this terrain
Opaque the ground, silent refrain
Into the arms, embraced by all of someone
Enduring scarred, can’t be undone by someone
It’s taken hold of me
In everything I see
Affliction carries the knife dear
Mute swan holds the sound near
Blackened dawn holds the light near
And I live on into the night here
I can’t live and breathe your name
For you walk committing pain
A harm, a word, withering sane
You cut, you starve, wounded the same
Into the arms, embraced by all of someone
Enduring scarred, can’t be undone by someone
It’s taken hold of me
In everything I see
Affliction carries the knife dear
Mute swan holds the sound near
Blackened dawn holds the light near
And I live on into the night here
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Hold Them Alive
04:06
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Here lies the pain
The thorn marks on your hands, they are forever
And you hold them alive as you go through touching this life
Love winds and wanes, wrapped up in what all is forgotten
And the rememberings tell of an unsanctified spell
So how do I walk while holding
Some kind of words that morph from bereaving
Withered is the arch, the moon hangs bleeding
I’ve lived the dark energy feeding
I can see blame placed upon a vulnerable hollow
And the sounding of bells, they ring and they quell
Love winds and wanes, wrapped up in what all is forgotten
And the rememberings tell of this irreverent spell
Circling the dawn, the wake all around you
The flora and fauna, incantations surround you
It lives in stark liminal space within you
Dispirit sparks, they stalk and they hound you
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9. |
Hollow Hearth
03:50
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I was born a hollow hearth
I would take my own world apart
I would give my only love
I would give my name in blood
Oh dissections, oh of the heart
I was taught to take myself apart
It lives in you, harbors in the dark
Morbid reflection, a dying art
And I would give my sight to you
And I would give my light to you
And I would harness all the power I grew
If only I could be loved by you
Oh dissections, oh of the heart
I was taught to take myself apart
It lives in you, harbors in the dark
Morbid reflection, a dying art
I would take the terror out of your eyes
There’s a faintness of a gaslight
It lives in you, torments your nights
A dissection of all your light
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I Spent the Years Frozen
03:17
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I felt the gaze
Of my desire
And I held it close
Never let it transpire
It’s like a sea of skulls
They float along blank walls
Sepulchral paintings fall
At length down my halls
Always, in me, always
I drew the flame
Into the pyre
And I burned this gaze
In a massive fire
For the absence of love
It wore me like a glove
It held me as its kin
What was this world I lived in
Always, in me, always
I feel everyone
I spent the years frozen
I feel everyone
I spent the years frozen
In me, always, in me, always
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11. |
Battle Call
03:43
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So many lives back from the war
How do you help those restore
Amnesia, what were they there for
Embodiment washed up on the shore
But what lives inside this scar
We never know just what you saw
Bones they break, the battle call
A tragic fate, you train, you draw
You crawled your way back from the war
Violence washes the shore
Holding the past a present scar
Embodiment knew you before
But what lives inside this scar
We never know what you saw
Bones they break, the battle call
A tragic fate, you train, you draw
But I hold, I hold you now
We can make it out somehow
Turn to face the battle call
The mark it leaves inside us all
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