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softpulllse
05:11
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Sad eyes grow verdant
Lush from the rain
Don't make me nervous
I can't shoot straight
Good time hyenas
Sprung from their cage
Someone sunk a file in their wedding cake
Now they're on the prowl making new mistakes
Lonely makes a spark that lights the fuse
Pull the plug and lose your life support blues
Trash in the alley
Fuzz on the scene
Uncanny valley
Girls drink for free
Put them in the shed
Hands don't come clean
Dressed to the the teeth
Drenched to the skin
Skin paper thin
Blood in the water when they fell in
Too deep too fast too learned to swim
I should have tried to save 'em
But I let 'em drowned
I should have amputated
Now it's rotting off
I should have barricaded
But I let them in
I should have never let it
Boil down to this
Put 'em on the saw
The soft pulse machine
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2. |
parliament of owls
03:55
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Thrust in the shadows
Three sided bayonet
Bound to strangers though battles
Through the hi-gloss shades of red
Lipstick on her teeth again
Packs of escaped criminals
Run through the wild expanse
Owls scratching at my window
The night stains my steel resolve
Deep inside I know it's wrong
When you live your life in limbo
Nothing tames the pangs of love
No result
Cabin fever setting in
Nostalgia razors slash this braided rope
Back into threads
Draw the drapes and paint the window
Never see the light again
Patterns keep her under skin
In my blood
In my bones
In my head
Empty vessels make the most sound
Living in a future ghost town
Abandon ship is all I hear
Silence is so crystal clear
In the woods at night
You're not safe without the sound
In the pines above
Her parliament of owls
Tracks you down
In a bed of needles
Beyond the safety of your lies
Every dose of hope is lethal
Every word a knife
Always on the lam
Forever nursing wounded limbs
Never innocent again
Again my life governed by
A sisterhood of birds in flight
They're wise
Who am I
Swinging from their gallows
(Red)
Dead beats repeat from rounded wings
Their call is deep and stuttering
My body hurts my mind is weak
I've lost control it's plain to see
My life governed by
A sisterhood of birds in flight
They're wise
Who am I
Swinging from their gallows
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3. |
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Leaves drain
Snipers set the snares of love
Thirsty rifles trained
The iron's hot
When the slow turn kills the light
And the watercolor dries black
The green flash owls glide along the
House of traps
It's easy hunting
There's always something
Crawling in the dirt
Press my breath away
Severed edge sharpening
White noise white waste
Leveled under your command
Numb hands to the sun
These city streets are overrun
One by one
Exsanguinated by their love
Death from above
The strings are cut
Roots pulled from the dirt
Return to the earth with haunting thirst
With every absent drop they burn
Chained to the memory
In the mock mirage
Roses pressed in poems past
The leaves and thorns her camouflage
Hiding in the house of traps
She's a minefield
She's a tiger trap
She's a tripwire
She's a cargo net
She's a deadfall
She's a pressure plate
She's a spiked wall
A living memory
Tied to the sound
Forever lost
Forever bound
Tied to the sound
When the traps clamp down
I can feel her ghost
In the cries of animals
Trying to free themselves
Tied to the sound
When the sun goes down
I can feel her ghost
The night hag atop the stone
Slowly crushing my lungs
Tied to the sound
Roots pulled from the dirt
Return to the earth with haunting thirst
With every absent drop they burn
Chained to the memory
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4. |
faint/radiant
01:07
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drag beach
05:09
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We jumped the fence and walked the tracks
Dog-day cicadas in heat
White water crashed beneath the bridge
We crawled to cross
They found a body on the beach
Ran through the jungle to the pixelated blood
That shantytown is full of creeps
Barefoot we rode our bikes and shot our fireworks and fought back the sleep
Bees on the open comb
When new dangers threaten to bury them
They wave
Drag beach don't let me go
I'm still afraid
Summers with cousins
Summer's for carving names into trees
Jackknifes and BB guns and romantic dreams
But nothing could cure the disease
And when his father died It ripped us apart at the seams
And when his father died It ripped us apart
Bees on the open comb
When new dangers threaten to bury them
They wave
Drag beach don't let me go
Out on the beach
Mellow a demon syrup
Out on the tracks alone
Fuzzy and bruised like a peach
Hellfire thread through the arm
Nothing repeats
No easy target for a firearm to rely on
Out on the beach
Sink like a bullet in a cobalt sea
You can fight against the current
But you're too deep to reach
Electric fences
Shock you to sleep
You can fight against the current
But you're too deep to reach
A spray of flowers
No remains to be seen
And the film on the reel isn't nearly complete
Out on the beach
Out of our reach
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6. |
magnet for fires
05:20
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In my new house
Number fifteen
Turquoise and dirt wears a houndstooth dress
The silk noose perfume of cold flesh sick with thrills
Is deadly If you're poisoned by her quills
She's a magnet for fires
She commands the heat burning gasoline
Catching roving eyes
I can't compete with the matches poised to strike
Got a Heart of wax
Sculpted by our heated past
Her name is carved with the barks of vagrant dogs
Drawing arsonists to ignite her vacant house
She's a magnet for fires
She commands the heat burning gasoline
Catching roving eyes
I can't compete with the matches poised to strike
And I'd die again for the chance to burn alive
Gray mesa of the vague
Smoke signals haze over the open range
Obscured my faith degrades
Now the sleep temple is a palace full of incendiary things
And the totem pole where I hide my strength lays splintered in decay
Melt the sands of time to placid pool
Hide beneath sheen
I need an exit sign to guide my way
Guide my way
I can't escape the memory
It's part of me now
She cauterized my injuries
No bleeding her out
Echo the flame the night is on fire
Sleep under sheets of acid rain
Echo the flame
Echo the flame the night is on fire
I can't resist I need to break the plane
Hands in pain
I can feel her, feel her again
In flames
I can feel her, feel her again
In vain
I can feel her, feel her again
Ashamed
I can feel her, feel her
Caught in the iron jaws of repeat dreams
I need an amputation
Set me free
She's a magnet for fires
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dethbeam
03:37
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Warp like a siren through white sheets of sleep
A dungeon's a dungeon no matter the key
Disintegrate reanimate and brush the dust way
Everyone's shockproof until they're afraid
Get me to prison and don't spare the horse I'm raked over coals and I'm swept under carpet
Up to my neck
Down to my last breath
Up to my neck
Dug in a foxhole with all of my choices
Tied up and crippled by all my devices
No more infirmaries
I'll drink from the hose
Weak flowers in heavy rain
Bang bang
Back down in your hole
Shoot from the hip no purity ring
Blankets of pollen are falling on me
Sink to new depths as I slip
Chip on my shoulder
Bird on my lip
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8. |
hexwork
04:46
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Buried all my living secrets in a hail of lead
There's no way in and no way out
Once her spell takes effect
She sees the ocean I see sand
Crushed by devotion In the palm of her hand
She sees the reason I see red
Crashed into every wall around her
Never made a dent
Our names were only meant for trees and wet cement
There's no way in and no way out once her spell takes effect
She sees the ocean I see sand
Crushed by devotion In the palm of her hand
She sees the reason I see red
Crashed into every wall around her
Never made a dent
Slip out of frame
Fall through the floorboards
Torn page tacked to a fantasy
Paling in the shade beneath her
Slip out of frame
Fall through the floorboards
Tangled in a web of gray
I can feel the footsteps on my future grave
You found your drug
I found my poison
Down there in the deep
All torn up and everything
Slowly derailing in the black light of her hex
Three feet of ribbon tied in knots and I'm a wreck
I fight to focus on the truth in all this mess
I laid the track and brought this axe upon my neck
She don't find it necessary
Fan every flame hell-bent for leather
I don't know my own machinery
I don't know how to act
No talisman to fend off all her fatal
Familiars
Wilt in her floral scenery
I don't know how to act
Slowly derailing in the black light of her hex
Three feet of ribbon tied in knots and I'm a wreck
I fight to focus on the truth in all this mess
I laid the track and brought this axe upon my neck
You found your drug
I found my poison
Down there in the deep
All torn up and everything
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9. |
night wakings
06:23
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Stray magnetic fields vibrate the case
The transformer hums
After hours when the power is real
And the rain shimmers on the slums
Don't steal it away amnesia
When the morning comes
Leave the pins and needles in the doll
So I can feel them all
Head is reeling
Static takes a shape
Stolen moments blooming
The colors of decay
Streets echo loose gravel
Traffic noise like ocean waves
Stop, rewind, replay the tape
Left right left right left
Light pollution lead the way
I was followed home by familiar shadows
Fingers dragging 'cross a chain link fence
Eyes drawn to stark white walls
Revealed by the resonance
I caught a glimpse
Head is reeling
Static takes a shape
Stolen moments blooming
The colors of decay
Head is reeling
Static takes a shape
In the pain there's healing
I can't let these moments go to waste
I don't want new souvenirs
Mine are perfect broken
I don't need new souvenirs
I can't throw these things away
Slowly fading through the years
I can't throw these things away
Slowly drying all the tears
I can't throw these things away
Night blooms day decays
Time heals colors fade
Past lives
I can't let them separate and
Slip away
Night blooms day decays
Time heals colors fade
Past lives
I can't let them separate and
Slip away
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