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Ribbon Bound
02:38
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The sound of a cat's footfall and the breath that the fish would draw
The spit offered from the birds and bear's sinews, still unruptured
The beards of the women, the roots of a mountain
Bind the wolf in the ribbon
Hold me when the world ends
Tell me where I go when I die
Its jaw will stretch to the clouds and reach back down to the ground
We will hear that wolf's cry while the snake poisons the sky
We'll know it's the end of days and go to war anyway
Give me every vein in your eye
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2. |
Never
03:04
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One step
I know I only have eight more left in me
As venom spread across the stars you dug your fangs into my arms
And though it broke so many jaws
I'll stay a bride for this hammer's fall
When I first pulled you from the waves
Back there again, face to face
Staring down the blood, the bile, and poison falling from your smile
I knew once again and for all
You'd kill me but I'd never crawl
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3. |
The Moon In My Teeth
04:50
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Did you ever think you would get away?
Even when the sun swallowed up?
It won't ever be day again
And under the cover of night you could never hide, never
Cause you're still in my sight shining just as bright as ever
From this sparkling black shroud
While I trace your tracks in the clouds
Never once and for all I could only stall, for how long?
Waiting impatiently to feel my spine buried in its jaw
I know you're gone by now, I can hear them howl and it hurts
Galloping in vain, my bleeding hooves will stain the dirt
From this sparkling black shroud
While you trace my tracks in the clouds
Just get this over with
My legs can't keep doing this
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4. |
Buried Underwater
05:37
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Drinking up the morning dew
It's just empty color beyond you
Bright blue
All beyond you
It's just bright blue
I recall but won't dare ask why
Holy blood stained ground buried by
Bright blue
All beyond you
Crawling from the flood
Homes of bark and blood
And skin so course and rough
I hope we are enough for you
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Born within a passing thought of yours
To the perfect sound of seven horns
Not like before
Won't be brave anymore
Because angels sing like screeching animals
"Don't be afraid"
Like I have some control
Not like before
Won't tremble anymore
Incinerated in kaleidoscopes
Peel back the layers of unfulfilled hopes
Singe away the skin that binds you to earth
All cells divided for this
Your death and your birth
Heaven said this pain would help me heal
But God's forgiveness broke with that first seal
Not like before
won't tremble anymore
Incinerated in kaleidoscopes
Peel back the layers of unfulfilled hopes
Singe away the skin that binds you to earth
All cells divided for this
Your death and your birth
Starry crown and newborn blood
Try to fill our little lungs
Drag us into the sky
To your spinning thrones of burning eyes
Incinerated in kaleidoscopes
Peel back the layers of unfulfilled hopes
Singe away the skin that binds you to earth
All cells divided for this
Your death and your birth
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6. |
And Brimstone
03:07
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Always been more empty space than matter
Some fading background noise
Drowned out by the clatter
Hoped there'd be reward for listening
Some gaudy sundrenched gates, forever glistening
Until I stole these words and melodies from someone with whom God wished to speak
With one thousand eyes or none you could see God's teeth eclipse the sun
We were all just one healing limb
And we'd cut off the cast with every hymn
Tried all of my days to escape this
Lord, all I've ever been was your witness
Until I stole these words and melodies from someone with whom you wished to speak
With one thousand eyes or none you could see God's teeth eclipse the sun
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7. |
Impossible Designs
06:39
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We're just shadows cast
From some brighter place
With depth and form we have
Just echoes of your grace
Studied every page
Trying to prepare
For your agent's embrace
No fingers crossed in prayer
So your impossible designs shepherd my flock into the sky
But oh lord you left me behind, how long until I can know why?
Let the judge send us
Wherever we deserve
Your script was all I'd trust
I only meant to serve
The good lord said "Give in..."
To "...eat your fill of flesh"
Do as the cherubim
Just as the good lord says
So your impossible designs shepherd my flock into the sky
But oh lord you left me behind, how long until I can know why?
I'm a shell of a thousand ghosts
My lord you're only one of those
So your impossible designs shepherd my flock into the sky
But oh lord you left me behind, how long until I can know why?
Follow flies to hell
And moths up to heaven
Lord just treat them well
Take care of all my friends
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Devil's horns bled black goat's eyes
Writhing under a shattered sky
One sight I hope God won't undo
I don't believe in anything as beautiful as you
Sitting atop your beast
The name of blasphemy
Drunk with the blood of saints
With filth in your wake
I'm ready for your attack
I just want my own mind back
I can't think of much else since I saw you that day
You rose from the boiling seas below
With the rest of the earth's beasts in tow
If I could see your unholy glow
I know I'd so happily follow
Will you let me atop your beast?
To spit out your blasphemy
I'll drink up the blood of saints
With filth in our wake
So lord give me your attack
But never my own mind back
I don't even want one thought that isn't her name
I'll march to that lake of flames
I won't ever wish to be saved
We can follow in her way
Come and see the devil's parade
With her atop her beast
The name of blasphemy
Drunk with the blood of saints
Filth in her wake
I'm ready for her attack
But never my own mind back
I don't even want one thought that isn't her name
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9. |
When The Sun Fell
02:40
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When the sun fell
We knew too well
Not to leave our homes
That blinding flash
I had to ask
Are we sure this world is our own?
When the sun fell
Right through our cells
As it crashed into a cloud
We were hearing
Engines screeching
Rip the air inside out
When the sun fell
I heard you all yell
You can't see how I've grown
Hear echoes bounce
Through empty towns
Now that I'm all alone
When the sun fell
You shed your shells
I still repeat your names
Though you've dissolved
With shapes in the walls
You're with me when it rains
When the sun fell
I couldn't tell
If our promise could come true
That when this ends
Don't you forget
Meet me back here, won't you?
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10. |
Bowed Our Heads
04:18
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We bowed our heads, skipped out the back
While they weren't looking on
Stifling laughter, we heard that old song
Fade as we drove off and away
We let it out, struggling uphill
In those giant dresses
laying there still, laughing at the rest
When they would notice and what they would say
Stained glass, lilacs, rings, and wine
Burnt away in those white lights
Now we wait for them to crawl out
of those silhouettes burnt into the ground
To see it all now
Still in the debris, please don't leave my side
I won't spiral out on you now
We're all we've got left
It's penance or just some cheap providence
That we're still here by just distance and time
Daydreaming of unlived lives
Burnt away in those white lights
I skipped every ceremony that I ever could
They had warned us both but we knew we would
That we could brave a little bad luck
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11. |
Orchestra
04:19
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Our old age was never promised us
Just freckles of light spilled from greater heights
And bodies laid down on irradiated ground
But you cradled my head on our old rotting bed
Never promised but we're both now
Fading long after the world burnt out
With your hand in mine I saw your flickering light
Shouting your name trying to fan the flames
But something chased you down and finally snuffed you out
So I'll breathe in what you left behind
Let the soot coat over my insides
Let those embers breathe and burn
You went first so it's my turn
In those embers I will join you then
In the ash we won't be separate
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12. |
Grind It All To Dust
06:41
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Buried in summer bugs, snow, and bird skeletons
Left poison in the sky to remember us by
Cause earth will outgrow us then
To let the quiet the quiet in
All cracked and concussed, free from our pestilence
These ruins of rust towering into dust
Giant please lay and rest
For new life in your hollow chest
To find all our fossils here
Erase how we disappeared
Cause we could not satisfy
A few bloated parasites
With this punctured, concussed host body drained of blood
In these ruins of rust grind it all into dust
Birds are omens you know
Seasons die when they go
An old rotting gasping haunt
Still breathes through each marching bent cross
When we're drowning in their flood
Make them choke on our blood
Bright red poison spilling from each of us
In these oceans of rust spinning ground into dust
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