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Eel
04:30
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The course of the creek often takes me
To float from the fringes
From the heat
But sometimes it works to grease the hinges
To free the eel like thing from where it’s taken to nestle within me
All slither, voltage, electricity
So that I must sit, sleep, eat with the beast
Until it’s seen, sated, feasted
Only when I get to the gravel, the grit, the pit of it
Does it seep out of me
Like a selkie from a green sea
Does it seep out of me
Like a selkie from a green sea
Until it goes, you must know
How it moves, how it grows
As you don’t know, until it goes
I’ll tell you
How it moves, how it grows
How I walk with it
Perched on my shoulder
A feathered thing
How it’s talons grip
Tight
Gleaming
How I get it from my body, from my blood, from my bones
Like a stone it won’t draw
It draws slow
And then seeps out of me
Like a selkie from a green sea
And then seeps out of me
Like a selkie from a green sea
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2. |
Pit & Pendulum
02:28
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The tie you tangled into a noose
Now wears you too tight
But too loose to succeed
Stainless and clean
But not lost on me
Allow me my anger too
Allow it to simmer
And to sooth not yours
But my wounds
Too soon, I’ve seen the ghost of you
Now you creep among the living
How could it be, death to undo
Icarus
And Lazarus too
Fly into the fire
And fall scalded and bruised
But how do you rise on the fourth day
From your tomb
Icarus
And Lazarus too
Between the pit and the pendulum
How am I to know which is you?
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3. |
Flux
02:57
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With you comes the flood
Swallowing the sea walls
As we fall
Not under, but in
And I won’t hurt you
But you don’t trust me
Do you
With you comes the storm so fierce
Rips through the town
Silences the street
Still it won’t sleep
The quiet of the city
Is deafening and bleak
When the snow has melted
Then we’ll speak
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4. |
Womanchild
03:12
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Oh the innocence, the cavalier womanhood
Oh the trusting eyes of a womanchild
Never did I know how sweet she did look
How could she have known
What he could take he took
But I had mastered the art of speech with a severed tongue
I could cut a fable precociously young
As sharp as a tack, I grew to outsmart the enemy
A sixth sense, it guarded me
Oh the innocence, the cavalier womanhood
Oh the trusting eyes of a womanchild
Never did I know how sweet she did look
How could she have known
What he could take he took
Oh strong and steel and sharp
Is the wire round me
Winded and binded, for safety
But how do I free the frozen sea
Trapped inside me
Oh the innocence, the cavalier womanhood
Oh the trusting eyes of a womanchild
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5. |
Precipice
03:47
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Only the birds roam the streets now
Silence the stranger reigns
Nothing to be got or gained
Only but shadow work waits
Nothing to be got or gained
As we behold the parade
On our ghostly terrain
Where we once stood
Where we once stood
I’ve never been to the precipice
And nor have you
What is it to bathe in an eerie bliss
What is the darkest depths of the blue
That you’ve ever seen
Only in Eden could it grow this green
But if we are to trade in truth
To be alone
Is to be alone with you
Silence unknown
Enveloping
Deafening
Hear it ring
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6. |
Rosebriar
02:32
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There it lies, hearth of the home
Beware it’s thorns, they’ll cut you so
But it’s love is pure
Poison it may be
If I prune it with heed, it sustains me
There it lies, frosted in ice
It’s lost its glow, it’s lost its bite
But it always grows back
Fierce it thrives
Poison it may be
If we give it light, it can learn how to breathe
Harvest and harness it
All the love, rip through me
Enveloping as a velvet sea
All the love, rip through me
Enveloping as a velvet sea
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7. |
Shipyard
03:22
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I would rock you to sleep
But you wouldn't hear the melody
We both know you and I
Songs travel neither beyond the skies
Or where the corals lie
I find myself
Chasing your shadows
To walk as you
I must remove
Each poison thorn of pride
From my side
The thorned crown
Of resentment too
To love like you
Fierce and wild and true
I no longer build ships to wreck
But to sail into the blue
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