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Skinny Man
04:05
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2. |
Leviathan
03:36
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Oh my god
They found my body
Somewhere in the bay
That my father had named
Fields of fog
Leaves of paper
My bronze age throat
Grinds out one note
Ever since I lost my teeth
I suck down drinks and mumble things
Leviathan
I drew you out with my own hook
To show you how the clouds would look
If you’d just wriggle onto land
And sleep there sideways on the rocks
Stern to stern
Cheek and jowl
The scales fell off
And I saw what I shouldn’t
Seething froth
And foaming lips
And as evening draws
Near my window
Stinking fish
The sea’s issue
Your long, long legs
Stretched towards the dull sky
I was hoping I could be
Somewhere waiting on my seeds
I was chomping at the bit
My teeth were falling out my lips
You sat alone while my body was completely empty
Go to the room where my guts were going green with envy
Pull on the roots when the leaves have started getting heavy
Oh what once was stone now is gold
Follow my finger tips, god knows
Starving leviathan emboldeded
My old lethargic dog and bone
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3. |
Strange Beast
03:25
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Something defying description
Say what you want to say,
I saw that thing that day
Walk with myself beside me
Follow the crumbs you left me
I cast a spell on things,
Since nothing would go my way,
But it just made smoke and rain
Guess I’ll just sit and wait
Strange beast
It’s coming down, it’s coming down
Strange beast
It’s coming down, it’s coming down
What made you come to see me
I was between two cities
Say what you want to say
I saw that thing that day
Outside the dirty window
Voice like a hurt animal
Fingers like spider’s legs
I held my breath that day
But it just goes away
Slouching into the rain
Strange Beast,
It’s coming, it’s coming down
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4. |
Echo Bay
05:41
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Even though I lost my teeth
I could still go on with my swollen feet
The whirlwind opened up the sky
And I thought I saw a man with hollow eyes
I ate a meal then I brought it up again
I tried to sleep then I started sleeping in
I had no troubles but then they started up again
Echo Bay, I remembered you again
All my friends they came to grieve
But I plugged my ears with ash and leaves
Those speaking mouths they taunted me
Inside those wet lips they licked their teeth
I ate a meal then I brought it up again
I tried to sleep then I started sleeping in
I had no troubles but then they started up again
Echo Bay, I remembered you again
Though that whirlwind was roaring, hungry
I had to hear what it would say,
I had to see how it looked
I remained unmoved
There was smoke and no fire
There was rain but no water
The word ripped through my body
And I fell to the dust
Well I feel the great gulf
In ill health, I dropped out
Dead words from wet mouths
The ringing sound was so loud
Take my own name down
The fields and the towns won’t break me
But I know the ugly odes
The darkened doors, the dogstar
Will rage while I pull my hair
You’ve got loads to bare
So don’t mind me
Well I’ll lick my cleft lip
And damn you, and your friendship
Those black birds, their brood descend
You break, I bend, since always
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Holy Fool
02:25
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How thick the fog
In the fields and the
Towns. Oh my God
How the holy fool
Roots in the mud
All the small things
In my cooling blood
A forest of faces
Where I lay
Mute my distaste
With the palm of my
Hands I push down
Into dirt into
Wetness and worms
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6. |
Long-Legged
05:20
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Boneland
02:53
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8. |
Low-Ground
02:18
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9. |
Blood
02:18
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Broken bows
I’ve got you in the open now
Slipping in the darkened ground
And listen for the angel sound
Curving down
The arc of your emerging now
I thought I heard the horn so loud
I thought I heard you breathe
The day I was born
And my ankles were broken
My eyes were sealed shut by the clouds in the room
And the stones that we threw
Skipped across all the blue
And descended for good to the darkness I knew
Oh your womanly wiles they’ve betrayed you
I can see through the veins in your skin
All the blood in my body was rising like clouds
And my skin stretched tight like a drum
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10. |
Trepidation
04:55
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These were my father’s dreams
What waits there patiently?
You were all skin and bones
What once was flesh is stone
I think I’m finally getting old
I saw a single light
In all that maddening night
The sound of searing fat
Your fingers on my back
I think I’m finding what was gone
Trepidation
What fuel could burn so bright?
No wood would take the light
It’s getting ugly fast
Your face’s pallid cast
I think I’m hearing something new
What news come down the wire
What palms will feel the fire
What mouth would swallow whole
What lungs could suckle more
I think I’m losing all my teeth
Trepidation
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