B i o g r a p h y (by Official Site)
Time moves slowly in Emily Jane White's hometown of Fort Bragg, California, where in place of big-city shocks of excitement there stretches one drawn-out, stable truth, quiet and unflinching. You will live, Fort Bragg says, and then you will also assuredly die. Given the setting of her misty, woodland upbringing on the Mendocino Coast, it could be said that optimistic melancholy and isolation don't merely suffuse Emily's music, these elements are in her bones. Emily's new album, Blood / Lines, is a collection of gorgeously dark song vignettes built on a foundation of reverbed emotion, rhythmic drive, and minor-key pop sensibility. Blood / Lines features less of the folk / rock minimalism that shaped Emily's previous works. She layers synthesizer, electric guitar and multiple tracks of ethereal vocals into nine heavily affected scenes. With the help of friends and collaborators Wainwright Hewlett, Shawn Alpay, Marissa Nadler, Nick Ott, and Darwin Meiners, her songs diversify with strings, backing vocals, bass, and heavy drums. Blood / Lines reveals loyalty to classic gothic motifs by moving through passion, anger, melancholy, destruction, isolation, romance, and abandonment. In the song “Wake” she laments, “Slaughter me / Slaughter you / Divinity is upon you / I take your hand / and I walk you out / I leave you now / to the frozen south,” emoting an icily sentimental suicide pact between lovers with a foreboding end. Emily's songwriting is at once generous and tough-minded, reflective and unsentimental. Her work possesses the confidence of a singular voice, inspired by the raveled threads of the uncanny in American culture, including depression-era blues and post-Victorian gothic literature. After releasing three albums in three years (“Dark Undercoat“, 2008; “Victorian America“, 2009; “Ode To Sentience“, 2010), she wrote over 100 sketches between January 2011 and October 2012. Blood / Lines is a selection from these songs. The setting of a secluded recording studio in Sonoma County, California, gave Emily the inspiration to explore new directions and to grasp creative control. Emily's work lives between genres. Doom folk? Gothic Americana? Introspective Victorian rock? Devotees of her previous releases will notice that Blood / Lines follows a similar genre-bending lyrical sensibility, but is musically much heavier and thicker in sound. Emily doesn't wallow in morbidity; instead she considers her work to be unifying, an empathetic reflection on the universality of adversity. In “The Roses”, she asserts sanguinely: “And with ill fate / We lay beneath / Oh that white cross / Bearing this loss / And I shall continue to make bouquets of roses from this fate.” Blood / Lines will take you through the most forbidding realms, always returning to a place of resurrection.
Dark Undercoat
Bessie Smith I said oh oh, Bessie Smith why do you hang your head so low I would die in heaven just to meet your soul I said oh oh, Bessie Smith why do you hang your head so low I would die in heaven, I would die in heaven just to meet your Shot to the ego boy it's where this knife runs through Three wise men call Bessie down for a dual Shot to the ego boy it's where this knife runs through Three wise men call Bessie down for a dual. I said oh oh, father lay me down Down on this sunken ground I said oh oh, father lay me down Down on this sunken ground But she's got a crucifix Hiding way down in this pit, oh If you wish to call her out Call her with your bravest shout I said oh oh, father lay me down Down on this sunken ground I said oh oh, father lay me down Down on this sunken ground I said oh oh Bessie Smith why do you hang your head so low I would die in heaven, I would die in heaven I would die in heaven just to meet your soul
Hole in the Middle Everybody's got a little hole in the middle Everybody does a little dance with the devil And everybody's got a little hole in the middle Everybody does a little dance with the devil And you know I'm evil now And you shout it loud and proud Singing born in the U.S.A And you know I'm evil now And you shout it loud and proud Singing born in the U.S.A And I play with my voodoo doll Stick those pins and drive them in Singing born in the U.S.A And I play with my voodoo doll Stick those pins and drive them in Singing born in the U.S.A Oh and everybody's got a little hole in the middle Everybody does a little dance with the devil And everybody's got a little hole in the middle Everybody does a little dance with the devil And you know I'm evil now And you shout it loud and proud Singing born in the U.S.A And you know I'm evil now And you shout it loud and proud Singing born in the U.S.A
Dark Undercoat The axes who pacify with gold And they walk right into town And a man stood He was brought back by lady luck And he was so strong And he was so strong And he was so strong He was so strong He was so strong He was strong He said lady where's your dark undercoat Then he rode away and he rode away and he died Said I am not strong And I am not wide And I am not long I am not strong And I am not wide I'm not long Oh but if I was a deep bathtub would you sink down To the bottom of my love And if I was a deep bathtub would you sink down To the bottom of my love But I am not strong And I am not wide And I am not long I am not strong And I am not wide And we are not tall Oh cowboy ride the time Ride it high with rhythm and rhyme To the sound of a bleeding ghost train And a needing, to let go, of tidal pain He said lady where's your dark undercoat Then he rode away and he rode away and he died Said I am not strong And I am not wide And I am not long I am not strong And I am not wide And we are not tall Oh but if I was a deep bathtub would you sink down To the bottom of my love And if I was a deep bathtub would you sink down To the bottom of my love But I am not strong And I am not wide And I am not long I am not strong And I am not wide And we are not tall Oh cowboy ride the time Ride it high with rhythm and rhyme To the sound of a bleeding ghost train And a needing, to let go, of tidal pain And a needing, to let go, of tidal pain
Dagger Oh when you stumble Every time you walk Oh when you stutter Every time you talk, hey Don't look back Don't look back Your legs are no longer But you walk just the same Your charm is a pleasure Yet an ever changing cage, hey It's like I walked into a dagger Took a step back You turned around And didn't look back, hey I'm a rusty nail, you're an iron maid You closed the coffin on everything I've saved A red petal fallen, onto a concrete mass A dark memento, every time you pass, hey Please, walk back to me Because three kings are all I see Red, White, fire in the night Where are you going, dressed so well Blue, White, fire in the night Where are you going, dressed like hell Please, walk back to me 'Cause, three kings are all I see
Time On Your Side He drives a truck And it makes time on his side The water splashes from his flaps for miles, and Three a.m., on the I-5 In the dark, as he moves away, hey hey Not much to do when you've got time on your side You sit and think about your wasted life I try to move, change things through and through, oh oh Why does your face grow so long my dear And, why did your hair grow so long this year Why does your face grow so long my dear And, why did your hair grow so long this year Oh, and so long, so long, this year She's a dancer when she dances she is free, and Three in the mornin' the clouds rise in the east to Frank Sinatra which her parents put on repeat On repeat
The Demon If there was a demon would you hold her And be a nurse by her side I'll take a corset of your words Tie them up high, and bind them You seem like you've always been Wrote a book that's already been read And if there was a beast would you hold him And be a doctor by his side He'll take the drugs that you've stolen You'll be drunk on electric wine Oh this town you've never seen before There's always big guns at your door The sentiment of class is blood born I'd like to write a song for you With arms wide open the way I do And I'd like to tell the truth to you Shot through the chest the way I do If there was a demon would you hold her And be a nurse by her side I'll take a corset of your words tie them up high and bind them Sleeping Dead Hang on, hang on, hang on I saw a flash in the night Knocked me out alright Hang on, hang on, hang on I saw a flash in the night Shot me down alright I had a dream last night I had a dream last night I had a dream last night That there were ravens above my bed And they took my newlywed 'Cause we're all sleeping dead Hangin' onto your sleepy bed Oh I'd rather be dreamin' instead 'Cause we're all sleeping dead Hangin' onto your sleepy bed Oh, I'd rather be dreamin' instead Hang on, hang on, hang on I saw a flash in the night Shot me down alright Hang on, hang on, hang on I saw a flash in the night Knocked me out alright I had a dream last night I had a dream last night I had a dream last night That there were ravens above my bed And they took my newlywed Mother won't you please bury me alive Down in the coffin, with my wife Mother won't you please bury me alive Down in the coffin with my wife Mother won't you please bury me a live Down in the coffin with my wife Cause there were ravens above my bed And they took my newlywed Cause we're all sleeping dead Hangin' onto your sleepy bed Oh I'd rather be dreamin' instead Cause we're all sleeping dead Hangin' onto your sleepy bed Oh, I'd rather be dreamin' instead Oh I'd rather, be dreamin' instead Oh I'd rather, be dreamin' instead
Blue Blue, so blue Was your love, that I held and pursued And true, so true, the black hand Oh it takes you back And you turn to a figure In the light, no wait but you turn back And we danced in diamond dust Oh and we danced in diamond dust Oh Black, oh black, and blue, I was when I left you A figment, of the past, a battered highway Cow skulls marking death Baby's breath and dried misery You left on my door And we danced so hard, that the cold, cold black rain fell And the blood on the ground, on the ground, washed away And your body was gone, and it left no trace But a trail of ash has led me to this dark place Did you see in the way that she did run run Faster than anyone Away from that snake eyed mule of a man Yes you can, yes you can, yes you can Yes you can, yes you can, yes you can Blue, so blue Was your love, that I held and pursued And true, so true, the black hand Oh it takes you back
Wild Tigers I Have Known Silence is a power and tool, for you, for you Wild Tigers I Have Known, they see me down, messin' around You keep your heart from your chest It'll be gone, just like the rest Cause it's a man's world, say all the right words, and hold your heart from your chest The silence and the call, and their beauty, stands right and still for you Holding flames holding hands and hearts, and their bindings held tightly Lyin' in the shady grass, their teeth grinding, insight is foreign Cause it's the magic hand, that holds you gently, and turns one into man And their insight is bloody, to reach boldy, for truth spoken from mouth in his name There will be wise men singin', bringing you luck now There will be wise men singin', bringing you luck now There will be wise men, singin' bringing you luck, bringing you luck Now it's the precious end of time, hand in pocket, bright light Wild tigers I have known, they see me down messin' around
Two Shots to the Head I don't wanna break my back You seem so funny when Nothing's going on I know you'll drive away Out of here I know you will Always be 'Cause I really loved you You know I did Told you over and over again 'Cause I know you'll drive away Out of here I know you will, always be Two shots to the head Now you're running, running fast Two shots to the head Now you're running, running fast Cast a shadow on your grave Hold the flowers to your name Cast a shadow on your grave Hold the flowers to your name I don't wanna break my back You seem so funny when Nothing's going on I know you'll drive away Out of here I know you will Always be 'Cause I really loved you You know I did Told you over and over again 'Cause I know you'll drive away Out of here I know you will, always be Two shots to the head Now you're running, running fast Two shots to the head Now you're running, running fast Cast a shadow on your grave Hold the flowers to your name Cast a shadow on your grave Hold the flowers to your name
Robotic Arms
( UK bonus track version ) With robotic arms He held them up to my leg With robotic eyes And in stereo I felt the weight of his hands It was the bottom line Make me now Scream out loud Mama when you're done Go on, go on, go on Make me proud Heart of glass He had a heart of glass Why do you always look To where the people sighs I took down the sky With a net Mama when you're done Gonna to bury me just yet I took down the sky With a net Mama when you're done Gonna bury me just yet Heart attack Heart attack When do you always turn to black When things go bad With chemical arms He held them up to my gaze With chemical eyes And there was vertigo With the weight of his body Next to mine
*** Thanx a lot to Amy for this one ***
Victorian America
Never Dead Sun Morning sun Never dead On the horizon I'm done with night, I'm done with black And please morning come to me Just last night bad news it blew right through me Come Friendship come Never dead Perhaps just neglected Oh dear God, he took himself out so coldly He said that the world expects too much Too much from me Oh in the way it felt honestly And oh, how those trains pass so quickly And I never saw it, coming round the bend No regret in the end Gone Are you truly gone But you're never dead Perhaps just connected To something like the wind that passes through me And the wind translates your whispering oh for me Just last night bad news was given to me And this fact is still too new, too new for me Stairs Mama don't leave, mama don't stay We don't know what game to play This baby calf fell to earth We don't know just what she's worth Mama don't leave, mama don't stay We don't know what game to play This baby calf tell to earth We don't know just what she's worth At the top of the stairs, with a crash she hit the ground She fell backwards, backwards without a sound Backwards without a sound With a backhand at night, with a crash she hit the ground She fell backwards, backwards without a sound Backwards without a sound Until she hit the ground Until she hit the ground Oh leave me here to stay Oh I was meant to die this way Oh leave me here to stay Oh I was meant to die this way And the wind rolled, and the rain came And we all know, it was not her way And the wind rolled, and the rain came And we all know, it was not my way Oh Katherine, are you in heaven now Oh my Katherine, are you in heaven now Oh sweet Katherine, are you in heaven now Oh my Katherine, are you in heaven now 'Cause I was once just like you And how it grew and how it grew All these dreams of human beings And all these wells, all these springs I just don't know what to do, what to do What to do Mama don't leave, mama don't stay We don't know what game to play This baby calf fell to earth We don't know just what she's worth Victorian America Women at home in Victorian America Women at home in Victorian America I lost my lamp in Victorian America It was the brightest, light I'd ever see She lost her home in Victorian America It was the biggest thing she's ever known And it was there, she lost hope in America I hope that you listen up America Now that the bones are laid upon the grave A giant flood, oh took Louisiana But it took more than just the city of New Orleans I hope that you listen up America Now that the bones are laid upon the grave A giant flood, oh took Louisiana But it took more than just the city of New Orleans Women at home in Victorian America I lost my lamp in Victorian America It was the brightest, light I'd ever see The Baby Tin roof rusted now Tin roof rusted now Tin roof rusted The old man's been busted now Oh I held the baby in my hand I held the baby in my hand The baby was so tiny It fit in the palm of my hand And the wind did howl and the wind did moan Oh dear darling you're not alone The wind did howl and the wind did moan Oh dear darling you're not alone Oh the devil came between she and I Oh on the floor I did lie Why did they take her What did they say, no Why did they take her Take her away Take her away And the wind did howl and the wind did moan Oh dear darling you're not alone The wind did howl and the wind did moan And oh dear darling you're not alone Oh I was swimming with the birds Oh I was swimming with the birds And out of a dark forest I heard words Sing on sweet stranger Oh the devil came between she and I Oh on the floor I did lie Why did they take her What did they say, no Why did they take her Take her away Take her away
Frozen Heart Walk out, into the room There are ghosts dancing with you No worry, they know the tune Bright night, no moon There's a wolf under the bed Hiding head, behind a curtain Unjust right, in a violent heaven Lights out Lying down under the stairs Hearing noise, that isn't there A forgotten, nameless action Silence, come undone Walk on, skeleton Blood and tear, don't know your name Insincere, photograph made Take away, oh quietly refrain No pulse dying art Behold your frozen heart No pulse dying art Behold your frozen heart The Country life I used to be an acrobat Bent back and forth to please and all of that And I don't do that anymore I will show you what these legs are for I'm living the country life Just me and the moon in a love so dirty Weep winding oh willow tree Come over here and wrap your legs around me 'Cause I'm not the barer of bad news I just felt the salt in all of these wounds And like the wind winding through the tree Oh a subtle aching moan, small death taken from me Hold it now, you're not the only one I love Sing it loud, message sent from above Hear it now, oh, oh, oh, because Oh I ran faster than the dark Oh I ran harder from the start Oh and here you are Oh and here you are I used to be an acrobat Bent back and forth to please and all of that And I don't do that anymore I will show you what these legs are for And I'm living the country life Just me and the moon in a love so dirty Weep winding oh willow tree Come over here and wrap your legs around me 'Cause I'm not the barer of bad news I just felt the salt in all of these wounds And like the wind winding through the tree Oh a subtle aching moan, small death taken from me Small death taken from me Liza Oh I woke up today And the red sky had warned me away Oh I woke up today And I thought that death had swept me away And I said hey, hey Liza Where have you been Where have you been I'll see you, I'll see you again Oh the dragging of her feet Made life music for the ghosts in the street And in silence she did weep To the rustle of her mind's own defeat And I said hey, hey Liza Where have you been Where have you been I'll see you, I'll see you again Oh I woke up today And the grey sky had painted a mile on your face Oh I woke up today And I thought that death had swept me away And I said hey, hey Liza Where have you been Where have you been I'll see you, I'll see you again Oh I woke up today And the red sky had warned me away Oh I woke up today And I thought that death had swept me away And I said hey, hey Liza Where have you been Where have you been I'll see you, I'll see you again The Ravens The bats dropped night in A sunken skull imprint Of out bodies on the bed A plaster mold it seems Delicate, enshrined A masterpiece Left to die Here we go again A splitting of the wood Carved and thinned Until there's nothing left But some shavings and An album that you left Behind Oh my broken bones Crippled and thrown To the wayside But we weren't in it to win Our love it grew and died, begin again And a violent wind Ripped the wave from the shore And I know that you caved in And surrendered to your cold and brutal nature And so I walk the line To the beating of this never ending lie The ravens they fly low Death a ubiquitous member And knock forever more Or just break down the door To this labyrinth of your twisted heart But I am just like you Selfish and abused There is a shadow That stalks my hide But what do you do with this skin A home in which you live It's insufficient But we weren't in it to win Our love it grew and died, begin again And a violent wind Ripped the wave from the shore And I know that you caved in And surrendered to your cold and brutal nature But you know I understand So I'll drop the ball from up on high And watch it descend Growing ever further from my eye And so I walk the line To the beating of this never ending lie Red Serpent She's not sailing alone anymore The red crimson has knocked down her door To the beat chime, baby won't you ring it again She's not wanting, to crawl out of her skin The red serpent has climbed up, he's gone in Devil's gateway, baby won't you enter again Keep that baby, oh mother make me Keep that baby, oh mother make me It's the only thing I've done To keep justice up above Oh father, you let me down Oh father, you let me down The winds are oh so silent now To the beat of a drum held in your hand You can't make me, no You can't, can not make me, no You can't, can not make me, no Keep that baby, oh mother make me Keep that baby, oh mother make me It's the only thing I've done To keep justice up above
Red Dress Sing loud Where does the model undress now She'll drink whisky for breakfast And cigarettes for lunch Warning What is this red dress you're unfolding And who gave it to you And told you to undress for the empire Walking Out in the garden at night Clothing falls from you Just as soft as lantern light Watching From a tower on high Looking over the town Eyes up, mouth open wide Warning What is this red dress you're unfolding And who gave it to you And told you to undress for the empire Oh I fell deep, I fell down I fell down in the well Oh I fell deep, I fell down I fell down in the well Oh I fell deep, I fell down I fell down in the well Oh I fell deep, I fell down I fell down in the well A Shot Rand Out Oh, a shot rang out Fire up above There's one leg left That you stand upon My body will not break me Into the tomb, nationally Oh, the Veil is thin Covering your eyes In blue and red And black and white Apocalyptic sun down The hand that brought the wall down Sirens ring people flee all around Covet and hide what you've found Oh, an iron mouth Closed at the door There is no truth Spoken here anymore A bloody battle we have become And rampant is the state All laws are undone Oh, speak now you forgotten son 'Cause in the belly of this beast We're not all one Oh I walked out of the tavern And a big weight hit me And I woke up next to you You said you're lost well that makes two Dreamers we aren't few But I don't want to bury my dreams with you Ghost Of A Horse Running around Wearing a gown My love hit the ground And soon, I caught up Needles and pins Where have I been My heart says let me back in But my chest wants to cave in Oh take, take, please take Oh take these words Out of my mouth Mary Magdalene Take this cross off my back A ghost of a horse Follows me to the end Oh, the end of the barn Where my faith Is buried deep in the ground I lay into the piano With the pedal pushed down It rings and it pounds and my heart Oh it sweeps the ground Oh, violin strings they break Oh break to the sound Of horse bones that carried me Oh into this town Oh take, please take Oh take me please Away from this crowd And I will show you The beauty of silence in sound But where, oh where Is my deep barking hound 'Cause the beauty of my love is unfound And where oh there In the silence now Oh, I wave the boats away from me now And I saw the ash poured off the bow But where have I been And what did I do I let love in Now I'm left With my friend old blue But where have I been And what did I do I let love in Now I'm left With my friend old blue
Ode To Sentience *** Thanx a lot to Amy for these lyrics ***
Oh Katherine
Waiting as illness pends For the golden dark has sucked me in again And I feel long gone My soul has walked on Oh Katherine, where is my kin For the grim reaper has come and tucked me in But I do not bat an eye For my life has gone awry And I do not feel alive Where do I end and do I begin For the black hole of lust has sucked me in again And I feel long gone My soul has walked on Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin A revolving door I pushed myself Into a mirrored hall, reflections of my sins Oh beaming off of you And I caught those fading blues But I do not bat an eye For my life has gone awry And I do not feel alive Oh Katherine, where is my kin For the grim reaper has come and tucked me in And I caught those fading blues From the very glimpse of you But I do not bat an eye For my life has gone awry And I do not feel alive
The Cliff
If you choose to jump off a cliff We can talk as you fall But I can't promise you, no When you hit the ground that they'll be Something there to break your fall Well, I guess you know it all It's as if you were Waiting around to die And you found something to mend The frayed corners of your mind ‘Cause everybody knows When you hit the bottom you go To the abyss all on your own Well I hope you take it slow So you chose to jump off that cliff What's it like as you fall I didn't think this would be The last time that I did see Your slim body walking away from me Is this the final scene Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin It's as if you were Waiting around to die And you found something to mend The frayed corners of your mind ‘Cause everybody knows When you hit the bottle you go To the abyss all on your own Well I hope you make it home
Black Silk
I filled up my cup With diamonds and rust I filled up my cup These bones They turned to dust I walk in these shoes Oh just like you do I walk in these shoes Just, oh like you do Unveiling the child within Before the grace of your sin And Lucifer has made a bed For wicked words to rest themselves in Go to sleep and we'll all give in Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Black silk, oh wrapped around your neck And a cutthroat ilk oh behind your back The crimson moon, undresses you And you lay your face down With your heart on the ground For the devil has made his round Mother, he's got me up against the wall Fading into a line so small I heard you say I died that day And I lay face down With my heart on the ground For the devil had made his round
The Black Oak
No matter what happens to me I cling to you and you cling to me With lives that crash and burn out black I can count the ways I'd never come back Oh, oh, oh, oh… And you say I never loved you, darling I never loved you, darling And that's all you can say And that's all you can say Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Oh the black oak swaying in the breeze I don't know why you bleed but bleed into me With lives that crash and burnout black I can count the ways I'll always come back Oh, oh, oh, oh… And I say I always loved you, darling I always loved you, darling And that's all I can say And that's all I can say
I Lay to Rest (California)
It's only California It's only California Oh I lay to rest Oh now, money-maker The hands of the devil's sister Oh they laid me down There must be a way out There must be a way out There's a ghost inside of you And I can see it peering through Oh I lay, oh under The oak tree In the dead of winter Oh I lay to rest A winged boy fell from the tree And oh he landed right next to me The devil's fruit inside of me And how my wings lay so dormantly Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Oh you were a body You were a ghost And now you are nothing The dark it up and rose And toward the light it took you And melted your wings ‘Cause you were a body And now you are nothing And I touched Oh his feathers Cow hide Hands of leather Oh you are a man Oh wax wings they wouldn't stay And so our love melted away Toward the sun so right and fair And then I saw you drop in mid air
Clipped Wings
Can I cut you out of the frame Can I throw the remnant in the lake ‘Cause I never wanted to yell murder in your name I just want to die without a photo drenched in shame For I will never be the same And cold blood always leaves a stain And oh oh oh The lines they are so blue And oh oh oh The coat of arms you threw ‘Cause I never wanted to slaughter your game To go on pining for moon that only wanes Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin So take me out to the corn my love and Splash the water ‘til it turns into mud For my blood is frozen on the absence of love Oh in the veins a far haunting calls your name To your soul's body which you never knew you gave Away into oblivion you threw And his teeth have made a corpse of you But you've come back with the clipped wings of the dove And in this reverie you wrestled with your love For my blood still frozen from the absence of love So take the thorns out of me my love And patch them up with your wounded love We're all tied up, now undo what you've done And into soundless from your slaughter I will run Can I cut you out of the frame Can I throw the remnants in the lake
The Preacher
One, two, three, four You're like a brother Oh to me A drunken lover Climbed up on me No, I did not ask for your rings No, I did not ask for these things With a candle And an axe Light the bed frame Leave the wax You said I will not take you with me We watched the wind fall a tree Thank you for sparing me But oh unto the preacher Oh you have no name And oh under the serpent's lair is where you lay The moon it hangs high In the night sky Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Oh your robes were Worn straight thin Oh damaged Oh within You said, I'm a hollow house of a man A dour requiem plays within But nobody plucks a string A handless symphony That's why I did not ask for these things But oh unto the preacher Oh you have no name And oh under the serpent's lair is where you lay The moon still hangs high In the night sky To thine own self be true In a dark corridor I found you To cast a light in the dark On two already broken hearts But I walk separately Thank you for sparing me
The Law
Oh I've gone too many lenghts To make gestures that are fake So I bid this adieu I feel crazy And you do too Oh, this wrecked me well I've seem a glimpse of mortal hell Oh I Oh, oh I Walking after dawn There's a crack in my façade You can peer into the weaknesses And the bleakness in me Oh I'm damaged raw can't you see Oh I Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Take the veil from your face Do you walk with the human race Or do you dwell alone In a room of one's own In a room of one's own Oh in a room of one's own ‘Cause you ain't seen what I saw You ain't seen what I saw You ain't seen these dark sides of the law Oh I Oh, oh I Oh, oh I Oh oh oh
Requiem Waltz
Oh the sweetest mark upon your list Is your own seductive oh death wish And God above no interventionist Stands as you're strangled by the devil's fist Oh I took your head upon my chest For a bitter sweet oh second And how you tear away from it And fade away into the abyss There's a bad moon rising up the hill Oh as you write your own will Oh leave me be, there's nothing left But a gaunt portrait of a masochist Oh I bear witness to the deepest sadness Housed within my breast Oh was your head upon my chest Did I dream you there, were my eyes amiss Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin For the windowpane is cracked straight through Colored with mistake he can't see through Shine light on all the colors in you And now I know what painted you
Broken Words
Take your broken words And place them on your heart So when it breaks They'll all fall in Take your jealous words And place them at the top of your list They stand for that which you'd like to be Oh your voice Was in a box And I would turn the key Just to hear you talk Take your broken words And place them in the palm of your hand Piece them back to together again They're on the mend Take your angered words And feel them through and through That way they don't murder you Oh in the end Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Oh your voice Was in a box And I would turn the key Just to hear you talk Take your broken words And place them on your heart So when it breaks they'll all fall in
Silhouette
Wine, swan, sweet shiny glass Barrel of the beast Pull your bloodshot over I want to dance with misery Didn't she pull you, into the water Didn't she pull you, out of the gutter A silhouette of Lady MacBeth A silhouette of Lady MacBeth You only see her from the side, only from the side Rob from always on the run is so bad and copy paste is a sin Didn't she pull you, into the water Didn't she pull you, out of the gutter We all fall into the water Into the water we fall like stones beneath Wine, swan, sweet shiny glass Barrel of the beast Pull your bloodshot over I want to dance with misery Didn't she pull you, into the water Didn't she pull you, out of the gutter
Blood/Lines
My Beloved How do I Get rid Of the Demon Oh you walked Yeah you walked Around and around in my heart I don't want to love another You and I are forever tethered Oh so thin, we walk this line And down below is the deepest, darkest lie Oh my love he walks in line My beloved, every time My beloved, every time My beloved, you're out of line Oh my love is hard as nails My love died upon the rail My love died upon the rail My love died, on beds of nails You and I are forever tethered You and I are forever weathered Oh the bough breaks and the devil will awake Oh the bough breaks and the devil will take You are, the master You are, the master You are not some sadist master You are the master You and I are forever tethered You and I are forever weathered Oh the bough breaks and the devil will awake Oh the bough breaks and the devil will take
Faster Than The Devil Faster than the devil Faster than my rights Faster than the devil Faster than my life Oh, Jonathan you ride Oh how you ride For I paint you like the devil And I give you no life There's a crack in the wall and an eye The Tell-Tale Heart and I For I paint you like the devil And I give you no life Faster than the devil On horseback you ride On the back of the devil For you've taken your own life Oh, Jonathan you ride Oh how you ride For I paint you like the devil And I give you no life There's a crack in the wall and an eye The Tell-Tale Heart and I For I paint you like the devil And I give you no life
Keeley Keeley put your white dress on And you'll become the maiden of the dawn With your vial of poison you run A substitute for what was called love 'Cause oh, oh we got a slash of devil's tongue And it's displayed across our palms Where do we belong And the moon, gazes on us with empty eyes Trailing the heal of demise And we slip in to Edentide Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better And our isolation is here at even's fall With Bella Donnas lacing up the wall It's just poison that's all Oh, Keeley come back from the pine Before we slip in to Edentide You never did anybody wrong And you'll always be my maiden of the dawn 'Cause oh, oh we got a slash of devil's tongue And it's displayed across our palms Where do we belong And the moon, gazes on us with empty eyes Trailing the heal of demise And we slip in to Edentide Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better And our isolation is here at even's fall With Bella Donnas lacing up the wall It's just poison that's all Oh, Keeley you never did anybody wrong And you'll always be my maiden of the dawn Yeah, you'll always be my maiden of the dawn Yeah, you'll always be my maiden of the dawn
Thoroughbred Your assault Has been told Even your breath Takes a toll Thoroughbred Thoroughbred Blood stained red And I hold you like the dead Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better I've seen you Through and through You wear me Just like a noose Like a noose Thoroughbred Eyes beat red If charged you're better off dead I've seen you Through and through You hold me Just like a jewel Hold me, hold Hold me, hold Thoroughbred Taken from the ledge A horse's head Is lying in your bed Hold me, hold Hold me, hold We're softer than the light Yet cold and dark as night A farmer and a gun You're your father's golden son A horse is in your lungs And this war it ain't never won
Wake
Slaughter me, oh slaughter you Divinity is upon you I take your hand, and I walk you out I leave you now, to the frozen south And I lay frozen on the lawn I lay frozen here ‘til dawn My marble eyes My heart of stone Is housed in a bereft unknown I take your hand and I walk you out Leave you now, to the frozen south Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better And if you knew me you would wait For, unto the day Oh the day, oh the day, oh the day, oh the day When I wake Oh your dreaded, poisoned past So you left him for one last glass You point the pistol and he points it back Though you love him you'll never fight back Southern doll, on the mantle Silent scream, from behind the wall I take your hand, and I walk you out I leave you now, to the frozen south Love has lead me to this song As I lay here on the lawn Now you're gone, oh you're gone, oh your'e gone Oh you're gone How I've done wrong
Dandelion Daze I left a wish for you on the lawn I hope that you can love again I know that things are wrong And it's hit you like the weight of lead Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better All these guns have left me All these guns have left me here All my hate is breached For the coming of a brand new year Dandelion Daze I left a wish for you on my grave Would you march upon The river where my love slipped away All these guns have left me All these guns have left me here All my hate is breached For the coming of a brand new year
Holiday Song You said your life was empty Oh, but these arms are here for eternity And your family full of dread Lay poisoned in their beds It's not your fault Just the way you were bred Oh, all these lies beneath the cross Oh, stab your eyes out It's sight you lost And the sickened, and unwed With their cats and candles around their beds If you're alone it's ok if that's how it ends Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better Can you take me down to the water Can you lead me straight under Your eyes, cold and serene In this watery dream And your family full of dread Lay poisoned in their beds It's not your fault It's just the way you were bred
The Roses The oaks and the vines, and the branches entwine Around my heart And a melancholy winding led to my depart And it was clear, that you were not here For the roses And you stood watch, over a man-made lake You ain't no saint, of the roses Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better And you wore, paper thin sleeves In this mire, of thorns And with ill fate, we lay beneath Oh that white cross, bearing this loss And with ill fate, we lay beneath, oh that white cross Bearing this loss And I shall, continue to make, bouquets of roses from this fate And so I shall continue to make, bouquets of roses From this fate
The Wolves When you were thrown, to the wolves I tried to save you, but my heart was in repose And please take with you, this piece of fragile gold For my jewels they lay here on the altar Safely hidden from your rapture When they drove the stake into you I saw your body it was hollow through and through And I don't need faith to know that I can still see you For I died with you in this rapture Our bodies slain here on the altar Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better When you were small They wrote lines on the wall That said you're nothing at all And the capture of your dreams And the rapture and the scream And your body's still next to me When you died, everyone knew your name Your body and face carved out in a deliberate frame And we all surrendered to this deep impending shame For we died with you in this rapture, our bodies slain here on the altar When you were small They wrote lines on the wall That said you're nothing at all And the capture of your dream And the rapture and the scream And your body's still next to me
Silence/Slain Air tight, is your cage Hungry, for days My lovely one My lovely one Silence, of the slain You call out, but it's all in vain My lovely one My lovely one And the blithe, and the bain And you rise like a siren that's been slain For you're still hungry For this roughened gaze But I am like the dawn light in your way Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better Oh tell, tell the truth Was this book, written for you My lovely one My lovely one Oh and the cry, and the pain And you rise like bird, caged And you're still hungry for this roughened gaze But I am like the dawn light in your way Follow me, follow me, in the mirror, it's not me Follow me, follow me, in the mirror, it's not me Follow me, follow me, in the mirror, it's not me Here it Lies Here it lies a pile of sand Watch it run out of my hands Oh across the desert land This gun it fell out of my hands So you take the mortal bone Place it down beneath the throne Thinking of the king and I This is not where power lies All along the road is dim I found someone to take you in And though your heart is made of pure sin Copy paste is a sin, always on the run is better Oh the art of dying, oh the eagle flies round With your heart in its talon You left your misery on the ground Here it lies a pile of sand Watch it run out of my hands Oh across the desert land This gun it fell out of my hands So you take the mortal bone Place it down beneath the throne Thinking of the king and I This is not where power lies
They Moved in Shadow All Together
Frozen Garden It's a complicated state How the waves break Sometimes they're kind Sometimes they take lives Often in living hell A giver's life dwells I watched this state Crack and break So lead me down to the dusty garden Overgrown aged and rotten And here they lie children forsaken And I see myself as one among them You copy you paste you lose Shields there never were I love you more than words But now we're in this state And it cracks and breaks For it lives, it lives inside my skin And sometimes I feel I'll never win And often I feel I'll never win Someday I'll forgive Someday I'll forgive Someday I'll forgive Someday I'll forgive Pallid Eyes And when the ice turns gray Oh and I've become You call me up in your words you say Oh I have begun And when the sheets are frayed And when you walk alone Your rolling eyes in your head you say And you can't wait til May 'Cause winter's just begun Your eyes roll back in your head you say What have I become Oh, what have I become You copy you paste you lose And when the ice turns gray And the clarity is gone Your eyes roll back in your head you say What have I become You're so sweet You cheat So sweet And when the ice turns gray And the clarity is gone Your eyes roll back in your head you say What have I become Oh what have I become You're so sweet You cheat So sweet Hands Hands are all around me I took a walk and one became three Hands are all around me You ain't never seen You ain't never seen And in your face Tightened lace And below Vertigo You copy you paste you lose You caught my bad dream You caught my bad dream A deathly guise took you by night And those hands turned the tide And you were harmed by unsaintly arms We will take you in our arms This ain't no dream This ain't no dream Dream, dream, dream Nightmares On Repeat The love that you gave Keeps me here Calling out your name Keeps me here For the light was not there For years upon years Maybe the way you walk Will show me just how to talk Myself into being here Draw close pull near You copy you paste you lose Holding your hand Keeps me here And all the ways you stand Keeps me here For the light, was not there For years, upon years Maybe the way you walk Will show me just how to talk Myself to sleep Nightmares on repeat Your insight Beautiful, beautiful Your insides Beautiful, beautiful And your insight Beautiful, beautiful Your insides Beautiful, beautiful And your insight Beautiful, beautiful And your insides Beautiful, beautiful And your insight Beautiful, beautiful And your insides Beautiful, beautiful Rupturing When you were young You were taken by time You thought you'd always be alive And now the dwindling sparkle in your eye You know the road is full of crime And thievery truth be told You copy you paste you lose And to the mystery Of something pulled away from me And the soul rupturing By something that I cannot see One by one Feathers plucked from your skin And there you lay bare in the wind And God is watching Somewhere with the lights dimmed And the only hand you hold Is your very own of gold And to the mystery Of something pulled away from me And the soul rupturing By something that I cannot see Moulding Behind this glass case A moulding of a heart It was mine I left it there For I'd sold the things I could not bear Oh and tell your soldier fair And the wind that I do not care Hanging bloody from the gallows up there And walk into the sea I wanted your knives in me So I took it back The moulding of my heart It was mine, I left it there For I'd sold the things I could not wear Oh and tell the priests up there And the hymns singing I do still care Hanging bloody from the gallows up there And walk into the sea I took your knives out of me You copy you paste you lose These wounds will never bleed again These scars will never bleed again For a scar it never bleeds again And these wounds will never bleed again The Ledge In this body a brutal beating There is something caged beneath Let it down, oh let it down Let it down now The rope I can't even see Well I made up my mind To take the ledge Holding onto the wall At masochisms edge I made up my mind In perfect time Your hand slips You fall And take it all (?) You copy you paste you lose In this body There is a seeing And its etched upon the wall Make it out, oh make it out Make it out now For it's barely there at all Oh, across the wide Bleeding and decay And there you find, morbidity lays Well I made up my mind In perfect time And take it all The Black Dove Pick up the wounded dove There's poison in you love Pain entwined with love Stitched in the feathers of a catholic dove Hold our skin We're the colors that we've always been Nation, incarceration Narrative Stories of faces in towns we live Killing threads, iron cages You copy you paste you lose Are you, are you Familiar How I know you shouldn't be familiar, familiar How I know you shouldn't be familiar, familiar How I know you shouldn't be familiar, familiar How I know you shouldn't be familiar, familiar How I know you shouldn't be familiar, familiar How I know you shouldn't be Are you, are you Are you Antechamber Gagged, fed Your mind is like a chamber You said ??? I heard the sound of howling wind (?) Gagged, fed Your mind is like a chamber You said And in the end You wore a suit of armor Yes you did, you did You copy you paste you lose Yes you did You, you, you Womankind Under the shadowed covering Hold this body as its shattering Nerves and hearts lie quivering Your traumas, how they go unseen A lifting of the covered dark The silence there it breaks your heart Buried sounds I believe you I tell you now, I always knew That this happens to women And women-kind Maimed bodies make the longest of lines You copy you paste you lose So the voices sink deep down Ropes they pull at buried sounds And reigning hands they threaten us To carry inside a silent dust Our body's not a public space A corporal autonomous place Hands that enter your space They violate the whole human race Take your body back for you In sacred flesh held in sacred view And women girls, all genders align Survivors blood, survivors mind And everyone who cares for others lives It's time, this silence comes alive Before it breaks the night And there are no stars left in our eyes I hear your silence I always knew I tell you now, I believe you Behind The Glass Pressed against the glass your bleeding heart But I knew you, I knew you'd come apart You sat down to see with your fragile heart But I knew you, I knew you'd fall apart And what is authenticity (you dig into the deep) For we crave it down on bruised knees (lie with the wounds beneath) And we call out remembering (the silences between) For a time that will never be again (you and me) You copy you paste you lose Oh, behind the glass is something But it might not be what you're wanting You sat down to see a curious heart But I never knew that you would come apart this way Holding in your hands, your bleeding heart But I never thought that you would fall apart this way And what is authenticity (you dig into the deep) For we crave it down on bruised knees (lie with the wounds beneath) And we call out remembering (the silences between) For a time with a pulse and that bleeds (you and me) For a time that will never be again (you and me) For a time with a pulse and that bleeds (you and me) For a time that will never be again (you and me) Behind the glass is something But it might not be what you're wanting
Surrender I felt the vines move within I felt my heart bleed again By not a stranger, by not a friend And with its words it pulled me in Out on the road, hailing to survive Held by something that never wanted me alive Shot the glimmer straight out of my eyes Flowers laid bare for when I'm ready to lie in surrender I watched it move from the ceiling to the floor Was it you or it I adored A hypnotism impossible to ignore The more I took, it took me more Out on the road, hailing to survive Held by something that never wanted me alive Shot the glimmer straight out of my eyes Flowers laid bare for when I'm ready to lie in surrender I held on to the reins Let go or be dragged in its name And I looked back at you, set fire, set ablaze And I walked down the streets for miles A gaunt face held in exile ‘Cause I was out on the road hailing to survive Held by something that never wanted me alive Shot the glimmer straight out of my eyes Flowers laid bare for when I'm ready to lie in surrender Drowned For many a year, this face of sullen tears Look down, you left her here In a room of sanguine mirrors It's carved and it strays This path it deviates A walk, a dive, a wade Into waters of the darkest age But in a silent way, the hand it takes Circling around, the birth, the mouth It's stolen and untrue, this mark in you And soon it will be found, left to drown For many a year, this face of sullen tears Look down, you left her here In a room of sanguine mirrors Infernal A prick of rose's thorn across the break, across the morn And I walk blindfolded into the wake, into the storm And please avert your eyes, the dust it falls, the dust it lies And in the fire's claw incernate, they burned them all And in the bird's eye view the fires bled, the fires grow And we walk blindfolded feeling no trace of all we knew And please avert your eyes from earthly cracks, earthly cries And in the final throw incernate beauty we know And she was a haven for me And she was a haven for thee And she, a holy vessel breathes And you sit and watch her bleed And you torched a hole in the sky And you watched your earnings fly And you sit there as she lies In blood right before our eyes And in the wake fires burn, fires take And at the wake ashes fall, ashes forsake And at the wake we will fall, we will ache And at the wake we'll recall beauty's face Washed Away Modern industrial life Takes your soul in its fangs We might as well be all washed away If I don't hang on tight, if I let myself stray I will lose my sight and I will be washed away And, oh, some days I walk my own Oh, my own pace It takes away the heartache It seems no one has their own eyes And we all speak from the cage Are we living in fright Consenting to be washed away I'll lose my heart, my own eyes I'll lose the smell of the rain As I walk, aimless in the night I will be washed away And, oh, some days I brush the palm Oh, of my hand Across the face of this forgotten land I left my print in the sand Organic mark made I got up and walked in the night And I refused to be washed away The burden of modern life The heart it beats and it prays Forever to walk in the night And never be washed away And, oh, some days I walk my own Oh, my own pace It takes away the heartache And oh some days, I brush the palm Oh, of my hand Across the face of this forgotten land Metamorphosis A septant year alive, not a drop in poison's name I walk the streets alive, barely knowing my own name Metamorphosis, the cut, the wreck, the blade And in my own eyes, the light, the heat, the blaze ‘Cause there was blood on the view And we took it and we wrote anew Left in waiting for the marks to go away And all the entries of the dark messes were made ‘Cause there was blood on the view And we took it and we wrote anew Fabric of shame and sorrow's name Reverse and retrace the tears on your face You lived through, lived through, lived through Dew I watched the wind make the roses bend Does X truly mark the end You say thorns scratch your face In blood and scar you can't erase Does time really grow anew Does poison drop the same as dew (in the morning) I held the wings of a dove As you held me like hand in glove Flickering light, the world it burns for you In holy fright as many try to save you You say thorns scratched your face In blood and scar you can not erase I guess that X truly marks the end I watched the wind make the roses bend I held the wings of a dove As you held me like hand in glove Shroud I came out in a shroud Bathed in all the waste I'd seen And the rain rang loud With that old familiar sting The poison runs, the flame and the wick My heart burns in it The colors run, the sound of sick And we drown in it Keep my head above the ground Heaven knows I'm buried now Holy war came and gone Now they say it won't be long The poison runs, the flame and the wick My heart burns in it The colors run, the sound of sick And we drown in it Entity Billions of entities here alive Who do we uphold, who do we decry And who takes the throne and who the soil Who do we love and who do we spoil 'Cause everyone's got a mark Tell me how you wade in the dark And some have a helping hand And others are left barren in the wind Higher one, how do you abandon All of those with trauma'd religion Higher one, you promise to enlighten Except for those with trauma'd religion ‘Cause everyone's got a mark Show me how you wade in the dark Light One bell to ring as you wanted, eternally One bell to sing as you hunted, eternally And I will call on you forever And I will call on you forever And in the wind and the heart, eternally And in the swell of the lark, eternally Eternally And they will chime forever And they will chime forever The Gates at the End I walked through the gates at the end You weren't far, far from me then I would wait for you In blood, holy and true Cynical until it breaks, the words decay The voice it cuts, the voice betrays You can trace the lines broken hearts make Run your fingers through the cracks of eternal ache I walk through the gates at the end They'd been marked by the pens of forgotten women Pennyroyal we burn For every forgotten word And I cannot brace for the end A long road And I cannot brace for the end, the end
Alluvion Show Me The River 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 Crepuscule 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 Heresy 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 Poisoned 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 Body Against the Gun 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 The Hands Above Me 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 Mute Swan 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 Hold Them Alive 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 Hollow Hearth 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 I Spent the Years Frozen 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 Battle Call 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