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Devil's Blues

by Joy

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1.
You were a flood Terrible and swift With all of God’s love in your foam You were a fire In the garden With all of God’s love in your path
2.
Busted lock Burning grace Spent all night wailing at the garden gate Seeds and cores And WHAT IS IT FORs Turning black Muted light Falling on and all around The failed design, the thirsty weeds We lit up Intractable, But willing to be tempted Run on, run on The warm weather’s gone But my love grows nervous and wild Run out, run out Snap shut and slouch down Wilted but holding on
3.
Tiger's Paws 04:02
Your crane’s neck salty Two tiger’s paws on a white belly, kneading Hot wolf spit and howling mouths Teeth ringing with animal songs Words on snake tongues simmering Let us be evil then But DEVIL And DOUBTFUL Didn’t mean a thing Until I was fallen from you Come ruination Don’t the words weigh down the music Don’t the words weigh down our animal dreaming
4.
All love is lonesome All lovers are deranged Stitched with thorns and Cupid’s arrows To the source of fire Brown around the bite marks And my rust has roamed some From where you first laid your fangs Now there’s no end to my decaying Or secret still to find Only bruises where your mouth has been But it was love that traded grace for death and doubt And love that strove to drive the Devil out Love that flew from Eden Love that mapped the wild East When we snapped it from the stem And swore to share the consequence
5.
Untitled #3 05:04
Goddamn, the Devil’s own wasted time Goddamn, I’m not wasting mine And, chopping through the garden vines, I divine there’s nowhere but east to go And nothing so entwined As trouble and a tempted mind Or the fates to which we were consigned When love breached the rind Jawbone breaks On steely fruit Knowing is sucked up through the root Faithless fawn With sour core And sadness in store, Knowing’s what your faithlessness is for
6.
Low 02:48
All the low angels Slouch from the weight of their wings And we, less heavenly things, Filling with beer, Speeding toward August, Are equally loaded Affection, confusion Out of breath from too much laughing Kisses like falling I’m secretly asking for Smoke coming out of a hole in the fruit But your information All of your signals and signs Are heavier than mine And I would sink down Surely, completely Till no light could reach me Affection, confusion Out of breath from too much laughing Sun on pale denim Hot on your Florida tan Why can’t I say FUCK IT when the odds bear their teeth
7.
None without weight of hope Loaded spines Valentines Will you be mine? Each seeking certainty Though certainly inclined to pine for something more shadowy And hazily outlined And to loop in orbit around it Moons beaming down on it Blues from the gravity of it Sweet and supposable Unknowable Loathable And snow is melting on John Street And we, featherless and free, Are slowly unlocking
8.
Slow leak in a subtle lie In a rumor relayed By way of a shadow Her skirt slyly made Displayed between legs and station stop and fates She’s a slick secret-keeper With a secret smile Devil growling through the hum of the engine that conveyed her Buttoned up her lip but left smoking sixes that betrayed her Room filled with murky light With sulfurous sweat That yellowed the promise And ran down the bed Left a mysterious and solemn debt She shows the whites and grays Curtains all pulled back Devil tapping on the glass Red as rust with purple edges Wrote them backwards in the frost, Smoking sixes hot and deathless Devil aching in my heart Buzzards following the spent love Burning trail of toil and doubt Smoking sixes all undreamt of Devil dreaming f the tree When ruin flickered through the branches And we flickered, too For a while in that shade
9.
Red As Rust 02:25
10.
Love’s blues Illuminated in all this hellfire In the tilting and turning of constellations In the ancient sound of hearts breaking In extinguished secrets floating to Heaven In the rise and fall of her body at night
11.
Love's Bones 04:59
Angels leave their bones in rocks Sunk like prehistoric birds Calcified in fallen flocks Fossils of defunct saints And we’ll leave craters in the crust And feathers preserved in clay Watts when we were luminous Worms when we die Divide in two If love’s the load that anchors you And the soil gets your grace And your mouth fills with coal And you know About the cold of the flood coming over your toes And the fate of the breath you hold About the weight of your loneliness And the sulfur that stains the insides of your veins Burning more the faster it flows Mama, your sweat is hot And your wings are on fire
12.
Nervous gut Evil days in the fire Birdless but Wings still weigh down the wire And it’s you that I flew from Eden for And more than a tooth that I sunk in the old apple core And a myth I’m poisoned with Fatal for sure Love’s a shadow that casts women on The backs of my eyelids Love moves in the atoms of your leaving And hangs with the icicles from the eaves Lord, don’t shine no sun on me And let my lovers freeze Inextricably, beautifully to me A belly for our babies Love deep as cum Devil’s blues Daddy’s darkness is gone

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Recorded, mixed and mastered by Nick Zampiello in our basement and at New Alliance East. Cover art by Dan.

Matt Dodge—Drums
Dan Madri—Guitars
Ariel Rabinovic—Guitars
Mat Savage—Vocals

With:
Dan Benningfield—Keyboard on track 10
Joshua Marcus—Upright Bass on tracks 4, 5
Megan Williams—Violin on track 1
Nick Zampiello—Keys, Noise, Perc on tracks 3, 5, 9, 10, 11

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released June 13, 2005

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