1. |
Untitled #2
02:39
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Stab at your discontent sweetly
Try on the perfect head
Collapse the unbearable bulges
Where character is kept
And I will still love you
If you cave in or flake out
You’re sweet as clementine
There’s no contour quite severe enough
To quell my urges
Smell me want you
Smell me desperately
And I will pass through your gates
Like faint perfume
Make new scars for me
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Low
02:51
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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
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3. |
Goner's Blues
03:47
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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
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4. |
Love is Lonesome
02:45
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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
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Smoking Sixes
05:59
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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
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Tiger's Paws
04:10
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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
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7. |
Strummed on a Bent Harp
04:22
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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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8. |
Untitled #3
05:03
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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
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