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Mongrel
02:32
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hours you've been gone
you are frightening me
brush on the lawn
the order of all things
you're not even fooling yourself lacing your shoes so tight
I can hardly vouch for myself while my hands are untied
"it's a crime of passion" you whisper with each blow
suddenly I'm learning where the sick dogs go
it's the order of all things, so-
buddy, I think you're sick
buddy, I think you need some help
I often speak in second person
because I frighten myself
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Sincerity
02:30
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who's been clipping my leg through a broken holster?
I stand over a gaunt image of my face
I'm cowering through taut twine
shrinking fiber clothesline
placing tired pattterns into place
one or another way
outside built unwanted property
took a chest compression properly
lucid, woke into a soon ruinous state
I'm uncomfortable and restless
trying not to be so selfish
how long have I spent in this place?
seven hedging on a formless interest
it's not coming in a sincere way
cabalistic as the deified abundance of the first human mistake (I made)
I swear, Belial, I can make my own luck
I can't depart from your tired name
cabalistic as the deified abundance of the first human mistake
and if I won't look well, at least I will look clean
I want to be clean enough for you to see through me
when they find you out, I won't be around
they're gonna find you out
they're gonna-
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3. |
Brown Bear (Aberration)
04:06
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oh, I was a child
thunder from your right hand
oh, the lot of you so vile
you shot my mother dead
I will hunt you to extinction
I will hide in bramble beds
my hands are so great and mighty
I will swipe your species dead
I have watched you place my mother
on a mantle, hunting shed
I am starving for some justice
I will swipe your species dead
oh, I was just a child
thunder from your right hand
oh, the lot of you so vile
you shot my mother dead
I thought I lost your scent
but roots can rise and swallow
a search party will follow
I will lead them to my den
your family and friends
limber in the lower brush
I'm no monster, I won't mount your head
retribution has the softest touch
I will plant you the softest bed
aberration
aberration
aberration
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Bummer and Lazarus
02:40
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don't make light of my brother
I will eat you myself
Martin, I will eat your insides
I am stuffed on your shelf
Lazarus, carry me to heaven
the way I once took care of you
I heard our bodies stayed together
on the shelf at Martin's saloon
if I chase my tail too far
Lazarus, we've spent too long apart
plenty rats in the golden streets
Lazarus, please save some for me
Lazarus, carry me to heaven
the way I once took care of you
I heard our bodies stayed together
on the shelf at Martin's saloon
we don't belong to this city
this city belongs to us
I can't fight this off much longer
when you descend, wake me up
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5. |
Lunar Duet
03:22
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you are light but who do you shine for?
(I shine for you)
you are light but where do you shine towards?
(I shine towards you)
we are long since seperate
(long since two bodies continents apart
distant as two polar shifts in heart)
we are long since seperate
(seperate as twins buried states away
distant as the impact along your face)
what you have given up dwarves what you've got
(shambling through deafened oblivion)
I carry oceans and they're pilfered with rot
(cores bursting concave as violas)
we are long since intimate
(long since two bodies continents apart
distant as two polar shifts in heart)
we are long since intimate
(seperate as twins buried states away
distant as the impact along your face)
if I only could reach a hand
winds at my command
structures time withstands
if I only could graze your face
alike in dissonant space
just a comet away
but we stay an arms length away
but we stay an arms length away
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humans loving humans as a dark cloud passes through
I'll scurry for shelter as the dark cloud blows right over you
humans hunting humans while they hum a careless tune
I've been waiting decades for the dark cloud peering into view
so I swell where you fell with your arms bracing the earth
I dwell in the crater just like stories you once heard
there is no agency at all
oh, craters follow where you fall
how do I reconcile the evil in the bedrock as it seeps in throught the soil?
blood red royal
we cannot keep meeting like this
dark cloud unhand me
swallowed spiders in the spirit of a dark cloud unyielding
lo! loss of all control
our flesh has failed us so in spirit of the dark cloud rising
I'll hang on to the coattails
all nervous systems fail
why do you despise me so much that you'd go far out of your way?
so to the newfound chasm I'll say:
we cannot keep meeting like this
dark cloud unhand
swallowed spiders in the spirit of a dark cloud unyielding
blood red royal
blood red royal
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7. |
Jackal
03:35
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so your analyses have found I've been resting underground
like I'm running from a criminal background
in my dramatic dreams where I fulfill fantasies
of covering false losses and racketeering
till a shining silver bullet intended for my skull
hit someone standing by the table behind me
he was someone's child's father
the authorities don't bother
what if I'm evil and I don't know?
a fresh kill in my claws
I see a jackal in the mirror
washing blood from its paws
later that night I was found
garrote wire wrapped around me
I almost looked like a present with a bow
in the crematorium I woke with ash inside my lungs
so I could take one more walk around the block
I am still learning at my own pace
I hope I wake up in a nicer place
if I was still young I could buff the nightmares out
I could breathe in warm air where buzzards roam about
but now I'll leave them to their thankless work
I am thankful, buzzard, do your worst
what if I'm evil and I don't know?
a fresh kill in my claws
I see a jackal in the mirror
washing blood from its paws
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8. |
Lover of Tantalus
03:26
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you say not to worry too much
while I'm on the time clock
guess I've said it all
from a young age I have whimpered
sorry static whispers
hope this breaks the fall soon
lover of Tantalus
you love too much
what are you a glutton of?
does it hurt enough?
don't engage the theurgy
you roost among
tired and hysterical
stiff chicken lung
lover of Tantalus
you love too much
what are you a glutton of?
does it hurt enough?
no! I beckon out to the river
where my brothers drowned
I found you waiting there
with a blue flower in your mouth
slowly I descend the rapids
two hundred feet down
I found you lying there
with a blue flower in your mouth
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Hamelin
01:36
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I feel like a rat does
when it crosses the river shore
resting at the bottom
who exactly am I drowning for?
a life of chewing endives
scurried from Hamelin's door
who's really the mealworm?
who exactly am I drowning for?
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Trophy Field
03:21
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in good faith how long can I remain?
selfish as I've been
in the shadows of greater men
I remain sun poisoned instead
in giving way to righteousness I claim
the serpent is now slain
I could mend you with slight of hand
signals I will never understand
there was no greater plan
at least from where I stand I know
I dug myself this hole
but I can't stand to know
how steep is the toll?
this is my home
in good faith how long can I display
severed heads lining the estate?
leaving wreckage in my wake
so remain ill until the grave
was I so arrogant as to claim my youth badly betrayed me?
as everyone gathers into frame
I'm awake to the reverse role I played
there was no greater plan
at least from where I stand I know
I dug myself this hole
but I can't stand to know
how steep is the toll?
this is my home in name alone
this is my home in name alone
this is my home in name alone
this is my home
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11. |
Antler of Rot
03:59
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your open hands are tainted
I'm getting suffocated
but it all comes to a good use
the same pillow that smothered you
your talents are so wasted
on the wire you've tasted
and they all puppeteer like strings
bodies the curtain's covering
it feels so good to feel human
swallowed by fluorescent light
if I was real flesh I could die
the longest night is coming
I've wasted my life running
do you see your motives through?
in the dark cloud I see you
cause you and I look just the same
one body with two different names
and I'm scared that you'll kill me first
you get older and it only gets worse
it feels so good to feel human
swallowed by fluorescent light
if I was real flesh I could
this is the longest year of my life
flat side of a serrated knife
a frothing animal with no desire
I've tried to leave the things I'm better without
synaptic systems swell with gout
the bitter taste of American sand
die face down like an American man
distrophy in semantic terms
forehead gash, bone poking through
paranoid with muscles distraught
my skull bore an antler of rot
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been since the last time you called
that I heard news as bad as this
and I'm scared in a way I haven't been since I was a kid
it bends at its knees
groveling- "please don't loosen the locks"
I don't know what's gonna happen to us
been since visions came back
that I felt this aching in my spine
insects entering my ears
causing nightmares during waking life
it's difficult to tell if I'm clearing way to hell
while my lips split a little each on side
this is senseless, but I never ask why
a color I had never seen bursting out of me
with a ringing bell around my toe
even the greenest grass dies when it gets old
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sun is poison Ballston Spa, New York
some songs to listen to
sun is poison recommends:
it's gorgeous and wistful, listen and find out
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Your Ghost In Me
by Desert Trees
crazy underrated, switches between being super catchy and super dense at a moments notice
go to albumIf you like sun is poison, you may also like:
supported by 9 fans who also own “Dark Cloud Unhand Me”
this album reminds me of that documentary where they put 10 girls in a house for a week to fend for themselves
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Weatherglow
by Asian Glow, Weatherday
supported by 9 fans who also own “Dark Cloud Unhand Me”
They NEED to make sheet music for this whole album. Amazing work!!
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Introspective pop songs with transcendent melodies offer a joyful meditation on staying present in a world that often moves too fast.
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If you have a fondness for expertly wrought roots-rock with sharp lyrics and aching vocals, look no further—“Strangers” is for you.
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