1. |
Down the Way
04:12
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Down the way
where the sprawl starts to fray
comes a call for sunlight
Down the way
when we all start to pray
for a stall of gunfights
Down the way
Down the way
Down the way
Down the way
past the walls and the pavement
stray dogs look at you crosseyed
Cross barren land laced
with fresh scars like your face
where your hands go numb from frostbite
Down the way
Down the way
Down the way
The world comes for you
And you
And you
And you
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2. |
Coming In
07:03
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I’m frozen still as the very thought it of strikes me again
How the world just continues to spin
and spin
Like theres nothing to see
but clear skies, clean streets,
children cradled to sleep
in the arms of their mothers
sweetly, full of love
Bring on the Flood
Lord
just come and see
There’s a rose in my hand
There’s a thorn in my side and it’s bleeding me it out
There’s a hole in my head
There’s a hole in the earth and they’re crawling from out
Now they’re coming in
They’re coming in
They’re coming in
Thats no moon hanging in space,
it's a mirror
of my pocked and cratered face turning gray,
turning away perpetually
Rustle the leaves
peek through branches and see
your body running naked through
endless fields of green
and smell the gasoline
There’s a rose in my hand
There’s a thorn in my side and it’s bleeding me it out
There’s a hole in my head
There’s a hole in the earth and they’re crawling from out
Now they’re coming in
Through windows and doors whether open or not
They’re bleeding you out
Now they’re coming in
And they’re pulling you out
The sun is bruising up the horizon on this morning
Deep purple gone crimson
Can still catch me in its grip
Streaks of heaven cross the sky
As the soft sun curls under the globe
Who told it to go on and hide
Leave me floating away
I go dead in the eyes
as the blackness of the night numbs
these pale cold lips, this concrete face
The world recoils into the shape of nothing
I bark like a rabid dog
Once it peaks the horizon
Meets my eyes
Starts to crawl out from under those hills
Now I can feel it through the door
I can feel it through the walls
I can feel it in every room of this house
I can feel them
Coming in
Streak of heaven cross the sky
Soft sun curls under the globe
Go on and hide
It’s the blackness of the night
That numbs these pale cold lips
And my concrete face
The world recoils into the shape of nothing
Its many colors can come to spoil those like me
Now I feel it through the door
I feel it through the walls and windows of this house
I can feel it
I can feel they’re coming in
They’re coming in
I can feel it
There's an ocean of light
I’m gonna drown in its waves
Get lost in them
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3. |
Yesterday
05:53
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When day breaks
You hesitate
Then slow crawl
Through this hell hole
Your time’s spent
In a harness
Or at arm’s length
But something’s calling
Hey I’ve seen you before
Time’s cratered your eyes
You’ve walked through the piles of shit
With a head full of violent intent
And you saw them coming around the bend
Matched their footsteps down the darkening alleyway
Yesterday
When you walk home
Feel your heart groan
Watch the stars pulse
This holy universe
Once you crawl in
To your own bed
Feel your head fill
And it’s dreadful
Yeah I’ve seen you before
And time’s cratered your eyes
You fled to the nearest road but the rotting surely spread
And it crawled into your head
You beat it inside of your skull to “look down and run away”
But that was yesterday
Today had yesterday leaking out its seams
Out of its seams
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4. |
A Road
03:42
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5. |
View of a City on Fire
04:01
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As I roam across the permafrost
And my fears beam across the sky
All the bones and mush atop my legs rush
Into view of a city on fire
Softly, a bad man speaks to me
Watching tears stream from out my eyes
Words leave his mouth
I can’t hear their sound
But they’re true, long as they aren’t leaving mine
As I hold a cross at the birds flying above
Hear them scream alarms across the sky
They peck at my cheeks
With rotten lips where once were beaks
They aren’t pretty, but neither am I
There’s a road going down the side of my head
It started deep in the bowels of my heart
If it’s ever gonna end, it’s only gonna end
In view of a city on fire
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6. |
Palmyra
08:00
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A calm breeze found its way into me
And now the world, it looks like Palmyra
They found him walking down the street
Humming to himself “It’s all mine!”
I can’t sleep while other men breathe
Tossing and turning on the spire
Last night he walked into the light
And screamed “I am the god of hellfire”
My teeth crack and jailbreak out my mouth
My crooked smile looks like Palmyra
Tires screech as he taps the ground beneath
Telling passing drivers “it’s hollow!”
Softly the shepherd held to me
From the crook to the pen to the pyre
Like me the lord spoke to him
He glistened in submission to the fire
Lastly, stood there glowing me
I finally took to the choir
Last night I walked into the light
I glistened in submission to the fire
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7. |
Bottomless Song
04:52
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it was you
Just when I think you’re gone then
I see you floating through my dreams
oh god, oh god
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8. |
Another Road
02:17
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9. |
Sweet, Sweet Melodies
05:24
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I don’t have good days or bad days so it seems
Nowadays I barely have days at all
Just some other man’s dreams
Now you’re close, I can feel you around my neck
What you whisper hurts but my skin is so warm
Beneath your breath
Now I’ll stall
Try to barrel through the night
And I stall
Just try to barrel through
As I stall
Watch lightning cross the sky
And I stall
But can wait no more I hear you
Calling
Calling
You’re calling for blood
Calling
Calling
Calling for blood
What ever happened to sweet melodies
Full of life and love so endlessly?
I’m not your man I’m just your memory
What ever happened to sweet melodies
Pulling heartstrings 'til they’re hemorrhaging
I’ve fallen hard, won’t you remember me?
What ever happened to it all?
Oh you’re on your own?
Where you go I’ll go
We’ll be all alone
Where you go I’ll go
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10. |
Never Love
06:46
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Let’s say the world ends
And he looks you in the eyes
Would even then
You keep up this disguise?
You’re a bug
On a windshield
Oozing your whole body out
Of your disgusting little mouth
Swept aside?
(And) If blank pages
Would fill themselves for you
With perfect script and poetry
That read like God’s own truth?
Still you’re a dog
Off the leash
Running wild and free
Until you reach the street
Where you’re struck?
It’s the last night of a never ending december
Just like yesterday and the day before
And you’re stuck in a house with one window to look at the world
but the window has no latch and the house has no door
Looking out the window you see trees burning to the north
And the fire is making its way south
Your breathing grows heavy
You starting beating at the window then the wall so hard
The brick is starting to crack and let light shine through
Breathing grows heavier and heavier
Down the hall you hear footsteps getting close
And breathing grows heavier and heavier and heavier
your vision blurs before it goes black
your flaccid body just collapses to the ground like a slaughtered goat
Suddenly someone’s fingers pry open your eyes
but you realize they are your fingers and someone else’s eyes,
and actually you are outside and there is no house just a door,
the trees have all begun to bare fruit,
the sun has split the clouds just to see you
But you’re a child
Bright and sweet
With bags under your eyes
And nails dug in your feet
Never loved?
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Brennan DeBoer Nebraska
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