Song List
- Pathea
- Hum
- Sol
- Hyaline
- Curl
- Cherubian Hand
- Axhide
- Paso Fino
- Veins
- A Better Place
- A Disintegration
- The Hollowing of Girls
PATHEA
the mothers were crying alone with silver spoons
pulled out their hair
and the fathers were dirt and the children were dying out
and nothing was heard in spite of them crying out
and the rivers were burning as waters came flooding in
drowning the frail
and a heat that no one had known dried up our mouths
we begged, we fought, but the war had starved us out
Hum
i hope you don't resent
i hope you will not mind
that i'm leaving tomorrow
oh, i trust you not to tell
my heart is a river
a dead and aimless hum
it calls me to follow
oh, it wants to take me home
when i go
there will be nothing left of me
i will leave nothing behind
when i go
someone else can take my seat
i want no one to cry
as if i was never even there
as if i was never in your heart
lay my memory down
i promise
i promise it will be okay.
SOL
i'll help you bear this child
a floodling, a fucker
become the worthless one
fragile and naked
sol, i exist in your love
sol, i exist in your love
in this death
i see you
in my blood
i see you
in others
i see you
earth mother
i feel you
(she'll devour us all)
i push through your veil of fire
rest in your flesh
eclipse my heart's desire
destroy the radiance
HYALINE
hang your head low, my darling
hang your head low, my darling
hang your head low, my darling
or it takes you
your time is coming, my darling
the blade is falling, my darling
you'd better start burying yourself alive
and they kneel
one after the other
silent as they fall
hyaline
we were never meant to last
in the silent night
heaven comes down to me
CURL
this earth is stark
crooked and toothed
i'm filled with bile
see it swelling over
i hate that i adore
the way you curl in me
i want to burn your house down
five fingers fold
reach around your vein
you won't want to know
but i'll stay till morning
see my shadow
in the mire
losing faces and traces of meaning
deep in the waste of the earth
we come undone
CHERUBIAN HAND
cherubian hand
lay down in the center of me
unveil my love
fill me up with stones
i'm carving a bridge to the real world
carving a bridge to the real world
from my flesh, over the water
from my flesh, over and over
cherubian hand
swallow down the longing
your shape haunts my bed
comes in dreamless nights
cherubian hand
wasted affection
let my arms enshroud you
faceless and fair
i'm carving a bridge to the real world
carving a bridge to the real world
from my flesh, over the water
from my flesh, over and over
AXHIDE
i've got you under my fingernails
and stains on my arms
i've got a thousand heads
and the taste of blood on my tongue
i am a flightless child
and a fucker with no name
i am a bastard born of a wolf
misshapen by pray
we're moving
but i don't know where we're going
but i don't know where we're going
we're losing ourselves
i've bled on the dullest edge of your dream
fallen off the earth
i've sat here and waited for life to begin
eroding my worth
we're moving
but i don't know where we're going
but i don't know where we're going
we're losing ourselves
PASO FINO
shiver
hollow
breathe another time
the white horse rides again
ender
giver
regurgitate destruction
deathless other
i want to know
deathless saint
i want to be endless
there is no house that can save you from this death
step
gentle gait
she births the winter
she makes the fire
deathless other
i want to know
deathless saint
i want to be endless
VEINS
veins become roads
stretching wide below
never grow old
we stay deadlocked
take my hand
true red bone
take my hand
'til we forget where we've been
grayest wastelands
endless roads
time won't take us home
away from these dying halls
take my hand
true red bone
take my hand
'til we forget where we've been
and in the end
there is only you and me
A BETTER PLACE
i have seen a better place
it came with its hands open
eyes wide in desire
reaching out to me with phantom limbs
pale like gossamer
saying
hold me now like you never could
step into my arms
hold me now like you never could
forget the pain
forget the pain
A DISINTEGRATION
sit down
turn to dust
sit down.
THE HOLLOWING OF GIRLS
hollow daughter
slow dance towards the dark
fingertips in the mud
savage savior
she kisses me with teeth
writes her sins on my lips
opened up
displayed to heaven
heads conjoined, empty things
turn me inside out.