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Golden Orb
05:23
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Quiet now, let me wrap my web over your mouth.
Bulging eyes, terrified
Pulse quickens as the winds blow south.
Colour drains constant rains
Muddy waters drag you out.
Lick the salt from your skin
Paper flowers burn in my mouth.
We sigh, we scream
Fingers tear at me
We fall, we bleed
We can’t ever see
I’ll stick you to me
Suffocate beneath
Now you are inside
Now we cannot breathe
Quiet now, let me thread my web through your eyes.
I can’t wait, pupils dilate
This is for every time you lie.
Burning hair, no ones there
And I smile to see you cry.
Patience now, don’t make a sound
I will claim my prize.
We sigh, we scream
Fingers tear at me
We fall, we bleed
We can’t ever see
I’ll stick you to me
Suffocate beneath
Now you are inside
Now we cannot breathe
A force to the head
A gut full of dread
And I will love you
Until we’re both dead.
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2. |
Wait 'til Night
05:02
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Stay, stay my love
I awake afraid of losing you
I destroy everything
But still you’re in my arms
You draw from my mouth
The secrets I have swallowed
You firmly grip my throat
Above sharp collar bone.
Eyes are wild, smile hysterical.
They wait till night, to feed on carrion.
Stay, stay my love
I’m afraid of losing you
I try to fix everything
but still you do me harm
I dissect myself to fit you in
I remove bones and twisted limbs
I let myself lie
And do miserable things.
Eyes are wild, smile hysterical.
They wait till night to feed on carrion.
They wait and watch.
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3. |
Scorpio Moon
05:17
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Still. Still.
Bleached in Scorpio Moon
My lips still miss the taste of you
Loneliness sickly sweet
And drenched in misery
I draw you into me.
You trace your name over my veins
Fragile baby blue
Barely neath’ the skin
That now belongs to you.
I give myself unto,
My love Scorpio Moon.
I lie awake and burn
I wait for your return
I’m nothing to you now.
I curse the sacred skies
I died within your eyes
And I just don’t know how.
I only feel myself
When I am fused to you
I kneel to kiss your feet
You slowly part my knees
And I forget to breathe.
I give myself unto,
My love Scorpio Moon.
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4. |
Back to the Ground
03:40
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Hold my wrists and drag me down.
You smell of pine and wear a frown.
As sons of gods wear thorny crowns
My mouth is shut, my hands are bound.
Dirty Skinned and steely eyed
You drove the blade into my side
I smiled and said it was alright
Then cried hot tears into the night.
The men in town call me insane
They tease my hair with angry flame
When rains don’t show then I’m to blame
When crops don’t grow they curse my name.
Light the kindling, tie me down
The goddess wears a burning crown
The murder fly with ashes now
And I belong back to the ground.
I belong back to the ground.
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5. |
Void Shaped Void
05:15
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I watch you sleep across the sea
My eyes sting to make you out
Oceans away from where I reach
And I still do without
Salty lashes harden like stone
Death mask of sea foam
And I’ve never felt so alone
And I never felt so alone.
I follow the humming of the bees
From your hive of a head
Between my fingers run their wings
But I want to feel you instead
And I don’t want to but I have to let you go
And I’ve never felt so alone
And I never felt so alone
I miss our sunset home
I miss the way you speak
I miss all the stars lined up beneath my heavy feet
I miss your pretty hands
The way you run them through your hair
I wish you were here
I wish I was there
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6. |
Curse
04:37
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I have willed you here
Through loneliness and fear
I have to have you near
To face the very day
There is a cord that binds
Your hand lashed to mine
I’ll have you loving blind
I will make you stay.
I am bound to you
My love it’s like a curse
A curse I won’t reverse
I embrace the hex.
I have willed you here
Though you will never know
The sky was all aglow
Your hands around my throat
Soft words pull the tides
By flames and silver light
Rough hands to make you rise
As planets re align
I am bound to you
My love it’s like a curse
A curse I won’t reverse
I embrace the hex.
To want you is a curse...
I am bound to you
My love it’s like a curse
A curse I won’t reverse
I embrace the hex.
I am bound to you
Your blood into mine
We drag each other blind
Not knowing what comes next
All of us entwined
Soft and serpentine
I will read your mind
I will make you mine.
To want you is a curse.
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And I miss you
Even when you’re cruel
I’d forgive you
No matter what you put me through.
It’s like you wrote me down,
Your queen darkly adorned
It’s like you conjured up
Someone you could adore.
And you lie beside me
But a hundred lightyears away
And back comes the feeling
In that old familiar way
Do you dare miss me
Like the body gone before
I can’t keep you near me
But you keep on wanting more.
A sword unto the lark
A moth drawn into the flame
A dark hole down to us
Where no light can remain.
And you lie beside me
But a hundred lightyears away
And back comes the feeling
In that old familiar way
Do you dare miss me
Like the one you loved before
I can’t keep you near me
But you keep on wanting more.
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8. |
I Let You In
05:24
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Break me down from beneath,
I’m not worth anything.
Silence. Finish what you started
Punish, possess. I am yours.
Fill me up.
I swallow down
you breathe for me now
You take away my sins
I let you in
I let you in.
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