I Don't Offer Predictions, I Deliver Spoilers

from Crude Language by blood like wine.

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Mine is the voice that martyrs
A weight too crippling to carry
Sacrificed for the sin of being ordinary
A hammer on the business end of a killing blow
The widow like the barren willow weeps
And his orphaned bastards sing their sorrows

Such sorrow we have known
In our skin, in our bones
Strike the match and let it all go
Such sorrow we have known

Begging the sky for any trace of faith
It deems fit to put in me
Fear of god or respect for madame guillotine
A newfound admiration for those
Who died peacefully in their sleep
Or else disappeared without a trace

Such sorrow we have known
In our skin, in our bones
Strike the match, and let it all go
Such sorrow we have known

I pray the ground opens and swallows us whole
Oh, to be forced to fall twice into woe
And in such a vicious manner
A mass grave for chariots that swung too low
Horses’ skeletons still tethered to their heavenly anchors
As above, so below

Such sorrow we have known
In our skin, in our bones
Strike the match, and let it all blow

Oh, no
Watch it blow away
Oh, no
Watch it blow

Strike the match and let it all go
Such sorrow we have known

[Tyto]
If she, being sage, intuits a loop through which
the eye is seen as seer,
forgive her only in the instance that she asks
for asking or, if sight
demands more mercury than silver, grant her
mercy when she speaks
in raventongue with wild in six eyes snowy.

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from Crude Language, released May 10, 2019

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blood like wine. Memphis, Tennessee

Strong Style Memphis folk. Haunting, gorgeous, raw, unique - just like this city. Esoteric to the point of being unpleasant.

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