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The Same as it Begin
02:50
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I knelt to say just one more solemn hymn
I wept and prayed to stay the devil's grin
But every day my prayer would end the same as it begin
Oh Jesus Christ, if we live twice, what a price we pay to sin
I bled for days, drunk on rye and gin
And tried in vain to love the highest's kin
But every day my prayer would end the same as it begin
Oh Jesus Christ, if we live twice, what a price we pay to sin
A lifetime is too long
To sing the devil's song once through
But twice I've hummed this psalm to you
And twice I've sung the blues
I broke away and spoke some with His friends
I told them they were wasting so much breath
'Cause every day my prayer would end the same as it begin
Oh Jesus Christ, he may live twice, but twice he'll meet with death
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2. |
Leo Will Eat Aries
03:27
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3. |
My Hollow Bones
03:15
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I've been bled and hanged
Weightless as I sang
Jesus saves
Jesus saves
And I've heard words of praise
Nameless as I swayed
Eat away my hollow bones
Oh these limbs have decayed though we've prayed for every one
So we grin, what I am become
Christ was hung in shame
Craven, people sang
Jesus Saves
Jesus Saves
And robbed my body breaks
Faithless without shape
Take away my shallow bones
Oh these limbs have decayed though we've prayed for every one
So we grin, what I am become
Thin and hallowed face
Limpid borrowed grace
Eats away my hollow bones
Oh these limbs have decayed though we've prayed for every one
So we grin, what I am become
Oh these limbs have decayed though we sang till we went dumb
So we grin, 'cause I am undone
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4. |
One Phantom Pain
03:43
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The slipknot is tied, but the hangman has severed his hands
He sits like a child as he hopes for just one phantom pain
To tell him he once felt the world
And leave him tears to love the dead
Who stand indifferent
The moss on his lips is flowering in shades of dusk
And blood on the snow’s iridescent in final bloom
To tell him he once felt the world
And leave him tears to love the dead
Who stand indifferent
Pale insouciance, how beautiful
He dreamed it each and every night
Simpers fading, they’re a facade
And we're all whores
The words on his lips, wrapped in blankets to shelter the sound
They sagged from the weight of his knowledge that the moss had spread
Pale insouciance, how beautiful
He dreamed it each and every night
Simpers fading, they’re a facade
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5. |
Born Stray
04:34
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My tongue is swollen
This mouth in full bloom
Ripe blood, teeth broken
Each pulsed, each moved
Our breaths are pale sins
Our deaths, our penance
My skin is frozen
These cracks on my flesh
Begin to open
Each bereft of what I've left
What I've dreamt
Our breaths are pale sins
Our deaths, our penance
Tearing away the flesh that remains
God is a dream I forget when I wake
Screaming in vain to rend what I take
Father’s the name on my lips as I break
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7. |
Lingering for Days
02:53
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This blood is slow and thickening
This tongue is ripe
Lips numb from cold are blistering
These bones are cold and withering
Bleached though not white
Breathe slow and hope this winter wind
Is light
'Cause in my spine, her fingers rust lingering for days
And over time our lungs to dust, corrupt in slow decay
Breathe still this voice is silk we leave
Trembling slight
Hushed noise like memories we weave
Songs break once laced with bittersweet dreams
Of waking twice
Gone lame these legs may beg for release
Or respite
'Cause in her spine, my fingers rust lingering for days
And over time our lungs to dust, corrupt in slow decay
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8. |
Slight and Numb
04:17
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Gentle night
I breathed it slow as though I felt alive
This heavy smile
no shadows cast, no teeth to bend the light
White snow on petals frayed
As the autumn fades
Like a summer's day
Time froze so we chose the blame
Though our softened blaze
Moves slow
Wasted flesh
Strung about these limbs like limpid pelts
Faceless wretch
Hung atop this heap of needless self
White snow on petals frayed
As the autumn fades
Like a summer's day
Time froze so we chose the blame
Though our softened blaze
Moves slow
Slight and numb
I'm forfeit, my blood
Forgot to breathe
Forgot to speak
I've gone dumb
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Ghostly Parchment
04:24
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Father please, my blame
Silent offers
Silent praise
On your knees, I sang
Of empty coffers
Of empty veins
Ghostly parchment, this writing has faded
Take my words
Oh departed, this likeness so patient
Sing this verse
Gather leaves, bring decay
Give me Jesus
Give me plague
Ghostly parchment, this writing has faded
Take my words
Oh departed, this likeness so patient
Sing this verse
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10. |
In Stuttered Tongue
02:58
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Oh these eyes, these little stones, break
Pale and thin, like brittle bones
Holy light, shadow's throne
These bloodless lips sing listless poems
The lips of God know only Judas
Fingers twitch in broken touch
We sing of hope in stuttered tongue
Forget that we've said goodbye
Judas
Left gently swings, left gently sings, gently writhes
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11. |
Coldest Sun
04:04
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12. |
Till We're Feeling Saved
03:24
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Sister please believe me, I ain't lied
I seen your sweetness bleed and I tried
To dream the same beliefs the streams that Jesus Christ has cried
But I can't see the light through all that we deny
My voice is breaking with every curse
Rejoice, you're sated with empty words
Won't spurn the statements burned and hatred stained in turn and worse
The waves of noise gave way to voiceless graves of dirt
Fall to your knees and pray
We'll bleed and sing
Till we're feeling saved
No no no no
Call to the sweetest grave
We'll grieve and sing
Till we're feeling saved
No no no no
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The Mid Season is Sean Harold. Or, rather, Sean Harold is The Mid Season.
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