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Shrines and Ceremonies
05:24
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Darling you have made a broken man of me
God would not forgive me for the things I'd do for thee
I am but a world worn man, my story is for the birds
You would not kiss the beggars hand or hang on to his words
I would drag my knees across the desert sands for thee
And grind my bones to silver dust to scatter on the breeze
I would take the mountains on my back to see
A sliver of your smile
I would take my little knife and cut my hand away
And hook it on a fishing line to feed you for a day
Darling you have made a broken man of me
God would not forgive me for the things I'd do for thee
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Take a Hammer
There's something in the air here
Still spinning in your head
There's something lost and unclear
And something not quite dead
It's that old love you used to have
when you were nineteen years young
Something unresolved, mad
That wounds you like the bullet of a gun
Take a hammer to the old love
Break it down
There's something in their voices
A way of speaking passed
And some unyeilding noises
like shattering of glass
It's that old song you used to sing
When I would wake at night
Those funny words go wandering
Like fears in candlelight
Take a hammer to the old love
Break it down
There's something when you're sleeping
Your eyes they shut like dolls
And silently go weeping
To draw on crooked walls
It's that old hold you used to have
Upon my thoughts and ways
Chains from your eyes go spiralling
To wrap me suffocating in your gaze
Take a Hammer to the old love
Break it down
There's something in the water
That's turning men to thieves
And some unholy daughter
That's fallen to her knees
It's those old words we used to sing
Of what is wrong and right
The costly price we now must pay
Reliving one sweet hour,
Turning sour in the night
Take a Hammer to the old love
Break it down
There's something we've forgotten
Those old obsessions gone
Replaced with faces rotten
To build this broken song
It's that old love you used to have
And lost with words unsaid
And slowly I have gone mad
He lives inside my head
Take a Hammer to the old love
Break it down
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3. |
The Rain
05:14
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You locked us up in here and threw the key to chance
You knew we'd wind up here and now it's even hands
Oh now it's tangled word and tangled limb
This sea is dark at heart and no I cannot swim
And though you knew it would hurt you did it all the same
There is no instant cure to save you from your pain
And the rain will wash us both away
You stare at me from there your body like a grave
My mind is parched my heart is what your body craves
And in your eyes survives the flotsam from the storm
When will you realise you love is like a swarm of bees
And I was not for you and you were not for me
You like my disease and I was like your queen
The thoughts pile up where my dreams lay down to die
In voice in vice you were the web and I was the fly
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Martha
03:20
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Martha
Martha had an old gold tooth
Made from her wedding ring
She liked to hear her voice around it
When she'd laugh or sing
Look for me in the grass in the morning
I am dew, I'm the stars a falling
I am the sun coming over the hill
I'll be the day if it be your will
Billy wore his fathers boots
Holes in both the toes
Story for each broken sole and mile shared
Penny for your thoughts on the road
When it's time to follow the black horse
Head bowed and cap in hand
Remember it's only my body that's left me
I'm there in the lay of the land
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5. |
A Leper to Remember
03:07
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A Leper to Remember
There are faces in my window
When I try to sleep
There are places you go
Where you crawl too deep
There's a dead bird in my house
But he got there first
I light candles all around
But like you this hell gets worse
This feels like pulling teeth
The last pull of a cigarette
You're wound so tightly weaved
In the threads of my head and I want to
I want to, I want to forget you
Embedded in my wounds like a rusted screw
You're gangrene, you're dry rot, you're syphillous too
It's too late, I'm a state, I can't hate you.
Have you seen her tea-stained eyes
That old lace that her grandmother wore
Or her childrens ragged cries
Or the gaze that her lover tore
You have swallowed up my mind
Can't evict you from my head
Bloody obsession walking blind
In the threads of my head and I want to
This feels like pulling teeth
The last pull of a cigarette
You're wound so tightly weaved
In the threads of my head and I want to
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Liar
04:21
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I was born to a husky hag
And I grew up in a rusted shack
And down in the valley was a dirty old town
And oh how the rain, how the rain poured down
And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done
And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done
And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done
And she said maybe, you’re a liar
I’ve always tried to keep my tongue in check
And oh how she cried when I broke her neck
I was always striving to be so good
Mama’s little angel misunderstood
And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done
And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done
And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done
And she said maybe, you’re a liar
What did I find up in the woods
A jagged old dagger underneath my foot
And after midnight I’d go hunting down
All the dirty old beggars in that dirty old town
And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done
And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done
And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done
And she said maybe, you’re a liar
Oh how I moaned when the blood poured down
And oh how I howled when they shot her down
She should have been buried way up high
That was no way for my love to die
And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done
And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done
And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done
And she said maybe, you’re a liar
I think maybe I’m going to hell
When they bring my coffin they won’t bring no bell
I’m going to burn for my sins in a fire
Why, cos my sister says that I’m a liar
And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done
And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done
And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done
And she said maybe, you’re a liar
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7. |
The Black Keys
04:47
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Don't come looking for me
In these rainy skies
If you're hunting me down
Well I'll be in disguise
I can't undo the web of your lies
I can't unstick all of these droning flies
On your piano
I am the black keys
I am your fever I am your disease
And when you exhale I am the wheeze
I am your vice and you'll never be free
I hear the click clack of your shoes on the stones
Pulled by a thread you just can't be alone
No matter how much you scrape scratch and moan
The one that you want will never be home
You tear the skin until it bleeds
You'll find your ego among the weeds
This old sin you seem to need
Will rot and starve you
Just like a bad seed
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8. |
Poison Arrow
04:54
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Poison Arrow
You are the teeth of my saw
You are the jagged edge
You are the crows wild hoarse caw
You are the thorns in the hedge
You are the wild grass growing
You are the air
You are the dark blood flowing
Blood of the hare
You are the rope I follow
You lead me blind
You are the lies I swallow
You are unkind
I am the fool who loves you
I am unwise
I am afraid to lose you
You who I despise
You are the poisoned arrow
Shot through my chest
You are the old wheelbarrow
My fears infest
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Howl
02:48
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Howl
I howl cause I'm hollow
I scowl with the pain
I growl I won't grovel
While you prowl again
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10. |
Blackbird
02:29
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Like a blackbird
Calling softly
As the minutes crow
I'm on tiptoe
Creeping slowly
Bury my head in snow
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11. |
Take Me Away
00:51
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Take me away on a long summers day
And we'll sit on a mountain side
Take me away on a long summers day
And we'll watch the world go by
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12. |
Ghost of the Circus
03:35
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Twin Headed Wolf Dublin, Ireland
Lyrical, twin-edged, harmony-ridden, experimental, scrap-yard folk... with a saw.
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