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Marriage of Knives

by Vallow

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The sea inside a shell Poisoning the well Nothing new Take me out of here Spite bled through for years Everything will burn To dust inside an urn Take me out of here Spite bled through the mirror Eyes of Moloch Heart of Kali Blood of Mary She’s in love asleep
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St. Charles 04:42
Here the stethoscopes look like quarter notes Open opal eyes And watch these heights decay Watch these heights decay Little orphan world finds a parent star Gravitate too close And watch these heights decay Watch these heights decay So much for my defense as none Emergency room, here I come So much for my defense as none Emergency room, here I come Reject, reject, rejoice with me! Emergency room, here I come Pull out the stops Steal the stop signs Watch the heights decay
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I’m a cold blooded spirit In a warm-blooded body I feel fine till you ask how I am Cause it forces me to think about it Then my answer’s not what you want Giving me the impression that I’m letting you down Don’t try to find me out Don’t try to find me out Don’t try to find me out It's all behind me now Don’t try to find me out Don’t try to find me out I'm done believing how I’m shooting blindly Just let me burn the bridges so then you’ll never expect me to cross the divide Don’t try to find me out Don’t try to find me out Don’t try to find me out it's all behind me help! help! I’m shooting blindly
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Beneath this home, the old witch’s bones In heavy sheets, through the day, I sleep And the fossils of hawks gift their waking talks Her world is yours Spilling at the sides Of stars just born and died The frequencies had nursed the blistered seas In fiery beds of falls whose leaves had shed Your world is hers Fast asleep, the host On pillows made of ghosts Spilling at the sides Of suns just passing by
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Scarecrow 02:39
Goodbye on the bridge Sleeping on your grave I just wanna act like I think I know But I don’t even fit in the status quo I wanna be a man with cotton limbs Take it slow, little crow Sunday on the bridge Monday at your grave I just wanna dig up all the buried hatchets And I don’t even care if the wires match I wanna be a man with the stitching torn Take it slow, little crow I just wanna act like I think I know But I don’t even fit in the status quo I wanna be a man with a witch’s bones! Take it slow, little crow The sun might know…
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Sit on wire Waiting like vultures for the world to burn Veils underwater Like the rolling of hills and the vacuum of space You got lucky, my friend You got lucky again Your lungs died of hunger, under the mobiles perched at your cradle In abandoned cars filled with garbage and pictures you don’t believe You got lucky, my friend You got lucky again
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Epitaph 00:53
The tombstone said love is dead The tombstone said love is dead The tombstone said love is dead
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Hipstershit 04:04
You must be so brooding To identify with Sylvia Plath And I bet you drink black tea And alternative fine French wines But when the stars go missing We’ll build our shelter on the sun Yeah when the stars go missing I have a violent headache You must be so damn special I mean just look at your designer clothes But you’re a void quite naked And a connoisseur of yourself But when the stars go missing Will anybody know your cries And when the stars are broken You turn my stomach inside out
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Expanses deathly still Salt chunks in new wounds House of quarantine Caged in roots of trees I let the bed bugs bite And didn’t sleep too tight Mistake this bitter pill Expanses deathly still Hold on tight For dear life A loosened grip And the will to slip
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Got death to defy But he’s sowing my disguise Falsely alarmed Lacking the will to harm Angel of mine Half-broken wings And a lyre with piano strings
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I ran out of pretty things to say So don’t expect anything poetic... I've been tired and I don’t have the brains To come across as anyone insightful Balanced in between the on and off I can only hear you when I’m sleeping Safety is to hide behind a mirror I won’t memorize a word I’m reading Smart enough to know The problem that you chose Isn’t here to fuck around It would take a fool To let this go the way that you want it Like you want it Don’t you know? To want it like you want it is just a ghost
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Sageview 03:34
The room I’m in is full of phony smiles It’s probably cause it’s in the job description…. Here where the stained glass is black as a star going blind Whole blooming planets of ice that I’ll live on in time My little room has told me how it’s missed me Where hosts can live inside their parasites Beneath the ashes of trees In piles of receipts I keep as reminders I’m on the turntable, dizzy, asleep in the fire The hours we’ll spend in the flames will turn me into wire
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Pistol Shell 04:21
Flowers of evil Little worlds of ball and twine Housed in pockets Snakes are rivers to unwind And they built shelters At the feet of tidal waves Angry tides to unburden all their wishes To divide Where space is just a void to fill And action is a bitter pill You like the way it looks on paper But not the way it sounds when you say it Still you say it Blood is rushing and I can hear it all too well Like the echo of a bursting pistol shell I don’t believe in triviality except for now but to unburden all their wishes is to doubt
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They’re not getting a divorce They’re just buying more credit cards Creating long term problems Solving short term problems Promise him you’ll follow through Promise her you’ll make the time 21st century love story A blank white page purgatory They won’t see a lawyer She keeps a secret bank account They have lots of problems Fairly common problems Promises she made to break Promises he couldn’t make 21st century love story A blank white page purgatory
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Here beneath the sheets It feels safe, but it’s very hard to breathe Here beneath the leaves The flashlight like a halo at your feet I want my time capsule back I want my time capsule back I salvaged the souls of coals when the wildfire had eaten all the trees So still, beneath the street I think it’s morning, but it’s pretty hard to see I want my time capsule back I want my time capsule back
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The time has come to strip the paint to reach the bones and dig up our homes vultures in the choir heaven set on fire my heart is yours to keep i don't need it now it's much too loud talking in my sleep to ghosts i cannot keep
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Cough drops and rain drops This afternoon before he knew And he swore the clocks held hands Didn’t they? Shadows grew taller than the crosses bent crooked They spoke with the owls I’m seeing red all around me, but black is my new home I set out to destroy the sun And lift the weight from everyone Shadows grew taller than the crosses bent crooked They spoke with the owls I’m seeing red all all around me, but black is my new home (home sweet home) (home sweet home) (home sweet home) (home sweet new home) Tell me things I wish to hear From the rusted chandelier My dear child, there’s much to fear

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released July 23, 2014

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