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Run Forever
06:12
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i don't want to be a part
i don't want to play along
spin your own sticky web
turn the wheels for yourself
build your own private hell
then you'll know how they live
there will be nothing left
you collapse all the nets
that have kept us safe
they'll always tell you what's right
comes down to will and to might
or you can run forever
would you rather catch all their stares
and know you're right
or hide in plain sight?
run forever
sell your countries
leave the poor
to eat the fish frames
blood of lambs
guns for grapes
smell the factory
from the highway
the stronger own the world
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Telepathic High Five
04:26
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make lists for keeps
and bury them
ochre is not
what a dragon wins
i hear your thoughts
lined in neat rows
i hear your thoughts
like a black rose
telepathic high five
i hear your thoughts
when the sun sets
i hear your thoughts
wait for my signal
where are you now?
i can't see...
where are you now?
i can't see...
crowds of despots
with golden clocks
make lists for keeps
and bury them
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3. |
Earthlings
02:18
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are these smoke dreams?
feet are sinking
are these smoke dreams?
feet are sinking
we are earthlings
bugs on a windshield
chains on a bear
tree branches shake
and drop caterpillars
into the grass
ants in your picnic
bees in your hair
squirrel on a powerline
a deer's reflective eyes
a black swan
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Deep Wound
04:01
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her mind on a tightrope
no hand outstretched
and waiting on the other end
in time the child becomes the parent
and unties
wings of words never broken
your life, smoke and mirrors
unkind and unspooling
more each passing year
in time the child becomes the parent
and unties
wings of words never spoken
don't open old wounds up
or you will find news ones
don't open old wounds up
or you will find new ones
putting the pieces together
she burns what's left
of how she could have made amends
those times were so long ago
we try to be better than they were
all my deep wounds...
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Gate Crasher
04:29
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i'm on a permanent list
proverbial list
sheep herders
gate crashers
find the clover
deploy the masses
commitment only lasts
as long as you see
some benefit to yourself
to yourself
to yourself
tangibility
is not a testament
to your actions
when you never act
but only say that you will
maybe your horoscope was right
maybe your horoscope was right
your commitment is over-sized
sit in the bedroom
walls of maple leaves
wind disguising
the sound of industry
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Poisonbelly
03:53
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who put this poison in my belly?
a twisted knife indemnified
your plastic mask grin has broken
a force of nature with the
stroke of a pen
if that won't stop you
nothing's going to
if that won't stop you
no one's going to
how long can consequence evade you?
one more to throw atop the pile
you ruin everything that's simple
your work will rise again
to swallow you whole
purely adrenal
trapped in a horror-show
lay waste to pleasantries
burned at both ends
what will it take to change your thinking?
insist that nothing will suffice
allay your fears by simplifying
the devil isn't there if you don't see him
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Chop You Up
03:26
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winter's coming
but the leaves aren't falling
i've got a problem with living
a static existence
your murderous overtures
against my person
our weight is too great
for the bridge
that we're walking all over
the nasty man in black
will come and chop you up
the nasty man in black
will come and chop you up
the nasty man in black will come
he'll come and chop and chop you up
you sell yourself when you're alive
when you're dead they sell your estate
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Deconstruction
04:31
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no matter how far
you drive from the city
you can't leave the belly of it
this indefinite game
contempt and restraint
how can you say that
when construction as already begun?
the less attention
that you pay, the better
virtuoso planning of
the shifters of blame
so spiteful and plain
there's a hole in this fabric
we're weaving
there's a hole
our voices turning into blood...
there's so little left to take
there's so little left to take
we're all going to drown
we're all going to drown
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Superspecies
04:32
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close to insane
eating fossils, she said
hands in the soil
let those glassy facades crack
he asked her what she would do
"it's simple"
all of these nonsense ideas
about machines
scrape them off my feet
we don't have any friends...
we are all farmers
we have something in common
we are all farmers
we have something in common
"i lead a resistance," she said
we have something in common
resistance to subsistence farming
she asked him, "would you sell?"
and he laughed
partnership of species
"they're my friends!
how could any man exploit his friends?"
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Oubliette
05:49
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you left such a legacy
broken piggy banks
and broken teeth
so many nights
slept in jail
but it's not like
you weren't drunk anyway
then you'll see
then you'll see
then you'll see
then you'll see
your brown chevrolet
smashed up once again
no more drives to the liquor factory
all your cassettes got towed and
these scars won't fade
grow old and fade into the walls
you beat up your wife
and laid a hand on your child
when you got sick
nobody noticed
because you left
such a fucking legacy
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Cursed Arrows Nova Scotia
Our music seeks to translate and transmute our love and humanity into a listenable format. We live with our son, Fox, in close proximity to the sea in South Shore Nova Scotia. We released our 7th full length record, Crone, in 2022.
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