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Gunk
04:35
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Bliss out, you’re a free fall, daydream queen, couldn’t be
And you and I were not much, never nothing, it’s hard to describe
So single me out for all that you adore, and isn’t it sweet
I’m drifting uncertain what you were meant to mean to me
In the gunk, there’s brain dead but decent fun
Till your embers and make sisters of those years
I go diving into pools of dead desire
What could I be but your heaviness?
Back in my need, fully complete, how have you been?
Washed out in your better days, thin and faint and free of pain
And maybe all your suffering wasn’t for nothing, despite how it aches
Bathe it in cold light, all you’d kept to agonize
And wake up the same as all you thought you’d left behind
And I sunk, slow at first then all at once
In the boredom of my dead selves’ bedroom eyes
Keep it close, swaddled in your last night’s clothes
What could I find but what numbs the best?
Back in my need, fully complete, how have you been?
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2. |
Iron Goddess of Mercy
04:10
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Come in friend, it’s waiting for you inside
The vast heart of a continent realized
Heat, light, flash inside of…
Soul in me is safer in you, you know
Where fragile things are allowed to grow
Heat, light shot inside of...
Come in, friend
So I can to adore you again
I can’t speak, could never endure the end
Heat, light, flash, soft, and secret
I’ve grown sure that everything comes to sync
To the metronome inside my ribs
Heat, light, flash, inside desire
Hey, will you ever reward this need?
Hey, am I only obliged to be?
Heat, light, flash, inside desire
Hey, is there a mother behind my eyes?
Hey, is my breathing same as the tides?
Heat, light, flash inside desire
Savor, savoring
Nothing felt this clean
Heat, light, flash, inside desire
Deeply something to me
Are you listening?
Heat, light, flash, inside desire
Are you coming around these days?
Can I give you myself to replace?
Will you ever adore me again?
I’m going up steep, my friend
It’s already here, it’s already here, already
It’s already here, it’s already here, already
Heat, light, flash, inside desire
It’s already here, it’s already here, already
I dreamt myself together
Unfamiliar forevers
Iron goddess of mercy
Then something outside woke me
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3. |
Tangled
04:06
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Hey! I’m already here
Just like it was always promised
And are we out in the clear?
And can I let my guard down?
It all looks the same
Tangles of alleys and motorways
Before they all fell away
How will we still wander ‘round them?
I like it just fine
A little time out of my mind
And I wanna be clear
That I adore you being near
We live in a dream
Nothing’s up here but trees
No will to be seen
I just dissolve in you a while
Our Lady of Sighs
Does it matter if it rhymes?
Does it move you inside?
Do you feel it alright?
So keep inside
Your long goodbyes
We’ll say them twice
Hey
Spit your silver spoons
I wanna talk to you
Something new to lose, underneath the avenues
I could be your riot
We’ll leave them all behind
Waiting for you in the place you left your name behind
Drifting out from me
Wherever sorrow leads
Sleep under the leaves, forgotten in your place for me
Try to feel the pain
Opal and sedate
Turn to marble waiting for you to visit again
Out of everything that’s true
I’m only happening for you
How’s anyone not destroyed?
From only momentary joy
So now I’m swaddled again
In the vacant and pretend
But I just have to be pure
In touching and yearning and dawning and asking for a light
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4. |
Smeared (Interlude)
02:06
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5. |
Now Who Could Love Me
04:03
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I never drowned myself in honey
Now who could love me?
And now I will die ordinary
Now who could love me?
Nestled in a sleeping sickness
Now who could love me?
I’ll never really know what’s in us
Now who could love me?
Now my poet’s blood has run dry
Tell me who could love me, tell me who could love me
Dull enough he wouldn’t ask why
Tell me who could love me, tell me who could love me
Choking on what liberates you
Tell me who could love me, tell me who could love me
Forever yours in indiscretion
Now who could love me?
I keep myself like orphaned secrets who wander home when they get out
And even by my own admission my condition blares but never resounds
If there’s nothing more to be then may I simply do no more harm
A catalogue of obscure sorrows
Now who could love me?
Now my poet’s blood has run dry
Tell me who could love me, tell me who could love me
Dull enough he wouldn’t ask why
Tell me who could love me, tell me who could love me
Choking on what liberates you
Tell me who could love me, tell me who could love me
Forever yours in indiscretion
Now who could?
Hard as your heart in afterbloom
Why did it die away so soon?
And now the feeling’s all flamed out
I’ll die forgotten
Wrapped in the feathers of stranger days
Do lions still lurk out in wait?
In here I exist dutifully
But now I’m no one
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6. |
Soft Soapy Glow
01:48
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Harder than you try
Better seen than sewn inside
Pick a pocket, fallen soul
Solar in to yourself
Solar in, you’re safe tonight
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Bow & Spear Chicago, Illinois
Chicago grunge/shoegaze/grungegaze.
Born: 2010.
Died: Never. Bow & Spear will never die.
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