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Bottom of the Blue
04:26
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Perhaps she’ll have a hammer
Perhaps she’ll have a nail
Perhaps she’ll kindly fasten
Your body to your sail
And if she is the wind
And if she is the change
She could fill your lungs
Again and again
Should you start to rust
As lovers often do
You could turn to dust
At the bottom of the blue
And if she is the storm
And if she is the rain
She could fill your lungs
Again and again
And if she is the moon
And if she is the strange
She could fill your lungs
Again and again
There is a feral wound
A benevolent bite
But my teeth are falling out mama
Night after night
A feral wound
The taste of light
But my teeth are falling out mama
Night after night
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2. |
Water Girl
03:51
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Breathe deep my little lamb
Breathe deeper than before
Breathe until your lungs catch fire and then baby
Breathe just a little more
Swim now my six gilled serpent
Swim swift my morning star
Swim through the rivers of my blood
Swim up the stairs and through the walls
I was dreaming of a velvet pearl
Strung around the neck of a water girl
She moves with the rhythm of the rolling tide
She floats like a feather under falling moonlight
Daughter of the water the song of the sea
I gave her my heart she fed it back to me
And it sure feels good yeah it sure feels fine
Self-pity been taking all my time
Ah gimme more yeah gimme some more
Don’t I look my best lying face down on the floor
Take me a break me but baby
Don’t waste the pieces
Forsake me and make me
Into something facetious
Love me and lick me
Burn a hole through your tongue
‘Cause I’m the shape-shifter mama
And I’ve only begun
I was dreaming of a velvet pearl
Slung around the neck of a water girl
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3. |
Carpels
04:21
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Pull down your silver blinds
Try and get some sleep tonight
Dream of America and how she’s calling you
In glittered robes and your mother’s shoes
There's hours still to come undone
To hide away from that vicious sun
Carpels concealed in a lily’s bell
A maiden’s shell
Water confined to an ancient well
An evening spell
Walk to the water’s edge
Move slow so nothing shows
Hold on to pale thoughts and pale limbs
As they drift as they sink and swim
It’s been years now you’ve quietly hummed
To still the words to that beating song
Carpels concealed in a lily’s bell
A maiden’s shell
Water confined to an ancient well
An evening spell
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4. |
Yellow-eyed Radio Blues
05:02
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Trying to get my heart back on the level
Dying to get my feet back on the ground
I wrote a postcard to the Devil
Asking why she don’t come around
As the years go by my blood gets thicker
My patience seems to thin as the years grow
My eyes are turning yellow and I get sicker
Every time they turn on the radio
Darling I can’t do this by myself
To taint the water baby I need your help
I’ve burrowed in the sewers of this city
I’ve seen your face and I’ve marked your door
I’m coming for you and Lord knows I aint pretty
A malignant insect crawling across your floor
Darling I can’t do this by myself
To taint the water baby I need your help
Darling I can’t do this on my own
The venom is sinking deeper in my bones
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5. |
For the Time Being
04:20
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There was a house where we slept
And a blue girl left her blue pearls
Dripping ‘round my neck
And onto our bed
There was a house that we kept
And the blue girl liked the doors closed
So we wouldn’t upset
All the colour she’d left
And I’ll be in the other room if you need me
And the home that we made
And the pearls that she placed
And the music you played
And the warmth that I gave
Didn’t we keep her safe
Didn’t we keep her safe
And I’ll be in the other room if you need me
You’ll be soaking in the bathtub for the time being
Are you staring at the ceiling
What are you feeling
If you’re feeling
And I’ll be in the other room if you need me
You’ll be soaking in the bathtub for the time being
Guess I’ll see you in the hours while we’re sleeping
What are you dreaming
If you’re dreaming
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6. |
Diamonds
05:31
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The world now she’s spinning
Just a little more out of time
Lay my body in a bathtub
Distill me in brine
Tell me that I’m older
And too cultured for this time
Tell me that I’m younger
And that I look divine
Everything is fucked
You know people that’s a fact
But you don’t need me to tell you that
Unimpressive
Upset
Uninspired
Undevout
But I’m gonna love you baby
Till the world spits us out
Under the pressure
Under the skin
Under your nails
That’s how the dirt gets in
Deeper and deeper
Dripping down the well
You keep digging and digging
For diamonds in hell
I am hiding in the earth
Hiding in the air
I am hiding deep inside the nest
Of your chimney-smoke hair
A Siamese cat in a yellow field
A silver woman with a silver shield
I am waiting there for you
I have killed their sons and daughters
I have choked all their martyrs
I have cut the tongue from the ocean blue
All because you asked me to
I am waiting here for you
I am calling out to you
I am falling down for you
Under the pressure
Under the skin
Under your nails
That’s how the dirt gets in
Deeper and deeper
Dripping down the well
You keep digging and digging
For diamonds in hell
Unimpressive
Upset
Uninspired
Undevout
But I’m gonna love you baby
till the world spits us out
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7. |
Hospital Floors
04:46
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I’ve danced before
All flesh and warmth
But these hospital floors
Can’t move me anymore
I’ve held the night
While she was bleeding light
And I should take her side
But I’m just a little bit tired
And I’m dressed in someone else’s limbs
Don’t know where they start
And where I end
I’m wearing someone else’s thoughts
Can’t shake them off
I’ll rinse these clothes
Hang them out below
My neighbour’s window
So she might not know
She’s not alone
In being alone
As this Summer sadness
Fills our homes
And I’m dressed in someone else’s limbs
Don’t know where they start
And where I end
I’m wearing someone else’s thoughts
Can’t shake them off
Bone dented sheets
Eye splintered ceilings
Stories I weave
in hours made for sleeping
Bone dented sheets
Eye splintered ceilings
Stories that creep
In hours meant for dreaming
Little baby blooms in digital bile
Lay me down on the back of a crocodile
Artificial heart hypocritical sick
Mama's little doll's got a bone to pick
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8. |
One Hundred Bodies
04:53
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I notice my head on the wall
I lift my body up and begin to crawl
On all fours I hang myself on the vine
Don’t mind me yeah I’m just killing time
At the centre of the earth there’s a prison
Where they keep all the dead
Who have risen
And in the stomach of the ocean in the cold
Lives every lie you never told
Oh I know that it’s not fair
You’re the one that I don’t want to share
You wanna know what I am thinking?
I am thinking that you know
That I’m sinking in a well of woe
This blinding light, this hellish glow
Two hundred different eyes on you
One hundred bodies to break in two
Oh I know that it’s not fair
Oh I know that you still care
You’re the one that I don’t want to share
Oh I know that it’s not fair
Oh I know that you still care
Your voice so soft, your skin so bare
You’re the one that I don’t want to share
Little baby, don’t you cry
Press your face against the sky
Press your ear against this shell
And know I only meant you well
Pretty baby, don’t be afraid
Sink your skin into the waves
Sink your lips into the lips
Of the world at your fingertips
Sweetest baby, don’t be scared
I’m not going anywhere
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9. |
Lovely Heart
05:28
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She stayed by my side when I was a mess
She held my head when I needed rest
She gave me hope when hope was a myth
She held my hand when I clenched my fist
She is the loveliest heart in a body
She is liquid lunar and softly
She tells me that she loves me
Over and over again
All of my friends let me down
But oh no not she
She aint my lover
But she used to be
She is strong
She is silk
She is black as my boots
She is white as milk
She is open
She is here
She is there
She is long long hair
She is full
She is wonderful
She is the sun that never sets
She is the bright blue sky
She is the moon which never rests
And I just want her to know
As I sit here at her piano
Playing notes that I don’t know
Just how much I love her so
She is the loveliest heart in a body
She is liquid lunar and softly
She tells me that she loves me
Over and over again
All of my friends let me down
But oh no not she
She aint my lover
But she used to be
All of my friends let me down
But oh no not she
She aint my lover
But she used to be
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