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Sunlight Stabs

by Absinthe Vows

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The Shimmering Weight of Defiance 03:40
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Could it be, what we perceive, is just interference? The Old Devine got the wires crossed And what you love, and what you don't, is all contradicted By the way you can relate to everything you hate Reach out for the life raft An escape route Intubate and save these Collapsed lungs What resulted in us entering service? Their promises were all paper-thin We're all left with no sense of a purpose No place in the world at all Then they gave us all pennies for tears So cold.. This stuck hog has been bleeding for years So cold.. They paint a picture for what is means to be free Everyone you meet is just a commodity So cold.. Brace for the crash Now they're in a nosedive They'll get what's right Now they've kicked up the hive They'll never see us coming
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Candy Sick 02:47
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I never feel it No, I only bare the scars And all the records left the brain From dust to dust And though it is a storm I only see the stars And all the shakings fade away The cellars will not be culled Before I snap The sulfites dissolve Before I snap A moment of levity This fuzzed up memory The angels share and show the teat Place setting for one and I prefer it neat Eraser Mind Eraser You're better left alone You better bite your tongue Before I snap
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Sea Vigils 03:44
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To claim the open seas Such possibilities With wine and sacrilege The voyage..the voyage Our flags raised up to god The heavens are enough We'll find where the heart is fair And we will pierce it there Make the mornings stop and see The shadows in our company The whispers coming through the grass The tauntings written on the glass The calming of the salted breeze The bathroom light in front of me I will not be denied my post I swear by ship and holy ghost The beach, the sand The red pills in my hand The others, will wave to see my sails arrive The faces on the shore Matches my spotting apple-core The others, will wave to see my sails arrive And the seven men say I'm not there at all Just in the apartment singing down the hall I'm much more then they're seeing The cross, the masthead The waves breaking on my bed Don't follow me to foreign lands The nightstand creeks, the sirens sing The arc of sanity Don't follow me thru the pane of glass
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Petals for Ashes 03:01
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Wasp sting The first sign of spring And there's so much there to love Wind storm Mosquito swarm And the early scream of dawn Yellow dust The cement rust And the humid stench of cars Knees scabbed The children laugh To the woes of mourning doves And when the grackles crawl All along the ground They know the value of Food coming up for air They'll make a plate of you Underneath the uncaring sun They'll make a plate of you Long before you know you're gone Wasting hours, it never meant that much to me Wasting daylight, I never cared that much to see A self-designed, simple-minded, invalid A host of nations, all throughout the garden bed Swing low oh chariot
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Passing Orbits 03:02
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The comet hits, the world upends And everything that was to come The dragon's wings could not defend It's whole future burned in stone The planet begged for it's moon to stay The crushing burden of the vacuum cold But sound can't travel in the hell of space Lips just move apart and close An open lesion A battle scar Still hope and needing To hold back the sun Mercury or Venus Descending colored dots Still hope and needing To hold back the sun The crescent waning Can't remove the mark Still hope and needing To hold back the sun Lodestone, my soul's a lodestone Oh Virgo, you're such a teaser So bold, you bit the head off Blackhole, you're such a killer So gold, the devil's halo It's spiral will make it new again So bright Gold and bright
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Miracles of Subversion 02:42
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The knights of the gloom Racing for the grave And the wrists bare their souls Longing for the blade The small shell of the form Laying on the bed Left alone in a room When she's feeling dead Under the pines I'm still above it Throughout the days and weeks It's pleasant overall But the question "Are you sure?" Won't be heard at all It used to be so much easier baby And now It vanishes overnight They always taught me that the waters would save me And now It's miracles with subversed eyes It takes control like a coma Made out like a melody that's overplayed She puts her heart in a vessel jar It's just stones in the pockets, of a dress, of a dying star Under the pines I'm still above it No not now Now's not the time to be afraid
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Dead Litmus 03:41
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The spoils well deserved and won The armies dispersed under the sun The tzars and the whores of Babylon Praise the pedestal With reverence and all The last memorial Posed the magus, "Do you have the key?" "It is small and colored olive-green" "It unlocks the door, that was sealed before" Soon the strips of paper Will give up the clue Soon the strips of paper Much sooner than they want We will take it all Leave the ruins for the bleeding hearts There's just the ants remaining for us to devour The whole world will despair Trampled under our reverie All our arms are bent like scythes The Fallen Gods
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The Great Rite 02:43
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The stake Why should we wait? There's no harm to deny the hours on Sunday The form Milk warm A taste in the mouth like Cortisone Molded tight She's Princess Di sitting under the bar light Opportunity's shut Compared to what? I could be your monster In the heart We were apart But I could be your monster In time We can draw battlelines I could be your monster A shoebox for my Goldilocks I could be yours There's no quarter gave to feeling fine Rip out the meaty bits to make you mine Gaslight the motive and the pulse in the vein The blue reflection is always the same Oh circle, oh circle I'm not one to wait so weak and sullen Oh circle, oh circle I'm not one to stand and endure it colder Nah you won't see me crawling I'm not the one who is falling Without a thought of the cost
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Floating in Moonlight 02:08
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I'll burn my head And calm our bed When I'm sober I won't be scared To hold my head Underwater I won't be wed Or left for dead With another I won't be here To calm your fears When it's over The resting insecurities There's no need suffer silently The colors of the pain Won't ever let me doubt it Or drink from the picture that caused it We'll spend the night Under the light Of sorrow And curse the seas Of misery Till tomorrow
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Faded Lessons Vanishing Skies 03:56
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Comfortable the dress undone Can't resist the chance to stun Vapor trails the figure comes And it's the start of the show Strike where it counts Strike where the line was faltering Strike where it counts A wasteland before the mirage and then Behold the vision now One lust One lost out to the wilds again One lust Out to the wilds Wasted again It's dead to rights The lock turned before the key was made Without a fight Without so much left to take away Oh sister night Don't take your eyes away from mine Oh sister night Don't take your staff and leave our side Gutted, I Can't be left in a pool of loathing Gutted, I Can't be left to fantasize It played like Golden Brown A harpsicord thru the ground And then came the sight I couldn't leave to dry my eyes

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released February 1, 2023

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