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Wave of Fire
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Wave of Fire
Ride with me
on a wave of fire
in the worst of the game
under the western sun.
The trouble you brought
and the problems that made you
will scatter on the wind
as they fall from your eyes.
And the drugs they gave you
will leak from your arms
and fall to the ocean
that reverberates our dreams.
The cities they built
that erupted in iron
with another body’s hands
will evaporate into dust
and leave us in peace
to glide the mists above ‘em.
The lives we lead
will be written up in the stars.
It’s the only way to heaven
and it starts with this ride.
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War Lovers
03:39
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war lovers
deep in your bed at night
under the fever of darkness
after the rays have set down
beneath the brace of your covers
the fading call of psyche
as if you’re even able
what will you say to her now
what can you take away.
and after all that war
she never left you with manna.
and if you sleep in the light
you know the moon would avoid you.
I’ve been lonely now
for over ten thousand years
if there’s a rogue in the world
how can our armies defeat it.
and what can war lovers do
after the guns have erased them.
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I have seen the dead seal
body rising and falling with the current.
It heaves to escape its auburn rug
floating lopsided, face hidden
entrails migrating into the water
like man-o-war tendrils.
In my dream, it hovers in the air like a saint
abdomen sliced cleanly like church doors
viscera issuing like Sunday goers
how pleasant it would have been
back then, to hold your hand.
I see the love in your body
the dreamy god set deep within your brow
a solemn prayer meant for someone like me
brimming with hope and fire
and we no more than companions.
It is there I wait
listening forever.
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The Search For Shore
03:04
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In the end
it is always ever blinded
we pulling on oars or swimming
barrel chested and shivering
reaching yet hurled ever further
In the end
hidden within the foaming drapery
we are scant, brittle, bodiless
children pretending to be insects
floating in the weed.
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Behold Love
05:02
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BEHOLD, Love
thy power how she despise;
My great pain how little she regard:
The holy oath, whereof she take no cure,
Broken she hath, and yet, she bideth sure
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