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Of Atheists and Lovers

by Illegal Wiretaps

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1.
A humble b-movie scene: Fall in love beneath A capsized boat like a crown Grace received before we drown. Ringed with waves and light, Carcassed shoals freed. Jellyfish gentle pillows of the sea-- Ringed with waves and light Brine covers the eyes. Fingers a life apart, A course we could never chart.
2.
Calm down and tell me slowly, I want to hear each and every word. Fleeting, frail, and lowly-- Shrill, shallowed, and slurred. Your face was fixed on my face. With frozen eyes, she stared at me. Intense like a child I coveted The way she once looked at me. "You can have my shame, but nothing else..." Eyes pitiful, she looked away. Pallor paled, she wept in dismay. Fists clenched, she pounded in time. Hands exhausted, she pardoned my crime. "It's all too human to lie... It's all too human to look away." The more you struggle, the tighter the constraints. The more you ignore me, the louder my complaints. The more you detach, the more I am involved. The more you are settled, the more I am unresolved. "You can have my shame, but nothing else..."
3.
A cross turned upside down is good luck. Eve's lips dried with pomegranate... Paradise hides in erotic fiction, Not in moral guides with strange diction. What good are thoughts of eternity, When you are here alone with me. In my arms, god is nowhere to be found. Bed sheets better soiled on holy ground. Your fascist face in front of me so wrong of you empirically keep your doubts to yourself away from away from me.
4.
Shunned 03:49
Fairy-like, with guilty wings Jagged nails and wedding rings, Coffee stains that circle tears, Without a care, my joy disappears. God is a tree; man a cocoon; A woman a siren; the sea a ballon; The moon a ruse; a rat a boon. Without a care, you walked away too soon. 144,000 souls are only good enough. Heaven is a pathology! A snuff film, an Armageddon clip-- God, I hope you enjoy each and every frame. I opened the dilapidated doors, "You're not welcome hear anymore." The narrow eyes looked away. Into temptation I've shortened my stay. Now, I am shunned....
5.
Heaven! 04:01
It is a simple trick where a gaping hole appears. It is a...where a strange madness endears. It is a Miro on LSD where the sun melts away. It is a Mormon temple where the sky is torn open and frayed. It is Heaven! Yet, it is not Heaven if I am not with you.
6.
A Soviet-made vase, A Strange heirloom. A thing difficult to replace, lied broken in our room. The windows were open, The sweet summer winds, Swept up the tiniest pieces And the fragments of our sins. The fascist-made curtains, floated above the sill. An architechted nightmare Left me frozen still. A jury-less trial, A conviction before it begins, Our freedom would never last, Slaves to the sweet summer of sin.

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Our 2nd e.p. this year. A follow-up to "A Secret I Can't Decode".

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released October 18, 2011

All songs written by Stephan Wyatt

Stephan Wyatt--Bass, Keyboards, Programming, Guitars
Anthony June--Production, Engineering, Guitars
Dylan Barnes--Keyboards

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Illegal Wiretaps Houston, Texas

Our beauty is buried deeply beneath the surface. Underground artists from Houston. Voted 2013's best noise/experimental act by the Houston Press.

Stephan Wyatt: Bass, Guitars, Keyboards, Programming, Vocals
Anthony June: Guitars/Mixing
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