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Ringed with Waves
03:38
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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.
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All Too Human
05:05
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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..."
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Of Atheists and Lovers
05:14
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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.
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Shunned
03:49
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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....
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Heaven!
04:01
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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.
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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 beauty is buried deeply beneath the surface. Underground artists from Houston. Voted 2013's best noise/experimental act
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Stephan Wyatt: Bass, Guitars, Keyboards, Programming, Vocals
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