1. |
Vice & Avoidance
04:24
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run
oh run
back to where I hide
and go
I could go
away
for another night
I
I have savored
the sour
of every vice
and no
oh, I can't stay
to taste what has been long expired
then again
I could run to that mire
sit and wait, the weight
to come down, lay my grave
Be face to face with it
To see me runnin'
I can't help but chase it
and my demons feed that fear
inside
I know
I should go
but I could run to that place
my darker days, of shade
it's what I want, but need?
Oh, I can't say
so I'll run yeah yeah yeah
far from my dead
those old ghosts in my ears
and I can't take it
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2. |
I Can't Stay Away
03:54
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I don't know just what the hell it means to love
but I could show you just what I'm dreamin' of
so come get your sweet slivered bliss, yeah
to give you just an inch of what I miss of you
Caught in the sway
Who cares anyway?
think I do
can't stay away
can't stay away
oh to want all the things that shouldn't be
but do you know how much it means to me?
still soaked in your saccharine, honey
but you don't care if I'm left for the bees, do you?
Caught in the sway
throw myself away
drunk off the drip
but I wouldn't make that slip
or maybe I would
can't stay away
can't stay away
can't stay away
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3. |
Tongues
04:44
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what I heard in my head
were the words you shouldn't of said to me
and I could sit here and pretend
it didn't happen to me
But I know what I heard
and I heard it right
as it all fell down
wanted to taste it so bad
I'd do anything
I'm learnin' to keep my distance
I'm learnin' to keep my sight
I'm learnin' to keep my distance
eye to eye
oooh oh, oooh
and that feelin's gone
somethin' so strong
and there's no chance for exchangin'
to rearrange what's been done
so I'll just keep these things
on the edge of my tongue
I'm learnin' to keep my distance
I'm learnin' to keep my sight
I'm learnin' to keep my distance
eye to eye
I'm learnin' to keep my distance
I'm learnin' to keep my sight
I'm learnin', oh I'm learnin' what it's like
eye to eye
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4. |
To Hunger
05:17
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A weakness
to hunger
inside you, feel so low
To look and
uncover
burning
feels so wrong
for so long
A dreamer
slumbering
with eyes cracked, never closed
Focus
fleeting
can't seem to keep hold
gets so old
into the night I hear the hollow cry
find nothin' will satisfy
a hopeless lullaby
I can hear it, I know
and it sings so sweet
and it wants me to come down
where those two roads meet
Shadows
looming
and they know where I hide
to hunger
so deep
cause you to lose your sight
burn too bright
when you find nothin' will satisfy
hum of the hopeless lullaby
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5. |
Swamp Songs
07:16
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So long I've been here
now and before
vines grow heavier in my hands
to wade the waters
a murky shore
swathed in the thickets
in the sins I steep my bones
There's a comfort
in sinking slow
familiar fen land
overflows, and I know it
for all I've hunted
I've stripped and thrown
I still wear every hide, buried inside my wardrobe
but to stay here, is to deepen the hole
days spent denying, what you have sown, in poison soil
say to yourself, you'll find another way
yeah
'cause it's not where you've been
in the end
Oh how I've waited, to be reborn
in slough I slumber, swamp to lullaby me
And all the love I, chose to ignore
was not left infantile, sickness has overgrown
but to stay here, is to deepen the hole
days spent denying, what you have sown, in poison soil
say to yourself, you'll find another way
yeah
'cause it's not where you've been
but to stay here, is to deepen the hole
Days spent denying, what you have sown, in poison soil
say to yourself, you'll find another way
yeah
'cause it's not where you've been
in the end
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6. |
Surround Me
06:40
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grind away
I feel like I'm the only one
to sit and wait
let the air grate my bones to dust
trees are still
their bodies branching over me
the leaves, they scream
because they know the end that I can't see
cause I don't know just what it means to die
if I don't know how to be
but grass is greener where my body lies
there is no understanding, no
oh to breathe in,
brings me closer to the crawl
yeah and there's nothing
that I could even do at all
surround me
surround me
burning sky
I am the colors of eternity
from blood to light
and that is mostly all I'll ever be
The sun, it falls
beneath black woods of this fever dream
though it moans for all
I've never felt so alone, oh
cause I don't know just what it means to die
if I don't know how to be
but grass is greener where my body lies
there is no understanding, no
oh to breathe in,
brings me closer to the crawl
yeah and there's nothing
that I could even do at all
oh to breathe in,
brings me closer to the crawl
yeah and there's nothing
that I could even do at all
surround me
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7. |
Hell's Arms
04:48
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take it slow now
'cuz my world is coming down, that I see
feelin' the change
from once what was
but in this season it is not what I lost
I lost
watch them go now
as the leaves spill to the ground, around me
shedding the weight, new skins to come
and I've worn out this face
making the trade
of waste
for birth
So I run
into that fire
straight for that sun
and into hell's arms
waiting
for the one
burning to brand
my scarlet heart
I'll do no more harm
skies turned a darker hue
so I'll go on my way
again
to make a
blacker flame burn blue
So I run
into that fire
straight for that sun
and into hell's arms
waiting
for the one
burning to brand
my scarlet heart
and I'll do no harm
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Eryka Fir Westerly, Rhode Island
Founder of Coma Hole, stoner doom musician who writes sad desert songs.
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