Swamp Songs

from VICE & AVOIDANCE by Eryka Fir

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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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from VICE & AVOIDANCE, released April 13, 2020

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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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