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Slow Flow
03:38
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I see that you've lost all of your colors, but can I steal a cup of your leftovers?
And you breathe in and steady out in my direction as a syringe puckers up to pluck out your complexion
Slow flow beneath my skin, it's as smooth as oxygen
Glow, glow, it's glistening and you pump it right out for free
And a stampede slowly tip-toes over my consciousness as I recede into old Mother Earth's withered warm caress
And it's an escape like that hope worn close to your breast
Yes, an escape to help you cover up your loneliness
Slow flow beneath my skin, it's as smooth as oxygen
Glow, glow, it's glistening and you pump it right out for free, yeah
Slow flow, dance beneath my skin
Glow, glow, as warm as melanin
Slow flow, dance beneath my skin
Go slow, there ain't much left of him
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2. |
Safe & Sound
03:21
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Safe and sound underground where that sun don't shine, but I know, baby, that in time we'll be
Trying to drown cacophonic sounds from overhead
The wailing of the dead
And we know the skies are coming down all around us and that the ocean currents will soon pull us in
And it haunts our waking dreams, but it ain't as bad as it seems
We can finally get some sleep
And at the end of the day, yeah, we'll be let out play
We'll leave our wretched skins, take to the skies, and swim
And we know the skies are coming down all around us and that the ocean currents will soon pull us in
And it haunts our waking dreams, but it ain't as bad as it seems
We can finally get some sleep
And we know that time is running out but we're still so astounded as we try to pull back stubborn hands
Safe and sound, underground
Safe and sound, underground
We're safe, yeah, so safe and sound six underground
We're just so safe and sound when we're six underground
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3. |
Queen Tourmaline
03:32
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The tourmaline queen, her majesty
Spearheading her own personal odyssey, call it vanity
Or anything you like
Takin' walks in the sunshine
In fancy clothes
Grabbin' fortunes off of trees down by the river
Only taking the ones she likes
She burns the rest and marches on
Til' the sun is gone
Lives alone on the northside
Nothin' but spells
And personal charm
You best come armed
With the stone that she values most
Tourmaline
Only ever comes to the city on pagan holidays, to sit in cafes
Orders exclusively ginger tea with a shot of espresso to chase the bitterness of livin' away
Never asks for wi-fi, she’s got her own connections
Slides lovin' to the devil in exchange for poetry lessons
Digs your fortune for free so she might steal your soul
And that might not be all
Lives alone on the northside
Nothin' but spells
And personal charm
You best come armed
With the stone that she values most
Tourmaline
Keeps all of her negative energy in a glass up on a shelf
Doesn’t dig that bogus hocus pocus gibberish but owns a voodoo doll of herself
Got a secret greeting for every street cat she keeps seeing
Her sitting rooms got oddities that mirror mausoleums
Couldn’t fit a tarot suit so she sewed a suit of her own
A suit of stones
Lives alone on the northside
Nothin' but spells
And personal charm
You best come armed
With what I don’t suppose
You might already know
So let’s just have a toast
Tourmaline
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Before We Go...
04:41
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Before the storm I'd love for us to find some shelter
In the warm embrace of each other's
Decrepit arms, such fragile things
Flayed and broken sparrow wings
Slowly on the mend from falling from
A withered white oak tree
And just before we take that risk to complicate our skins
To display ourselves laced in bliss
So, let's spill our minds over a glass of wine
Warm blood seeps from swollen lips
And you take my hands, you grip 'em tight, and then our twisted frames construe
Before we go I have some things to whisper into your ear, but are you even here with me?
You're drifting in and out of focus
Are you even here?
Why are you even here with me?
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Alleviate
04:47
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Don't you
Don't you know that I've been waiting for a while
Just to
Just to feel that warm worn glow stretch and radiate from your smile
And haven't you
Haven't you heard the click-clack of my bones as they wear down with all of the miles
Walked a-
Stalked alone through the ink black nights like some sort of washed up nyctophile
Nicotine and coffee stains, they ease my pain when you're away
And I'll march until my feet bleed and then on my knees I'll learn to pray
Would you
would you believe that I sing all day just to kill the blues lodged in my brain
And could you
Could you conceive of a better way to conceal the bruises on my sleeves
Nicotine and coffee stains, they ease my pain when you're away
And I'll march until my feet bleed and then on my knees I'll learn to pray
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Trust This Ghost Chicago, Illinois
A Chicago-based alternative rock act with a penchant for existentialism, esotericism, and psychedelia. Trust This Ghost is rooted in singer-songwriter and folk tendencies but filtered through a kaleidoscopic prism of post-punk and elevator music.
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