You put your executioner face on
And I'll put my bravest face on
Cause you lead me brand new like a blind man every day

So I'm at the guillotine today
And I've got my final words to say
Cause Im a sinner and yes I am a saint
I am a martyr in the church you learned to pray
But it ain't easy living this way
Yeah it ain't easy dying every day

So you put your executioner face on
And I'll put my bravest face on
Cause you lead me brand new like a blind man every day

Brandy's Album

Executioner, Dear

"Dark Horse" The Long Wives

Did you watch while Joan of Arc burned?
Did you line up and take your turn
lighting cigarettes on the flames?
Did you watch while Joan of Arc burned?

Cruel Fame, Cruel fame
They'll give and then take
When the young no longer know your name
Cruel fame, cruel fame
They'll tell you you're to blame
They'll tell you you're insane

Thank you, Joan of Arc, you were right
And the voices in the bells they were right
You showed me a woman can put up a fight
You showed me a woman can put up a fight
Thank you, Joan of Arc, you were right

While Joan of Arc Burned (for Sinéad)

"Pale and Blind" The Long Wives

Angelo, I’ve always wondered
what you’d say now
if you could only
come through

'Cause the devil don’t want 
what the devil won’t give you
all my hunger
all I need to 
tell you

Angelo, come to the river
Swim beside me
‘til the waters
Heal you

‘Cause the devil don’t know 
what the devil did to you
all my hunger
all I need to 
tell you

This is how we go on
Without all the things we wanted
This is how we go on 

Angelo, I should have saved you
kept your nights clean
held you with my
milk tooth

But the devil don’t want 
what the devil won’t give you
all my hunger
all I need to 
tell you

Angelo, this world is haunted 
drag your soul down
and leave you wanting 
some truth

‘Cause the devil don’t know 
what the devil did to you
all my hunger
all I need to 
tell you

This is how we go on
Without all the things we wanted
This is how we go on

Milk Tooth

Get to know me
My dark anatomy
Small town lobotomy
King of mythology

Gold, gold, gold 
Gold, gold, gold
Golden brown
Left you alone 
Left you undone

Get to know me
Daddy’s little baby
Daddy’s gonna save me
Then he’s gonna break me

You screamed so loud, 
To the angry crowd
but you tasted like motor oil
going down
Like Pink Plastic hair barrettes
and Marlboro cigarettes
Like paper, ink, and telephones
records made of witches bones
You tasted like the end 
You tasted like the end
You tasted like the end

get to know me
my dark anatomy
they’re gonna love me
they’re gonna smother me

Dark Anatomy

Catch My Fall (Billy Idol Cover)

All your life butterflies in your eyes
Signs and omens, little tokens and like minds
Ruby slippers, pretty whispers and pockets full of lies
All your life butterflies in your eyes

Babydoll, you fooled them all
You put a feather in your hair
Said "If you love me I won't care"
Said "If you hurt me I won't care"
My babydoll

In a Paris tomb, Le Vizir's room
You found true love
Lipstick traces, secret places and leather gloves
Did you burn your house right down?
And did you smash your crystal ball?
I've got a ruby slipper just for you, babydoll

Feather

The desert rose up when I needed feeding
Cause you never came around
The sun came down without mercy
But my shadow never touched the ground

Cause I've never needed 
No, I've never needed anyone
So tell me all your secrets
And I'll tell you where I put the gun

Your boots are as dusty as your car
But neither have got you very far
Now I am a feather in your wing
You're the bird tied to a string


Where I Put the Gun

"Over Your Bones" The Long Wives

"Painted White" The Long Wives

"La Vengenista" The Long Wives

"The Freeze and the Thaw" The Long Wives

"Judas Hex" The Long Wives

"Cruel to be Kind" The Long Wives

dark days upon us
melting on my tongue
the father and the holy ghost
that taught you how to run
bring them to me kneeling

give him my white lace 
give him teeth of gold
give him every little breath 
you've ever had to hold
and bring him to me kneeling

give him my white legs
give him my white lace
give him my white eyes
give him my white lace

Brandy StJohn's Album

Bring Him to Me Kneeling

Time is my enemy but time is your servant now
And masters and servants they make you, then break you down
So you built your house, built your house all alone
Then you filled your house, filled your house with a thousand bones

Oh, I want to love you, your thick lies, your sickness
But my black-eyed mother would never let me

Masters and Servants

me into you
body turning toward you
body pulling to you
and pulling you

you and my hand
I will always understand
body pulling to you
and pulling you

all the words you gave to me
written in our hands
all the words i gave to you
written in our hands

the years all collapse
and we’re back where we began
my body pulling to you
and pulling you

this mouth and your neck
no beginning and no end
body pulling to you
pulling you

The Long Wives "Pulling"

We don't come around there anymore
Since they put your bones on their door
Because it's hard to think about 
What they're there for

Nails in a bottle just like before
And it's hard to think about what they're there for
They will rue the day
Because I am fire now
Yes, I am fire

They Burned Us at the Stake

All these things that I don't need
You can take them from me
'Cause I don't need anything at all
So take it and bury me in my skin
All the gods that I've forsaken 
Left me drowning in my sin
You can call the preacher
But you can't let him in
The resurrection came
And left you nothing but your skin

Skin

Anthony
so velveteen
I could touch you night and day
phosphene in a waking dream
you were never meant to stay

some days I remember we’re all done
some days I forget 
some days I remember to wake up
some days I forget 

Anthony
you’re still in my dreams
and the sad part of my day
I was made to drown in milk
I was never meant to stay

remembering 
the king and queen
the hive and the perfect sting
things we’ve done are who we become
but they're not who we’ll always be

Some Days I Forget to Wake Up

Seven kisses on seven days
Seven long years I had to wait
And I've waited so long
Just to see you come home 
And I've wondered for years what went wrong
Now I'd rather leave you than love you, anyway
It's been seven years, to the day
I've drawn myself thin
I've wrestled with sin
You've sewn yourself deep in my skin

Anniversary

He’s gone, the leaver, the fever leaving
Her breath shallow
Forgets all breathing
In and out of time, they fall

He’s here, the leader, a fearless fever
Our breath frozen
A ghostly winter
In and out of time, we fall

When the night begins to fall
Your wings pinned to the wall
You never needed anyone at all

He’s gone, the lover
The endless leaving
The new one, younger
Childlike spinning
In and out of time, she falls

He’s here, the leader
The stage lights bleeding
Music moving, drums are beating
In and out of time, you fall

When the night begins to fall
Your wings pinned to the wall
You never needed anyone at all

In and Out of Time

Johnnie Eileen, dear, let it go
You are the winter and he is the snow
He will find a new love everywhere he goes
Johnnie Eileen, last one to know

Did he take you to Paris?
To the river with the boats
Did the women selling flowers all seem to know?
Did they throw their flowers everywhere you'd go?

Johnnie Eileen, dear, let it go
You are too delicate with your glass bones
And time won't heal you while you're still in the throes
And he will find a new love everywhere he goes

Did he take you to Pamplona many years ago?
To the hills of white birch trees
Can you still smell the leather?
Can you still smell the smoke?

Glass Bones (Johnnie Eileen)

"The Violence of Man" The Long Wives

Time is undone again
And I feel it all wrong
Don't spend your nights alone
Cause you feel it all wrong
All that you've known is broken will, broken bone
Don't give your nights to those who will steal it all before you go on

I am the child again 
and I feel it all wrong
Don't spend your nights
Lost in the years it was all wrong
All that you've known is broken will, broken bone
Don't give your nights to those who will steal it all before you go on


Things fall apart again
Cause I feel it all wrong
Drawn to the hangman
In love with everything wrong

Darling, you know that one of us
Has to feel it all wrong
Someday we'll be brand new again
Someday we'll be reborn
Someday we'll be reborn

Feel It All Wrong

When the night is your enemy 
And your soul has grown heavy
Well then you just come right to me
I have hands like Jesus, I will lay them right upon you

When this world is cruel to you I will wrap my wings all around you
And illuminate the darkness
And when your heart no longer beats I will make that long journey
To lay my tusks at your door

Tusks

Perish the thought that your cold heart could ever love the likes of me
And perish the thought that my fool heart could ever be happy 
I will run to you for all eternity
And you will break me down quite happily
Perish the thought that we will ever be

Perish

Some souls live their lives to know
But we know how it feels
And some souls they will never know
But we know how it feels

Did your sea get colder?
Your nights get darker?
Did every wave come crashing in on you?

Lost at Sea

"The Hollow Fin" The Long Wives

Love, I wrapped you in spun gold
Until I couldn't see you anymore
But these nights are better all alone
With these broken wings and my little bones
Tell all the midwives I'll see them someday
I washed my bones in the ocean and I watched them drift away

Spun Gold

"Break You In" The Long Wives

"Dear Secret," he said.
He said, "Come to me."
"I've waited longer than you could see"
But, love, I'm down on my knees

Hallways, I always seem to find you
Darkest blue
I'd walk on holy water just to get to you
You fade in and out 
and I'm missing you

"Dear Secret," he said.
He said, "Come to me."
"Without scorn?"
I'm always torn when I'm away from you
I'd walk on holy water and I'd drown in you

Holy Water

Vocals/Guitar/Piano- Brandy St. John

All songs written and recorded by Brandy St John

Download the debut single from The Long Wives, "Dark Horse/ La Vengenista", on Bandcamp. Produced by Nick Zinner and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. 

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