tear down the place that you make your home
rip up your sheets and burn all your clothes
ash blue alder smooth as the speckled locust
black bird, magpie, cut ties and throw it away
even when they're gone they're better than me.

paint up your limbs and spin through the night
flooding the faces with patterns of light
untie, unclean, tongue of the serpent i speak
quickly, calmly, cursing through my teeth
and the blood filling your hole takes a year to swallow

old boxelder
where you carved your name
old boxelder
where your body lays 

quit feeding the monster you keep underground
in your blood sweated socks from your pacing around
untie, unclean, tongue of the serpent i speak
quickly, calmly, cursing through my teeth
and the blood filling your hole takes a year to swallow

old boxelder
where you carved your name
old boxelder
where your body lays

the boxelder

Back Alley Pusher

Weatherman

The Funeral Line

The Red Painted Room

I'm sorry my dream I'm gonna have to let you go
smoking up my time i think you're better off alone
every day you say that ill be losing my mind
looking for the answers i won't find
book your smart ideas and start a fire in your home
I'm just coming down i think i need a stepping stone
no one knows just who or what it will be
but i will cut you down if you think that you can fuck with me
every day you say that ill be burning alive
but i don't have a problem being a bad guy
only wonder when you die 
whats the worth of even trying
sit around and just get high with the t.v.
oh the questionable light
that some may never find
just like all the things you know you'll never be.

Gavi Gavi demo demo - fiend dream

Untie the flesh around the bone
and set on fire every chair inside your home
A shiny coffin made of chrome
Four silver wheels, spin the key, and then you're gone

One spark and then you're gone

We're shooting capsules to the sun
I'll write a letter to the man that I've become
Time traveling Captain of no one
We'll set a course to try and chance what we have Done

CHORUS:
Lines they move in parallel
Miss connecting dots
I love when you let me down
And keep me there
Where I belong

Four feet will dangle far from land
I fit the world into the creases of your hand
Too late to shape the master plan
Your weak advice it won't disguise all that I am

CHORUS:
Lines they move in parallel
Miss connecting dots
I love when you let me down
And keep me there
Where I belong

The time we shared
Well, it all went wrong
The loss of air
In the fuselage

Cut me on my heels
I feel much better now
Strap you on my back
I float far from the ground
Cut me on my heels
I feel much better now
Well, I can't change it
The air I breathe is gone from me
Now

The Captain

Title track off our upcoming LP "The Scarecrow" -

Holding tight to paper kites you tied to a string
Life is but a dream, but you just can't sleep 
when every moment you keep waking.

Ran too slow, you missed the boat
Got left on the shore
There's nothing here anymore, and now you're by yourself
Still complaining to the ocean

Hit the fog, the city smog got lost in the road 
Our heads bound to explode 
From the tongue tied knots and pointless conversation

Can't pretend you are content with space 
That you fill you'll be my whippoorwill 
I'm your albatross, your island and your prison

--chorus--
I sit like rocks in a river
Until it all runs dry
We'll swim through the dust of the desert
Ain't too big for compromise
but I don't wanna drown unless the dirt it sticks
There's got to be a slower death than this

You promised when it all went wrong that we'd feel it out. 
We'd feel it out
Add it up to the stack of the shit we said
Wonder what the hell went wrong
With that feeling now that feeling now has gone
away

The words that burn to ash and get swept up in the draft
Won't be coming back when you're all mixed up
from what you thought it would be

Forget about the ringing out that's stuck in your head 
It was only pretend

and you figure out what it was you wanted
and you figure out where it was you came from
when the lies run out you'll be stuck with the question
was it worth the time you spent trying to forget it?

I sit like coins in a fountain
Until it all runs dry
I'll swim until the wishes are counted
Wish you'd come and save my life

But I don't wanna drown
Unless the dirt is thick
There's got to be a slower death
than this

Such a poisonous sound
Through the pain of the window
Just a yellow bird
Holding on to the branches

And I'll never come back
I'll just be a ghost
I've been filling the holes in the trunk of my host
If I come back
I'll stay for good
I'll be filling the cracks of the wood

whippoorwill

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