by These Arms Are Snakes on album This Is Meant to Hurt You

If this is an invitation, well then this is my RSVP. So on your list you can scratch me off. You aren't the foreground And I am not the ground that you can just walk on. I've had enough of the taste o

by These Arms Are Snakes on album Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home

Breathe on me Breathe on me Breathe on me Breathe on me Breathe on me Never spit your last tooth Never spit your last tooth And never shy away from my light Never spit your last tooth Never spit you

by These Arms Are Snakes on album Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home

The sun rose on the understay With a click of a switch The sub canopy roared when the Business sign read open in neon lights Climbing vines up desk, stools, pygmies and bats Timecards and paychecks T

by These Arms Are Snakes on album Easter

Lapping at the foot of its scarecrow's husk It took shape in ivory The body writhes and twists To mold a sheepskin billfold A cracked citizen chamber Of musk and glory holes The light shines through

by These Arms Are Snakes on album Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home

Rabid mouths, prone suicidals Morphine injections for crazed homicidals A man's work is never done In this the white room Nineteen hour shifts What kind of job is this This is madness Someone had got

by These Arms Are Snakes on album Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home

The family blood runs through me this oil in water. My family blood cut through me clear like teeth made of sauter. My childhood passed through me smooth like the throat meeting water. A dental sighs,

by These Arms Are Snakes on album Tail Swallower and Dove

In your room. There he sat. He hid there This whole time. Watching you And breathing you While you slept. He came in Through your dress. To where he'd rest. Wanting you. To be you. In vain. Ohhhh, bl

by These Arms Are Snakes on album Tail Swallower and Dove

My nerves shake half exposing. Ohhhh I shake tonight. Masked, covered and indifferent to the whole. I'm old. Rotting ships, I know no difference between interference. I shake in an uncomfortable form.

by These Arms Are Snakes on album Tail Swallower and Dove

They write the songs, And you sing the passages at night. They hold the notes high, You keep them down so it's hard. Do you cover them up so they can't hear them? They can't hear because they don't be

by These Arms Are Snakes on album Sargent House Sampler

He, he sinks in the ground, On these streets of 11th and Howell. May he run down blocks and city halls, To be drank by city folks and shivering crows, to make this right. All the way down to the Sound

by These Arms Are Snakes on album Easter

Small talk happens in my home town Bodies walk but don't move too much around It's a safe dirt nap town where you can make a friend As fast as you can put one, put one in the ground I never thought m

by These Arms Are Snakes on album Easter

Ghost with a grin outside a skin house Set in the middle of a forty acre marsh Wrapped in moisture, growing, living things All around the dead arms, dead arms of spring It was my stab at faith, a los

by These Arms Are Snakes on album Easter

Stop this sitting on an overdressed feeling. On a morning come down it seems so unfitting. Be caught in a waste lite only by me in this into the sea. An early malnourished. False in misplacement of dr

by These Arms Are Snakes on album Easter

I've seen the ghost in you, I've touched the ghost in you Your face has begun to show the hurt you've done by you Your money in masses can go with your ashes alone with you Like you always do This pi

by These Arms Are Snakes on album Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home

The gravel galavants on the verdict Of the swine that was fed human remains It was a murder's victims somewhere north of the canadian border They ended up in your lunch break In which you may want to

by These Arms Are Snakes on album This Is Meant to Hurt You

I've drank from the neck of gods most beautiful creation. I've stared in the darkness of her ever shutting doors. Your old scares you open. I'm telling you to leave them alone. Digging around in the o

by These Arms Are Snakes on album This Is Meant to Hurt You

The mechanics of the machine are hard to desribe in a word or a sentence, it takes a life time. Trust me I ain't got one left to live or give to explain the ways of how it works, the gears the jerks,

by These Arms Are Snakes on album This Is Meant to Hurt You

We enter rooms at midnight. With packages of lusts and stuff that no one could size up. This is not just a picture fixture encapsulated in your mind, it's a perfect romantic moment captured in time. N

by These Arms Are Snakes on album This Is Meant to Hurt You

So if that was a response, then you can call this reaction. So this will take us right to the point that we've been trying to get to. That we've all lost our minds and that we are straying from the su

by These Arms Are Snakes on album Oxeneers or the Lion Sleeps When Its Antelope Go Home

When the sun came up on the small block of the city We needed to find somewhere to drink Through five days of working and two left to our person We all needed sometime to breathe So use your body as