Tears float on mirrors, I watch them dripping as I scry beneath your kestrel eyes.
I'll pin you by your frame, keep you with your nails and name, I've not forgotten what I know.
In tranquility, I begged and you came after me with senses never slaked, hexed by your mistake.
I cited vicious rites, visions at my bedside.
These signs overflow.
Glimpsing all you also summon, vengeful spectres humming.
I sold my soul to pray for this, I told you I could conjure it
Carved initials in the dark, all desire leaves a mark.
There is no faith that from your spirit I'll escape but if I'm going down both of us will drown.
So draw the cards, ask them what we are, and who will stumble first, which ambition's worse.
Now we dissolve the light, running for an afterlife like one we wasted when we made this.
Each splinter in your fist, night-blooming bruises come because my sorrow still exists.
Insane as you've been driven, will you say your sin should be forgiven?
A last resort, the ruptured rapture swooning as it dies.
No one saves us from the flood this damned love justifies.
I give up, I give in. The darkness in us now will always win.
credits
from Exit Wounds,
released November 1, 2015
Noll Griffin: Vocals
Nathan Hyatt: Guitar
Junki Kawasaki: Drums
Paul Sabo: Bass
Recorded August 2015 at Faultline Studios in San Francisco, CA.
Engineered by Joe Santarpia with additional engineering by Yosh!.
Mastered by Steve Corrao at Sage Audio in Nashville, TN.
Music written and arranged by the Stereo Eclipse.
Lyrics written by Noll Griffin.
Copyright 2015 the Stereo Eclipse. All rights reserved.
beautiful, powerful, lovely, just like the man who wrote it. names in a hat makes me smile, stage blood is just gorgeous, window star new york is getting me through bad days. please give it a listen, you won't regret it. Jeremy Walker
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