Baroness

There was an anchor, there was a silver-sweet refrain. You tucked your fingers in between my troubled bones. And what you did next was second to none. You really let us down. You tied yourself up and...

You lead the way, I'll follow You lead the way, I'll follow What was the plan here? I can't seem to stop! Pissing and spitting from bottom to top Picking up viscera, tendons and broken remains Did you...

See inside Till you find me blindly Slice the rind Till you see me bleeding Thousand blades Of an unbeliever Sift the sand Hear the wail of winter winds

All of your fears are well founded and true All my hands are callous and cruel All of my arrows that riddle you through Are bullets that fire me back into you All of the rivers are boiling with thirst...

Only an angel can feed On ashes and ovaries Blame the pagans and saints They are one War, wisdom and rhyme The peach and the rattlesnake We are grave We are graves We will die Maybe the sawgrass did...

Perambulation Wading Milk the keel through tidal slough at down On and on Grating and lapping at the swollen stinking skin Imitation Mating muscles cut through cord Through mountain's own On and on...

I see through this demise The hallowed serpent unwise. He is learned in the ways of decay, And he shone as winter's dawn fades. As brazen as the turn of the tide, And certain as our season fades. So...

Steel that sleeps with the morningstar Would that I could sin once more Blades will sing over stone and field That their song might grace our fall Pallid limbs in the raven's thrall Fracture sulphur...

Curse with me Profane and discreet Make her move Cross veins and chamomile Soft and sweet Seasalt silver-meat Buried deep In crowskin overcoat Save your breath This may be the last There is no novelty...

Raise your voices This is where the good times went for me Breathe in choruses This is where the waning sated me Stand in valleys This is where the rivers coursed my veins Line the shoreline This is...