A Thousand Tongues

from New England Wind by Straw Man Standing

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lyrics

it’s a pretty little picture that you paint
but I won’t be the one with the matchstick who will taint
I’ll leave your purity inside the ring
I left my gloves at home this is gonna sting

you came and then you’re gone or were you even real
i’m a sycophantic lover and i will steal
every dripping drop of you that’s in your soul
i’ll suck it up until i become whole

i’ll suck you up until i become whole

it’s peculiar the way we disappear in this maze
but i’d never have found my way if not for the haze
never'd have seen myself if i’d not first gone blind
never'd have known true virtue if you’d been kind
yet you leave me out like some rotten fleshy lie
sooner or later i’m bound to sound a cry
and never before have i lived so close to tear
and it’s precisely because you were there but never here

so i suck you up until i become whole

emanating from your mouth is an oozing mess i could do without
reverberating through your lungs is the desperate gasp of a thousand tongues
percolating on your lips is the sickened hiss of elicit kisses
circling round your feral form is the liar’s stench that keeps you warm

so i suck you up until i become whole

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from New England Wind, released November 15, 2016

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