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What It Means

from Grief & Praise by The Whiskey Priest

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lyrics

When I say the words I say
To the air and the stars, or to your face
I don’t know if you know what it means
I mean a cat, it has nine lives
Lands on four feet, and with its one pair of eyes
It can see in the dark for miles and miles
But it can’t read

It means the pulse and the heat
Under your neck and down in your feet
Is a thing I want next to me most all the time

To be the voice inside your phone
To hold your heart’s heaviest stones
So you can breathe, and you can sleep
And you can cry

When I whisper, whisper the words
To the aeroplane or the passing bird
And say “would you please send these on to her
If you’re headed that way”
It means the time when I was twelve
Lost in the pines, ringing hard on that bell
Looking for God in empty wells
And getting strange

See I never had a blazing sword
A burning bush, or a flaming gorge
Just a choir chained to the doors
Bound to itself

So I wanna stare into your milkyway eyes
I wanna lay my head down amongst your thighs
And not be surprised when I wake up and I’m still myself

And I will be good, silent and large
The dragon you’ve hidden in your dad’s garage
I won’t make a fuss every night when you retire
And if the neighbors start to complain
Just say it must be the sound of the distant rains
And not the sound of some great beast
As he’s choking on his own fire

Just to rest, to be possessed
Deep in your arms, and high up in your chest
Look out onto this glowing world with a sliver country girl
As it fades from view
And bow our heads, and board the train
Shrug off all of this trying to explain
All that we’ve seen
Is what it means
Every day
When I say
I love...

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from Grief & Praise, released April 28, 2023
John Michael Landon: synths
Seth Woods: piano, programming, vocals

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The Whiskey Priest Albuquerque, New Mexico

The Whiskey Priest is song-writer Seth Woods. He sings about horses, oceans, trains, mountains, deities, hands, science fiction, sex, vegetation, drinking games, deserts, depression, party people, seagulls, death, monks, memory, autumn, driving, and breakfast. He has never met a drum machine he didn't like. ... more

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