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A Body For A Breath

from Mean Spirit by The Whiskey Priest

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lyrics

well you brought me a companion
when i kept asking for death
you gave me a warm body
when all i wanted from you was breath
i asked you for a reason
i begged to understand
so you sat down in the native pose
and drew pictures in the sand
you saw me drifting off
and you pulled me alongside
and said "wait for me my darling dear
beloved and only bride"
but i caught you going out
when you told me not to come
i could turn on you again
i could turn around and run

but i been through this before
and i guess it didn't stick
cos, oh, look who it is
yeah baby don't it just make you sick
how the best of us get stupid
how purposes all bend
yeah i been through this before
guess i'll just go through it again

cos it's late now, in the day
oh it is late and it is dark
and the lamplighter is wandering
through the town, but not the park
where i am lying on a bench
and waiting for a sign
that tells me i can stand and leave
and that everything will be fine

and that i should keep on walking
through the street lights and the grid
keep on walking through the night
where the awful truths are hid
behind every painted face
down every dark stairwell
yeah tell me i should just keep walking
though i can't tell where i'm headed

but that sign has not appeared
and my eyes are getting tired
and my vision is impaired
and my lips are cracked and dry
and my tongue is clicking loudly
and there is a hammering in my head
i could use a drink or twenty
and a stranger's welcome bed

i could use a bottle of easy living
i could use a pound of flesh
to fill this lake of longing
cover up this meaninglessness
i could use a game of you
to help me forget this ain't no game
now listen, is it getting better
or do you feel the shame

oh the pen is moving fast now
but my heart is faster still
and it's turning out the storehouse
where the driver keeps the till
in a maddened quest for currency
for any coin that can be spent
towards the matter, bleak and urgent
that's caught and bleeding on the fence

that borders off the ancient city
from that country lost to man
and keeps him ever sick and longing
for where the water meets the land
in that blazing world of ever
turning, daring him to stand visions
of her naked body twisting
in between two nail pierced hands

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from Mean Spirit, released November 11, 2014

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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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