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COLD COLORS EP (12" / CD)
Polyvinyl Records, July 24, 2007

Cold Colors

I don’t know much about it
But I talk too much about it
And every sound could throw me out.
Drink My Blood

You will drink my blood
And you’ll wish you hadn’t
You will break your bones
All your little bones
In the gulf of Florida where your mom was born
And the baby’s crying all of the time
You will write me letter after letter
About the dull Novembers and January February March Decembers that come afterwards
But I won’t even open up the motherfuckers
I could give a fuck about what the ink is dribbling
And all the ways that you are still remembering.
Illuminated Circles Dream Of Backwards Running Vampires

Backwards running vampires running backwards
In your head
Ceiling to the floor
Closet door
There’s always more
And I’ve been something
Always something less than what I said
Grinning ear to ear while I disappear.
Idiots

See through how everyone sees you
They think that you’re an idiot
But they must know an idiot
Cause you were born on idiot’s time
If you stop or continue
You’ll still be an idiot
With all the other idiots
You idiots are standing in line
And everyday there’s a new way back
To the very place that it all began
But your heart was telepathic
When you died on the Atlantic, 1975
And your hands meticulously crafted
You could see through all the static
Be you dead or alive
You left your home and the icy throes
Brought you together
Useless repeated excuses
Thought up by an idiot
To sell to other idiots
And anything that money can buy
But if then we’re gonna still do this
Then we had better do it before we hear those excuses
And we lose all of our valuable time
‘Cause every day there’s a new way back
To the resting place where it all began
But your heart is telepathic
When you drowned on the Atlantic, 1975
And your hands meticulously crafted
You could see through all the static
When you’re dead or alive
And your world
Was nothing but miraculous
The situation stopped at the inevitable
Your heart was telepathic
And you knew it was the only way you could ever go
Leave your home
And go it on your own
Coming together.
Spiderbite

One two three
All the animals in the trees
Have their games and devices
And our bones be
In the forests of memory
Where the animals bury us
Down underwater and underground
You feel me like the branches beneath your feet
Like the bones in your shoulders
Or possibly like the spiderbite in your sleep
Like the kiss your remember from a dream
And I feel your terrible beauty
In the world that’s surrounding me
I see this unbearable beauty in the light all around me
One two three
All the evidence points to me
But there’s no way of knowing
And the jury is the bottomless angry sea
Are the leaves blowing off of the trees
And I feeled this terrible beauty
Like a song coming out of me
I stopped when I heard singing ring through the trees
And the voices around me said,
“All of the world sings inside you.
All of your love and your lies, too.
And you can’t be afraid anymore.”

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