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Valley Of Teeth

by Harlow Lake

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1.
I saw a body in the bathtub Looked kinda funny from the ceiling I knew I knew it but I couldn't put my finger on the face And then it came suddenly It was my body displaced What you are is not what you see Anything you can see cannot be what you are Look here I'm not trying to tear your house apart I'm just trying to suck the pain from your suffering sacred heart Nobody's going to fry Nobody no matter the crime I hate to pant your black and whites But it's OK to not know what happens when you die Hiding in my skin is space And I have dreamed up this place Believe nothing and remember This body belongs to the landscape The wind fills up my lungs like sails We all end up with dirt under our nails We are cameras for a while trying to capture our best side Not the body in the bathtub Not the one floating above Not in any fixed position There's no one behind the face Nobody's going to fry Nobody no matter the crime I hate to pant your black and whites But it's OK to not know what happens when you die Nobody knows
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When I grow up I wanna be someone Who knows about grown up things But I'm not sure anymore if I care Because we're all lost here We're none the wiser When I grow up I wanna be someone Who projectile vomits opinions To reassure my insecure sense of self Because I'm lost and scared Hold my hand Help me Hold My hand please Won't you Help me Hold My hand please Won't you We're all well trained but the safety's off The hive is civilized but at what cost Outside the costume's but inside something is lost The hands are warm but the heart is frost Chest flexed tight, chin high Roman lance, side speared Tongue charged, poised to fight Guard this hill of fears Help me Hold My hand please Won't you Help me Hold My hand please Won't you We're all well trained but the safety's off The hive is civilized but at what cost Outside the costume's but inside something is lost The hands are warm but the heart is frost
3.
There is a part of me that's growing old And a part of me that's younger too I got the sun in my stomach And on my fontanel sits the moon Am I caving in? Am I breaking out? I've got a church in my chest the howls And a steeple sticking out my mouth A particle in two places at the same time My bicycle's wheels spin different ways at the same time Divide and multiple And you are the type to get away with murder You are the type to get away with murder And I won't let you out of sight The type to get away with murder You are the type to get away with murder And I won't let you out of sight No I won't let you out of sight No I won't let you out No I won't let you Fill up my seven black days with seven thousand moans I got a job, not a life, in a world full of phones I got God in my pocket and sky in my bones I got seven thousand rebirths to find my way home A particle in two places at the same time My bicycle's wheels spin different ways at the same time Divide and multiple And you are the type to get away with murder You are the type to get away with murder And I won't let you out of sight The type to get away with murder You are the type to get away with murder And I won't let you out of sight No I won't let you out Of sight Come to my crown And then move down Into the blue Bell and the jewel I become you All is empty
4.
Push the darkness out so you'll be safer I found you're hiding place behind the finger Point that riffle back into the shadows Is that your doppelganger in the gallows? I know why you're scared The winds now reverse I know why it hurts The world now inverts You're on the wrong side of that two way mirror Don't those tabloid demons look familiar? Now I say this with the utmost respect If you spot it you got it No one's perfect I know why you're scared The winds now reverse I know why it hurts The world now inverts
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Silk Road 04:32
Collapsed a heap outside in daylight Heavy bodied wilting figures People river through Plunkett Cannon Rippling over and round your stupor Acolytes of the sinkhole Salvation in oblivion Slow motion downward slumping Vacuumed empty cheekbone specters Rolling boney down curbed carpet Black dreams of blank canvas Phone booths blanket the dead And of course pavement works aswell
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Folding 05:50
Roaming this boreen of outgrown fossil dreams Pouring Thorin and Caffeine over my sleep Foaming at the mouth with the slightest sniff Of something distracting I want my womb And I feel the undercurrent pull down on my feet Now I see that the sea it has a hold on me Rolling, folding, twisting under the waves Dreaming of waking but sleep paralysis seals my cave Drifting from the path into the woods Haunted and enslaved by old appetites And I feel the undercurrent pull down on my feet Now I see that the sea it has a hold on me And I know the truth but I can't move Feed me lotus root and guru juice As the lights go out I lose hope Pull me from the fog and back to you And I feel the undercurrent pull down on my feet Now I see that the sea it has a hold on me
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Ox Herding 03:14
You know that I don't If you and I've ever met But I know that you know me Better than I know my own breath Tried to squeeze you in But you don't seem to fit Even made you a doorway But you don't warm to it Tried every trick in the book To make you stay with me Take my eyes off of my eyelids for a second and you'll flee You know me like a mother does And love me just like death But whenever you're around I always lose myself Tried to squeeze you in But you don't seem to fit Even made you a doorway But you don't warm to it Tried every trick in the book To make you stay with me Take my eyes off of my eyelids for a second and you'll flee You will flee Once again there I go Ox herding on the road Blindfolded, lost in smoke Trying to stay afloat
8.
Just say so and I will take you home Home is where the hemorrhage is Health is a hammered spike in a socket Free-Man from all maladies immaculate track record, bar 500 fatalities Freedom from disease
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Endless Knot 05:02
Kill the pope if you meet him on the road He's just another pothole On your way home Take this disease please Nothing's gonna last Everything must go There's nowhere to stand The ground is made of smoke The pieces all move They slide and they slip There's nowhere to lean And there's nowhere to grip I see the paint peeling off this A nip and tuck, a little face lift One giant leap in one small shift I see the paint peeling off this And I don't know why... The pieces all have parts that endlessly divide Interdependence has everything entwined I can't find my self Nothing stands alone The lights are on inside But there's nobody home Scoop out these eyes Offer them up to the tide This spine of knots will untie Pare it all back to baseline Build a fire high Burn all the wrongs with the rights I prying the sky from this vice I see the paint peeling off this A nip and tuck, a little face lift One giant leap in one small shift I see the paint peeling off this And I don't know why No I don't know why I'd eat this lie Anymore Kill the pope if you meet him on the road He's just another pothole On your way home Take this disease please

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Recorded in the garden shed.

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released March 13, 2021

All songs written and recorded by Shane O' Leary
All instruments played by Shane O' Leary
Mixed by Philip Cotter
Mastered by Teetamaine

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