Psalm One

Lyrics

https://soundcloud.com/smiththeband/psalm-one?si=f184c5c5226042e195e7b950ee6cbb0c&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing John left himself in the riverAs hes drowning a man of GodHe knows now that the people wont listenUntil Yahweh is weeping their blood John sees himself in the waterUnder the locust moonIn the dark desert his FatherRubs the...

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Kintsugi Detective

Lyrics, Poetry

https://soundcloud.com/smiththeband/dust-to-dust In last season's leavesWatermelon bits of you are beetle-coveredand evaporating withwing sheathes whisperingdeliver unto us the fuse-lighterThe church basement tip-line is ringing off the hookIf you or anyone you love becomes the victim of a cold case bombingYou may...

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Every time you think, you are avoiding death

Lyrics, Poetry

https://soundcloud.com/smiththeband/this-makes-me-think-every-time?si=7dcea5f68ece400ab286fe5cf286c1d0&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing mama was a painterand dad was a working man's sonmy youtube therapist said I'm a good boy if I get good grades and pay the bills and see myself in mirror naked meditate until I see nothingclean every corner,...

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Crying after Fern let’s go

Lyrics

Cry with loversWhen Fern let's goThe Heartbreaking beautyOf being small No pleasure without hurtSo pick good poisonGet used to taking turnsAnd leave my islandAll bridges burnSo hit the roadDon't listen to them telling me where to goI never really learnUntil...

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Mother’s Child

Lyrics, Playlists, Poetry

Are you ok
It must be hard on you
Pouring the ashes for two

But I am my mother’s
mother’s mother’s child
Bearing the weight is the proof

That my love goes as far as the moon
And If I’m dying I’ll die like a coon dog
Go out with style and grace
Or die from the grief of a
Loss of the trust of the master

How ya doing
When are you coming back
Just checking in on your mental health

Oh I am my mother’s
mother’s mother’s child
Hard work’s always the cure for the blues

Oh my idle hands are devil’s tools
I won’t loosen my grip on the lives we could lose if we
filled up our closets with
Uniformed skeletons who
Played by the rules of the master


peripheral darknesses; in the right corner of my eye a tear of ethanol, long distance phone calls from purgatory, the fear in your voice with my hand on your slipping pulse, you came so far just to get here. I am my mother’s mother’s mother’s child and I am witness the permanence of shame

putting it together
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Undone Dishes

Lyrics

You ever wake up from a dreamTo get a drink of waterBut you’re still in the fucking dreamAnd then you hear your grandfather crying What the sam hill were you thinkingI really wish you weren’t such an idiotI can’t believe...

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And Sagan said to Caselotti…

Lyrics

MirrorWhere do we go from here?I've beenSpinning on this blue marbleFor 30 yearsAnd it's oddMaking the same mistakes, I've learned nothing from different placesBrushing the same teeth in your image while different faces look backI'll getthe swingOf thingsEven ifI swing...

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Lady Lazarus Takes a Walk

Lyrics

Sylvia Plath does Wislawa Szymborska’s “Lazarus Takes a Walk” Lady Lazarus Takes a Walk The poet has died three times now. After the first death, she was taught to die as an artist does. After the second,  she learned how...

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