Tea & Bones

Dance Less

cutting grain

herding beasts

feeling travelled

quite unravelled

can’t but squander 

for you do long her least

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here she stands

gleaming at you

lady figure

mother trigger

cold this statue

gleaming at you

she sees right through

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hunted virgin

boiled lovers

cutting running

hurt and fading

beat she’s waning

heart with laden covers

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deserted mountains

ride up on you

calm chills

hide your thrills

here she comes

calming fountain

everything without her

nothing but her

dance less

dance less

Still

on a dewy moonlit dawning

the day but barely yawning

the waxing and waning and fawning

glowing embers no longer scalding

the breath begins a sigh

but remembers by and by

of the ears that lay beside

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quivers here

shivers near

a freshness surely tainted

dust settled

becomes filth, detested

by all once held dear

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the world is summoned 

won’t you hear the news

extra, extra, such charming pride

what did you have to lose

and so search and try and find

get lost in the corners of your mind

but so have all the clues

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and you think

so this must be the blues

you whisper

this must be the blues

you speak

yeah this is the blues

you scream

i’ve got the fucking blues

and the ears prick up

the catch

so the meek

disguised as weak

winning your streak

and losing your battles

left you rattled

oh they snaked you

and they bait you

hooked your line

hung your sign

gone fishing

aint it funny

ponders have wandered

big ships have sailed

but im still so hopelessly impaled on you

im still hopelessly derailed by you

left frail, unstable, hurt and bruised

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you still dont see

it cannot be

that i was once free

but for you

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haunting saunters pass me by

breaths take too much in

im left choking on the high you leave

im here choking, i cry, i heave

soaking in thoughts you cannot conceive

________

there you do perceive

dancing on the cobblestones

climbing up vines of hair

a cloud of hazy nothing

a life of crazy something

the world for which you care 

a world emotionally bare

________

now i see

it never will be

you’re too free

lucky you

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aint it funny

Lady Hum

scarred the pastures on her chest

fresh the wounds beneath it

cruelly scholared

she whines

she hollars

baby won’t you treat it

darlin’ do the rest

________

without a likely suitor 

to suit her, more than likely

she’s bound to tumble

________

dawn break her fall

cushion her on your chest

while beyond stand the rest

abreast, of it all

kept abreast, he needn’t

wouldn’t

didn’t call

for he has the crest

for he now has her crest