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Lady In White
06:08
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Lady in white
Will you help me get to sleep tonight
I'm all wound up and not feeling right
Take this sleep and off to bed
To get the buzzing out of my head
Filled with static like a radio
A dead star burning black and dim
Crawling down your open mouth
Filled with worry and regret
Wash the weeds out of your hair
Where all the others are waiting down there
The water shimmers in the moonlight
Hiding me from your sight
You wait down by the water's edge
Where many men are laid to rest
Your dress is silver in the fog
As you float around the bog
Your tongue glows in the night
As you fill my heart with light
I can see you now
Lady in white
I need to do what is right
Make me dream again
Lady in white
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Lady In Black
04:47
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Lady in black with a heart made of lack
And a kiss that steals the breath from me
When I look into your eyes, they hypnotize me
Like diamonds sparkling on the pale sea
Drink from my soul, to make yourself whole
While I steal from you what I need
You are my twin in deed and of sin
We drink from mirrors of mercury
I want to swallow you up like the sea
I want you to set my spirit free
Steal all your ire, and breath made of fire
That would satisfy me
You can shape-shift all you like
But you'll wither in light
Chasing your shadow to escape me
But life kills death, and death kills life
And I'll find a way, to make things right
And balance out that which evades me
We're two souls bound together
Two birds of a feather
Two serpents eating each other
When you take a wound, I bleed
When I take a wound, you feed
When you feed, I get what I need
Your black widow shit won't work on me
My sickness of healing, will poison your poison
And infect you with love made of life
And I'll destroy your destruction
And make you radiate forever with light
And in spite all you like, and try as you might
But in the end, you can't beat me
You can't beat me
You can't beat me
You can't beat me
You complete me.
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Sleepscape
01:53
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Somniform Girl
04:42
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On a moonlit night
Reflecting off the snow
She was quite a sight to bestow
She sat there in the ashes
Of a burned down building frame
Wearing sadness like a necklace
That hung with heavy shame
And I was sad to come here
To see her in the snow
All those left behind me
And their families now widowed
I put my tommy gun aside to join her
Waiting by the gates of hell
If it wasn't for my weakened heart
I wouldn't have fallen for her spell
I heard gunfire in the distance
And the scuffle that I knew
Would bring the rest to take her
And everything we knew
I'll follow you through sewers
And catacombs lined with skulls
Like the ones on your dress
Oh you know the ones I know
I'll dance on the corpses in the cemetary
Further down the road
And when I dance with you
Let us dance real slow
And though I wont kiss you yet
Someday I won't hold back
For now I'm going to cheat you
Every time I get attacked
I can see you in the distance
I can see your red bow
Tangled in the branches
Just beneath a roosting crow
Flirting in the graveyard
With the moon shining a halo
Some day I'll settle down with you
And run a funeral home
Have some stillborn children
And dead flowers by the window
And when I make love to you
One last time
And take my final breath
I'll know just what it means
To have lost the game with death
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Chasing Oblivion
02:58
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Oh my machine gun cries for home
Under a heavy sagging sky
That folds over like a listing ship
Oh and my machine gun
Cries for her prince
She cries for my blistered fingers
To caress her tarnished steel
She cries an ocean
For all the people
That she has missed
Now my girl
Cries from beyond the grave
She wants to wear the dress
That burns all around her
She wants to turn the rivers into
Veins of gold
She wants the taste of
A dead man's kiss
She wants the taste of
A vulture's kill
She wants to see my face again
And she will not
Let me go
No she will not
Let me go
Now I am made of wonder
No longer am I a man of this earth
No longer do I fear Gabriel
Nor his horn
No longer am I trapped within a brittle skull
I tread the path where
No creature would dare to go
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A raven sits perched at the crossroads
Where a wind blows through a scarlet sky
And on it carried a familiar whisper
That told me my flesh is a lie
Take me down to the town where there lives silence
Down where the rockets arrived
Where the wind blows dark and reaps the harvest
And I know I cannot die
In your arms where the children whimpered
Under your feet where the soil cries
The earth is solemn and heartbroken
Over a future that we despised
His sickle no longer hangs over
And has torn down the entire sky
And as God as my witness
I'd give anything to stop this genocide
Where he laughs for he has triumphed
It is his world now it is his prize
Our leaders are his loyal servants
His legacy their enterprise
Only the wind can call my name
On this earth where she cries
Where I'm not afraid of being alone
I always was I will survive
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Shadows Of Being
10:11
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A pretty shadow on the ground
A little hollow filled with sound
Bleeding all out and around
The marble flowers in the ground
I was once young now I'm a man
Even now I don't understand
Why we must be bound to entropy
The tide of years it comes unseen
As I lie here in this place
I see myself laid out in a chain
Of every person that I've been
All tethered as a temporal stem
The body withers and it rots
I hear the growls of fighting dogs
To take what's left to where they'll leave
A home beneath the fallen leaves
I breathe the water and it's thick
It heals the hungry and the sick
I'm born again under the waves
I'll hide out there for several days
A pretty shadow on the floor
Beside where time leaks through a door
Where other worlds are still asleep
And waiting for us to take a peak
I saw you as an awful mess
At the station near the overpass
Our dead freedom echoed dreams
Carried by the wind it seemed
I heard your voice in the autumn air
You wanted me to take you there
But where I've been and what I've done
Can't be shared with anyone
A pretty shadow beneath my feet
While I'm standing in the street
All I've been and all I've seen
Now withering as shadows of being
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Serpentine Skies Connecticut
Serpentine Skies is the Connecticut-based music project of Steven Belcher, focused mainly around the meditative state between the conscious and unconscious states of mind.
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