Black Wire

from Retire Your Engines by The Separation

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Chewed and dispersed in the face of the day.
Where the vultures now roam we can only guess the way.
Now the hungry and afraid black-bird with broken wing.
Flicked through a paper on the delayed train.
Happy and drunk a little ray of sunlight.
You'll be blind before the night says goodnight.
Violent earthquakes tear through the capital.
In the gallows, in the gale.
Where is your home?
Wherever you sleep.
You all have been corrupted.
Red cord doesn't share with liars.
The recovered host said 'you remind me of an actor, I met so many years ago.'
My trauma's nothing but red cord.
Chris and Sally gave birth to monster.
The gang's been brought down to their knees and the apple never falls far from the tree.
And at night she whispers 'get up, get up, get up.'
So she rides across the town, at the speed of light feeding on everything she sees.
Like a swarm of termites.
The sky is scalpel, a bloody knife.
I'm the doctor of drunken mid-wives.
I blush cherry at guilty signs.
Like a swarm of termites.

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from Retire Your Engines, released May 1, 2008

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