From the recording Blood on My Sandals
Lyrics
Annie come over it’s fine
You’re broken and beating on obsessive lines
And I’m starting to doubt it’s a sign
That your terror of meaning is so such like mine
Kin and crested, go it alone
Get digested, into the unknown
Been molested, stunted and grown and I
You got your cynicism with you like it’s your best friend
Your addictions on your shoulders as the gods pretend
And all of these aimless interlopers only want your ends
You say it doesn’t matter and I just cannot defend
The way you’re chewing on the smoke and spitting back the ash
The way you suckle down the incense like it carries cash
Feeling so far gone from feeling that you reach the crash of
Trading passion for your ration thinking that could patch the gash
But it won’t
And on and oning, devil drawing
Papal pawing, Menage a trois-ing
Creep and crawling, steeple sawing
It smells like palo santo
And snuffed out candles
And I can’t handle
This wax on the mantle
The fever rambles
And feeds me scandals
Of holly trampled and
Blood on my sandals
Annie it’s over it’s gone
You fleshed it out and you got wrong
Annie it’s over it’s broken
And shoved back in like it can’t admit
That a friendly face would not always fit
Like Johanna’s charms and her disquiet
It smells like
It smells like palo santo
And snuffed out candles
And I can’t handle
This wax on the mantle
The fever rambles
And feeds me scandals
Of holly trampled and
Blood on my sandals
Stuck here right angle to God
I went looking for the riddle but I found the rod
I told the wrong Angel of my great relief
At the thought of finding succor from the blows to my belief stuck saying
God dammit, god dammit all
What’s the point in building towers if you knew that they could fall
And in the pall of halted obelisks
Seems like everything I do will roll me back to Sisyphus
I’m begging
Don’t fuck it up, fuck it up simply
What a waste on incantations what a waste of time and blood
What a waste on medications and the evil and the good
I'm here searching for safe passage but I don’t know how I can
If the devil’s in the details and the gods are in the plan
And it feels like more than freedom but I know it’s less than hope
Such is my maternal birthright in just learning how to cope
But the innocence and empty sends me back into a child
Sipping Similac and whiskey with the weeping and the wild
