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Knoxville Boy

from Bang Dust by Hovering Shrikes

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Knoxville boy, I hate the way you beg.
With limbs all roach-curled,
ain’t it time to accept fate?
The birds aren’t keeping quiet --
I shot them all today.
Knoxville boy, why can’t you just lie to lie, lie to lie, lay to lay?

I was a roofer. I was stomping around in tar
above the houses and the steeple seemed so far.
The only shapes that I could see that were not a blur
were the notes your mouth was making
as it formed a sacred harp.

Who taught you singing? There’s blood in your harmonies,
like there’s blood everywhere as you cry up to me.
But I’m not your god, boy. No mercy can I give
except to promise you: all will rot what lives.

Knoxville boy, I hate the way you beg.
With digits twitching, it is time to take your fate.
Knoxville boy, you could have had my every breath,
but now the only stuff that’s gonna fill your lungs
is dust and death.

You kept my secrets, but you kept them like a kiss,
giving little pecks to every stranger
for the love of lust and risk.
Well, I saw your lips leaving a forehead that I knew,
and trust me, Knoxville boy -- she’ll soon be joining you.

I heard the preacher ploying, “Satan must be real!”
By how your jaw hangs off in terror and awe,
I guess that’s how you feel.
But, don’t you know the preacher leaves a hoofprint, not a heel,
as he’s tiptoeing to bedrooms,
making sure his flock doth kneel?

Knoxville boy, I hate the way you beg.
There’s mud across my knuckles;
tell me that you like the taste.
In heart-shaped patterns, I’ll drag you by the golden hair
till only gold remains of you,
and then I’ll go be nobody’s nobody --
no, no, no, no, no --
nowhere.

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from Bang Dust, released April 9, 2021

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Lyric-driven post-punk from Portland.

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