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Angels

by Thomas Loughney

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1.
He's been talking To himself again And maybe he oughta Take a handful of your medicine Cool him down, help him to breathe The clean air, we all need Soothe his lungs, with the breeze Filled with salt from the surf of the sea Hey, oh Just keep hangin' From the line Hey, oh They tell me he's out On the loose again He's the constable killer And he's comin' to take his revenge He don't love, he don't bleed At least that's what we're taught to believe He's just as frail, as you or me He's an agent of mortality Hey, oh Just keep hangin' From the line Hey, oh Now he's vanished Gone away again To his hideaway home Out from the reach of the law and it's men He's gone, and made peace With himself, for his deed He's absolved, of his need To feel guilt for the souls that he freed Hey, oh Just keep hangin' From the line Hey, oh Hey, oh Just keep hangin' From the line Hey, oh Hey, oh Hey, oh Hey, oh
2.
Angels 02:48
Saw them comin' today All the pretty angels From the sky to play But not to pray Still others rose out from the snow and sand To lift me up in their earthen hands So gently I was flown Past moons and wraiths, and stars of stone As they took me to their home The grass was blue, and all the skies were green It was so surreal, and yet so serene A sweet divine scene The loveliest angel stayed to keep me warm With the light that shone from her spectral form She whispered in my ear I met her gaze, and she drew me near And shook us both with her fear The beautiful angel, I touched her hair It gave me chills, but I don't know where Heard her laugh - a sing song cry It sounded like love, and suicide I watched them take her, but she left me her wings Those angels, they were such pretty things
3.
No Name #1 03:23
I have a casket Made out of stone I watch it shatter On the Jagged stairs So far below He has a whisper Made out of thread That spiders spin to Tangle Up their prey Within their web We have a slipknot Fixed 'round our throats Inverted rosary that Will not die For those it chokes
4.
No Name #2 03:46
That rusty head in the shower, it poured itself out in the tub Made the linoleum curl off in strips that looked like old ticket stubs But the disposable blue just kept looking at you Didn't cut quite as deep as you wanted it to But no matter how you holler, how you shout That pretty girl up in the attic ain't never comin' down here To let you out That hook called to you saying "come down and hang from my rung." Used the upside-down rosary so you didn't disturb anyone But that hook on the door couldn't take it no more It left you passed out on the hardwood floor And no matter how you holler, how you shout That pretty girl up in the attic ain't never comin' down here To let you out Those nightmares in the basement, they kept you from coming back for more They just drove you to madness, now you're stuck here banging on the cellar door But no matter how you holler, how you shout That pretty girl up in the attic ain't never comin' down here To let you out That lovely white lady you met took you in by the arm You spoke with her too long, 'cause you wanted to do yourself harm She gave you nosebleeds and hate, and she kept you awake But the service you requested didn't quite take No matter how you holler, how you shout That pretty girl up in the attic ain't never comin' down here To let you out No matter how I holler, how I shout That pretty girl up in the attic ain't never comin' down here To let me out Pretty girl you don't even have to kiss me, If you want to let me out
5.
He gazed outside, where raindrops poured So he reached deep within his dresser drawer To find the drugs that killed his mind The empty thoughts that killed his time He took them in the rain like snow The rain like snow The prescription pills, in their orange can Were all tucked safely in the palm of his hand To melt his thoughts, and sharpen his brain He took them every morn' of every day Washed them down with rain like snow With rain like snow The paint chips scattered on the floor From all the times he slammed his bedroom door They piled up, like drifts of snow To cover him in bitter cold Frigid as the rain like snow The rain like snow The rain like snow The rain like snow
6.
White Noise 02:52
The White Noise, he never knew She told him boy, I'm gonna come, come for you Tell you tales of silk and sirens So sit in rapture sit, sit in silence He listened to her sermon on the mountain Mount Cyanide with its poison wells and fountains Full of cold and bitter condensation From which they drank as they made their nighttime conversation The White Noise, she heard him coo She told him boy, I'm gonna come, comfort you Sing you songs To keep you calm And I will hold your thoughts that pass away And I will keep you safe and sound And I will keep you safe and sound Oh I will keep you safe from sound
7.
Apostate 03:17
I'm a harmless apostate Who dissolves, who tends to dissipate In the light 'Cause the moon's my midnight puppeteer Who stares down from the stratosphere In the sky She's a silent melody Like some old forgotten memory In my mind She's beautiful, she's crystalline She's pretty, and she's so pristine In my eyes I won't go to sleep, 'til it hurts And I won't go to sleep, 'til I hurt
8.
Saw them comin' today All the pretty angels From the sky to play But not to pray Still others rose out from the snow and sand To lift me up in their earthen hands So gently I was flown Past moons and wraiths, and stars of stone As they took me to their home The grass was blue, and all the skies were green It was so surreal, and yet so serene A sweet divine scene The loveliest angel stayed to keep me warm With the light that shone from her spectral form She whispered in my ear I met her gaze, and she drew me near And shook us both with her fear The beautiful angel, I touched her hair It gave me chills, but I don't know where Heard her laugh - a sing song cry It sounded like love, and suicide I watched them take her, but she left me her wings Those angels, they were such pretty things

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released May 8, 2012

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