Dirty Sky Filthy Sea

from There Is No One Left To Bury Me by Stranger Killings

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Dirty Sky and Filthy Sea

I am gone

The soft skull
The hard light

The lined face
With stained eyes

I love the way the rain dies

I’d rather chase the stars with long knives

And get my hands around the throat of a sunrise

But now I’ve gone
Somewhere between
The dirty sky and filthy sea

I hear the song before the swan dies

I slit her throat before the tears dry

I’ll pull a pistol on the moonrise

Steal your soul before the blood dries

Just give in and let my wounds cry

Watch the trees weep and the stones die

Then fly off somewhere between
The dirty sky and the filthy sea

Slit the belly of a pearl

Drown a flower

Kiss a girl

Drive my blade into the earth

Refuse my death
Deny my birth

And everyone will know
Exactly what my blood is worth

And everyone will know
The price of need

And everyone will know
That I made the stars bleed

And nobody will miss me
When I go
Somewhere between
The dirty sky and the filthy sea

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from There Is No One Left To Bury Me, released February 14, 2016

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