Red Waltz

from Rats Laugh EP by Stranger Killings

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Red Waltz

The way is a box
The way is a square
Your feet are all bare
In blood to the ankle
And tangled up in the guts

The music is soaring
And the music is grand

You lick the tips of your fingers
Just after you’ve dirtied your hands

The way is closed
The way is a box
That is hard and perfect
Without hinges or locks

The music is a schriek
The music is a groan

As you dance this red waltz all alone

The sky is a suicide
Its wrists are raining down on your face

with lithe beauty and grace
and wet rotting lace
and a terrible corset of bone

you dance this red waltz all alone

your twin was a dirge
for a long somber march
the dirge wept for its throat
as your fingers wrapped round it
and the pig iron furnace in your eyes was lit
as you choked out her life
you looked thin and lithe
and cast a fine shadow like a boning knife

the way is a box
without hinges or locks

Oh my how beautiful you’ve grown
you’ve murdered memories and lovers
and pulled up sodden covers
over their heads

how tightly you embraced your sister
her eyes rolled back
and she died when you kissed her

oh my how beautiful you’ve grown

as you dance this red waltz all alone

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from Rats Laugh EP, released February 14, 2016

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