III. Skeletons on Parade
from The Candleman and the Curtain by The Earth and I
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lyrics
The slender hand forewarned of a solemn 2 A.M.
The candle-esque cadaver exercised his dying breath.
The desert sand is as adequate a grave as any other,
underneath the toxic sun.
I gave you everything that you didn’t need to have.
I failed to hear your pleas and kept the very thing you couldn’t do without.
But in the end, it’s all the same.
I discerned their silhouettes, a stiffness to their stride.
And they moved like skeletons on parade.
How long had it been since I’d seen the stars at night?
Passing countless days in search of something I can’t find?
Did I believe that I could turn this paper into gold?
Cast into the embers all to see what I could forge?
I gave you everything that you didn’t need to have.
I failed to hear your pleas and kept the very thing you couldn’t do without.
But in the end, it’s all the same.
Everyone has got an inner demon (to keep them up at night.)
Everyone has got a skeleton or two to hide.
They say you’ll find the devil in the details, (presence ever slight.)
But I have found him manifest within the archetype.
No, the stars have taken refuge in the light of the sun.
I coveted their light persisting to evade the dusk.
If something were to happen to them, we would never know.
If they don’t shine again, then in the end, who gives a fuck?
Everyone has got an inner demon (to keep them up at night.)
Everyone has got a skeleton or two to hide.
They say you’ll find the devil in the details, (presence ever slight.)
But I have found him manifest within the archetype.
The candle-esque cadaver exercised his dying breath.
The desert sand is as adequate a grave as any other,
underneath the toxic sun.
I gave you everything that you didn’t need to have.
I failed to hear your pleas and kept the very thing you couldn’t do without.
But in the end, it’s all the same.
I discerned their silhouettes, a stiffness to their stride.
And they moved like skeletons on parade.
How long had it been since I’d seen the stars at night?
Passing countless days in search of something I can’t find?
Did I believe that I could turn this paper into gold?
Cast into the embers all to see what I could forge?
I gave you everything that you didn’t need to have.
I failed to hear your pleas and kept the very thing you couldn’t do without.
But in the end, it’s all the same.
Everyone has got an inner demon (to keep them up at night.)
Everyone has got a skeleton or two to hide.
They say you’ll find the devil in the details, (presence ever slight.)
But I have found him manifest within the archetype.
No, the stars have taken refuge in the light of the sun.
I coveted their light persisting to evade the dusk.
If something were to happen to them, we would never know.
If they don’t shine again, then in the end, who gives a fuck?
Everyone has got an inner demon (to keep them up at night.)
Everyone has got a skeleton or two to hide.
They say you’ll find the devil in the details, (presence ever slight.)
But I have found him manifest within the archetype.
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from The Candleman and the Curtain,
released April 13, 2018
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