Dead Water / ABE

from Diamonds & Gold by Motherhood

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I got nothing to do here but wander around
I got nowhere to go but to grieve
I have six-hundred letters from the Devil himself
Explaining all the ways I could leave
I have no one to crawl to but you now
I have everything under the Earth
I have days that I lose to the darkness
You've been cursing the day of my birth

So run me through

And that god-awful city wouldn't take me back
After hearing the things that I said
And your god-awful pity made my dry bones crack
And I feared that you'd not leave my bed
I stop running when stars come up over my head
I can't sleep when the hyenas laugh
It's a cold crooked world if you keep looking back
But my lungs only breathe in the past

I'm going for a walk in the river
I'm going for a walk in the Dead Water

Swing my bones / woman let me die
I don't hate you know / but I can't tell sometimes
I'm so far from home / and I been gone too long
The Devil knows my name / and the ones I've wronged

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Oh my heart / it is black and blue
I am over this / I am over you
And I can't say no / but I won't say yes
So I'll close my eyes / and I'll let you guess

Darling I'm confused again
These hollow hills won't take me in
Gonna have to run me through again
If your knife can reach

Swing my bones / woman let me die
I am horrible / in my mother's eyes
I can't have it all / I can't have it none
Father Abraham / I'm a bastard son

Crooked world / I'm a crooked man
There are things around / I don't understand
Like these aches and pains / that my body knows
Like my restlessness / Like the way it grows

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from Diamonds & Gold, released June 14, 2013

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Motherhood is an avant-rock trio from Fredericton, NB, Canada.

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