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“Horsehead”

I’ve seen The middle of five foot Airtight walls and

I’ve told The setting sun a joke He laughed his head right off’

Horsehead   It’s never quite enough I wanna breathe in And never breathe back out Horsehead I’m never quite enough I wanna breathe in And never breathe back out

I sat In a slump so my shadow Sat slumped too

Then I laid among the rocks and stones Fuck it all

Horsehead   It’s never quite enough I wanna breathe in And never breathe back out Horsehead I’m never quite enough I wanna breathe in And never breathe back out

Wake up, throw it all away, If nothing’s changed, nothing changes Wake up, throw it all away, Everything is nothing anyway

We’re each the rotten squall At the center of it all

“Like Before you were Born”

the wind fans deadpan, we plummet through the wake well, that’s my last mistake

birds land then stand and fly astray they’d do that anyway

It’s just Like before you were born Through that peaceful moment to like before you were born

I’m an old man I tell the same old sun “I get it, i’ve done it, i’m done.”

Cars breeze past winding through the calm I guess their lives go on

It’s just Like before you were born Through that peaceful moment to like before you were born

“Skin Game”

one afterthought on a skin game ‘i took it as prescribed’

vow do no harm buy the cure but first you buy the disease

I can see you’ve had some struggles lately Hey man, i’ve had mine too

fighting to get through the door But i can’t live like this anymore

they gave us wings to fly But then they Took away the sky

Well, what you want? ‘Serve me’ Sell me to the spoon I’m cashing in falling out tear me down hang me up

strung out to please the King in Metropolitan’s Sackler wing I can help you it’s how i help myself

I know you’ve had some struggles lately You know i’ve had mine too

fighting to get through the door But I can’t live like this anymore

They gave us wings to fly But then they Took away the sky

I wanna be your doll But i won’t be your dog anymore

You gave us wings to fly But then you Took away the sky

sunken ceiling and a sideways grin we lived to use and and we used to live crack a window get some life in you

holding in coughs, hiding my head “everybody respects the dead” I can help you it’s how i help myself

sunken ceiling and a sideways grin we lived to use, we used to live crack a window get some life in me

“Between Tides”

On and on, the clock was wrong ‘You’ve been numb so long’ His words they lapped an endless rote ‘It’s gonna rain, build a boat’

On masterstrokes of ebb and flow Down the drain the current flows All along the alpenglow It seems my pain was self-imposed

I’m just waiting for the storm to die out I’m just waiting for the storm to die

On and on, in memory You’ll have my company Mountainbuilding, anodynes Both in handfuls at a time

I asked the trees why they grow they said it’s all we know I apologize to all i see For everything i used to be

on and on, the clock was slow Down the drain, we surely know How to drink the oceans up? ‘Better start with a cup.’

I’m just waiting for the storm to die out I’m just waiting for the storm to die

“Taker”

You watched my lips make the promise i betrayed the years i lived in vain chasing the pain with pain

Stand down

There’s oil in my name my tongue flickers like a wilting flame

Lay it all out the path of wreckage that i cut all in want of what?

Who were you to believe? Your lying eyes or me? ‘I won’t let them tie to you The shit i put you through’

Stand down

There’s oil in my name my tongue flickers like a wilting flame

Lay it out the path of wreckage that i cut all in want of what?

“For the guilty”

love, revenge, love, redemption Rise and fall, start and stall

cash and prizes You heard them say Are for the guilty And stay that way But how are you today?

Curtained in with arms outspread I was a stranger in our bed Shut away and getting thin I was a stranger in my skin

Old friends Consequences Forgive yourself Starting now   No matter how Things may change Don’t turn away you’re present now But the past is in your blood

I’ve been Curtained in with arms outspread I was a stranger in our bed Shut away and getting thin I was a stranger in my skin

Curtained in with arms outspread I was a stranger in our bed Shut away and getting thin We were both strangers in our skin

“The Spark”

Sit at the foot of my bed She said like a ghost Watch a boat in a cove Lose hope, who knows?

Here there’s a shadow A girl in the shade Wants to find someone So what, who knows?

In our past we were such a mess We did our best only Time will tell

it’s our past It’s a wreck We do our best and the spark will glow

Sit at the foot of my bed She said like a ghost Watch a boat in a cove Lose hope, who knows?

As summer fades, waves carry your soft knowing gaze Marigolds in a row So what, who knows?

In our past we were such a mess We did our best only Time will tell

it’s our past It’s a wreck We do our best and the spark will glow

Letting go, the lines we tow Surrender what we think we know Letting go, the lines we tow tending to the spark up close Letting go, the lines we tow Patience pulls the spark up close

‘Lorelei’

dog-star, ram, and pomegranate fox swam and swans descant

Entranced In an awful dance for Lorelei

Pine box or mantle top circe’s humdrum song Is pleading for help at my overcoat of clay

forget my youthful sins, Lay waste to my transgressions scream that melody in vain my lorelei

“Blankenship”

armageddon is a product And one we choose to buy Dwell on that for a moment With Paradise on fire

I guess it’s all the way, Blankenship Children lead the cry You sold them all away, Blankenship With thirty years of lies

Who sold us the dominion over swine that smell their knife The vicious creature thin and dying On a scrap of melting ice

The earth is ownerless Blankenship Children lead the cry You sold them all away, Blankenship With thirty years of lies

I should have treated you better Blankenship the lives you weaponize You sold them all away Blankenship With silver-plated eyes

Think of your sons and daughters Laid in ashen water Sirens louder and louder ‘destroy those who destroy the earth’

“Acheron”

This heart-pounding day has finally arrived All my living footfalls sigh like the night, outside the war between illusion and truth I found wisdom lain among putrid fruit of Desperation, cold wild gift of youth Urgent and dead-eyed

Hate the god i don’t believe in Heaven’s just a part of hell Hate the one Who wouldn’t save us Shikata ga nai

In the blue mist death has finally closed in All my gasping words at war with the wind Worshipping the fear of hell left me lost i’ve found something for us, souls who have crossed Charon’s torrent cold spiked black with frost ashen and dead-eyed

Hate the god i don’t believe in Heaven’s just a part of hell Hate the one Who wouldn’t save us Shikata ga nai

Nothing can be done I’m no one

He’s my blood Reflected in mud Leave my body Among the poppies I’m nailed to your flaws You were my god

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Santiago was a dream. Lima tonight. Very humid very beautiful city. Sketch by the very talented @jethroianart (at Parque El Olivar & Miraflores)

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putting together all the "is the is are" art. becoming such an awesome package. so much incredible art to work with @joji_nakamura @bizaroids @hyto76 (at Newark Liberty International Airport)

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Halloween is tmrw and we'll be playing a show in Austin, TX, home of the tightest costume shop I've ever been to. We're bartending before the show, come party with us! (at The Mohawk Austin)

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reunited at last @skyferreira #diivLP2 recording #day3

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#tbt pic of me at age 11, wearing "shorts". not much has changed, i feel.

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wow @skyferreira is literally everywhere

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@skyferreira

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Outtake of Zachary Cole Smith for Nylon.

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chilling in the studio w/ K-pop ROYALTY last night in Seoul -- @xxxibgdrgn @youngbeezzy @xxinxx @chaelin_cl @choice37 @skyferreira @moldy_boy @youngmancec @satanthedevil !!!!!

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i don't really understand these kind of messages which I've suddenly started getting a lot of

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a perfect example of the public's tendency to treat artists as commodities. we are people too...

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this is the exact kind of thing that i at least tried to mention in the pitchfork article -- ironically found in the comments section of that very article -- the public's tendency to treat artists as a commodity, an object that they can consume and throw away. we are people too, and this kind of shit is totally unnecessary.

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this is what i live for @mikesniper @apaysonsmith

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DIIV studio pt 2