Complex Letters

from Ampersand and Sand by Concentric Circus

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lyrics

...and in the night
stifled by light
my elegance
and my sadness
all on display.

With the melting
and the plasm.
His gelatinous stumble
and her shaken carbon
fly away.

If calcium
is a metal
why aren't we stronger?
Why aren't our bones
more sterile?

She sits
beneath the boundless black
Lungs contracting
and heaving
bringing him back

and the scorpions
decalcify your marrow,
burrowing under
and spreading like shadows
in the night
where everything feels alright
she's a stipled ceiling
as he writhes in pain
and then it comes again.

People like beads
On a thread of implausibility
I slide them down religiously
and imagine they explode

How can I read
These notes that you gave to me
On inky, starchy paper sheets
The complex letters grow

The complex letters grow
and then they ebb and flow
through the walls in my skull

I am foaming for my favourite men of magic.
For you don't know what I've been through.
I can fade there for you sickly.
Whole moon milky.
Broken maybe.
Fading quickly.

...I am so empty...

but there's a skeleton in my neighbouring bed
trying to forget about him
is an arduous task you might never come clean of.
chip off your bones and skin off your knees
do you often think about
the fire in your eyes and mouth.
Breathing through roots and feeding on you,
The breeze on your face and your folds.

...and the balloons
that you release
are a mess of
mass and molecules
in the sky.

...and the caverns
they escape from
burn asunder and akimbo
in a way I can't describe.
A way I can't describe.

Keep the saccharine all melting in your mouth
Light your fires on the lake

Keep the saccharine all melting in your mouth
Light your fires on the lake

Keep the saccharine all melting in your mouth
Light your fires on the lake

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from Ampersand and Sand, released December 14, 2015

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