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What Big Eyes

by Lower Slaughter

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1.
Bone Meal 03:18
i came by the headstones in that cold grey light just to see if you were really gone truly completely and now i can start breathing you showed up late that night an apparition by the headboard i didn’t call you inside but still you crossed the threshold can i banish you from sight can i banish you from memory i’ve tried and i’ve tried but i’ll walk this path to it's finish go now turn your face so i can start breathing in my mind still this voice haunts and shatters my reason and in my mouth still the taste see how i’m constantly bleeding i won’t wait for a better day i know i won’t be defeated i call out now to the ancient ones cleave from my hearth your lost ignoble son and charge my words so the heavens might know i’ve cast them out i’ve ground their bones and now the air is clearing you’re haunting me i came by the headstones just to see if you were really gone you showed up that night an apparition by the headboard go now turn your face so i can stop bleeding in my mouth still the taste haunts and shatters my reason go now turn your face i banish you from this place ghost leave turn your face i banish you from this place i call out now to the ancient ones cleave from my hearth your lost ignoble son and charge my words so the heavens might know i’ve cast them out i’ve ground their bones and now the air is clearing i banish thee i banish thee i’ve ground your bones
2.
Tied Down 02:42
don’t come here don’t call me you left for a reason don’t come here don’t call me not even for a change in the seasons i was walking with you for a while now i walk alone so claim your space i’ll make my way on my own tied down begging me for freedom tied down i’m not the one putting chains on you don’t come here don’t call me it’s like i never even met you don’t come here don’t call me don’t give me reason to regret you i’ve been taking my time happily sleeping alone some things are better left unsaid even better left unknown i was going with you for a time now i go it alone so keep your space i don’t need you at all tied down begging me for freedom tied down i’m not the one putting chains on you but tell me do you still feel how we would waste all day in that secret way and sweat and shake and fuck and ache
3.
Take It! 02:57
their boots ring out they’re coming now to claim their gold they’ll take it all your house your home all that you own for those bills you owe and now you can’t afford to live at all landlord’s raising my rent employers aren’t raising my wages my safety net’s been worn through in so many places we try to live our lives but we don’t have the riches we try to heal ourselves but the government just cuts at the stitches we’ve been living like this for years landlord’s raising my rent employers aren’t raising my wages my safety net’s been torn through in so many places we try to fix our lives but we don’t have the riches we try to heal ourselves but the government just cuts at the stitches we’ve been dying like this for years can you hear them coming boots ringing out can you see them coming sirens flashing out they want it all can you hear them coming boots ringing out can you see them coming smoke rising up they’ll take it all the boots ringing out the smoke rising let’s tear them down but when you complain all they tell you is take it take it when you complain all they say is take it take it let’s tear them down from their riches and thrones we work til we bleed we work til we die for rich men who didn’t have to work for anything for rulers who never had to work for anything let’s tear them down but when we complain all they say is take it take it
4.
Earthseed 04:26
in order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn we have lived before and we will live again we will be silk stone star there is no end to what a living world will demand of you all that you touch you change and all that you change changes you unite or be divided robbed ruled killed in order to rise from its own ashes a phoenix first must burn there is no end to what a living world will demand of you all that you touch you change all that you change changes you unite or be divided robbed ruled killed
5.
they led them out four women bound bound with rope four stakes in the earth they struggled they wailed they cried they prayed as they died i howled i wept i cursed i wailed as they burnt one day they’ll lead me out a woman bound bound with rope a stake in the earth and i’ll watch all while they gather the kindling around me and struggle and wail and weep with none to weep for me but i won’t pray all they’ll get is curses from me and with my last breath i swear i’ll take them all to hell with me it’s quiet now the fire died down i’d take the bodies with me but there’s no bodies left the crowd has mostly gone now home with smoke in their lungs smoke and death a heady combination if i could tell them they were all wrong would any even listen all i can do is carry with me the knowledge of my sisters and when the new dawn comes will these ashes even fade you can kill a witch but her memory remains so what will you pay your way to heaven with burnt bodies strewn and bloodied limbs you ask me how i let the devil in as you push a knife underneath my skin so tell me how i’ve sinned and tell me how i should burn for it string me up weigh me down it won’t save your soul when you’re in the ground if i burn you burn i’ll take you all to hell with me your prayer won’t save you when the devil calls your prayer won’t save you now i’ll take you all to hell with me if i burn you burn i’ll drag you all to hell with me but still they burn
6.
he’s fading in front of me shedding skin and humanity wastes away in a fever but cries out in hunger this creature plagues my family another one comes another lost soul heart ripped out another one down another one comes another lost soul blood drained out another one down this creature plagues my family when will it get me quick now tear the cloth from the bed frame and wrap the body in the soiled linens and all those silk fastenings tear the curtain from the window we’ll build a pyre build a pyre for my lost brother watch his soul as it spirals its way to heaven he is lost to us now his bright smile faded his strong frame j ust ragged skin and bone the creature prowls at night does he come for me i hear him scraping down the street i lock my windows and bar my doors wrap this quilt close to ragged skin and bone i am stronger than my family let the creature come for me my righteous blade will swing and cleave him limb from limb from ragged skin and bone ----------------------------------------------------- how come you always show up here at the worst time spreading discord and lies presenting us with nothing more than a bad choice at the worse time mother has it always been like this father has it always been this way each time they speak my eyes roll right back in my head it’s just a bad choice at the worst time you’re the worst choice at best of times you know you talk so much shit i can smell you coming for miles so please explain to me what the reach is of my democratic rights right now i don’t feel particularly enfranchised it’s just a bad choice at the worst time how am i expected to stand here without turning up my nose at all the effluence that flows forth from your mouth it’s just a bad choice at the worst time you’re the worst choice at the best of times you know you dig up the streets and burn the bridges can you see the smoke rising
7.
Teeth 02:12
wearily and warily i have ranged these lands from the mountains to the sea the same tale plays out not every shelter offered is a place safe from harm my my teeth grew larger not every kind face offers kind intentions not every kind face offers a kind heart some want only to consume your flesh and spit out your bones my my my teeth grew larger i sprouted claws stood up even taller my my what big eyes i have i need these big eyes to see all the shit you’ve been doing to me all the better to see through the shit you’ve been pulling on me you brought out my teeth i smell a predator in my midst you brought out my claws i smell the blood on your lips you’ve never had the strength i have in me run now while you still can the full moon rises and i shed my skin my my my teeth grew larger i sprouted claws stood up even taller
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reduced to a shell a crumbling carapace where once i held strong now i’m crushed by the weight see how my fields lie fallow a salted desolate place my blood is weak my organs swell with poison i’m bleeding out i’m crying out at the edge of oblivion i retreat to the inside bloodied and battle-worn i keep licking my wounds but they won’t scar closed as if even the stale air seems to tear at the holes i lay curled fists clenched against the cold i pick the scabs from my shins and watch the blood slowly flow each time i stumble to my feet i’m knocked down further below i keep my back to wall but the claws just tear at my chest i keep my back to the wall but my hands just claw at my head the claws tear at my chest my hands claw at my head i’m drowning i’m glad you set yourself free because i’m still drowning in shit i reach out for something but all i feel is nothing i reach out for something but everything i touch just crumbles to dust so i reach out for something but all i feel is nothing i’m drowning in shit
10.
hold me close i’m coming up i can’t have you close enough we can’t ride this fast enough so sweat it out until the sweat soaks down through your sheets we can ride this wave all night i don’t even need to sleep so hold me close i’m coming up i can’t have you close enough i can’t ride you fast enough so wait it out until your rushing blood pleads for release we can play this game all night do you even need to sleep i’m coming up i can’t have you close enough we can’t ride this fast enough so sweat it out and wait for me we can play all night if you just beg for me beg for me we can go all night i’ll tell you what’s in my head it’s as if no world exists beyond this bed so come a little closer to me my face is flushing red it’ll be alright i just need you to beg i didn’t hear you right the first time so let’s try that again keep looking up at me clear your throat and beg hold me close i’m coming up

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On this album, LS were:
Graham Hebson: Drums
Barney Wakefield: Bass
Jon Wood: Guitar
Sinead Young: Vocals

All songs written by LS.
All lyrics by Sinead Young.

Lyrics for 'Earthseed' adapted from 'Parable of the Sower' by Octavia E. Butler.

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released September 15, 2017

Recorded by Wayne Adams at Bear Bites Horse Studios, London - September 2016.

Artwork by Paul Rafferty.

Released by Box Records - September, 2017.

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