Fugitive of the Second Heaven

from Evergreen Civil War by Animal Pharma

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I don’t know if I will make it
You see my soul is a little tainted
Fickle flesh in a willing spirit
And it’s something we all inherit

Been absconding like a widow
Corresponding with the minnow
Doing breaststrokes where I wallow
Marry seashells where I follow
And divorce them to the coral

May I complicate my worry
Into murals on your body?
Can I be your only gharry
In Jerusalem on Sunday?

Can I splinter all my fingers
Through your own as I am interred
And in restless death retire
With the psalms of a stolen lyre
In lament of a funeral pyre’s singers

Concentration’s bootless
It is useless to abide
I had traced her steps to Flinders Street
And lost them in the tide

Demons in the curtains
They’re rerouting Holy pleas
Their semen’s in the medicine
For apes conceived at sea

She had the world
By the time she was fifteen
A little girl who had a turtle shell canteen
She heard a voice
At four eleven in the morn
And all her taxidermy toys
Began to animate and spawn
She was a wife
She was a Templar of the Knights
She had a life she lost on Brunswick Street at night
She was aware
Her brains on Piccadilly’s stairs
She had a bodhi tree atop ‘o Shakespeare’s grave in Warwickshire

She turned sixteen
Then seventeen
Now she’s rallying in Evergreen
In cracks I cannot open in my wall
Been trying to accord to Jesus’ Law
The moral principalities at war

Concentration’s bootless
It is useless to abide
I had traced her steps to Flinders Street
And lost them in the tide

Demons in the curtains
They’re rerouting Holy pleas
Their semen’s in the medicine
For apes conceived at sea

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from Evergreen Civil War, released August 10, 2014

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Animal Pharma Melbourne, Australia

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Studio Albums:

Zygoat – 29 July 2014

Evergreen Civil War – 10 August 2014

Pantomeme – 11 October 2014

Light of a Hard – 28 March 2015

The Vuuz – 10 May 2015

Mazel – 1 November

Joseph Phase – 29 July 2018 ... more

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