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EPISODE · Feb 15, 2017 · 5 MIN

Salt

from Cigarettes and Milk · host Cigarettes and Milk

Follow me on Spotify if you want, thanks. https://open.spotify.com/artist/5mkpepinG2G2HZUZ7cHGQX Overcast skies along the way The people running down the street Some stacks grow like tigerlilly plumes You could hear them scream from miles away The jackhammers had stirred the crows The bodies are rolling in their graves And the priest is crying, for his love is dying Surely he thought he'd known his faith Maybe it's nobodies fault It's I who looked back, and turned, to salt I never cared, no I never even dared But it's too hard this time When it's right before your eyes The torn laments had brought me close to them The drugs eased my soul and pushed it all back The carnival sparks in the sky triggered scars in my mind The carousel swung circles like your neck and your tie N' I ran and I ran through aesthetic streetlights with cigarette holes in my shoes N' I tripped as I moved on the cracks in the sidewalk filled with the reflection of you Well I climbed the flèche of the church you so admired N' I burned down, oh in fire Maybe it's nobodies fault It's I who looked back, and turned, to salt I never cared, no I never even dared But it's too hard this time When it's right before your eyes

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