Arrival

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lyrics

Press your tongue against

the plate of your skull,

pull your teeth around

the skin of your lips.

announce and perform

an adoption

a surrender.

renounce and deform,

denounce and reform,

your mother’s tongue.

and when you arrive

the demands we make

are little surgeries

or open cast mines

with designs

to act

like a puncture in your neck,

a wound a valve,

an injury that marks

the severance

between here and there

so that the cut

of your tongue

will carry no weight,

and not enough air,

to bear

to relate

the distinctions the details the stories

of your negotiations

with the sea the mountains the towns

with the lines we draw

the thresholds that promise

peril for you

and luxury for us.

and when we hear

the mutilations

of our sovereign cant

we’ll call you out

to bear the sin

of the fury that knocks,

of the wrath that pounds.

on our thinning

skin.

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from Luxury Mass, released September 14, 2018
Produced by James Joys and Rocky O'Reilly
Vocals by Pete Devlin
Piano, synths, and noises by James Joys
Lyrics by James Joys

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