SALT AS A WOLFEN PRIDE Lyrics

If you find me

Do not hang me

Do not shoot me

Leave me here

Take my water

Take my rifle

Let my body disappear

For I've spoken

With the vultures

And they'll have me

As their peer

For they all were

Men like me

Who'd walk the desert

Free and clear

Can you hear it

The song they play

Of love forsaken

Debts unpaid

Men like snakes and

Evil women

Taking loans out

On their judgement day

"You know you used to be lovers

None so sweet

Professed by the light of the moon

And the sway of earth

As you danced together

Cheek to cheek

You used to talk about forever

With such certainty

As though your life was just a dream

Where all required of you

Was to remain in that state of being"

Feel the strength

Leave the body

Float the body

Through the hole

Let the fever

Overtake you

Let your spirit

Take control

Feel the strength

"Feel the strength"

Leave the body

"Leave the body"

Float the body

"Float the body"

Through the hole

"Through the hole"

Let the fever

"Let the fever"

Overtake you

"Overtake you"

Let your spirit

"Let your spirit"

Take control

"Take control"

From the cradle to the harness

From the harness to the grave

"You know you used to be lovers

None so sweet

Professed by the light of the moon

And the sway of earth

As you danced together

Cheek to cheek

You used to talk about forever

With such certainty

As though your life was just a dream

Where all required of you

Was to remain in that state of being"

Days of rain and nights of sleet

Time smoldering lurching forth Into loss endless loss

Until the quiet comes

Worry and endless pain

As the angel of the morning

Grieves to me

Dragging the needle past the dial

Into the nothingness and Nothingness again

Days seared behind the veil of a dying dream

Mourning the loss of a sow which never lived

Like a ghost in the field wading in

Like a leper wretches into the street

Darkness scorches the mountain

Where I am the throat and I am the blade

Where I am the father and the son

Where I am both offered and offering

Where I am nothing and nothing again

Lo I am

God I have been been a lamb

God I have been a sheep

Take me now from your dry earth

Take me now from your swollen purgatory

Drown me in the furthest depths of your suffering

Bury me in the sod

Raze me from your forsaken harvest