Bleed

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I woke up in a hurricane
With pieces of an angel
I had torn off the night before
Cutting open my hands

In darkness we fought unseen wars
By speaking innocent belief
We surmounted compulsion in logic
Breathing winds into the past

This vision comes down
And becomes my mortality
This vision against a desert sky
Is the truth, I answer, amazed

I cut open a vein of anguish
I betrayed anger with closed eyes
I reached in the black heat of oblivion before me
And tore out an unscathed soul

In one firestorm to another, I break through
To watch you holding your breath
A fist in plaster, I descended to the table
To search out what was left

I see no pain and I hear no evil
I could scatter it to the wind
I could keep giving my soul away forever
And remain numb until I’m let back in

I’m not trying to be Jesus
Don’t you see the sun blazing in the sky?
I still can’t answer to all that’s real
What I give will not lay down and die

I return to my great leap of faith
That made you my mortality
Why do humans tear pieces out of each other?
What makes me love you more when I bleed?

I can’t pull the ropes with my hands torn open
I don’t even know where they lead
We’ve got the horses trained to drag the corpses away
And turn our back when the animals feed

I spin the cartridge in my revolver
What the hell has happened to the sky?
And you, the unanswered question to new fates
Has honesty become so trite?

I spun out in a hurricane
Against the ground, burning with want
I awoke on the bare, dry earth
And the sky was fading hollow away

It’s all glass now, effortless and empty
It dries up, year after year
I’m shadow boxing, I’m catching lightning
Now that you’re the thunder in my mind

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from Skydiving in the Bermuda Triangle!, released November 10, 2017
All songs performed by The Reptiles
All music written by The Reptiles
All lyrics written by Kristofer Kempton

Cover drawings, title and logo by Kristofer Kempton
Layout by Randy Michaud for FrameWerks Graphics:
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