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Vacant Lights — Anteinferno
Artist: → Vacant Lights
Vacant Lights — Anteinferno — lyrics
It never hurt this much before
And my spirit aches with envy
And my delinquent flesh weeps
For a respite that never arrives
And a strain that never sleeps
Dawn descending. You scrape the tawny crust from your eyelids as they languidly flutter open, pale like blanched plantation shutters. You drift across your bedroom floor, sailing over trash paper tessellations and half-empty bottles that yield epiphanies like they do stupid, temporal plеasure. Sing a song of prolix pussyfootery; disregard your brokеn, one-winged angel. You are so phantasmal and innominate in everything that you do as you glide cryptically from boardway smoking stops to careworn precinct wine cellars and silver filaments of spit dribble listlessly down your chin and the sharp wind cracks the arid surface of your cerulean makeup as you pound corroding bottlecaps into fissured concrete, averting the scrutinizing eyes of evanescent bestial psychoshrinks. But whether the floorboards creak or your world seems bleak: don’t you know that I need you?
I caught you sifting through the garbage again
Your polaroid photographs in one hand
Your mother’s urn in the other
Clawing at the surface
Trying to recall those November nights
When you watched them starry-eyed
Pull the wool across the heavens
Like a great black quilt
So dark the light can’t pass through
So jagged the clouds withdrew
That year the snow bled through like ashes
Down beneath the sheltering sky
On jaundiced feet and iron lung
We sailed east for fifteen days
Stop pouring over old letters
That memory is not a welcome guest
Stop digging up musty fossils
Those remains have been laid to rest
Don’t you see how you want to kill
A thousand times to the limits of eternity
If eternity had limits?
You slice lines down to the glistening, gooey center
And the flames lick your squalid thighs
The fog is thick, morale hardens
And without bloodshed, there’s no pardon
Love is the message
The message is death
And as above is never below
All behold the anteinferno
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