• The Hymnal EP
  • Before The Wave
  • Hang Your Head
  • Kings Make Slaves
  • Sleepers Eat Lead
  • Psalm
  • Treadmill
  • Blood Is Gold
• Smash To Ashes
  • Feed
  • The Goat
  • Behind The Veil
  • The Hunt
  • Sharpening Knives
  • Settlement
  • Archaeology
  • Thirteen Hands
  • Heaven
  • The Taking Tree
• Winged Wolves
  • She'll Know You
  • Heart Beating
  • 1000 Mysteries
  • Electroplated
  • Church And War
  • Simple Servant
  • Jettison
  • Certain Terms
  • Gunpowder Tea
  • Reception
  • Into The Woods

At night I try to find some rest, a little solitude at best. The silence
hits me like the swarming of bees. I try reclining in the petals but the
flowers turn to nettles and the stinging brings me back to my knees. It
gnaws like cannibals and rats and rabid dogs and rabid cats, a tape recorder
with an anvil on "play". I've got to make you understand and hold you steady
in my hands with both my lips a half-an-inch from your face:

My dreaming keeps me awake at night, my breathing measures the pace. My
dreaming keeps me awake at night, heart beating.

With cinderblocks and mortar, weaving rubble into order, I put cradles where
there used to be graves; but when the wind came off the ocean and it set the
waves in motion there was nothing I was able to save. Now I feel I can't
fight another goddamn night of lying beaten, staring off into space. I need
to make you understand and hold you steady in my hands with both my lips a
half-an-inch from your face:

My dreaming keeps me awake at night, my breathing measures the pace. My
dreaming keeps me awake at night, heart beating.

Night after night, night night.