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Smaller Than

from Your Last Home by Noll Griffin

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My hands are smaller than the mess I found them in.
Scratch your ideas, warning labels on my skin.
My lungs are smaller than the words I have to use
To shape and soothe a phantom wreck.
Spinning out anemic blues and slender neck,
I'm never eager to describe the truth, I know what's next.
Bleed once for them, for yes, and bleed a little more
Cuz' you're the guest.
They only love the host, the anxious twitch of
Righteous flesh.
Can't be elastic past a moment at your birth for them,
And kindness turns to grieving far more easily than they say.
Why would I ever want it when you made it feel this way?
No chance to lay my willful life below a painless name.
Why isn't it scandalous to walk me to the edge?
All I hear is how I form a waste, a defect.
All my needs are broken vessels to be pressed,
By your hands, begin the bruise, ready and violent
With all your lies you're casting wide, hoping they come true.
I owe nothing if I'm nothing next to you.
No more courtesy is ever getting through.
I've gotten bigger than the places left to hide.
Give me a cupboard with a door too tight to pry.
Give me a shadow in the dark to walk behind.
I'll beg the devil if your god won't take a side.
I'll beg the devil if your god is dead inside,
Motionless and powerless just like you'd have me be,
In decomposing purgatory for eternity.

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from Your Last Home, released June 9, 2017
music and lyrics by noll griffin
additional arrangement by collin rowell
vocals and acoustic guitar: noll griffin
elektron programming, bowed guitar, backing vocals, hawk guitar: collin rowell

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