we just finished up the album artwork for our new album "Sacred Psalms" there wasn't enough room for the lyrics in the booklet pages, so I decided to post them here for all to read once you get the album. It comes out April 27th, get excited, because we are :)

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1.) Well Bred

Father is the head of the household.
So Mother, breast feed your babies.
Working wives be your age.

PHD, BA, I’m a Doctor so listen to what I say.
You’re either crazy or dead, maybe you’re just not well bred.

Good manners, an index of breeding, dirty old man, no dirty old woman.
Your wife has a hysterectomy or mastectomy.

PHD, BA, I am your doctor so listen to what I say.
I see what I see and I’ll tell you your problems.
I’ll make you better. You’re either crazy or dead.
You weren’t well bred.

PHD, BA, I am your Doctor, listen to what I say.
I see what I see, I saw what I saw. You’re either crazy or dead.
I’ll make this world a better place.
Make this man a better man, make this wife a better wife.
You’re either crazy or dead, you just weren’t well bred.
Lets make this world a better place.


2.) Manes

We aren’t always who we say we are, but that just is the way we live.
Oh I don’t know, its hard being alone.
Sometimes I have been to the end, but I know I am coming back a better man.

Lovely little manes, please just let down your guard.
It’ll be, It’ll be alright, we’ll be tame, we’ll be tame tonight.

It just takes one time to be all over.
so lets just stop hiding behind our manes, our precious manes.
We can do it and breathe on our own.
I have been to the end, but I know this time I’m coming back a better man.

Lovely little manes, please just let down your guard.
We’ll be, It’ll be alright, we’ll be tame, we’ll be tame tonight.



 

3.) Someday

You see the night wake from its sleep,
With your dreams slowly creeping,
Loneliness swallows infant eyes.
All I hold is a solemn goodbye.


We all slowly lose our ways,
its the ones here, that make us stay.

Ill find my way back home, someday, someday soon.



4.) All Grown

It’s out of my hands. it’s out of my hands.
They’re not mine, they never were, Oh they never were.
But they were mine when I raised them safe, Oh so safe.
But the hordes came down and swallowed us whole.
They swallowed whole. Oh they swallowed us whole.
I cant protect you anymore.
You’re all grown.

We fall apart with every passing year.
I know I cant protect you anymore,
Because you’re all grown.


5.) Dusk

In a different light, oh maybe things could have been better.
Well I don’t know.
Did you know those were your last words?
I just wanted you to go, peacefully.
I am sorry for the struggle.
We didn’t always see eye to eye.
But with the coming of the tide, we’ll wash away my sins.
Oh please God just hide the blood.
Your grey skin was so silent as you floated off to your new home.
Flesh eating flesh at the bottom of the ocean.
So in a different light maybe things could have been better.

A different light.


6.) Child banter

I am not your mid wife Negro,
But I’m here to deliver your people.
So don’t judge me that is my job.
Take my books and we’ll eliminate the demons.
It’ll be a holy communion.
Praise these words that I preach to you.
And take these words to your grave,
Because I already dug it for you.
My wife couldn’t handle the stress on her insides.

Birth canals are births canals, our birth canals.

We all don’t make it out alive, it’s just another chapter I type.
I no mid wife Negro, but I deliver the people.
It’s just another chapter I type.
I’m not your mid wife Negro, but I’m here to deliver the people.
We all don’t make it out alive.


7.) Awaken

Please wake me up because I can’t take this anymore.
So wake me up, I just want to see her face one more time.
Wake me up on this dying day for the sun still shines.
All the memories will fade away, they’ll fade away.
Wake me up my eyes grow weary, for the end grows near.
The dark of the mind captures the soul,
Awakens the body we once knew.

Please wake me up I can’t take this anymore.
Please wake me up I can’t take this anymore.
Please wake me up I’m not listening anymore.
Please help me deal with this pain, it’s not going away.


8.) Sores

It is dark again and I’m behind the wheel.
Take me away from everything that I know and love.
Oh how easy it would be to just drive off the edge and into the hills.
There I lay, picking at the scabs.
The sirens light flood over me, I’m so easily broken.
The sores we inflict upon ourselves, hurts the ones we love.
Let them heal, let them heal.

So please just wake me from this coma that’s plagued me for the past seven years.
I have had enough of this. Oh I have had enough this.
I have had enough of this, please just wake me up, I just want to see.
Cleanse these sores from my skin. Cleanse these sores.
I just want to feel one last time.


9.) Behold

There is no use in holding back, this is who we are.
We are the many voices calling out.
Bright light bath me, lay down and take it in.
Behold this is who we are, this is who we are.
Bright light bathe me, show me the path home, show me the path home.
Bright light save me, give me the courage to make it on my own.

Bright light bath me, please lay down and take it all in.
Behold this is who we are, this is who we are.
Bright light bath me, show me the path home.
Bright light save me, give me the courage to make it on my own.
Bright light bath me, please lay down and take it all in.
Behold this is who we are.


10.) Endless Winter

And capillaries stretch to grey as we thin the blood for better days.
Laying there in your hospital bed, we’ll come one by one.
Praying for you to just hold on.

This day is still and achingly cold.
So pray for me.

And in the perfect sequence…
Time prolongs, time is long and bitter.
Oh it’s just an endless drifting away from all that is found and near,
Away from all that is kept and held,
Away from all that is warm and dear.

This day is still and achingly cold.
So pray for me.
Pray for me, because I cannot escape it.
This day is still and achingly cold.

 

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We are now on Fat Cat records!!!!!!! www.fat-cat.co.uk This is a huge thing for us and we are just so excited and grateful for such an opportunity. we will be amongst some of the bands we really look up too like Black Dice, Sigur Ros, Vashti Bunyan, Mum, and Animal Collective. so in the next 5 months are brand new album should be out in record stores near you. thanks also to the very nice people who have listened to us, bought a cd, or left us nice comments we really appreciate everything you do and hope you will go out and buy this album when it hits stores. We LOVE you all :) <3 Josh, John Michael and Chaz