Below are the lyrics and track listing (in order) for The Death of Day (May 5th, 2009 - Produced by Brad Fisher @ Vintage Song Studios).


love,
o'brother


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Providence

My eyes open up
A sea of faces without names fills the room
And we'll swallow God
Our bread, his body, left to rot
If it's all the same we'll stay the same

Now hollower eyes allow us to see
Our complacent bodies
And if sight is opinion then how
Can it be grounds for belief
And we'll blame it on providence
Slipped through fingertips
Stretched out to the splitting
And we'll accuse the thrones of greater men

If pride is a kingly crown
Then on my head it's overturned
I hear the simple swells of grace
Falling down like rain


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The Great Release

A slip of tongue, these words fall like an avalanche
And I wont be ignored
My lungs expire, the waters getting deeper
And I cant hold in my breath
So hear me now, this distance is quite simply
Too much to take in at once
My lungs expire the waters getting deeper
And I can't hold in my breath

With malice on your breath
Your trembling hands speak of severed ties
In language that not even God could divide
So lay your weary burdened head upon my side
Sleep will bring you close to God,
It will bring you close

Swallow them down it burns like fire
Your words are the devils machine
Keep your breath your leaking lies

Wait now on approaching sleep
The death of day, the great release
Where words cannot breed like disease
From lepers' rotting hands and feet

Swallow them down it burns like fire
Your words are the devils machine
Keep your breath you're leaking lies
Like the cracks in the teeth of the beast

Swallow them down it burns like fire
Your words are the devils machine
So watch closer now as I slip and I swallow my tongue


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Ascension

We sat in silence, I spoke of leaving
And from the floor I tried to crawl away
With my arms all but succeeding
I'll water your grave, and watch it grow
Into a bed of lies you sewed in life
They live on long after you're gone.

All in all we're dust and bone, so we'll dig our graves before we're old enough to lie in them
We'll spread our ash amongst the dirt
To soil the seed that breeds the earth
So we can live again
So wait for me to bloom

Stay. We're a garden fed
From the blood left in your veins
So stay with me or I'll shrivel and dry out.

And wait, for me to bloom

Stay. Stay. Stay.


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Division of Man

Your head, scented of blood, it's blurring your eyes
As some strange light slowly sinks in
And there he stood, with teeth like knives
(Your heartbeat racing)

If I could, scream to wake my mind
I'd still be alive

Let me out of this stolen sleep
I have fallen short of the peace I seek

I'm slipping further away

So sleep, sleep, on the edge of the knife
Where you will wait to divide
You'll leave your body where it lies and wait to slip away


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Oh Charitable Thief

Slip in this certain knot of peace, I'm keeping silent, Keeping silent, 'til in turn it keeps me
Won't you remain with me

Oh come blissful sleep
Won't you be my release
Oh charitable thief
Come take me away

Oh vessel of grace whisper in my ear
Some melodious sonnet of forgiveness
Sweet seraphim won't you sing me to peace
I'll be waiting

I'll keep my ear to the earth
I'll keep my head to the ground
I'll keep my hands from shaking
I'll keep listening for the sound
I'll keep my eyes to the sea
I'll keep these words in my heart
I'll keep your name on my lips
Until it tears me apart