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Medicine Sword

by Straight White Teeth

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Medicine Sword Separate the flesh from me And purify the blood I bleed So I forget This lost cause A stone you tied around my neck They pushed me off the ship and sent Me to the depths This young wound Is singing on a balcony The people at the party leave So upset I wanna run but I don't know where to go The house is burning but you can't see through the smoke I get the feeling that you're waiting To come with me I'm not afraid of the distance or the wild It's not a secret that we've felt this for some time I get the feeling that we're falling So come with me We feel the rope with our open hands And then we start to swing on it When we believe what we can't understand The floor drops out from underneath us We could live off the ocean air If we could find a way to get there We feel the weight of our heavy lives Melt away like snow in sunshine I wanna run but I don't know where to go The house is burning but you can't see through the smoke I get the feeling that you're waiting To come with me I'm not afraid of the distance or the wild It's not a secret that we've felt this for some time I get the feeling that we're falling So come with me
2.
A Shadow Doused In Flames Met a holy ghost I even shook its hand We built a bridge to the coast Over desert sand Underneath the waves Hung a midnight grace We were lost in a dream Mercy was currency Oh, oh oh It it quiet here We hardly speak And in the dark I can see it A shadow doused in flames Oh, oh oh A thousand years going by in just one day We run through fields blindfolded We feel nothing Oh, oh oh
3.
Told them it was time attached This could be another trick We caught you sleeping on the forest floor Thirty miles off the interstate Hot blood shaking in a cage Killing time that I can't shake If there is any good in you, won't you show me now And maybe we'll be friends Guns blaze in the heart of man Stand up if you think so I couldn’t see it when I was younger But now it’s all that I think about After the show in Pittsburgh We kissed her there on the bed And when we shook the ancients knew that we were living up To everything We drank down everything we could Cut loose like a sheet in a storm If there is nothing to look forward to We might as well take the burden off Hot blood shaking in a cage Killing time that I can't shake If there is any good in you, won't you show me now And maybe we'll be friends Guns blaze in the heart of man Stand up if you think so I couldn’t see it when I was younger But now it’s all that I think about After the show in Pittsburgh We kissed her there on the bed And when we shook the ancients knew that we were living up To everything I don't want to be the one That always has to lift you out Of the cold that you've been ambling through We can learn to swallow doubt And make it do whatever we want Baby, we will pull right through I don't want to be the one That always has to lift you out Of the cold that you've been ambling through We can learn to swallow doubt And make it do whatever we want Baby, we will pull right through
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Hurricane 04:05
We saw some holy people walk out Preaching on the lawns and the gardens to the faithful Some knife was playing on a big stage Strumming all the right chords for a good mood Down in the canyon all through the night Ten thousand lives I've lived singing side by side Why won't you let me break your heart? See the light of day drifting through the dark And I know that everything is falling off Maybe it's better to cope instead of fighting it Why won't you let me break your heart And see the light of day drifting through the dark I sipped my hurricane and waited For my thoughts to turn vicious I kept quite calm and clever But you got up to dance without me Down in the canyon all through the night Ten thousand lives I've lived singing side by side Why won't you let me break your heart? See the light of day drifting through the dark And I know that everything is falling off Maybe it's better to cope instead of fighting it Why won't you let me break your heart And see the light of day drifting through the dark And then the people started to leave So I kissed your blushing cheek Let's keep it good and simple
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Vacations 03:18
Holy death Can't you wait For the young To have their say By the time that we think to run It's too late and our body's crumble Just like quiet buildings at the dusk In my mind There's a place Clean and sure like an easy day So sorry that I left you out I didn't think that you could last here Living in a cold so pristine Does it tear you up To think of what you'd do To stave off loss All this complaining Like workers saving Up for vacations To lush destinations Future wound Sacred past I'd forgive you but it wouldn't last Admit it, you are just as scared as me To lose life and find out what it means to fall asleep and not wake up I can't stop shaking at The restless thought of you And all I've lost All this complaining Like workers saving Up for vacations To lush destinations

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released November 1, 2015

Record by Will Klingenmeier
Produced by Randall Kent and White Flashes
Strings performed by Brett Omara

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Straight White Teeth Kansas City, Kansas

Straight White Teeth leverages everything from startlingly intimate lo-fi folk to club-ready electronics to make songs about grief, longing, hope, depression, sex, spirituality, love––the endlessly complex and fascinating pursuit of what it means to be a feeling, conscious human being. ... more

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