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Cassino Lyrics
Album Sounds Of Salvation
(2007)
Governor
The Old Year
American Low
New Jerusalem
Tin Man's Throne
Platano
Dust Went Flying
The Gin War
Lolita
Boomerang
Ice Factory
Governor
Wait Theres something up
ahead
I've seen its claws
I can see the marks it left
Well fed and eating with
a thousand hands
This coma of factory and
bars won't last it's numbing power and it's never-ending winding heart
So climb what you can before
its gone
And always carry in your
lungs the prettiest voice from drowing as you drag this swamp
'cause the smell will stay
with you for so long
The past can only stretch
for so long
The last can only stretch
So long so long so long
So we wait untill it's overhead
Untill the sky falls and
the sun takes us all
The Old Year
She leaps higher than the
scale
and then falls like iron
and screaming air,right down in front of me
I don't know how it came
to this I am so scarred up with cigarettes Cigarettes and leaks
But I know I'll always stay
possessed like some preacher to a crucifix if you drive your nails into
me
We're sitting on the floor
in a pile Trading our arms for some wings of harm
I am god damned Been blown
from the hinge And I can now barely stand Oh Jaelyn I can Oh I can Oh I
can feel you like the wind
The beatings that rotation
brings has us bedding down on anything But as our shrinking lives collide
and ring the sound is beautiful and learn
I never planned to live
like this empty vaults a rolling kiss Oh I never plan on anything
Sitting on the floor in
a smile I'm tearing apart
Like poverty art you are
God sent
Been blown from the hinge
And I can now barely stand Oh Jaelyn I can Oh I can Oh I can feel you like
the wind
I fear its getting close
to the end I can feel it in the warm ailing wind She says I don't want
to think about that cause I am married to imaginary friends So come on
Come on in
American Low
Oh this hurricane's blowing
us thin
This never ending swirl
of American sin
Where I strayed on my knees
to a bottomless cage
Where they throw dollar
bills and hope to be saved
The poshest scarf on the
warmest day...
Its enough to make you give
up ...she says...
I know I know I know ...it
shows
As we sleep in this broken
Cadillac
We watch the world leave
it doesn't look back
I gotta say that...when
my heart attacks
Don't return it...it will
fire right back...
So let's just lie here as
they paint us black...
Oh this earthquake is shaking
our hands
Free at the wrists just
as we started a dance
The hardest thing next to
diamond rings
Is the coats we have to
wear just to make ends meet
I got this year and fifty
more to beat...
Its enough to make you give
up...she says...
I know I know I know...so
let go...
The nervous ticks only the
holy get
The country treats as the
cities get sick
The lunatics and the Harlem
tricks
The country treats as we
all get sick...
New Jerusalem
She keeps a bottle hanging
like religon
right underneath the bed
She pours it in the sheets
and vents...
Combats the awful things
we did
Snakes and Plagues and her
former slaves
are arising from the dead...
She grinds her heels as
we bottom out...
..the horrible years we
were fed...
And as the lights double
back again...
We curse the man who invented
them
I see a little bit of you
in everything
Blowing up like jerusalem
in me
How I'm in love with everything..
The girl with the golden
back
Give me love in a telescope
and beat your heart like
a marching band
oh I could bludgeon it
or bottle it...
or beat it back to bed...
But bleeding bleeds much
safer streets
so pick up that bandaged
dress..
and put the polish down
and leave the crooked ground..
You look infinite at best...
and as time gives god a rest..
we better bind our better
halves...
I store a little bit of heaven
everywhere
Even with the cabinets so
dirty and bare
How im in love with everything
The Girl with the golden
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