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White Lilies

from Black River Falls EP by sleepwalk

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There’s places she won’t go,
There’s love that she won’t know,
In a house that breathes with this disease,
All shrouded in a wall of trees,
The snow will hide her, or so she believes,
But I saw.
I saw her with two sunken eyes,
Dancing in the lantern light,
To calm her naïve dying child,
She smiled, despite the weight
That hangs around her ashen bones.

There’s places we won’t go,
Her touch I’ll never know,
On these streets that tease with secret speak,
Buried under amber leaves,
That walk her far away from me,
But I saw.
I saw her with two sunken eyes,
Dancing in the winter light,
To bid her resting child goodbye,
She smiled, despite the blade
That swings above her sunken heart

Don’t ask me to gamble my fist on her door,
Or to lie in her covers like I have before,
Curse the cowardly flesh these white lilies adorn,
As I’m crippled with madness, strung out of the floor
And her memory never fades
Just gets deeper, darker, and further away.

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from Black River Falls EP, released August 1, 2012

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sleepwalk Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

Sleepwalk is Jack Fallows and whoever else they can convince to sing, play, record or perform with them.

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