Call your lover to explain over the phone.
Block the number, hang up untraceable.
Gone to your mothers…a typical plot unfolds.
Pull off the covers, reveal what I’m not to know.
Tonight’s gone too far, you struck out the nucleus.
The sliver in my heart is now a stake stuck in the middle of my chest.
You pinned me down, unarmed, left to defend with feet and fists.
No dose of your charm will win forgiveness.
I could hurl a brick through your window with a note
But it wouldn’t fix a thing. It wont repair what you broke.
If it did, I’d take the credit, let it known.
To hear you hurt will be the only way to let it go.
Blast through your speakers, hit you where you will hear.
Your act strewn across your t-shirt, I don’t have to look too deep.
Make me an offer, something I can’t resist.
Show me how far you’d go to save this.
Keep counting your cards, I’m betting on all your bluffs.
You’re not leaving unharmed…
Fall, forfeit, fold, quit, cry because you can’t keep up.
Cash in all my chips, of course take half of what I’ve got.
Grant my one wish, tie the ends before they fray like lace.
Lift loves lid and unleash on both our fates.
Stark, folk-derived songs built on brittle acoustic guitars that conjure the image of a fire burning in the distance on a dark night. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 8, 2022