it's not fair to say that you're alone in the dark
i've always been here, you've just never seen me
living off provisions of fear, you work to conceal a lazy eye
through all the mixed media, you feel unforgiven;
i can't do anything about the way that you feel.
i turn around, i am caught in my spin
i tune you out while it sucks you back in
the vacuous cries, i've already heard
there is no need to be so absurd.
there's no bastard son if he's stillborn,
yet the outcast mother is so forlorn.
you can't tell in any language of the strength it takes
to make death just a word.
credits
from Spoor & Anderson's Own Black Maria,
released January 12, 2020
written by Isadora Zidore
Isadora Zidore: guitars & vocals
Rich Fessler: bass
recorded by Steve Albini at Electrical Audio (Studio B), Chicago, IL, 07/08 July 2003; mixed 10 Feb and 11 April 2005 by Steve and Isadora.
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