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Colossus

by Dolmens

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1.
Nothing Important Happened Today 05:35
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The year of the ox, fortune coming my way asleep in the yard, a dead horse lying in the hay tell me I've been a pitiful young man a razor in the sand swelling hands and bellies, I wonder where they're at. From what I'd heard you were invincible you were almost mythical but I couldn't follow you down anymore. Leave, not just for the thrill but for everything I have become what lesson is left to learn, I have given up on medicine I'm the screw in your thumb, the middlest son you keep away from following trails of crumbs and leads I would never catch believe me when I say I'm not coming back. The year of the ox, pruning vines by the gate a promising start, nothing important happened today but luckily there's something more for me out there a war cry in the air swearing into my sleeve, the life I want is rare. To do what I must ain't impossible just a bit unthinkable how high the water rose was biblical but I went through with seaweed around my ankles, I pressed forward wringing my hands releasing a dove in shackles, I hopelessly look for dry land I fight with each drop of blood but it isn't enough defining something within there's a light when it all goes black a seed in the cactus patch I don't know if it roped me in for a reason watch the world turn from the lighthouse on the deck listen for the voice I heard in that prison that night listen for the sudden snap of my backbone and try to feel your heart in indecision feel your heart go bad. Follow the trail of crumbs it steers down the railroad tracks it leads to an escape hatch believe me when I say I'm not coming back.
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The Old Adam 03:42
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Roost out in the open sun with two packs of lights and a baseball glove stirring awake when the capgun pops. I knew we could never be I knew I would change if you just let me but if I become a total stranger rebuke my nature the old Adam within. Smoking in an Astrovan I just don't believe that your god's a man but what do I know, I haven't seen him how could I know what it feels like behind your bastion, high on your white stallion circle the wagons when you hear I'm coming through, up in your mansion, drinking a Manhattan hold it with both hands like you're running with a bomb. Now the bloom is of the rose this bull has seen his share of rodeos it just isn't fun anymore. I upset the applecart, I laughed in our face with a lit cigar if I revive my old behavior call me a traitor but once you give a dog a bad name, you hang him you skin him, head to toe.
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Blood Oath 04:08
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I don't know why it occurred to you halfway to Pigeon River but you're outta the door with the champagne and cloves saying "Think about things in a civilized manner." As a stray, I ambled in indifference like a lost old man a blood oath of the highest order! The pestle and the mortar, there are two sides of the street. It's been wild, eating cantaloupes driving limousines, making rent I'm alive again, I feel everything becoming clear as if I exhaled and I could not go back to breathing in the same way. When you're awake you're afraid it's true but there is hope in the silence live the rest of your life leaving first every time before you have to prove that there is love through the fighting. In a pilgrimage sent into the haunting Tennessee mid-summer I ran from you like a rolling quarter I measured every corner and planted every bean. Something grew there, something grows! Paint in red jasper, man-o'-wars you won't be a part of something that you cannot control nor will I be anymore maybe I drew the line in the thick brown sand that grew to define you.
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Buffalo Jumps 04:02
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I confess, I was careless then I remember jumping the turnstiles I remember Maryland. I'm sorry that I had my doubts it's inside-out everything I did to you reeked of alcohol. Still asleep in your car leave before the alarm before the excitement, plan your route wisely. The lights were on, I ambled along eating bread and wondering how long I could keep up the con someone should have told me here to draw the line someone should have raised their sneaking suspicions earlier. Love me more than your hands your favorite acre of land the more you keep digging the older the dirt is. It takes too much now to calm me down some roadside family new coming out straight from the horses mouth driving the both of us South away from Sodom, I'm not looking back. away from all this, I'm not going back. Turn this pumpkin black, stab me in the back and lapse, but within reason, in trance the entrance is a flashback through the looking glass Death herself in skintight pants, bumming a smoke I was different back then I was guarding a flame that I new would go out soon all for the illusion.
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Yemanja 03:50
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I knew you had taken a form I stuck to my nature like a dog burying bones shine a lamp my way just to show you're home the light divides, that moon hangs so low. It was nothing new, keeping watch for you pushing chairs against the door to keep out who comes running after, reason has got me this far searching for the truth in a teacup your Hail Marys rain on down to city hall in the flesh, my Lord break them hard, my bones keep them angry at me and fill the house with salt leave here running, don't look back to watch is it even now? You felt nothing at all the entire time. I thought the finale would be late I didn't have time to prepare for it yet I know you will deserve what you're going to get and I hope it hurts at the very end. Winter came through and left a stretch of land looking sullen from the weight it carries on its back like a gurney, holding hopelessly by such an awful state worry what the length of time will do to my face a mantra holds your head by the horns shake your young white body like it's draped in sand kiss the business men inside that black sedan let it go downhill just like a boxcar racing towards the flag into the depths below.
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The Gordian Knot 02:55
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Eli in a gravel dance and no lights in the tunnel you're holding your breath I fear that you'll rely on me when we both turn blue and only now is all this worth reconsidering you won't fool me I'll bury you, I will bury you. Here, you're the same as me running frightened through knee-high stalks of sugar cane I guard my mouth with a white handkerchief into the gas in French-tied bandages this is how you choose to remember it Kill the hostages sever the knot with a cutlass I used to be the straw house that you would blow over only now I am a strong-arm dissenter you're a hatchet and I'll bury you I will bury you.
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Warpath 04:05
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Fleeing the gulf with one good hand caskets above ground, a reminder your eyes in the rearview, what do they say "I'm disappointed again." This summer was a fruit fly and you were all the oranges but it spoiled me before you sucking us dry. I could have become you, I could have stayed but I was on a warpath, I was a hurricane with one open eye, I crashed through the place and turned to nothing by St. Louis, half of the time I was pulled in by your gravity I was hoping you would leave me half of the time. Call me a deserter, call me a snake call me all the things you thought I'd never be again leaving the gulf with nothing said only "All this shit for nothing." Half of the time you were looking for the mystery I was hoping you would leave me half of the time.
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Ravenser Odd 04:00
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Remain unmoving and I will storm through open all of your windows and I will watch you set your elbows atop the sill, almost angrily and rub baby woodrose on your tongue. Out of good and evil, you stood firm in neither you believed this fever would start to go to your head the flags are now wet and all the leaves are now dead the wind doesn't live inside me anymore not enough to say if the power goes out find a way through the shadow of doubt stay calm. The phone will ring and it will be disappointing if you need somewhere to go, I've got connections in the city if you need to disappear, let me go with you there is nothing tying me to here. Far removed and seething, despair eating my fine head of hair, the will to stand on my feet I'm barely a human now, you won't recognize me for once I'm in control but to live as if we have free will is to dream with our eyes open still wake up.
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The Deluge 04:41
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I know where you're coming from I have been there before myself caught up in an apple tree without a pail polluting its guts I fancied all the little things the cubic length, the number of the Hare. Take me in your agony he reckoning, the day that you get well baby's got a lucky streak and your hair I hid the inconsistencies I wondered if you knew you don't get a name like that without a few. The Zero is a prostitute I use it like a body should be used I dabbled in its alchemy to hear from you. And nearly drowned in the deluge but held on to my head there was nothing I could do to save the rest In a room like this I bottomed out I tried to find an engine to revive in this crucible, I should have died. Lorena in a bathing suit the game's afoot, a lust still withering a bad dream in an empty bed I felt something take hold of me a pulse within the belly of the beast I don't need your empathy or your charity, by morning you're gone, I unplugged the alarm no love in a heart, fleshed pulled apart you were on your white horse, whisked away. Maybe you were dying here and to go on would be lying to the friend's you had left I could have been a sentinel or a tower surveilling you but I couldn't do that I was running out of time to put in words the impression you have left on this year you might shroud your legacy in secrecy but your mad dream dies here.
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Old Masthead 01:56
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There is one way out. Tear your hair from the base, by your ears maybe the liar you had in your room sits right here. "Well damn you and all your friends I was sick when you drove to your death down at the bottom, the Holy Ocean." The Gathering. I have nothing left, though not by accident I put all your words in a burning boat while the captain slept I untied the rope and set this cell afloat and groaned into the endlessness of infinite space. All I dream of now is a home, wild and proud buried poor, in the ground pay attention in your vast final moments. Goodbye Old Masthead Goodbye everything.

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released April 4, 2021

All songs by Dolmens

Recorded November 2020 - March 2021

Artwork by Richard Ramirez II

Thanks to Brian and Shaun Kennedy for assistance, advice and spiritual support. All my love to Houston.

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