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Helm of Awe

by Dolmens

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1.
Lightning Badge 03:45
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Pollute the well, sit back in your electric chair spellbound and wired, a bull at the gate. Dead afternoon time is a toothless, savage brute it was Goliath and youth was your sling, I want to see this world I only get one swing if I have to go without you, I'll go. Ride in the ambulance with me talk of an ancient dream give me a lightning badge the last one you have. Tourniquet season freezing and freezing I've looked for a reason for the storm's bright flash how God won't answer back tuck your knees in. And watch how the potion overtakes me every new vaccine helps me sleep how does it feel when you discover you've been replaced so easily how do you wrap your head around it? Your fingers snap you watch the whole reel spinning back this symbol drawn protects you from harm and suddenly waking up each day doesn't sting gaslit and warm, a child of the horn. Dirty work for the crossroad spell killing the Hangman there the air still smells of ash of blood on our hands. From the burning cop car smoke curls like sleeping dogs I followed you in to the busy hotel bar as the madness waved its wolves along you, waving your arms, your wands. Now that you notice it's unraveling there is no time left to jump ship how does it feel when you discover nothing of any worth exists move as if you were underwater our lives like a block of wet cement you and I standing in the middle we wait for the serum to kick in.
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Londres 03:07
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You could slam the phone, curse to some foreign god but I won't budge from the booth in the lobby a plate of thirds and remains of a mirror decorate the hall. All of the neighbors can hear I'll be gone by the end of the year. They have cornered you backed you up against a wall move to Spain and kick some dirt against the cage under the "Fog Tree", eating grapes, sitting Indian-style, listening to you talk awhile "This life of mine, it's felt like three." We see those Puerto Rican girls throwing wreathes on your body dying in your arms choosing "heads" on the coin that is flipping. Do what you promised you would do I am glued to the seat in the waiting room. At about a quarter to two making wagers, dodging cops you weren't you back then and I? A human bruise, black alley cat, cocaine white shoes. Up to Londres, you ran forward, with Lourdes, hand in hand speaking Spanish to the maitre'd, hoping he understands it's a cruel parable, it's the fools they took us for this life of mine, it's felt like three.
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The Measuring Worm 03:33
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An elevator ride, it's funny how I never thought some day you and I are gonna have to drift apart with the golden age now gone I ain't laughing too hard on my way to the bank now pack your things, we are going to see the Master. If it hadn't been for my elementary way of thinking we could have had more time, even through all the drinking "fierce" is the word I'd use, "fancy" is a term i never used to describe you, you were off to see the Makers when the storm arrived. An elevator ride, I'm not coming back down the aura from the TV lights your inching path to the house even moving slowly, oh you're transforming both the needle and the thread both the last gasp and first breath it beat it out of me, the magic in my eyes waiting for the footsteps, making progress by and by I was trampled by the Masses while I held out for you.
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The Lazarus Trick 03:22
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Imagine I'm a big man holding up the heavens, raining on this river of the rumors, mumbling and strong, ten leagues along the coastline there is a house battered by its histories, smashed to smithereens, bind all the loose pieces, bind in the bower we try the Lazarus trick on us one more time. Picture me in silk robes reaping up the toils, one by one in an orange peel, the sobbing fields of "Alacrán". Tell me I'm a good one and everyone's wrong tell me all the hammering was coming from my jaws fall, as if from a tall tower at the point of excess, when you hit the surface, reach out, then collapse. Envision the destruction this is where its child came to bathe mangled and dismembered lovers finally filled with hate. Document the loss like a ditch full of bones chronicle the ravages in funereal prose. Cleansed, with your lopped off fingers spread turning saltpeter red in the Lazarus pit, leave me here for dead.
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Immram 04:33
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I don't know which one of us is right and I don't really care there's no need to yell but one day you'll be gone and skin will fade I'm in a dream, I must be dreaming I am blind, lost in the kitchen I wear a lot of crowns makes sense keeping them around it's like company on the day that you find out there is no one, nobody else there it's such a long race but I think I'm winning. Spin another yarn and find a tune resting on your tongue I will cause you harm like Arab music, no beginning, no end. Well maybe I ain't so ugly all the time or so calloused when I'm high it's so simple the idea vanishing into a mirror maybe one day I will finally understand there was no one, no one quite like you somewhere along the way, I guess I must have lost that. I'm sorry I was never who you thought I was gonna be but when you die, I will change lightning strikes and leaves burnt stone behind when we're together, we lose all control we turned lead into gold when I come back in August We'll find all the things that haunt us and hide in them like blankets fighting in the breeze it's like you and I still dressed in costume, bleeding in the sink it's such a long race, but at least we're winning.
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Bastille Day 02:17
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After yesterday, there were no more frontiers Bastille Day did something to you and you would storm this damn prison every year, over the phone, you made sense of it all maybe being alone helped you see it clearly all of your friends left while you lay in bed "au revoir: you said, along with its ghost. Goodbye, so long, lonesome storefront, you break my heart if I had known before, I shouldn't have gone I should have been here should've done my part. There's a loophole somewhere not all roads lead to Hell there's a bend in my spoke, there's a hole in my new coat one of these days, I'll be funny again I'll have money and things will even out.
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The Geometer Moth 03:29
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I take a look at my life and I see no big fence I see no brick house, I see no chimney smoke but what I lack in hope, I make up for in promise I still have my woman and the comfort she provides for a while there I couldn't feel my footsteps can you see me in your new form? This goddamn year nearly put me in the pavement nearly swallowed me up whole how long until no one's left to look after me? Hell I've been growing too, one day I'll grow wings and take that trip I figured I'd taken by now if there's a god up there, he must be out pissin' 'cause he sure as hell can't be bothered to look down. Still it feels right whenever I think of you can you see us down below? You painted symbols on your forehead to protect you will it get easier? It must get easier I know it's hard to see that now from here.
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Kingmaker/Right-Hand Man 06:36
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Every day is an uphill fight I will struggle with you as long as you're alive ancient secrets come to light down the corridor, the last door on your right, I am pulling down the high road to Hell with rising from the rubble. Houses built out of matches scatter like ashes nothing is everlasting no point to any action no point to any decree. Even ants protect their queens living in a hole, it's good being the king how do you think I must feel left to hold the scepter when you disappear hey, I think you've been cheated to Hell with looking for a meaning. If death isn't freedom, tell me what is then, reason, the strike of lightning and living as if you died there out where the floor was charred black. What do you look like now seven months ago we were just seeds in the soil born from a mandrake root fingers in the washbasin harvest my fruit I look out into the endless jungle from the highest point, everything's shaped the same the more that I go in the more the lines blur anything I do just leaves a bitter taste anything I do just leaves the world unchanged but I'll stand beside you still even when the days ahead are frightening I'll be your right-hand man despite it into the white hot void. I'll stand beside you still even if it means we go down fighting I'll be your right-hand man despite it I'll be your right-hand man.
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Grow Thin 03:01
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I cut my hair as you made your breakfast I went to work as a form of silent protest sunrise can't coat the dark corners of my room the dreams is the same, only the details are different but dreams don't mean anything there's life in your skin you're eating again the things you have done aren't mine to admire aren't mine to forgive horses this gray never give too much chase just say what you mean to say just say what you need to conquer. I sold the books that you let me borrow I plagued everything and drank until my palms hurt I won't die although Salome has asked for my head forget what occurred last night, look to tomorrow and be only loyal to me you can't go to Hell if there isn't one there the picture is wide, it sucked us both in made you a new person I'll never feel safe now, this life is a cage it struck me as wild that by tomorrow night I won't know you.
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The Lightning Show 02:05
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When you see the door's unopened find me nowhere near lose your breath in silent fear is it a fetch or frontier? When you find me gone and the straw's being burned you kneel and you sway, and you sweat through your shirt tell the kids not to wait a kind destroyer. Come and find me through the cellar door hear my hip bones groan like an old kitchen floor sacrifice me in my sanctuary I'll be a ghost like a footstep leaving the forest or a pledge of devotion. Wait for me at the end of the chase when the skulls shake, knees bent, buckled and braced, a shade stumbles in a once holy spirit. Come and find me down at the old wooden ark come and find me shuffling cards at the dock come and find me down at the cafe at dawn, come and find me.

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released July 28, 2020

Recorded in Bangor, Maine
May - December 2018.
Mixed by Cameron Bina

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