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Trembling Tongues Make Magpie Bait

by Cat Meat

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1.
Grace, lend me your ears Pay me in stalkers Unravel that brawl I could just disappear Grace, my mind feels like a forgery Love's deft aim ain't what it used to be Claws twist in your smoke I was still missing Your breath hot with tears Scrambled my mouth to plead Gamble on your rank outsider These same blues turn like a carousel A drawl drawn obsolete Rang out like loose change And I was caught in that web you spun so commonly Grace, my mind feels like a forgery Love's deft aim ain't what it used to be
2.
I swore I saw I your face dear About the break of day The rain had turned the streets to mirrors The shadows fell away I recalled you in these four walls When pollen swelled my eyes The morning light on ivory skin The sun bathed your hair white And I was on my way to Evelyn You were on your way back home And I was counting down the hours You were ten miles on the road When a trail led to my arms The coffee kept my pulse wired Nicotine kept my mind clear I listened to your phone ring out The glass stared back at me When the starling murmurations Bent the dark cloud blue They lifted me across a dream And guided me to you And I was on my way to Evelyn You were on your way back home And I was counting down the hours You were ten miles on the road When a trail led to my arms Evelyn hold me like the first time that we met Remember we said we'd paint this whole town red
3.
Sweet soil Sweet soil Do you want me for a shadow To trail you? Sweet soil Sweet soil Did that river spill to leave you Surrounded? Sweet soil Sweet soil She's the sedative that keeps me From reeling Sweet soil Sweet soil Hesitating as the town wheezed To wake you The crowns of breathing sycamores All whispering my fate And the wrinkles in my sheets rewrite the news And limb from limb I glided down through twilight's purring flight When the traces of her brake lights carried me out that night The cat's eyes hugging the roadside glimmered a wheel-scarred guide Holding onto the moonlight I wanna reach you but that night won't pull you in Burrowing holes inside these smoke-filled eyes to see Sweet soil Sweet soil I took everything this old house was leaving Sweet soil Sweet soil Her imitation fur and cheap wine I dream
4.
That feeling when you cross my mind The thought of you walking by my side I feel every fraction of this time March onto where the green shoots rise Skin frozen when your lungs revived I've loved every broken sleepless ride Call me when the weatherman cries Blood soured from my 1995 Lift me with the hurricane skies It's the sound my core surrenders For you Kissed clean and the telephone pleads In acclaim you'll sleep tonight Unseen to another but me Leave my troubled mind behind Shaken from all that pulled me under To a spark that kept me alight
5.
When the news came I was hung on every word that you said Those illusions Tangled up and bound in my head Yes the storm knew Her collusion was etched in that gale As my heart's roots Beat a language beneath my lapel Out in the summer Pleading for rain You were history But the memory dragged like unwanted skin Two apparitions Carved a prayer from right under my ribs Still I'll wait here Hunkered down like the first drift of snow Watching blue lights Tattoo veins on the shadows below All I fear was lost to the sea Constellation eyes watch over me All I fear was lost to the sea Constellation eyes look back at me
6.
You were wreathed in a red sky On the day our eyes met And I kept that dice rolling Just to see how you'd bet By the time that bar emptied I was already spent That gift under starlight When my sweetheart was sent Your face a salvation That I'll take to my grave Your whisper a levy I could never repay When my words stuttered empty My heart took their place The pavement still glows From our footprints remains And I'll plead my petition Til I'm worn Calibrating your position Left me torn When I pulled at your ribbons I felt myself fall Thought the wild storm I'll follow your call Nothing I could ever leave for Nothing I would never feel When I heard that a true love awaited I knew just what lay by the water You were home
7.
Trials carried in clusters In your hand you sowed the seed Rose cheeked You were only 17 Rust hung on that pale star You returned that night to me Homesick You were crying in your sleep Laying down there was an angel That devil was near My heart met with a shiver Eyes clung like a veil Dawn shook at the midnight Winter roared it's melody Locks turned I was waiting on your street Clowns directed the weather Love had blurred my clarity Held close I paraded at your feet
8.
Algal Blooms 07:11
"Wait for me" Read your line to me My direction changed as you were on your way Count me in Ploys and plans begin I can taste the blue grey wind That bites my brain Tell me nothing If there's nothing you'd deny But don't come loaded with more lies It's a long way down to the fire that held your eyes I'll concede To your majesty But the pressure carved reluctance in your heart So question me For the remedy My reflection came too late And you were gone

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released March 3, 2017

Music by Cat Meat (Phil Rogers, Ian Olney, Barney Bodoano & Louisa Wood) with:
Ben Dean (Piano on tracks 4, 6, 7 & 8)
Morty McCarthy (Drums on tracks 2, 6 & 7)
Kunal Nandi (Drums on tracks 3, 4, 5 & 8)

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Cat Meat Are:
Phil Rogers (Guitar and Vocals)
Ian Olney (Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Bass, Electronics)
Louisa Wood (Violin, Piano, Backing Vocals)
Barney Bodoano (Guitar, Harmonica, Bass, Drums, Backing Vocals)

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