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Paris, Kentucky

from Every Bug Wants To Live by Matt Oleksa

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She comes to my window
In the deep death of evenin’
In a breath of light
Familiar and strange
Before the coral flame
Before her
Before the laws
Of the blade and the lamb
Come with me, she says
Fade into me, she says
And the four walls melt

Breath becomin’
Stallions runnin’
Over deserts peppered
With brittlebush in bloom
Flowing over
And overflowin’
Tigris, Euphrates
The faint glimmer of a room
Let it fall from your face
This is the place
Where Marina sang

I’m just a poor boy
From Paris, Kentucky
Born near a room
With a window and a view
And there are six, no seven
Yes, seven oranges
In a bowl below a portrait of a photograph of you
Between the charcoal and page
The beast and the cage
I am the iron king

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from Every Bug Wants To Live, released June 18, 2015
Matt Oleksa: vocals, guitar, harmonica, percussion
Kevin Bass: bass, guitar
Erik Roget: brushes

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