Bruised Blue

from Losing Color - EP by Tooth & Claw

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Leave me. I’m forcing sleep. Palms of salt and soil, I’ve hidden them from the world. Fingers lose focus and hands never hesitate. But I am no victim. I’m still counting the daggers in my sleep and breathing backwards. Did I make it this way or is it the damages I constantly am blaming? All the drugs are gone and the medication thins. I sought after bandage and healing. But symptoms take. Drag the hours. Break the name. Savage conductors treading on the wrists, dividing each vein and drying out. Collapse and clean the needles. Breed a familiar feeling. Where is the fear you promised me, and all the victories that you’ve never seized? I’ll keep beating you into the ground, or was it me at all? I am starving delusions. I am distorting reality. I was happier when I held hatred close to a heart no longer found. Speak in tongues, oh violence come close. “Well you are, and no you won’t”. I’m living in absolutes and preaching a deceased language. I am losing my mind again. Losing everything, but the age can’t prove it’s own worth. A history in retrospect never refuses to relinquish its hidden pain. Don’t ever let the thought cross that you are any better than me. You are nothing. Unworthy of the dirt on the earth beneath.

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from Losing Color - EP, released June 1, 2011

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A reference to the sometimes violent natural world : "Hereupon the beasts, enraged at the humbug, fell upon him tooth and claw".

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