Rise & Die

from The Heart of the Matador by The Dammitheads

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The stakes are in & without this time
In softly through the eyes
Down slowly through the wire

Blood letting the days under the ice
We follow the tide out past the line
Where horizons end & suns will set

All a life under the sea ice
Drifting through under currents & tides
Surfacing to take hold the light
All of this be your kingdom tonight

What right have you to want even more
The razing of plans, the changing of the guard
Mighty currents flow under the ice
Steady as we go down though the brine
The blood understands, take it from me

All a life these fish in the sea
Filing down through the leagues underneath
Slowly churning the blood into wine
Hearts & art dying on the vine

We start letting go, we stand idly by
Set the kingdom afire & dance in the light
You can say it ain’t so but to say it ain’t so is a lie
Underneath it all it’s just this left alive

Underneath all this stone sea ice
Slowly churning the blood into wine
Trading my right to rise & die, alright

Finding my way through greenish night
In through the eyes, out through the wire
Down through the tide, under the satellite
But down alright

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from The Heart of the Matador, released November 5, 2005
[dt] vocals, bass, gtrs, organ, keys, toms of like…doom,
drums right, shaker, tambourine

[sh] drums left, ghostly room drums, sleigh bells,
ambient buzzing, war tom, shouting!

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