Divine Lorraine Demo Release

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======= DIVINE LORRAINE ========

-- Walpurgis Nacht --


Walpurgis Night, Good Friday morning
in your bed, in your spider web
at dawn, with the AC on

me only seventeen, you showed your face to me
made of smoke, but you never choked
silk tongue, like the yarns you spun

we chilled the bile, we toast your child
to wealth, and the best of health
to fame, but let us stay the same

we ride, at night
sure thing, but let me hang the ring
close your eyes, and learn to love the red red red red light

-- Gasoline & Lime --

A Asus2 D

Look Alive
the battles in the jeroboam tonight

hit the lights
we're feeling through the family tomb it's right

C#m Fm E D

Were you born an anarchist
without a place to hide?

do you fear the fetishist
or the beam of light he rides?

It's alright
your treasure chest is safely stowed inside

behind
the men we made of frames and sturdy twine

can you smell the river now
or is it all still ice?

are you on the pills again?
I know it's not my life

babe
I am o.k. I am o.k. alright

i lied
this skin you see's all gasoline and lime

but if you think i wrote this song
and coded every line

then you need more help than me
more help or more white wine

-- The Artists --

C E Am C E Am C E Am C E Am

we know who we are
born beneath pale stars
running laps toward the light
houses liquid night
and the black bubbles in
just as thick as our sin
just as thick as the crowds we've left behind

F G C E Am F G C E Am F G F G

dissolved with our blue-print minds
at sun rise the shadow both lives and dies

We'll be dropping our bombs
any day now
we'll be snaking your drains
implicating Mao
and all that that once was
lost to summer's buzz
and some kid breathing dirt breathing soot

breathing air while God's own voice eddies his hair
think in lines and get straight your alibi
sit for moi, we're artists we're NOT bourgeois
note the schwa WE'RE ARTISTS WE'RE NOT Bourgeois

-- (Old Me) --

G B C Cm

The old me wouldn't take it so lightly
cold beneath the shallow dark of birds above the wires

A D C Cm

On fire: who sing without their eyes
and wing into some sky

And bold: the black ones make a game
of unlearning their names

you told me this dirt would make me holy
three/four weeks pass before the bears come out from hiding

their babes who only want to play
they only want to play (and lay)

and get old but wrap your face in gold
and horde your bones in holes (with souls)

you know me a still villain of cracked glass and white lies
know you're free to leave behind your pretty window eyes

and sleep, sleep out on the sand
that's spilling from your hands (and glands)

and rise, to meet the blue of noon
and mend the milk-wet moon (to choose)

the old me wouldn't take you so lightly
the old me throws no leaves or thorns upon your already kicked fire

-- Peggy-O (Traditional) --

G C G
As we marched out to Fennerio
G G/F# Em Bm
As we marched out to Fennerio
C G
Our Captain fell in love
G G/F# Em
With a lady like a dove
G C G
And he called her by name, Pretty Peggy-O


Would you marry me, pretty Peggy-O?
Would you marry me, pretty Peggy-O?
If you would marry me,
I would set your cities free
Free all the ladies in the are-o

I would marry you, sweet William-O
I would marry you, sweet William-O
I would marry you but your Guineas are too few
And I fear my mama would be angry-o

What would your mama think, pretty Peggy-O
What would your mama think, pretty Peggy-O
If she heard my Guineas clink?
Saw me marching at the head of my soldiers-o.

Come a-steppin down the stairs, pretty Peggy-O
Come a-steppin down the stairs, pretty Peggy-O
Come a-steppin down the stairs
Combing' back your yellow hair
Bid a last fair well to your William-O

For if ever I return, pretty Peggy-O
If ever I return, pretty Peggy-O
If ever I return
All your cities I will burn
Destroy all the ladies in the are-o

Sweet William he is dead, pretty Peggy-O
Sweet William he is dead, pretty Peggy-O
Sweet William he is dead,
And he died for a maid
And he's buried in Louisana country-O

As we marched out to Fenerio
As we marched out to Fenerio
Our Captain fell in love
With a lady like a dove
And he called her by name, Pretty Peggy-O

-- Scarecrow--

Intro: G

Am F

THE SCARECROW
IN CINDERS

C G F

there are two suns above your sharpening stone
we lost your pretty pearl in our house of bones

Am G

THE FROST ROSE
FROM THE OXBOW

stars shake, famously burning slow
strung lights in canopies have blown their bulbs

Am
DESERT BLOOM
F
THE NEW MOON
C
THE SHOW ROOM
G
A STONE MOVES

We hold you
and robe you
then crown you
dethrone too

and loathe you
bemoan you
and stone you
alone

the scarecrow's
skin shivers
still arrows
in quivers
not taken
or blown gone
or strung up
and so on

-- Predatory Lending --

C G Am F G C

we all know your face from your mistake your flims have broken in your grave
a grand jury your fiancée framed photos from your fathers wake

C G Am F C

wake wake your eyes,
sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep your alibi

spent fall on fire shoved round the wires that leak and tweak into your bane
it's not the same this acrid rain corrodes and roasts the amber grain

OLD OLD OLD YOUR NAME
NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW NEW YOUR FAME

a new roommate warrants all states commands demands from conscript knaves
conflagrate back draft to face our cells wilt down like paper...


Let's explode this maze and drive the porters off their barricade
all those blood-forged barbs all turned to shards that skitter down the palisade

flee your bleeding mind mind mind mind
mine the bread crumb trail you leave behind
check for cuts and lumps
your two heads fuse fully to one

-- Deaf and There --

F Bb F C F Bb Dm C

She was deaf and there folding her proteins
as they spoke of the symbols they found in their wet dreams
jilted and jaded tornado eyes over her paper
scanning the pages and all other titles and labels

she was deaf and there, despairingly empty
and the lines round her eyelids curved circularly
their tracking told stories of worlds she should fear
but it didn't consider all those who can't hear
so their tales of terror fell only on ears
that were painted like white spots upon baby deer

she was deaf in the dark in the light of a bright screen
watching pictures and adds pinks and yellows and pale greens
and they screamed for attention but got no reply
as she closed the windows and then closed her eyes

she was visited strangely that night in a dream
by a soothplaying satyr of sweet melodies
then a choir of cherubs plunged from the sky
and crushed the poor player thus ending his life
all the cacophonous clamor of all of their cries
the wreckage spat splinters in all of their eyes
the rumbling tremolo of old oak's demise
ruptured their eardrums which served to baptize
all the innocent singers who finally realized
this was the most beautiful song she had heard in her life

diaphanous smog of the party let no one breath
the evening was waning and new lovers started to leave
a white silver crucified christ hung between
her white silver breasts that had gone sight unseen

she spotted him there in the corner his mouth asking please
his hissings of lust wove sibilantly
a drunk irish catholic boy: the new philistine
but goaded by contact that all of us need
she turned down her hearing aid, nodded, agreed
and they traipsed back together both dumb and lonely
and she tasted his sweat and smelled his disease
romping and rolling their elbows and knees
all the spinning and skinning, exposing her seams
arrested by the mess she thought of her dream and in

agony she spoke, and choked, it's too real for me, it's too real for me

I wasn’t ready to see

-- Lorraine --

E B C#m A

The holy ghost is slowly headed home
can't you see him
all image and bone

the glade and spring are mixed beneath the snow
we got what we needed
now give us more gold

C#m B G#m A E F#m A E

highway signs for
paradise
but we can't find it on the map
so I guess we'll just turn back

Let's get depressed and change our names!
"I'll call you peter
but I'm staying Lorraine"

let's don our capes and save the day
"give me the signal!"
"then get out of my way!!"

your soft-spoken heart's broke
cause two years is no joke
and then
this is how it ends