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The Hunter and The Serpent

from Dead Animals by Brooks Strause

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The Hunter stands over my house and believes that lovers should be together. A stone hand is grasping for lust, and the murderers remember summer, but look at me, I speak as though I've ever felt a thing. Kill me something pretty and I'll love you till it rots away, I thought it was wrong for so long, but nothing is wrong, not one thing on this damned dirt or in that ugly sky. I know what you want but all I can give you is a sad, shallow song. Callow master, my flaws are infinite, so, senseless lover, let's just go back to bed. 'Cause ain't nobody perfect, baby, what did you expect, sometimes I look at your beautiful face and I wish you were dead. Fellow monster, why do you pause and doubt? In your dark future what will you sing about? Because nothing's ever gonna be any better than it is now, sometimes I hear your delicate voice and want to burn your eyes out. The Serpent sleeps under our beds and slowly makes us all go crazy. God takes back what he said. The Apocalypse comes almost daily. But listen to me, I feel like we were never even here.

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from Dead Animals, released July 18, 2009
Brooks - piano, autoharp, banjo, electric guitar, vocals
Bradford Highnam - bass
Emily Highnam - cello
Nicholas Beard - drums

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