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Bloodletter

by Paleo

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1.
Shapeshifter 02:44
I have felt like anyone else I certainly have my highs and my lows there are moments I feel my soul inside There are moments I don't The kind of lows that you read about, I had em Shape shifter shape shifter shape shifter Shape shifter shape shifter shape shifter Y'all don't know me at all I have dealt like anyone else I certainly have my highs and my lows There are moments I fill the hole inside There are moments I don't The kind of highs that you dream about, I had em Shape shifter shape shifter shape shifter Shape shifter shape shifter shape shifter Shape shifter shape shifter shape shifter Y'all don't know me at all Y'all don't know me at all Y'all don't know me at all Y'all don't know me Shape shifter shape shifter shape shifter (instrumental) Y'all don't know me at all Y'all don't know me at all Y'all don't know me at all Y'all don't know me Shape shifter shape shifter shape shifter
2.
Maybe once or twice in a lifetime Someone shows you the way out of the woods is just to look up at the sky Maybe once and for all your resurrections Another day another step through the wreck in the correct direction Winter spring summer fall Mirror big and mirror small Don't make the Earth your bullet in the gun Don't make the Earth your bullet heading for the Sun Natalie changes Natalie changes The void into a voyage In a chariot made of corsets Over banquets in the closets Full of roses in the darkness Look up out of the woods and sing Summer fall winter spring You are part of everything Don't make the Earth your bullet heading for the Sun Maybe once you were blue as the violets And flying all your life through a storm made you a hell of a pilot Maybe once you understand the laughter You can smile and it's fine even if you don't get the joke it won't matter Natalie changes Natalie changes The void into a voyage In a chariot made of corsets Over banquets in the closets Full of roses in the darkness Look up out of the woods and sing Summer fall winter spring You are part of everything Don't make the Earth your bullet in the gun Don't make the Earth your bullet heading for the Sun
3.
It looked like love to me like mars looks like a star That looks close enough to touch Let me make my case Give me something for this fever. Baby, you and me were like Waves within a wave Let me make my case We deserve a better goodbye We deserve a better goodbye We deserve it We were close, we were close, we were close, we were close We were close, we were close, we were close, close Close enough to touch I think you're missing your exit That light back there was definitely red And we're both getting older Someday we're gonna be dead And my bed is still burning baby i'm tossing and turning like Waves within a wave Let me make my case In this pricey carnival where people are the prize Only the lucky win them once, only the devil wins them twice But maybe I know a way Let me make my case We deserve a better goodbye We deserve a better goodbye We deserve it A better goodbye A better goodbye A better goodbye
4.
The red The red is incredible Watching the paths of afternoon Winding through the bitter bloom A wild, sweet red The red is incredible Into the dunes of human hands And past the lucid shark Drowning in our minds And trapped behind two feet of glass The red, the red, the red Red getting redder Red getting redder Red getting redder Red getting redder Sewing the stone into the fire Where nothing living grows And the stone becomes a rose The heart still glowing in a ghost A wild, sweet red
5.
The Horsemen 02:11
She has seen it all She has seen enough She is not looking back Ever again The Horsemen are tired baby, but Nothing will make them stop til it's over Are we wrong to be happy while The world is falling apart Like a woman falling out of love She has seen it all The mistakable glimpse Of a white picket fence From an attic full of regrets For having a past Though she tried at the time To make it last The Horsemen are tired baby, but Nothing will make them stop til it's over Are we wrong to be happy while The world is falling apart Like a woman falling out of love She has seen it all The immythable glimpse Of the shaft and eclipse Of the wheat of her youth In the traffic of clouds In the turn of the screw In the whispering grass Through the holes of the mask The Horsemen are tired baby, but nothing will make them stop until it's over The homeless, the hurt, and the hungry it's never your mess, it's never your problem Some part of you is happy that the world is falling apart, falling apart. Like a woman who is falling out of love Like a woman who is falling out of love.
6.
The way is rough and the road is hard, but Boys and girls the answers are In the back of the book At the end of your life Little white lie Little white lie Little white lie Little white liars Another toll I refuse to pay God will love me anyway Little white lie Little white lie Little white lie Little white liars At the end of your life, you will be new as the dawn All of the knots in the halls of your heart are withdrawn At the end of your life, all you ever did wrong The ghosts of your past mistakes at last are gone At the end of your life, you will be new as the dawn All of the knots in the halls of your heart are withdrawn At the end of your life, all you ever did wrong The ghosts of your past mistakes at last are gone The way is rough and the road is hard, but Boys and girls the answers are…
7.
I am swimming in the mouth of a dragon I am zigging I am zagging we are working on a truce I am swimming in the mouth of a dragon The many are always wagging trigger fingers at the few Stay calm stay calm I am swimming in the mouth of a dragon She's got a good heart, I think she's got a good heart Stay calm She's got a good, yes, I think he's got a good heart Stay calm Stay calm stay calm I am swimming in the mouth of a dragon I am swimming in the mouth of a dragon I am racing my reflection I am reaching for the fume Stay calm stay calm I've never had anyone close to me die Most of my tragedies are all in my mind Even if you think that there is nothing to say Call me anyway, call me call me anyway You hear a siren in the distance outside Another soul on the assembly line So many folks with little reason to pray They call him anyway, call me call me anyway When I was a kid I would get lost in the woods Man the fireflies were everywhere When I would whistle and they would all disappear And then they'd reappear, disappear and reappear Even though I knew that I had nothing to say I called them anyway, call me call me anyway Even if you think that you'll have nothing to say Call me anyway, call me call me anyway Even if you think that you'll have nothing to say Call me anyway, call me call me anyway
8.
When the beautiful rose of the sun came stunning To the painted sand My eyeballs floated like ice in brandy When you grabbed my hand And I saw a song in you I saw a song in you I saw a song I saw a song I see a song in you Maybe the whole thing was an act but the fact is You're a hard one to follow Sycamore seeds thinking the world is what spins In a dream of the wind And I saw a song in you I saw a song in you I saw a song I saw a song I see a song in you Many a bag at the baggage claim Is the pain we have carried Catching our fishes from the frailest bridges Should we throw them back? And I saw a song in you I saw a song in you I saw a song I saw a song I see a song in you Women and men, what a trial of smiles When our stems are mended Open your windows for the rain has ended May you love again And I saw a song in you I saw a song in you I saw a song I saw a song I see a song in you I know this music doesn't need me And it will move to someone else But while it is mine For however brief a time I see a song in you I saw a song I saw a song I see a song in you
9.
Who rose the dead Who lit the rain Who packed your roots And then it was over And then it was over Who flung the sun Who sank the flood Who breached your blood And then it was over And then it was over It was a beautiful con And then it was over It was a beautiful con And then it was over Then it was over Here kitty kitty kitty Here kitty kitty kitty Who signed the night Who held your coals Who pulled your petals Then it was over Then it was over Who burned the list Who frisked the ghost Who cut through heaven Then it was over Then it was over It's like he fell from the sky And then it was over It's like he fell from the sky Then it was over Here kitty kitty kitty Here kitty kitty kitty Who shined the mine Who mooned the moon Who kissed the cactus Then it was over It was a beautiful con And then it was over It was a beautiful con And then it was over Then it was over
10.
Salut salut Someone will come and find you Serat serat And then by hand remind you And with a word align you Encore encore All of the way Always Love will rewind you Salut salut Someone will come untie you Serat serat Then with a look unlock you By hook by crook rewatch you Encore encore All of the way Always Love will rewind you Salut salut Someone will come unveil you Serat serat Whose eyes will smile and sail you Into their ark embrace you To artful arms retrace you Through maze of grace rephrase you Without a sound awake you Encore encore All of the way Always Love will rewind you Salut salut Someone will come invite you Serat serat Then will by kiss ignite you Only with kindness duel you And in their cool bejewel you And shore to shore redeem you And dream by dream reseam you Encore encore All of the way Always Love will rewind you Love will rewind you Love will rewind you
11.
He is no better than me When he plays the notes between the keys As if he were walking a tight rope between buildings He is no better than me Mouths don't listen, eyes don't explain However petty in accusal, however shallow in blame A thousand dollar bills become a thousand paper cranes He is no better than me Love is an alien invading force Ties you up like windchimes to a rocking horse Like moths battering our bodies against the windows and the doors He is no better than me Looking at me like mud she'd just tracked into the house With eyes that were like a civil war statue's In glass shoes you stand up for who you are And you will wind up waiting alone in the car Reading a book so big you could beat a man to death with it I look at the sky I know there isn't a word worth a breath of it Just some more broken glass glittering in the trash He is no better than me Never trust someone who crushes your hand when she shakes it Who weighs your soul like a kilo when she takes it Pour it out like warm wine and all the scars go away And you are white as a kite fashioned from an old wedding dress train We are cut from the same crushed velvet He is no better than me He is no better than me He is no better than me

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released May 25, 2014

Written and Produced by Paleo
Mastered at Focus Mastering
Recorded at Ruben's Palace, the Blue House, and Futureappletree
Artwork by Bobby
Additional Musicians listed here in specific song credits.

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