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Purple Curtains

from Prick EP by Telyscopes

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I could write a chorus if you've got the verse
I can sing a fifth below if you sing the first
Sign your name in my blood without a doubt
And watch me fade away after you burn out
Humans stopped using wood to build their bridges
When cigarette butts reduced them all to ashes
Like a fifties housewife on an oven book
You could divorce all your friends and learn how to cook
I'll leave white owl feathers on the path tonight
Your god shows no shadows without a source of light
Sure it means nothing to you-Shallow lungs breathe life into new
Infants plagiarize the tune
If I strike a match, love, will you pinch it dead?
Apathy and poison swimming in your head
If I swallow a shotgun, pick pellets from my skull
Fizzing alka seltzer inside a dead seagull
Humans stopped using wood to build their bridges
When cigarette butts reduced them all to ashes

Now you're standing across the water
And with a telescope I might just catch your shadow
But it's too far to swim and there is no boat
The winter is a child I hope you packed a coat,

Or you'll be
Frozen like the morning we slept in my car
With schizophrenic tapestries draped on the wall
Shredded like a hymen in the summer night--- moving
pictures faded memories beating along in time
Enchanted like a newborn with it's starry eyes
and rigid like your nazi cloaked in his disguise
There is no bridge of wood and there never was
Purple curtains collecting dust

Sing me to sleep
Softly
Hum a sweet
Melody

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from Prick EP, released August 12, 2013

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Telyscopes Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

"Since 2012, Telyscopes has molted through one reinvention after another--shedding layers of lo-fi psychedelia, chamber pop, jazz, and electronica like cocoons as the project grows more legs, prettier wings, or sharper mandibles. The lifeblood remains the same: offbeat lyrics and striking melodies. Often ingenious--never typical."
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