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Words Ignite

from Killers On The Run by Paisley Nightmare

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Are you out there tonight
watching words ignite?
Does salt still cling to your skin like a cast?
Do your eyes still strike like a dynamite blast?
Are you out there under skies stretched so tight
they let through pin-points of heaven's light,
barely noticed over streets so bright?
Do you ever venture outside?

Or just stay in with your box of perpetual sound,
old magazines scattered all around,
always certain that your favorite powders abound,
and otherwise no need to make a sound.
Each snap from the wood stove resounds.

So are you out there tonight
nodding off under electric light?
I always knew you'd be the same anywhere.
never getting up from your favorite chair,
and perfecting your nihilistic stare,
and sometimes I wish I was there.

But you don't know me anymore
because your best friend called me a whore
and I went back to Baltimore,
still enraptured in your sacred lore,
and younger than ever before.

So if you're out there tonight.
please watch these words ignite
Be aware as you stare at the fire's light,
you still control your plight
and this is not what you mentioned years ago
when we spoke of how our lives would go.
Oh so unrealistic, I know.
But the ocean still sleeps in your soul.

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from Killers On The Run, released May 5, 2016

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Paisley Nightmare Emeryville, California

One thing band. 2012 - 2017. Weird sounds inspired by the death of the hippie movement and the birth of punk rock. Skewed by disabilities I was dealing with at the time. These are all live single track recordings of the creature playing all of the instruments at once in its cave. Some has been taken down pending review by the artist ... more

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