a nursing home

from a nursing home by The Scalding House Records

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lyrics

I fell in love with a stone grey idea
That passing though one another was
a guaranteed replacement for the purity of fear
And I watched as she tried to fill the holes
Left in her soul by the disappointment of growing old
With anything that poured from the cabinet in the corner
A finger measure filling fifths and quarts of pleasure
An open house and we’re all invited if we don’t get too close.

As the standard candles blaze bright white light
Across a silvery stellar black night it goes unnoticed
To the ones who fight the bad fight.
To the ones who have tasted nectar in the gardens
Seeded with decisions struck from the record
And hidden in the shadows of their own moonless night.
Ploughing though the seasons
But the weeds are hard pressed and reasoned
A crows nest filled with cuckoo eggs we are fakers
They’re believers.

So I struck out on this river and made my way home
Sending messages by semaphore
I called out silently but all I got was a dialling tone
These gestures seem empty like bone cages
they went to dust and to ashes spiralling
in a little paper pill pot in a nursing home
We are forever they said we are forever
But I never figured out what they meant
When they said we are forever
They are believers.

As the standard candles blaze bright white light
Supernovas go unnoticed in liquid plights
She turns to the cabinet and sees salvation on ice
In wood grain and dust and tumblers rimmed with lipgloss
We are the quiet ones the ones who loved you the ones who have lost.
We are the quiet ones the ones who have loved you the ones who have lost.
As omens come home
We are the quiet ones the ones who loved you the ones who have lost.

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from a nursing home, released July 11, 2014
words and sounds - the scalding house

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