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What Death Leaves Behind

from NO BLUES (2023 Remaster) by Los Campesinos!

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I was the first match struck at the first cremation,
you are my shallow grave, I’ll tend you as a sexton
If you’re the casket door that’s being slammed upon me,
I’ll be a plague cross painted on your naked body
Well summer sighed and summoned up hail
Dirty in dish rack drips the Holy Grail
May be heartslob but I want ‘em to know,
cut and shut us like a portmanteau
We sit around just spitballin’
all the witches cackle round my cauldron
Recognise the lies from my poker tongue
(is it true…?)

They say you and me are tautology
What grows from the seeds,
can you quite believe
through cracks come the weeds?
Long time listener, first time caller
No need to remind me what death leaves behind me

Why must I lie awake from dusk until the morning,
through fear of being impaled upon errant mattress spring?
Within a waking dream I finally made my heel turn,
Lived life as Super 8 when you were promised Hilton
Propose me as a pardon for sins,
led on barbecue I’m burnt offerings
I proof-read the Book of Job for the Lord:
edit one, League Cup 2004
We, delicate as a filligree,
cleared a place for us in the chicory
Colosseum blood will dry in the sun
(is it true…?)

We tread it carefully (we feel around in kid gloves)
What death will leave behind (death will leave behind love)
We will flower again (I have surely seen it)
WE WILL FLOWER AGAIN

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from NO BLUES (2023 Remaster), released October 30, 2023

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