Mahashmashana

Album: Mahashmashana (2024)
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  • His body is the Gelson's
    Her soul, the fallen star
    At midnight twice a week she comes, she leaves
    And no one's hassled her so far
    The courters have arrived in nail polish, in tailored slacks
    Reformed past, all recognition
    Resplendent in donor class panache
    Is a scheme to enrich assholes
    What the godhead had in mind
    When he hid here such revelations
    As only singers could describe?

    Mahashmashana
    All is silent
    And in the next universal dawn
    Won't have to do the corpse dance, do the corpse dance
    Do the corpse dance with these on

    The one about the country's boyfriend
    That he never ever would live down
    Must not have made it to the angels
    Who passed the holy Roman noses 'round
    His pale bullets found your bloodline
    In a midnight blue cayenne
    She is patient, the act of creation
    May one day produce a happy man
    Shaken like a pawl fly
    Obscene as a lick
    Love's the birthright of young people
    And she ain't leaving without his

    Mahashmashana
    All is silent now
    And in the next universal dawn
    Won't have to do the corpse dance, do the corpse dance
    Do the corpse dance with these on

    He spoke into a hot mic
    He sang like a bird
    He hadn't had a single drink yet
    There's no mistaking what you heard
    A perfect lie can live forever
    The truth don't fare as well
    It isn't perched on lips, mid-laughter
    It ain't the kind of thing you tell
    Like there's no baby in the king cake
    Like there's no figure on the cross
    They have gone the way of all flesh
    And what was found is lost

    Yes, it is
    Yes, it is
    Yes, it is
    Yes, it is
    Yes, it is
    Yes, it is
    Yes, it is
    Yes, it is Writer/s: Drew Erickson, Josh Tillman
    Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd., Songtrust Ave
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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