Deafheaven - Ordinary Corrupt Human Love

1. You Without End

7m 36s Length

49 Words

34 Unique

6.4 WPM

242 Chars

17 Lines

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In a dark tunnel

New dawn approaching

With a sphere of light ever glowing

Let it go as it grows on forever

And we breathe it in

 

And then the world will grow

And then the world will know of you,

Of all things love, of all things true

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2. Honeycomb

11m 4s Length

97 Words

75 Unique

8.8 WPM

550 Chars

37 Lines

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Shadows extend east

And cortazar stares at women shuffling by

Who blot their lips from violent men

and say “god bless you”

I sulk with pause

And loving mariachi soars against

The red and yellow tents of strangers

Gifting geese the ends of bread

8, 12, 13 hours and the people keep

Fighting for sleep, for rest…

 

I'm reluctant to stay sad

Life beyond is a field a flowers

My love is a nervous child

Lapping from the glowing lagoon

Of their presence

My love is a bulging, blue-faced fool

Hung from the throat

By sunflower stems

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3. Canary Yellow

12m 17s Length

100 Words

83 Unique

8.1 WPM

622 Chars

39 Lines

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Staring out onto the earthly pottery of existence,

Climbing light vines to heaven

Clay ribbons descend,

Swirl downward against metallic swell

Go sail charmer, altruist

Who immersed in thickets,

Hugged in cloth,

Evolves into charcoal

Is worshipped by the drifting macaw,

The lady finch

They swoop and croon through the air,

Dip their feathers in the death paste of ash water

 

I have wondered about the language of flowers

And you, elaborate mosaic, greeting me

Gentle, the swamp takes my ankles

On and on we choke on an everlasting

Handsome night

My lover's blood rushes right through me

Wild, fantastic

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4. Near

5m 28s Length

14 Words

12 Unique

2.6 WPM

70 Chars

5 Lines

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Thought I saw you there

Wishing you were near

Can I rest for awhile?

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5. Glint

10m 57s Length

76 Words

59 Unique

6.9 WPM

500 Chars

25 Lines

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Listening to muffled footsteps of those brushing,

Reaching grasses

Seeing the last letters of my name, faded and shy…

Imagining us clasping hands in holiday

Imagining you growing older,

Somehow more beautiful,

Surrounded by your children and children's children

The midnight blue of your calmness like evening

Chamomile, peppermint.

Eyes as morning rosewater

I'm shrinking into your gown, tearing the pink linen

Of your belly, burying into your abdomen, and

Sewing the seam of your skin

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6. Night People

4m 7s Length

90 Words

73 Unique

21.9 WPM

562 Chars

37 Lines

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Biblical sky speckled with flame,

Do you hold your mother's eyes from

Wetting the earth?

From weeping for those

Who reward fame to absolutes of war?

Or for heroic myths provided to children

Married into ferocity?

They instead witness themselves

 

And the black sand of your body slipped through…

 

I found myself at your side

 

I spied along the concrete canvas, a woman

Her eyes brimming with vacancy

And bear hugging barbiturates,

Her head rolled from faint shoulders

And skipped three times

Each thud sprouting a fountain of splashing gold

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7. Worthless Animal

10m 7s Length

111 Words

89 Unique

11.0 WPM

648 Chars

39 Lines

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With all life profane,

The ladles cradling streams of

Buttermilk current stretch out,

And alabaster lips unseal

So I may recall the soft timbre of whisper

In its stillness

 

When a fawn stumbles into the raid,

Honeydew high and deep in afterglow,

Mind swarming on purple sand verbena,

I forgive its delusion,

Caress its world view super bloom,

Shelter canary yellow eyes,

Then search to pin the legs of the stalking dog that

Lends its teeth to sticky, sad bedlam

War cries quake through lurching light

I bury a blade between its ribs,

Bear hug the soft canine frame,

Then smear ash on its brow

All who have forgotten remember now

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