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lyrics

though I do not know the language,
I guess I understand
I've been watching this for years
the breaking of the man
and now it isn't just my father and the Priest

it's in my hands

they are trembling with terror
they are splitting at the ends
and growing out of my doubt-

a little faith

I was bleeding out on the pavement
at the Days Inn down on Western when the storm hit
and I watched it
through a haze from all the pills
they gave
me

bit my lip and whispered print I can't remember
prayers like road flares at the wreck in December off I40
and I can't forget the smell

gasoline down my jeans made a thin trail
​to a warm puddle

my foot twitched and I switched its position
heard the bone against the gravel
and instantly, with blurred vision,
noticed the warm cloth drenched in oil & blood
laid out like a funeral shroud there on the sidewalk

saw the bumps and knew there was a child beneath
felt the memories
like fetuses inside of me
and then came the worst part

a name
and I- I spoke it

by nightfall,
I drank enough alcohol to drown a memory
then the images made themselves more clear to me
it was eerie
these were nearly the same feelings and fears
that we clasped desperately to in the moment
but there were years between us

in life you have to make a choice
between the newspaper headlines
and internal voice

get a job and a mortgage
and the more you spend, your freedom’s suffocated
but you've made it- you're a big success!

& the moral is you suffer daily or you kill your dreams-

and you still suffer.

though I do not know the language,
I guess I understand
take my place among the villagers-
it's time we made a plan
we can't be owned or operated
we aren't machines
we are men
and we have blood inside our bodies
in our eyes
and on our hands

who are we now?
who are we now?

​You know us.

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from Kyle Adem is Dead, released April 8, 2016
written by Adeem Bingham
produced & engineered by Dylen Terflinger of The Ghost Motel

www.theghostmotel.com

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Adeem is a seventh-generation Carolinian, a makeshift poet, singer-songwriter, storyteller, and blue-collar Artist.

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