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The Dawnheads

by Joko Tea

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lyrics

You, you're invited
To shed everything that marks
You as unclean.
Like something close to nothing
You'll be touched by only those who can believe.
Welcome to the distance that's between us
Bow your head drop to your knee
Send forth your love.
Enter and become the light above me
Needing nothing among everything reside.

So die away
Inside of me.
You're not everything I've
Wanted you to be.
Full of grace
You've chosen woe
And it hurts that you're not
Wanting anymore.
Yeah,
It hurts that you're not
Wanting anymore.

You, you've decided
To feed styrofoam to gasoline all night.
Wake up feeling sticky,
Ain't no thing that can't be
Burnt away alright.
Bigger make it bigger make it easy
To ingest the space that
All things occupy.
Me happy me home and
Me like water.
Me be drinkin up the dawn like every night.

So die away
Inside of me.
You're not everything I've
Wanted you to be.
Full of grace
You've chosen woe
And it hurts that you're not
Wanting anymore.
Yeah,
It hurts that you're not
Wanting anymore.

But lord I've never lived that way
So how can I still believe you?

I know of a child
Who saw Christ the Lord
In line at a deli
Ordering some soup.
He seemed so familiar
To all who were there
Cut him and beat him
And do it on a dare.

Late to the matinee
The lobby entertained me fine.
I stumbled when I walked away
From a love that is Earth's time.

I struck a bit of gold one day
As the day was losing time
And held it in the dying rays
So something of mine could shine.

Silence
Silence on everything.
Silence in one heel
Wears out the ankle
Of Lady Rage.
Who stands
Right in her scattered place.
Sucks in a breath
And buttons her eyes
With the foul taste.

So come in come in
Come alive
Wake me up and cut me off.
I'll blue the doorknob with my rain
And let no one else inside.
Then lay me down to rest one day
As the day is losing time
Hold me in the dying rays
Tell me I'm not but a lie.

Silence
And here comes the everything.
Walk on the feet of eight billion hands
And finger nails.
Shaking
The warmth out of every face.
Tie down your floorboard
Up your good neighbour
And scream away your name.

And when there was no child to bare you
Picked up and ran away
With a little porcelain egg
You were told would never break
Summoned like a chorus angel
But for the open road
Maybe I'd be white as all hell
And stories will be told.

My baby
Threw my hightops
In the ocean.
Guess I'll be exactly
Where I am.
Some people they don't change
But they break so easily
Like something close to nothing
Close to death.

And even when the light that held you
Slipped where the awful go
And there was a noise around you
You held your beauty on
Maybe I'll be cold forever
Or old for just one day
Stand alone beside me
Let me hear you say

My baby
Threw my hightops
In the ocean.
Guess I'll be exactly
Where I am.
Some people they don't change
But they break so easily
Like something close to nothing
Close to death.

Fetal on the floor
Outside my apartment
The most pathetic thing
I've ever seen.

I love you so I'll let you hold me
Underwater
Till I become what you wanna see.

Am I really gonna have to
Strangle
Myself to survive.
Some people they don't change
But they break so easily
Like something close to nothing
Close to death.

And even when the light that held you
Slipped where the awful go
And there was a noise around you
You held your beauty on
Maybe I'll be cold forever
Or old for just one day
Stand alone beside me
Let me hear you say

Anything.

Say anything.

Say anything.

Say anything.

Say anything.

credits

released December 9, 2019
Ben Stokes - drums
Max Hamilton - piano, guitar, bass, vox
Allegra Chiarella - alto sax
Alex Peters - trumpet, vox
Mitch Merrick - guitar
Lino D'Ottavio - plucked violin, aux percussion, vox

Recorded and produced by Lino Salvator Dominico D'Ottavio.

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Joko Tea Winnipeg, Manitoba

FOAMING AT THE MOUTH they sing their fearsome hymns of love and brokenness. Observe the light that struggles to be seen, caged digital skeleton heart.

Stokes - d
Hill - tb
Peters - tp
Redekop - b
Hamilton - p,g,vox
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