Thorn

from four songs by Casual War

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lyrics

I am the widow who walks by the trees.
I am compulsive; I count only threes.
Lend me your sight or help me relieve
the red on my ledger or sweat on my sleeve.
I'm perfectly bound, my skin gone maroon.
My rope burns lit by the night's leering moon.

Cut, cut off the rose and leave me the thorn.
I'll be waiting, renamed, reborn.

I am the child with blood on her knees.
Lend me your lungs, and help me to breathe.
I am the convert with rosary beads,
the silent intruder who carries disease.
I am the reckoning that came too soon.
I have felled greater men than empty beds do.

Cut, cut off the rose and leave me the thorn.
I'll be waiting renamed, reborn.

I am the current that moves in the sea,
but still like the flower that brings hands to me.
I am the rumor of my own company,
the poem, the rhyme, the dead melody.
Look at the hands that brought me to you.
Believe what you want, only my song is true.

Cut, cut off the rose and leave me the thorn.
I'll be waiting for you by the thorns, reborn.

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from four songs, released March 22, 2019

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Casual War Washington, D.C.

Dreamy desert rock from LA and DC.

discography

Burn

Apr 2023
Promontory

May 2022
No Help

Mar 2022
Lutèce

Feb 2022
Casual War

Jun 2020
four songs

Mar 2019

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