Name: Hanging Ditch, fig. 1
Duration: P00H05M25S
Description: lmao listen to the byrds' version of "my back pages" by bob dylan much, nerd?

Hanging Ditch, fig. 1

from Northen Etchells by Sweet Embrace

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lmao listen to the byrds' version of "my back pages" by bob dylan much, nerd?

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If I lose my purpose and start straying from the track
Show me what I’ve written here to tempt the muses back
If it’s easy to forget that hate runs through my blood
Take me to the hanging ditch and leave me in the mud

If my songs grow joyless and devoid of melody
Abandoning all nuance, chasing age-old victories
If the stench of sloganeering taints each verse I write
Take me to the hanging ditch and bid me a good night

And if my siren call becomes mere fotzepolitic
Thinking I could sell Persephone a manor by the Styx
If she smiles in the right places and I tumble to my death
Take me to the hanging ditch, let loose my final breath

If we fail to stem the rising tide of leaden swill
The resurrecters, headshrinkers, and grist from the windmill
The inescapable monoliths and their zombie coterie
Take me to the hanging ditch, should they rule over me

And if the sons of harlots start to think they’ve won the day
Though our tunes groan with colour while they slather songs in grey
And if we Northern Mannerists turn meekly back to Rome
Take me to the hanging ditch and make it my new home

And if the fields of violet that lay dormant at my rear
Are suddenly encroached upon by architects of drear
If the terrors and the glaziers both rush southward out of town
Take me to the hanging ditch and lay my body down

If I lose my purpose and start straying from the track
Show me what I’ve written here to tempt the muses back
If it’s easy to forget that hate runs through my blood
Take me to the hanging ditch and leave me in the mud
Yeah, take me to the hanging ditch and leave me in the mud

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from Northen Etchells, released February 10, 2023

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