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Another late night I come in
Smoke choking my lungs
Sweet and easy it calms me right down
Oh the old skin is peeling the cracks in the ceiling
convert and the world spins around.

Now the lions are preying on children for truth
and they’ll fatten them up with some guilt
Oh the fathers of future devoured in water
Have died and the past is the proof.

Set this tented top on fire
Sings the three ring circus choir
Oh the moon is no excuse
for the daylight that we desire.

See the tightrope walkers fall to their death
see the crowd follows along
while the choir strikes up
with a song of praise
here the dead men have no tongues
don’t speak up!

But all the mothers of the clowns like me
Who take this as a joke,
wish their little boys would leave the pigs alone
and finally make the trip back home.

The puppet finds himself enslaved with us
in carnival chains.
He begs our maker to forgive his past
See yesterday he was a tree in the presence of Eve
home of the apple that begot god’s wrath.

But from creation he was framed
His fate was set in place
Sometimes the Devil does a righteous task.

But me I’ll put my pretty things inside my lovers case
And I will sleep well when the day is done
Because I’ve stood outside the tent and what an empty space
Oh what a reason to stay on the run.
Because we’ve all been blamed
Even some ashamed
Held in the fire all for what we lack.

There are no breadcrumbs through the woods
I’m just a son no pretty prodigal
My lightning strikes all over the southeast
The clouds come ruin the carnival.

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from The Birth of Ikmik, released February 14, 2012

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One Word Memphis, Tennessee

A few folks from Memphis, TN. One Word has been making music together since 2007.

They are currently in the studio working on there 2nd album "Judgement Day" due May 2015.

One Word is:

Daniel Clarke
Gabe Hatch
Chris Madden
Josh Samuels
Chris Vermillion ... more

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