I’m challenging myself to record one song each day this month, as a part of The MayDayChallenge. Here’s number one:
- “Moldy Drywall”
- Where the nail hung into / the moldy drywall
I hung the icon / of the blessed virgin
Her tears bled my breast / of its self pity
No more will I succumb
To the want of my impotent heart
- I lay my back upon / the dusty hardwood
My eyes found escape / through the curvéd skylight
The lightning carved lines / betwixt the red clouds
The earth drew the rain
Like teeth from the sky’s broken jaw
- Sleep crept toward me from / the furthest corner
I turned my head to view / the encroaching shadow
My throat offered up / an Ave Mary
As the silt of forgetfulness
Swallowed whole my dissolute self
- In dreams madness swelled / with salty vengeance
Rusted centipedes danced / on bleeding parchment
I felt my lust and hate / gather hot beneath me
My devils clamored
While angels drained the pitch from my veins
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