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The Song About The Saga of Swamp Thing #21 (1984)

from Goliath Birdeater - An Excellent Example Of Terrible Craftsmanship by Goliath Birdeater

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Verse
Calloused feet on the linoleum
Hands of knotted wood
Weeping burning furious eyes
Feeling the only way that I could

Pre-Chorus
You cut me open and you looked inside
You found my useless lungs
My grey husk ripping open
Shedding what I lost
I’m now a wailing mass of mold and rotten weeds

Chorus
You pride yourself on your surgical
precision
Yet I stand before you all fresh and green
Pools of water forming where I stand
You can cut and cut the swamp will never
bleed

Verse
I knew no fury
Till you took all I had from me
That green expanse that soft green embrace
I swear to any god that I can find that you’ll pay

Pre-Chorus
I haven’t been certain of anything for a long time
But I know you’ll get what you deserve
You’ll claw with your gnarled hands at the window pane
No escape I’ll drag you down into the earth

Chorus
You pride yourself on your all-consuming
dedication
Yet I stand before you all fresh and green
Pools of water forming where I stand
You can cut and cut the swamp will never bleed

Verse
When I have moved on you’ll know a
thousand years have passed
Warm pink sun bouncing off the water like glass
The bugs catch the light like hanging jewels
The swamp’s always living breathing always new

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from Goliath Birdeater - An Excellent Example Of Terrible Craftsmanship, released December 21, 2020

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