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I. The Earth Could Tear Us All Apart
II. Bone Bitter Cold
III. The Storm
IV. Humans (Gone, Gone, Gone)

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-The Earth Could Tear Us All Apart-

Wind, sea and flame
Lightning and rain
and swarms of things

Wood, steel and stone
To call it a home and act like a king
Despite the fact that these walls
are all that separate me from that world
One meager little gate

The Earth could tear us all apart
It’s been trying from the start

When our moment is due
Will time take all of the things we knew?
When this era is through
Our dust will be part of something new

Maybe life is just a flicker - probably even less
In a flame that keeps on growing
And the world goes on without us
Erasing every sign we were ever here
Nothing ever truly is timeless
Cities turn to ivy and buildings fall
They’ll be crumbling all around us
They’ll collapse until the Earth forgets us all

Just like we were never here

Don’t be afraid
Let’s lie in the mess we’ve made
and pretend it won’t disappear
Alive for another year

-Bone Bitter Cold-

Two eyes no stranger, to bone bitter cold
Lifetimes of winter, is all that I’ve known

The dogs are at bay
At least for tonight
This fire burns
At least for tonight
My belly is full
At least for tonight

Today the cold wasn’t so bad
Today I bathed in the sunlight
Today, just one day in my life


-The Storm-

Can’t You feel it?
A storm is coming

-Humans (Gone, Gone, Gone)-

We came to see the humans
Yeah we came to see you humans
But you’re gone, gone, gone
You thought you’d destroyed the planet
You only destroyed yourselves
And now you’re gone, gone, gone
The earth can heal itself
You humans were just a disease
And now your gone, gone, gone

Look at the fossils
That’s all that’s left
They’re gone and nothing here
Can bring them back again
They are dead, dead
Ah, they’re dead, so dead

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from Five Exquisite Corpses [unabridged], released June 22, 2014

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Elegant Mess is the combined effort of recording artists/producers/film music composers/weirdos Howard Buckwold and Preston Gabriel Garland.

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