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The Language of Lions

by Red Violet

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1.
Oceans 03:29
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With this unbearable silence You will Devour us both All the cold limitations And fictions that leave us alone Head now for the shoreline Yeah, right for the coast Skim past the beaches And right for the shoals But you won't get far This silence is taking us home No you won't get far But oh you have grown The sail was just paper With these pieces of twine for rope Caught in the baseboards The life I have built in my poems And the wind in your hair Just a sign of the explosion And the salt on my lips Just the remnants of your ocean But you won't get far This silence is taking us home No you won't get far But oh you have grown Oh you have, you have grown
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Delete You 03:47
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Small streams of light My cones and rods flipping you And bringing you inside From your, tiny screen With your, perfect teeth Oh I wonder how long it'll be Till I delete you? You say everything with the things you take and the things you leave You say everything with the way you feel and what is truth and what is real and what you can be You say everything, with what is you and what is me? And who are we And what role do we play in the scheme What do all these dreams mean? Let the light in, abstract a memory Find it hard to make scene Just the right tint, the lens in focus And all the things you make believe, are yourself You say everything with the things you take and the things you leave You say everything with the way you feel and what is truth and what is real and what you can be You say everything, with what is you and what is me? And who are we And what role do we play in the scheme What do all these dreams mean?
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Little Boxes 02:28
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I've been awake, for 62 hours straight Cause I've been waiting for you to say "Come to bed it's getting late" But I won't, cause I'm stoned And you'll fall asleep alone and dream of other men And I'm to blame I'd been astray, Since you ran off to the mountains And didn't call for seven days Just wanted you to come home But I knew, all along, That you were already gone So I packed a little box with all your things And I hated walking by All the little things each day Put them in that box Till I'd washed you all away And I can feel your heartbeat When I walk into this house And I miss you more than ever But I don't ever want to see you around You came home today With scars all on your neck And tried to lie to my face About who you'd fucked and where you'd been But I don't, Buy your shit You hadn't Even read the script It called for truth But all you had was shame
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A Death in the Valley 02:36
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The Sun dipped low in the valley We huddled for warmth, we were freezing Oh little lamb, how did you die here On the altar made of ice, with a crow, he had no eyes to see And as day turned into night We waited for the horsemen out on the ice As it began to rain we thought, my god Go lightly into the dark I will not We hadn't seen you in hours We didn't find you in the river We thought you might have died, so we prayed for you Hung our heads and cried cause we might die too So I had to look inside My backpack for a knife and the will to survive Breathing in the quickly fading light I knew I'd make it home.

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These songs were written in the company of good friends, amazing lovers, and in exotic lands but they all share one common thread: all were recorded my small Sacramento studio. They capture the small moments of my growth which speak of pain as well as beauty. The balcony overlooking my garden was where we spoke of the Language of Lions for the first time, Max and I. My best friend of many years used the idea to explain how one might hope to speak in our modern world. To speak in rich tones that stir the soul. With words that might pierce the heart.

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released November 11, 2011

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