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so many words they're like a stain upon my eyes
my head is heavy from tabernacle light
behind the day beneath the years between the stars
these angel shadows reach inside and hold my heart
the wooden smell, the righteous voices in the night
my mother's hands under a shroud of southern skies
they squeeze my spirit but the intellect denies
and yet the truth is hidden somewhere in the lies
things are not what they seem
nor are they otherwise
between the first breath and the last
this is my hell and my paradise
and when glenn edward was a teenage sacrifice
the secret of the altar crashed across my life
washed in the tears, lost in the blood of the lamb
he changed from brother into stranger into man
i hid my face not out of fear or out of shame
the ghost of jesus has a thousand other names
things are not what they seem
nor are they otherwise
between the first breath and the last
this is my hell and my paradise
every town has a cross in it's own special place
and beneath every cross is the someone who waits
for a rain that will come and wash the tears from their fate
with shards of broken glass and light from the moon
i'll start a fire that will turn night to noon
and in the ashes we can look for the bones
of all we used to be and all we have known
things are not what they seem
nor are they otherwise
between the first breath and the last
this is my hell and my paradise

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from a thousand other names, released January 19, 2018
g.e. stinson - vocals, guitars, fx
kaoru - vocals, fx
nels cline - guitars, fx
brad dutz - percussion, samples

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tone drop Los Angeles, California

tone drop is textural electronics, electro-acoustic composition, and song forms by g.e. stinson.

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