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The Sparrow

from LOVERS by The Manichean

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lyrics

Fade back, don't say that!
Undress you, avert you...

Forgetting fear,
Giving it birth,
Allowing it something without your mother.

I suppose the structure might gain from the fire.

I am the mirror,
Demian,
I am the nature of your sin.

A slumber in feathers, the father wept.
He could never have followed this path.

Am I not just as you had planned?
(Can't you hear the laughter?)
(Can't you feel your soul?)
Am I just as wicked as you then?

I'll follow you, I'll follow you, I'll follow you, I'm sure...

A dying god is less obscure;
Persephone, my love endures,
Eleusian forevermore.

...

Fade back, don't say that!
Who do you think you are?

Doubting the worth of origin,
Read me the texture of your skin.

Ever the victor with a red halo;
You would have left me dead in the snow.

Allowing it structure, but letting it burn,
Leaving your phosphorus eyelids open.

Bloodlust, Amen.
I am demure,
yet I am a man.

Can't you hear the laughter in your soul?
Don't you see the rapture in my eyes?

I'll follow you, I'll follow you, I'll follow you, I'm sure...

A crying god for me to lure,
Oh Angelus, I am pure, I am pure.

Kiss your flesh and drink your cure;
A fallen shadow I implore,
Diluvian forevermore.

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And all of this? It's all despite,
The warmest wings ignore the light.
And loneliness, I know you're right...
I see the Sparrow's fate is mine.

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from LOVERS, released November 24, 2012

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We are here to change you, to sway you and stain you with breathlessness and reverence. Our live performances are an affair of sweat and lust and limbs akimbo. The story we're telling is one of death and resurrection, love and insanity. We are a collective of revenants. We are The Manichean. ... more

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