The Virtuous

from Collapses by [perversion:]

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original working title: "You"

"Not long after a bad breakup, I was listening to NIN's 'At The Heart Of It All'. The resonant pain in that track was with me when I began 'The Virtuous'. It remained instrumental for a long time. One day I went through some sheets of various poems I'd written, and one jumped out at me. It was written about the same time as the music, and fit perfectly, I just didn't know it until later."

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Your face
Your smile
Your touch
Your youth
Your eyes
Your tears
Your lips
Your kiss
Your heat
Your sex
Your love
Your dreams
Your everything

Your colour
Your fear
Your lust
Your being here
Your throat
Your tongue
Your taste
Your things I can’t replace
Your everything

Your trust
Your truth
Your attitude
Your faith in god
Your man
Your dog
Your toys
Your torment &
Your trash
Everything

Your past
Your shadows
Your ghosts
Your empty womb
Your life
Your crime
Your heaven-hell
Grave death ashes
& everything

Your subtle disease has ended up
In me
Your loving lies that I want to believe
The things I thought we were meant to be
Are just nothing

All you left is a bleeding mass
Of scar tissue & memory
And in the end there’s nothing else
In the end there’s nothing else for me

credits

from Collapses, released October 31, 2006
vox, instruments & production: Brad J Bakelmun
lead & additional gtrs: Alex Brulé
additional drums: Chad Cassell

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