Every Road

from The Spiritualizer by Thomas Abban

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Said goodbye to the woman I love
And headed out west to Babylon
Where I hoped to find the answer and to kill the waves in me
But I found out pretty quick that water don't bleed

I see black bodies burning, see black bodies killed
Devoured by a beast that's never filled
Then they gather up what's left and they scatter it around
I see a crop of black shoots coming up from the ground
I see a crop of black shoots coming up from the ground

And what am I to do when every road leads back to you?

I made it past all the sirens, left them crying out loud
Left them sitting on the islands, wonder where they are now?
There's a crack in my road and it's three years wide
If you make heroes out of men you'll get the whole world on your side
If you make heroes out of men you'll get the whole world on your side

Of all the flowers that failed to grow
Yours is the one I still put on show
Now they're saying

I'm decorative, gon' rock to this, I'm deplorably evocative
So right it is the night for this, obsessive clean the mouth I kiss
Prone to fits, I feed the hiss, a mask to show the bliss I miss
Black calls to hit, black seems to stick, against the wall my blood is thick

Got the feeling in my bones that I'm leaving here soon
Could be next year could be this afternoon
Baby, your name is a cure that's plaguing my heart
I take the view of the steed, I'd rather be behind the cart
I take the view of the steed, I'd rather be behind the cart

I lost my way and the stars refused to show
So I wrote it on a wall in a town called Jericho
My way was through the water and my path was through the sky
I've waited for you in that place where the half-god's go to die
I waited for you in that place where the half-god's go to die

And what am I to do when every road leads back to you?
When every road leads back to you?

Yes, I know I chose the hard life
But there's a wave that just won't die
And it breaks so high

Amen, our end, amen

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from The Spiritualizer, released February 2, 2022
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