The Malkin Jewel

Album: Noctourniquet (2012)
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  • I must have crawled through your bedroom door
    In a fit of jealous breath
    Perched upon the Bacchus foot
    Of your unsuspecting bed
    From the blossom rags in my jackal croon
    To the stems of this cinquefoil
    I give to you the shrapnel with which
    To sprinkle in the soil because

    All the traps in the cellar go clickety click
    'Cause you know I always set them for you
    (Yeah, for you)
    And all the rats in the cellar from a vermin and steps
    Yeah, you know they're gonna take me to you
    (Yeah, to you)

    Wash it down with harlot soap
    Well, is this what you want?
    I'll paint your steps with the lilac stains
    Of smelter revenant

    My cutlery is rattling
    From the doorman wooden's boils
    From the bottom of my throat I beckon you
    To cut the orchid cord because

    All the traps in the cellar go clickety click
    'Cause you know I always set them for you
    (Yeah, for you)
    And all the rats in the cellar from a vermin and steps
    Yeah, you know they're gonna take me to you
    (Yeah, to you)

    I know a girl that was woven in spindle and thread, yeah
    Wrapped in a bivouac of taffeta scaffolding wed
    She tosses and turns and wakes all the children in nest, yeah
    Yawning with hunger they take turns of nourishment

    She says
    (Ah-ah-ah-ah)
    (Ah-ah-ah-ah)
    (Ah-ah-ah-ah)
    Somebody, somebody help me (ah-ah-ah-ah)
    (Ah-ah-ah-ah)
    (Ah-ah-ah-ah)
    (Ah-ah-ah-ah)
    Is there anybody that can set me free? (ah-ah-ah-ah)
    (Ah-ah-ah-ah)
    (Ah-ah-ah-ah)
    (Ah-ah-ah-ah)
    From the mountain of avarice this I beg to you (ah-ah-ah-ah)
    (Ah-ah-ah-ah)
    (Ah-ah-ah-ah)
    (Ah-ah-ah-ah)
    My ether turns flesh to gravel (ah-ah-ah-ah)

    And all the traps in the cellar go clickety click
    'Cause you know I always set them for you
    (Yeah, for you)
    With all the rats in the cellar from a vermin and steps
    'Cause you know they're gonna take me to you
    (Yeah, to you)

    Well all the traps in the cellar go clickety click
    'Cause you know I always set them for you
    (Yeah, for you)
    And all the rats in the cellar from a vermin and steps
    Yeah, you know they're gonna Writer/s: Cedric Bixler, Omar Rodriguez
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