what about favorite mwY lyrical passage? i think this is mine: With imperial crowns we were sent, Riding out conquest-bent Daylight is breaking Wielding the sanctified sword For the army of the Scarecrow Lord Daylight is breaking Balancing scales at our feet Measuring out two pounds of barley, six pounds of buckwheat Beasts of the Battersea Shield At the opening of the fourth seal The sky, I'd been told Would roll up like a scroll As the mountains and islands moved from their place And the sun would turn black As a dead raven's back But there'd be nowhere to hide From the Judge's face After which message-less birds take flight without cause To the silence they've heard in the absence of laws Or imperial crowns: Unsent, unsigned
lol honestly i have no idea what track they're going to release next, i have my hopes but there's no obvious choice
just picking random ones off the top of my head On the Streets of Mexican Wars I battle with the memory of a first fight In our contemptible youth I quoted White Nights ("My God, a moment of bliss Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetimes?") Thinking that'd get rid of you And waited with a stone in my hand But you were quite right: Nature had another plan (& failed to run it by me) Nature had another plan Some other surrogate self To live in the sediment of so many somebody elses' Innumerable lives and you were right: It's not a person who dies But worlds die inside us also I dreamt of the rocks at the Asbury dunes And that you jumped from the top Of the Log Flume And they gather like wolves On the boardwalk below And they're howling for answers No wolf can know I charged at the waves With a glass in my hand I was tossed like a ball At the bottle stand And I landed beside your Remains on the stones Where your cold fingers Wrapped 'round my ankle bones Maybe ten feet away was a star Thousands of times the size of our Sun Exploding like the tiny balloons You'd throw darts at
Some favorite lyrics: The Dryness and The Rain A fish swims in the sea while the sea is in a certain sense, contained within the fish! Oh, what am I to think of what the writing of a thousand lifetimes could not explain if all the forest trees were pens and all the oceans - ink? Dorothy Then last night I was somewhere near Virginia rebuking satan with ironic faithfulness” And satan turned to me: Have you thought much about that cry? Eloi, Eloi Have you thought much about that cry? Have you thought much about that cry? Have you thought much about that cry? Have you thought much about that cry? Have you thought much about that cry? Eloi, Eloi Eloi, Eloi Lama sabachthani Eloi, Eloi Eloi, Eloi Elliot Eloi Eloi. Every Thought a Thought of You When they swear, their love is real, they mean I like the way you make me feel I could go on and on.
enthusiastically seconded especially if you include the dream coda. i just cry through that whole fuckin song tbh
Absolutely adore this opening line. Aubergine sugar down the syrup in the Queen Anne's lace shining in the light of nightshade
I love how it can be applied to anything you love. I could say that's how I feel about mewithoutYou and it would be 100% true.
Messes of Men I still taste its kiss, that dull hook in my lip is a memory as useless as a rod without a reel To an anchor ever-dropped, seasick yet still docked Captain spotted napping with his first mate at the wheel The Sun and the Moon [the preference of the sun was to the south side of the farm I planted to the north in a terra-cotta pot blind as I'd become, I used to wonder where you are - these days I can't find where you're not!] C-Minor I'm water, you're the dry wood Equal parts misguided and misunderstood But all the neighborhood Watched a fire burn from where they stood As the smoke said "we're not half as bad as G-d is good" Still there's a whisper in my ear The voice of loneliness and fear, and I say: "Devil, disappear! I'm still (ehh…technically) a virgin After 27 years - Which never bothered me before What's maybe 50 more?" 21st Century American Literature textbook material.
apparition eyes part too. Aaron is one of my all time fav lyricists so i could probably gush about this forever
gonna want to change this immediately after but let's try nice and blue pt. 2 red cow watermelon ascot rainbow signs fox's dream of the log flume paper hanger all circles o, porcupine my exit, unfair mexican war streets bethlehem, wv, winter solstice and august 6th are too new but are serious contenders right now as is the rest of their catalogue
I am obsessed with "Kristy w/ The Sparkling Teeth" Haven't done a full discography dive since PH came out, time to change that. Usually always happens around an album release for me.