Vulture

Lyrics

face to the earth
sand in my teeth
sun in my eyes
watching the shape above me

keeps turning too low

keeps turning too low

I cant lift my neck but I know that outline
the crooked fucking drift in the heat looks familiar
a dirty curve in the wings thats keeping careful distance
the usual hunger dressed up in silver
the ground has my cheek and my days are numbered
every breath breathes a bunch of the dust in my mouth
and I keep seeing circles gather over the valley
like the birds heard something about me running out

but one of them doesnt watch me like the others
one of them tilts when the warm light moves
one eye on the wound and one on the shelter
one wing over death and one wing over truth
I thought I knew that shadow from better weather
thought it knew my fires, my friends, my flames
but it glides with the manners of a mourner
but carries an appetite too loud to tame

dont come down yet
I can still see you from here
turning in halos
please dont come near
if you meant mercy
your wings should have broke my fall
but you keep circling softly
with no love in your claws

theres something beside me I tried to keep dreaming
believing it was something I covered when the winter got mean
and even half gone and half breathing, with the flies getting brave over me
and I can now tell where your shadow had been leaning

not over my heart, never over my head
precision in your pecks of the place where my last pulse lives
just past my shoulder and down where the light is
near the only thought I never wanted to hurt to give
you never struck loudly but you tore the fabric
never showed teeth in a way I could see to move
just lowered your orbit by inches and inches
till the silence started touching something I couldnt prove

that is the cruelest kind of circling
not the feast or the claw or the obvious blade
I know that silhouette taking measurements
before my body has even gone cold in the shade

dont come down yet
I can still see you from here
turning in halos
please dont come near
if you meant mercy
your wings should have broke my fall
but you keep circling softly
with no love in your claws

I would have called you down once
I would have thought your shadow
meant I was not alone
now I know some wings
only encourage my absence
so they could take the warmest thing
when my body rots to bone

dont come down yet
I can still see you from here
turning in halos
please dont come near
if you meant mercy
your wings should have broke my fall
but you keep circling softly
with no love in your claws

dont come down yet
I can still see you from here
turning in halos
please dont come near
if you meant mercy
your wings should have broke my fall
but you keep circling softly
with no love in your claws

face to the earth
salt on my teeth
sun in my eyes
one shape above me
looked past me first



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