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breaking character because I went to the show in boulder last saturday (Oct. 4) and got a decent-ish recording of the new/unreleased song. i thought y'all might like to hear it. sorry for all the shaking, my hands are real unsteady

- [Unreleased], The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #unreleased songs #the oh hellos unreleased #live music

I know, I know this:

there is beauty in the way of things

- There Beneath, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #dear wormwood #there beneath #y'all I'm going to the concert in boulder tonight!!!! I'm so jazzed

I don't mean to speak so intrusively

I know I don't make it easy

to even wanna see it

nothing old,

nothing new.

but if there's two things I know

it's that the sky looked white

and the water like wine when I first met you

but somewhere along the line

rayleigh scattered across my eye

and I found her blue

- Lapis Lazuli, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #boreas #lapis lazuli

I was all alone,

we were young,

you were like wine

heady as the fog rolling in o'er the hillside

lovely as the song in the air as the wind blows

opiate as the cold of the frost on the windows

lo, the rose is gone from my eye, so deceiving

so my little dove I'm afraid I am leaving

- Exeunt, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #dear wormwood #exeunt

I got a venom like a snake,

running out of my mouth

(running out of my mouth, running out of my mouth),

it's got you burning at the stake

innocent or not,

you're not a bet I care to take

- Torches, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #notos #torches

ain't nothing come easy

no, nothing comes quick

it's gonna hurt like hell to become well.

but if we set the bone straight

it'll mend,

it'll fix,

and we'll be

well.

- Theseus, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #zephyrus #theseus

over and over, again

we keep that old wheel turning

over and over, again

we lay the next spoke down

over and over, again

oceans will roll in

over and over, again

we spin it around

- Torches, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #notos #torches

every tomb, every sea, spit the bones from your teeth

let the ransomed be free as the revel meets the day

let the valleys awake, let them rattle and shake

in the wind that remakes all that time has worn away

- Thus Always to Tyrants, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #dear wormwood #thus always to tyrants

I got a terror I can't shake

(pushing down on my lungs, pushing down on my lungs, pushing down on my lungs),

it's got me lying there awake

with a hand on a gun

while turning shadows into shapes

- Torches, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #notos #torches

Father Ignorance will make brothers of us all

(brothers of us all, brothers of us all),

as he sets our torch aflame

chasing down the flimsy specters that we co-create

over and over again

we keep that old wheel turning

we spin it around

- Torches, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #notos #torches

Mother Fortuna, O, she makes sisters of us all

(sisters of us all, sisters of us all),

when the faces in her wake

look more like our own

than the effigies we immolate

- Torches, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #notos #torches

maybe that's what it's all about

we keep fixing what we know is only bound to break

what's worth saving's never worth letting go to waste

I wanna mend what I've got instead of throwing away

- Theseus, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #zephyrus #theseus

you were the brightest shade of sun I had ever seen

your skin was gilded with the gold of the richest kings

and like the dawn you woke the world inside of me

you were the brightest shade of sun when I saw you

at last,

and you will surely be the death of me,

but how could I have known?

- Like the Dawn, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #through the deep dark valley #like the dawn

I was sleeping in the garden when I saw you first

he put me deep, deep under so that he could work

and like the dawn you broke the dark and my whole earth shook

I was sleeping in the garden when I saw you

at last,

at last.

bones of my bones and flesh of my flesh,

at last.

- Like the Dawn, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #through the deep dark valley #like the dawn

oh, and nothing lasts forever

some things aren't meant to be

but you'll never find the answers

until you set your old heart free

- Hello My Old Heart, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #the oh hellos ep #hello my old heart

my birds of a kind, they more and more are looking like

centurions than any little messiah

as I prune my feathers like leaves from a vine

I find that we have fewer and fewer in kind

my palms and fingers still reek of gasoline

from throwing fuel to the fire of that greco-roman dream

- Passerine, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #eurus #passerine

he has flung down the cavalry as gravel sinks

and as the stone founders underneath the sundered sea of red and reed

the shadow of Hades is fading

for he has cast down Leviathan, the tyrant, and the horse and rider

- Where is Your Rider, The Oh Hellos

#the oh hellos #dear wormwood #where is your rider

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