protomartyr bot

i used to tweet a protomartyr lyric every two hours; one day i will rise again / bot by @consolationep

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[i tried holding out as long as possible, but it looks like this might be it for protomartyr bot unless twitter restores free api access. thank you for enjoying three years of protomartyr lyrics. i'm really going to miss running this.]

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@domwhms [the bot will be back, i’ll figure out some fucking way lol]

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my love, kiss me
kiss me before i go
kiss me, kiss me, kiss me before i go
kiss me, kiss me, kiss me before i go
kiss me, kiss me, kiss me

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o my love, my love, o my love, my love
make way for my love
my love, make way for my love
o my love, make way for my love

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my love is a feast
i am drunk on them
we sleep
honey on the lips
sugar under the tongue
in the vineyards of the night
they are the queen of the night

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they came to the city searching for me
my love found me
they have a neck of jewels
their mind is gold & silver

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they’ll say it’s just a love song
but love, but love has found me
clay-birthed, shale-born, they found me

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the rain garden gave me an answer, though it yielded not but two doves of mourning, a half-full baja blast, a sunset receding:
i am deserving of love

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i am by myself
they’ll say it’s just a rainy night
but loneliness can harm

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the rain garden under sodium lights
the water flowing beyond the pines
servants of the forest, dancing mazurkas

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i was a witness
they’ll say it’s just a tuesday
but loneliness can maim

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the rain garden in the parking lot behind the coney island
silent cars astray, pregnant with lonely riders, scrolling the hours

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time’s your enemy: every gift you see will be taken for sure
so i figure, while you live, kiss the ones that love you for the song you sing

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sing it fully in the morning
chant it wildly in the day
pray to lovers in the evening
cry it softly in the night

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can i make you see the simple beauty in the knowing of her?
if there’s good in me, chant it out to her—she is the author

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now i’m gonna tell you:
this one born upon a kitchen table
when she passed away, sleeping ‘cross the shoulder of my brother

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so collect those tears and wash your face
the house is empty, but the work remains
so collect those tears and wash your face
the house is empty, but the work remains
so collect those tears and wash your face
the house is empty...

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we know the rats—see their decadence
the spite they hide behind a tattered rag of piety
we know the rats—their cankered wealth
when they weep and howl, then we’ll know them better

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did the christ feel bad for the gibbering swine he threw those demons in?
i doubt he bat an eyelid

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it might take some time, may be gardarene
we have our ways to snare them
they steal your hours; rob you for your wage
then make you bow and scrape
avarice forever

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these thieves have you sleeping rough
baseball bat, dmitri young
so your mind harries bigger ones
we know the rats