Stoke County was misery amok No one ever thought A spark could light up the night Alive in full refraction Far beneath the dust Laughter in the dusk I’ve lost teeth and drugs Exposing factions revived Despite the angel wings I couldn’t keep you away The faintest voice in the crowd Is raising up the grave And I deserve what I get I don’t know this side of you yet Red Wolf

I caught a bullet to the brain Now even death’s denying I could see even awake The nightmares shook my sense of time Slowly drowned I bled the rats out of this town Soul delouse Your bones a blanket on this house Cold did those kids sprout In death you will be there Don’t sin at your old pace Go and burn those bridges When you’re shit faced Cold instinct has laid to waste But can you let it go? A demon bleeding in the drain A specter all deciding I dug a hundred little graves You won’t mistake our screams colliding Holy gown You can’t deny a sight unsound Cull the unfound This time you will be scared So forgive for your own sake Don’t turn around just walk away Curse calling me back always But I can let it go

Headlight glows on the lakefront Hours alone and awake in this body Home is a long way from us Under the shame We had ached through the county Warm front stalking the still hunt Cannot delay the decay Of my mind’s disease Smoked Stoke slow on a lean blunt Drugs in the day In a way we were starving for a Cold cold world Color coded pills Undecoded words Untold curse you know it Say it to hurt me Dreams are affright in the day Praying adversely Departed the scene though I may Have a thing for the west coast In the back of my mind Keeping enemies close Cause the light off the coast Is a ghost on the shore haunting me I awake in dismay Halloween Heavy rain An old wraith I remain Seeking out shapes to erase with the sun Drive through the night To escape from this body All us worn from the face of a gun Time that you pay For the pain that you cause me/ That was a long day son Hours away from the stakes You were counting Strange old solace in streetlight scum Used by the enemy Shit in the blood that we Shared and spilled Heavy handed kill All incurred All deserved you know it Say it in your sleep A season revives the astray Shaken the Earth speaks Vacant your grave in a way The kid’s a creep on the west coast If god would give me a sign Prove who felt it the most With a hand on your throat I’m only dead on the inside Always... Keep your enemies close Cause the light off the coast Is a ghost on the shore haunting me

A silhouette on a dead sea Against a shimmering isle We were worming through days so long I stopped counting the miles You were starting to dread sleep But you were sick from the sight You were burning the kill In hopes the hills won’t spill your lies Afraid in the night So bleak this town Don’t leave without me Creeps leaching out Just to breathe through one more sleep Shed my soul on the way home Deadly son I know I couldn’t have Fucked this up on my own Now your heart’s in the hands Of the cold and callow Life along the East Bay’s Gray coast glows The ocean’s breathing out Devotion bleeding out You awoke from a dead sleep Stolen away in lthe night You and the burier’s fear You held inside for most of your life You couldn’t say You were dead to me There are no easy goodbyes I know you never feel shame the same If it gets you high for the night A fatal desire

Brothers we scorn and scheme below The surface bleak Hopelessly outgrown An old wound bleeds Cuts were poorly sewn I may be weak but it’s not me Who knows not what we’ve lost I’m lying through my teeth I’m weathered underneath Time does fleet But I’m falling six feet faster On my knees, please forgive me I won’t sleep until we make Peace deceased Lost in blinding snow And calm cold dreams oaths we carved in stone And vagary Arms that open up Remember me Remember we were friends When we were young I’m grinding through my grief I’m buried underneath I don’t seem to fit in my own family Silently calling to me I won’t sleep until remade I’m lying through my teeth I’m weathered underneath Time does fleet But I’m falling six feet faster On my knees, please forgive me I won’t sleep until we make peace

Fed through windows dark red Don’t be afraid to come back home again Fix that never kicked in Nicotine shakes the hand you won’t extend Lock all your doors Violence don’t shock us anymore Now you better be afraid Brother you were betrayed Said it all before Cut the cord to your own core Cause I don’t wanna be your friend I don’t want to feel again I’ll let you know When I let you go Revived in seared morning sky Somewhere there’s life In the executioner’s eyes Don’t cry Just rot out inside Follow your faintest fears All hallow tonight I’ll let you know When I let you go

Reaching out Shrieking sow Leaving town Seeking Hell I'll wait For our wake I'll wait For our wake I'll wait