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Apologies and Rules

from Where No Seeds Will Grow by The Contortionist

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And I shifted into first gear with a vacant, passive glance
As the secrets we kept beneath every smiling dance
Escape into this night where demons will all out

Opening the walls under this house
Waiting for the blood to spill right out

Below the wolves stood watch and above the vultures circled
As I threw you one last word to be distorted and recycled
And oh! How you can shape this rage and bend all good intentions

Opening the walls under this house
Waiting for the blood to spill right out

I am wading through the waters of this biblical flood
And you are covering your ears and strangling all this love

And oh now you know what it came to (apologies and rules)
In this cold-hearted place with apologies and rules
This will be a shallow grave for apologies and rules
This will be our smoking crater of apologies and rules

As we gather round this stuttering fire and stare into the embers
I wonder who guided us through so many of these moments
When we should have just given in and walked away
And saved ourselves the pain

I am waking up in a cold sweat from this distant dream
I am promising myself that this nightmare won't repeat

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from Where No Seeds Will Grow, released April 29, 2011

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The Contortionist London, UK

The Contortionist is me, Andy Hirst; usually alone, but sometimes with friends. We even had a proper band for a while (The Contortionist and The Wandering Boy Poets).

I've been in a load of bands over the years playing various things: drums in Nixon, The Broken Chairs, and The Purgatory Players, guitar in Situationists, guitar/keys/vocals in Japanese Sleepers and Fall Forwards.
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