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Denouement State Penitentiary

from Empty Ship by Apres Pompeii

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These shackles on my arms, these wrists all made of scars, will bless this hallow ground—a sanguine lost and found. Your honeysuckle heart and your face all marred with pocks by your hands as sharp as pins, they were made for picking locks. This filtered bed of peace; break bread before we sleep with rocks all in our eyes, break bread before we die. “Take them to the brig, lock them in the gallows, throw them in the Dig, then set that thing on fire.” These roads all paved with bones are set before they’re sewn with needles wide as staves—we dig our shallow graves. Put your back into their eyes, their feet are marching blind, we’ll skip this towed line with demons close behind. These bars are nickel thin, but our copper violins—our hands— just buzz against the thin battens. You keep beating us down, we’re so out of tune. He dreams in permanent disarray, broken bottles in the sun will light his way. He lays claim to my head at the break of day so it’s kill or be killed. All at once I will sink and float in space, ease the knife, like a push-pin, to the face: see the blood run in a cheap display of grace...it’s kill or be killed. Get up, get out. All this confusion all this abuse, I tied my hands they tied your noose. Elsewhere. “Ride in on a slum dog highway sell yourself you could buy this train. Come here and your hands aren’t shaking? Tell you what, boy, just you wait. Ride in on a slum dog highway, tell you what you could buy the farm.”

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from Empty Ship, released April 24, 2012

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Apres Pompeii Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Always forward, that is the mantra.
Apres Pompeii is currently entering a new era. Gospels is an ongoing project that will take form over the whole of 2013. With a full length album and seven EPs planned for the year, the path to its completion will undoubtedly be long and toilsome. This project’s focus is on the internal struggles and relationships that inform the way we interact with the world. ... more

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