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The Point I

from Empty Ship by Apres Pompeii

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“You’re walking tall, but you’re tired of ducking. Walking these streets you’re gonna lose. You see I am made of nothing, I beg for pennies and the news. They’d crush your body down to malleable dust. All cast in gold, they’d make a million bucks. Pound your bones all down to panes of glass. They’ll hold you up until your pillars crash. I signed my life away I signed my name. Ripped my legs right out from under me. I toppled over to the blackened streets, all blood and bone and dirty blistering feet. So turn around and march yourself back home. They’ll put your face up in a silver dome, but what they leave will be a tattered shell: a living breathing broken burning hell.” But my currents pulse and my belly burns I can feel it rising to my fingers from my toes will curl in the rising grass till my legs become a strong and sturdy mast. My lungs will billow out, the wind will fill them until they are cast about the sky like a silver cloud all blood and veins and air with and without of them. My eyes will close, my broken ears, they will match my toes which dig, a static root, connecting me like a seed is to its fruit a child a future tense, a shallow pool, a thing devoid of sense we’ll kill and hang aloft for the bugs and beasts to eat. And if it’s only for me, I’ll be okay. So sir, can you sing me a song, and I’ll try to sing along.

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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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