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The Wretched Mills Lyrics by Ashenspire

Speak Not of the Laudanum Quandary

2017

Petroleum rivers in their veins; they drink from the drains, eat from the gutters, a generation shackled to cackling looms while fog chokes the infants in weary cradles and languid wombs
And they are told, in no uncertain terms that God knows every man under the sun
But 'tis spiteful lunacy; ye who have never beheld the sun, who is to say you are under it
Like the frozen rooftop rip's the toes from pigeon's feet, so too the mule's on desperate hands a-stamping; weaving fingers 'mongst textiles o'er this weary clock face, all digits in a circle, all hands in their place
It's been a long walk on these tattered souls, just to be slot, odd cogs into even-shaped holes, grinding down and down like a tapeworm in the gut
The shifted of paradigms: sandstone, and white noise
Let these mainsprings rust
There's lots to be thrown in, but into what Jeremiah's pit do we shuffle, starved and sunken? For as long as it keeps productivity on the rise, they'll do their utmost to grind down your particle size
Score by score, scar by scar, seven veils for seven eagles of the ninth
Sold short, the clearance sale, the golden years
All spines are spires now, all blue-shifted and gifted with their own cubic metre of breathing space
Petroleum rivers in these veins; they drink from the drains, eat from the gutters, a generation shackled to cackling looms while fog chokes the infants in weary cradles and languid wombs
All piers a'peering, appearing all sunlight on walnut, barrel-chested and salt-invested, gilded limpets on family trees, out on a limb but not all at sea
Sombre oil wept from betwixt charcoal lips, naught but lubricant for concrete lungs, and it'll take more than a golden city's glister to convince that it's not just glass and paint and well-placed-mirrors
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About “The Wretched Mills” by Ashenspire

Read the complete lyrics to "The Wretched Mills" by Ashenspire from the album "Speak Not of the Laudanum Quandary" in 2017. On Lyrks you can follow along with the full text, explore the artist's discography, and discover related songs. The track is often categorized under In English, Avant Garde Metal, Scotland.

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"The Wretched Mills" appears on "Speak Not of the Laudanum Quandary" in 2017.

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