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The Grey Cardinal Lyrics by Collapsing Scenery

Stress Positions

2019

You set fire to your own house
Out like a lizard, but in like a mouse
You can't tame the beast, the beast tames you
In the Cardinal’s America, the swamp drains you
Everywhere's an end, and everywhere a middle
The means to an end: an unsolvable riddle
Your traffic in the diction of gangster fiction
Your boilerplate reads: "a perpetual friction"
'Every God is a God of death’
They draw you closer with every breath
Your Papa's a monster, his passerine too
But everything which burns is not consumed
Hellfire won't manage to turn them to ash
They nest in volcanoes, in mountains of cash
'Every God is a God of death'
They draw you closer with every breath
(Why take care of the past
When the past couldn't take care of you?)
Waiting for a, a Reischtag fire
A new world born out of a funeral pyre
Bathe in the blood or incandesce
Your soul or your body must experience death
That's right
'Cause ’every God is a God of death’
They draw you closer with every breath
Yeah, 'every God is a God of death’
They draw you closer with every breath, all right
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Collapsing Scenery

Collapsing Scenery

About “The Grey Cardinal” by Collapsing Scenery

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"The Grey Cardinal" appears on "Stress Positions" in 2019.

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