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Called to Leave
Comfort in Things
Work in the City
Towns Burned Down
Born in the Fire
Gutted Gold Mine
Of Ghosts

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Called to Leave

A blackness from every side
I pulled from the pages
there goes a part of me
I was called to leave
Gravity can pull from the side
She'd become my enemy
she was my only
I was called to leave
Work taking all of my time
there go my wages
not a part of me
I was called to leave
A blackness from every side
She'd become my enemy
she was my only
I was called to leave
Gravity can pull from the side
when stillness is a weight
when motion is a ride
a blackness from every side
She'd become my enemy
she was a part of me
I was called to leave

By what have I e'er been beholden?
not by right
not by law
By what have I e'er been beholden?
not by law

A blackness from every side
She'd become my enemy
she was my only
I was called to leave
Gravity can pull from the side
when stillness is a weight
when motion is a ride
a blackness from every side
She'd become my enemy
she was a part of me
I was called to leave

Comfort in Things

I can take comfort in things
my voice still comes
when I want it to sing
when I want it to sing
My parents are alive
They call for me
They call for me sometimes
sometimes they call
I had my window busted out
but I still have some friends
I can go to now
before I go
if I wanna talk

Work in the City

I moved to your city
I found work to do
I sold my car to a good kid back home
bless their hearts, o my youth
Down in her crumbled belly
I count the heads and wait for you
down in her crumbled belly
I know
O buddy
I've seen
O buddy
From this far away
could be anyone
From this close
you could be anyone

Towns Burned Down

Burn down
all the towns
we've every passed through
as smoke comes rising up
around us in rings
drops fall right through
down from clouds
and we lie there

It's time I went back to my family
I love them, they're good to me

Born in the Fire

I was born in that fire
I was born in that fire
I was born here
and I'll die here
I won't go nowhere else
I was born in that fire
I was born in that fire
Well, we're lovers I guess
but we're strangers at best
no one else can have you
I was born in that fire
I was born in that fire
I was born here
I'll die here
I won't go nowhere else

Gutted Gold Mine

O and it filled my heart
with so much
I long long long
for your warm blood
as on on on
the mountain
as on on on
the mountain
the gutted gold mine
the gutted gold mine
I dig through the rocks
but what will I find
in this gutted gold mine

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from Called to Leave, released June 3, 2013

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Stephen Molyneux Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Stephen Molyneux was born in Toledo, Ohio, USA, April 22, 1983. Releases on La Station Radar, Whited Sepulchre, Kimberly Dawn, Fadeaway, Watery Starve, and No Kings Record Co. He currently lives in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

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