Name: Oh Child (Mandolin Demo)
Duration: P00H03M25S
Description: a letter to a man I don't know about being nostalgic for things I was never a part of

Oh Child (Mandolin Demo)

by Custer

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a letter to a man I don't know about being nostalgic for things I was never a part of

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oh child will you lay me down/in the light of your sweet crown/oh child will you find my heart/leave me my eyes and a running start/oh soul bloated and black/you cannot lose the things you lack/oh soul just let me be/let me rest, let me sleep/punish me and take away everything I hold dear/though I bruise your fragile cheekbones, hold me tight and hold me near/for I'm lost and out of place drowning in nausea and regret/and if there's some way to stop myself I haven't found it yet/lay me down beneath the dogwood where the bark is brown with rot/let my spirit fill your ear with the things my breathing self forgot/tell me lies about my beauty, tell me truths about my sin/and I'll fool myself into thinking that we could start again/I'll light a candle for myself and a cigarette for you/sitting in the chalk outlines you left behind as you went through/the rows of houses with a halo and veins filled with your disease/how can someone so far away still speak through these trees/I can't recall the first long whisper of your dolor in my spine/can't remember silken fingers or the sand crushed in your eyes/I don't know the air that wrapped you trailing oil spills in the heat/but lifetimes later I can hear your voice and shoot up your defeat/and you may never know my name/but you might have saved my life/as the ashes pile around my ankles/I wonder if you're alright/oh child will you burn my wrists/and let the scars never exist/oh child did you lead me here/cut my cord and drink my tears/oh love, never go away/let me sit, let me stay/oh love, please let me know/how you're doing buried under the snow

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released May 12, 2013
Dom recorded this on his bedroom floor in one take after a long frustrating day

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