Can’t you see my scars, hidden by my age?
Can’t you see my scars bidden by the play?
Can’t you see my scars, smitten with the stage?
Can’t you see my scars, can’t you see?
Can’t you see my scars, glittering with age?
Can’t you see I’m barred, barred from this place?
Can’t you see I’m harmed, harmed by this way?
Can’t you heal my wandering eyes?
Can’t you see the dark, cuz in the dark we’re all the same?
Can’t you see my heart, my heart can’t share the pain
Can’t you see my scars, resemblance to Cain?
Unable to breathe, I shall remain
Unable to breathe, I shall remain
Can’t my spark, it’s better for the change?
Can’t you see the marks all seeming rather tame?
Can’t you see my heart regain its maiden name?
Or can’t you linger like a candle’s flame?
Why can’t you linger like a candle’s flame?
Stick your hook into my tongue and draw me into you
Cuz I bit the lure to follow the only light I ever knew
Right beyond the confines of my home
It shimmered so convincingly I wandered up all alone
And found I could not breathe the sun
I could not bear the skeleton I’d become
I bit the lure thinking I could tear my jaw free
I recognize the trap but it still holds the treat
At least probably
I bit the lure the tip had rusted bare
Fallen to the bottom an old cynic had placed it there
I gasped and thrashed and choked
Spat at last, it was in my throat
Drawing me into your pole
To your shore, to your hall
Taking pleasure in the fall as if I were the last of leaves
The first taste was sugar, the second rust
My teeth bit down in hunger but collapsed on trust
Finding bite marks not my own
Why can’t you linger like a candles flame?
Each zodiac sign gets a theme song on Ben Katzman's latest record, featuring members of Illuminati Hotties, Potty Mouth, and Colleen Green. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 11, 2021
Raw live recordings back this rap album which peaks when guests like Lyrics Born, Ozay Moore, Mr Lif step to the mic. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 11, 2013
Juxtaposing poetic balladry with roaring feedback and warped piano lines, the Vermonter's music is as stunning as it is unsettling. Bandcamp New & Notable Jan 21, 2024