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Dozen Black Candles

from The Past Tense EP by COURIER

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lyrics

A dozen black candles
We lit and laid out
In the shape of a star on the floor
Through smoke and mirrors
We'd search our reflections
Hoping we'd find something there to live for
Or to die for
Or to die for

And our beds would shake sometimes
With the curses of old angels
Till the only proof we could find for heaven
Heaven
Heaven
Was Hell

We called the local parish
The night she lost control
Balled her fists till her hands tore the skin
The living room carpet
Was stained with blood
As she was forced to bow and bow again

She spoke my name in languages that no one's heard for centuries
And from the lips that kissed me came a phantom voice
I still hear the noise

Two years later
They found her body
In a car, in a ditch, by the road
They called it an accident
But you know it still haunts me
That they took her and left me alone

'Cause my bed still shakes sometimes
With the laughter of those angels
Till the only proof I can find
For Heaven
Heaven
Heaven
Is Hell

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from The Past Tense EP, released October 1, 2015
Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Taylor Bray at Studio Forty-One Fifteen.

Hound of Baskervilles stringed bass part that literally gave me nightmares: Scott Mulvahill

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