Deafheaven
Lonely People with Power
1. Incidental I
instrumental
2. Doberman
All decline I seeded from my fright
Each dim year giving less to the light
Suddenly present now
All hail now the panopticon
See all around me
All of my failure
Trapped under this dominion
Shaking into seizure
Now
A perverse stirring
I fell out of rhythm
Sadness left me uneven
A masking confusion
Across the vast wilds of time
I laid the grain down the coastline
Ah, I wanted the Garden of Eden
But fed my misgivings
I wrestled with strength just like you
I ate from the apple of my ruse
And stared into the mirror of my truth
All the time death as my muse
All hail now the panopticon
See all around me
All of my failure
Crushed under this dominion
Shaking into seizure
Now
Naked and eyeless
My iris has only black views
All my misguidance
Hiding as torment grew
Alone on an island knowing the exits too
I gave into silence
Knowing the exits too
Facing the violence
I wrestled with death just like you
In this panopticon
I sought death
In this panopticon
Suddenly present now
3. Magnolia
I sat and reflected on
The only photo at your funeral
On the easel
In the shadow of the willowed Sacred Heart
Where we started wanting weeding
Southern autumn
Places of your life overgrown
Warm winds blow
Secrets we die with
Trembling weakness is what haunts us now
Inside the windows
What once made us proud
I owned everything thought to be suicidal mania
I was everything taught to me
Drinking deeply
The truth of my grief
But what else could be?
Everything was written
I saw everybody plead
I owned everything thought to be suicidal mania
I was everything taught to me
Drinking deeply
The truth of my grief
Show me now everything that I offer
I saw my own father
Lay the ground beneath me
I owned everything thought to be
I was everything taught to me
All the tapes and all of the letters
At Heaven’s gate standing with the guards,
My love is endless
Everything of you is me
Every step is toward the grave
Could it be flesh and blood were all we gave?
4. The Garden Route
Lighting fell
And I stood steeping in light
Laughing with brilliant fear
Turning back to your smile
Every door peeled
Open on an autumn afternoon
We traversed warm boredom
Fled disappointment
And loved under the wide rose sky
Drinking silver from a dim spring of mercury
On the outskirts of a desert
The lifeless slither
Still we seek thirsting and wandering
I was a man made of yesterdays
Mornings glowing like coal
Blinding the every day
Legs buckling together when moving
Now I’m faced from the East
And rushing to the crest
Of the valued vast
Sterling purple echoing West
Now I run from all my truth
Away with you
To the vast sterling purple echoing West
From all my truth
Away with you
West
From all my truth
Away with you
West
5. Heathen
His heart is closing
Right when he is trusted
Who is he close with?
Feeling he owes his
Sense of self to lusting
Days without roses
Oh, he lies to feel like he is someone new
Oh, why don't we leave and go to somewhere new?
I wonder what is numbness
And what's a coma?
Into the lights
Closing his eyes in the lane again
He quit looking for the pears in paintings
Intimacy and its meanings
Leaving fondness for weakness
Strangers and desire
I wonder what is numbness
And what's a coma?
Into the lights
Closing his eyes in the lane
Driving head into mystery
No feeling but the weight
I'm forgetting, he's forfeiting
I'm deciding that he's quitting now
Filled with the sin of power
This is what he's destined for
In this ugly hour
Again he goes
Where he's gone before
Losing all reason
He's never learning
Someone adored lifts him today
All who stay will know a true love
Someone adored lifts him today
All who stay will know a true love
Know a true love
Know a true...
Know a true love
Know a true...
6. Amethyst
“Lunar studded starscape
Doldrums in the calm
Drama of dark choirs
God’s teeth shatter—
His black smile padded in muted shadow”
What is life? I don’t know
All I know is its price
Savaging left me incomplete
So I army crawled toward a glow
Of craving and release
Travesty in a gloomy world
Where the embers of honeyed heat
Formed a tar of black beginnings
Where I own every want
Always seeking to enter
A taker begging for closure
Go! I need aloneness
I was feigning relief
Wasn’t calm until now
I need your guidance
Will you see me? Can you see I need you now?
This curse overwhelms me
Can’t you see I need you now?
Oh! I need allegiance
When you find me coming down
I’ll have only known the sound of your absence
Wondering if I could ever wind up being him
He’s not me! He’s not me!
All this daydreaming without sympathy
Going over the years
When we lived together
At the end of the track in the Townhouse Motel
Blood on the mattress, blood on the walls
All of the violence, all of the cops
And when the men came with their guns
First we hid in the bath then hid on the bed
I loved you then, I love you now
I loved you then, I love you now
I forgave you
I was proud to live in your shadow
In the comfort of your breeze
So, I’m not condemning
Just remembering the beginning
Majesty and misanthropy
Beginning at 40
From the zenith underneath
Nadir! Nadir! Nadir! Nadir! Nadir!
From every day living
Waking in fear
7. Incidental II
I think I might be hiding from myself
It’s so good to be alone with someone else
When you come to me, I see you wanting heat
You’re so good to me
Have we met before?
It’s so good to be hiding from myself
When you say “Baby, come to me”
Who am I?
One who cannot see
I think I might be hiding from myself
It’s so good to be alone with someone else
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Hiding with the excess
Intense abruptness
I treaded the winepress
The brutal facts of a strange bondage
Not being held
For all that I’ve done
For all that I own
Not being held
For all that I’ve done
For all that I own
Desperate to be alone
8. Revelator
Isolate every waking day
Hiding from self while loathing grows
And I saw seeds of destiny
The crumbling of what's been known
Only by the grace, we see active mistakes
And exist in their wake
Moving on dictates
We grasp the wounded face
Of our own faint embrace
The truth of renaming our struggle
Seething in secret
The mirror of the ugly cowards
Taking the moment now
Tying us to the ground
Watching them hammer the nails
I'm bringing them bile
I'm clearing desires
Coins on their eyes
I'm clipping the flowers
Of spiritless leaders
Oh, they tremble in towers
Lonely people with power
Devoured by God
The act of all these staggered obstacles dismantled
The light of a new dawn prayer coming true
Psychic struggle disappearing
Everybody screaming
Everybody screaming
"No this cannot be"
Wash the blood from my feet
The hosts of Heaven melting trumpets now
Find them, bring them
Cut them down
Find them, bring them
Cut them down
Take what they love (Find them, bring them)
Burn it in fire (Cut them down)
Take what they love (Find them, bring them)
Burn it in fire (Cut them down)
Everybody's praying
To not have it be them
To ascend, to evade
What else could come?
Everybody's praying
To not have it be them
To ascend, to evade
What else could come?
It was me, it was you
Converging in toto
Desperate to be left alone
9. Body Behavior
He sits and shows me naked women
Wants to know my type
Asks if I’ve thought to want them
Laughs when I’m shy
Hands sweat, coil back
Twist into vines
Don’t I owe them everything for all I’ve come to know?
Seeing what I’m taught to see
Taking to it slow
Buried in the home
When I tell him I’d beg to love them
He starts smiling outside smoking
Burned back slow til he starts choking
Don’t I owe them everything for all I’ve come to know?
Seeing what I’m taught to see
Taking to it slow
Buried in the home
Nothing so sacred leaves this place of reason
That was my cross
That was the outcome
That was the loss
No, I don’t feel anymore
Everything withers
Everything dulls
No, I don’t feel anymore
Nowhere is guidance
When everything’s wrong
No, I don’t feel anymore
Nowhere is guidance
When everything’s wrong
No, I don’t feel anymore
10. Incidental III
We looked toward the woman
And my face burned red blushing
When she asked me the questions
Are you ever alone?
Are you younger or older?
I held her close
In my thoughts some way wanting
In spite of the sorrow
My tensing in terror
On the strip of Ventura
With the tin barrels burning
Under a halo of moonlight
When the hour was lonely
It was the way that she touched me
Her arm on the window
And the way she said baby
And the way she said baby
11. Winona
The signs of progress
Combatting all destinies
It’s not for nothing that I impress
On myself what I should be
I know I need it
No, there is no freedom
There’s a missing piece
The howling energy
Is a shining vacancy
Thinking I’d survive with everything I was gaining
Behind the curtain I was sinking
With everything I’m supposed to be
I’m waiting for the fall
I’ve been dreaming of somewhere seeing
Us close to the knives
If I could have a morning
To have a moment
A silver lining
Id stick them in, twist them down, bury with ease
Power bastard
Pathetic master
I’m reliving Saturn eating
His flesh is everything of mine
You took it all and left me nothing
Laid me in a hole
For death to feed on
12. The Marvelous Orange Tree
In the checkered orchard, I came alive
Under the blue valley
With a head full of midnight
I escape between the rows of trees
Down the ravine
In the majesty of the San Joaquin
Lonesomely wandering
Cold in the checkered orchard, I came alive
Under the blue valley
With a head full of midnight
Idiot’s blood drops like a dagger
Pink tears flow
As I sink into the After
Leaving the day to close
My body spills into a secret well
God gave me the wish
For religious stillness
Showing shivering skin
Living with this illness
Showing shivering skin
With you, my endless illness
With my endless illness
Walking into blackness
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