Name: Callipygian Hunger
Duration: P00H11M16S
Description: This song tells the story of a wandering mendicant who seeks after the love that he knew in a dream. He searches through darkness, dissolution, and despair, and at last comes to his final resting place next to the grave of a lover he never knew.

Callipygian Hunger

from The Tower of Flints by drainbow

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This song tells the story of a wandering mendicant who seeks after the love that he knew in a dream. He searches through darkness, dissolution, and despair, and at last comes to his final resting place next to the grave of a lover he never knew.

lyrics

I searched for many years
alone amongst the barren lands

and you were with me all that time
only thoughts of you could ease my mind

(and my hunger...)

at every crossroads I searched the signs
under strange stars and stranger shrines

each night as I lay dreaming down
I dream of offerings on the burial mounds

Callipygian Hunger
the last lust left me cold
swaying in the gallow breeze
hissing through your red teeth
ill wind unfold
extinguishing the candle that I lit for you

I searched until the bottle's dry
until I could not remember why

From the darkness,
I saw a blinding flash
I heard that thundering crack
and I saw the reddened gash
in the embers I saw
your likeness - I heard the whispers in the hills
in the ash - at dusk I felt the autumn chills

I marched upon the pavement footsore, friendless and alone
Suspicion, contempt, and avarice met me at each pave stone
Many regrets have I for the want of shelter from cold
I carved your face upon my flesh to recall the warmth of old

Warmth of old- Hearth so cold- this heart of stone bleeds on
the blinding flash - the reddened gash- the wounds are opening

in a raging torrent, the flood washed me away so far
the blackness of the new moon reveals my wandering star

SHELTER - FROM COLD - BEGGAR- CHOKEHOLD
ALL SORTS- SOUP STONE- JEAN SHORTS - MARROW BONES

ahh the memories of my shame fades
I'm here with my new friends who don't know my name
I will leave come first light at break of day
if only I could remember the way??

COLD HEARTH - DEAD EARTH - LIFE'S WORK - KNEE JERK
FIRST TIME -NOOSE RHYME - STONE'S THROW-
WHERE CAN I EVER GO

I came to a place as cold and white as bone
to find your name finally writ in stone
I lay myself down next to thee
this is as close to your side as I will ever be

Callipygian Hunger
the last lust left me cold
swaying in the gallow breeze
hissing through your red teeth
ill wind unfold
extinguishing the candle that I lit for you

and as the shadows grow, my eyelids sink down low
no longer scanning the horizon
as my vision fades and my searching cease
I am home at last, in a lasting peace...

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from The Tower of Flints, released August 7, 2020
All words, music, and recording Nicholas Sarcophagus
Mastering by db At Euphoriadic Studios

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drainbow Austin, Texas

Drainbow is the brainchild of Nicholas Sarcophagus, a multi-instrumentalist and composer currently residing in Austin Texas. Mr. Sarcophagus arose from the hollers and backwoods of Appalachia and learned his craft in the rehearsal rooms and weird streets of West Baltimore. He developed and honed his rock and roll drinking problems in Athens, Georgia. ... more

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