Coyote Dancer, by Sasqwytch

Coyote Dancer

by Sasqwytch

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1.	Coyote Dancer 06:04	lyrics	buy track
Out with the old And in with nothing The desert takes But I want something More than sweltering golden rays I want to become the God of Night So I can purloin the day I want to feed on bloodbags Fully gorged with liquids not yet vanished by the sun Unblinded as I shoot toward the eagles My evil gone unseen as I stalk the lands between By moonlight I'd splinter bones for toothpicks And belch with a belly beyond its fill And laugh as God calls me ruthless Because happiness doesn't perfect the kill I take audience with the coyote Matron of thieves To pick apart the others And fortify me What I want is theirs and they don't share From a lofty perch condemning So loathsome of the left hand path That they would kill me in my infancy I've been told that I'm still fresh beneath the sky But violent seasons have licked the placenta from my eyes And laboring beneath the weather has turned my skin into leather It's the shell that's kept my withering soul together For so long I lived off of nothing 'Til nothing became the thing I believed I was worth As I watched those around me flourish I lamented the day of my wretched birth For who would pity me if not myself? They measure a life by the sum of its wealth Not by the blood on its hands or the truth from its mouth So I'd steal for now to halve the hell I take audience with the coyote Matron of thieves To pick apart the others And fortify me What I want is theirs and they don't share From a lofty perch condemning So loathsome of the left hand path That they would kill me in my infancy For so long I've lived off of nothing I've burned and blistered and peeled for the sake of nothing
2.	Guerrilla Particle 04:23	lyrics	buy track
"Don't hide in that metaphor" Cried the spider to the fly Watching with a glint in one of eight eyes By the light of a wind-whipped flame And deeper sinking in silken sheets The question lies in the bed she made And I've been mummified in denial's web With a red belly where my blood and guts were shed Misery holds a short leash And in whatever form it will find me Usually small with a promise of sweet Draped in a shawl of beauty that's blinding Oh heavenly fangs I've missed your pain Cast down your shame And let me wilt in its shade Do you feel me? Because it feels the same These torrents are vain What hides in my arms doesn't touch the rain But go now to your friends and play To the dopamine flush of an inhaled escape The pleasure of fantasies that still pervade Because as much as you can get is what you deserve to take I need more than the taste I need bandages and fibers replaced A guiding flame away from the murky shapes Of the soul that I learned to hate But lie in wait Wait until this blood-molasses permeates And these wet seeds Shoot their roots right through me So you might hide safely In the shadow of my weeping tree With a crooked trunk That grows in the breeze Misery holds a short leash And in whatever form it will find me Oh heavenly fangs I've missed your pain Cast down your shame And let me wilt in its shade Do you feel me? Because it feels the same These torrents are vain What hides in my arms doesn't touch the rain I'll admit it now I've been afraid For all of my life My faith's been carved away The deepest cuts bleed And bleed again Made at the edge Of a lover's serrated blade Carving our war on a crumpled piece of parchment
3.	Mythmaker 03:02	lyrics	buy track
Red deer skull mask Transcending the real With vision trepanned You could not find the beginning So you looked inside And you found shamanism Forsaking your heathenism You denounced your flesh And pitied the animals Fancying your mind to be human When deep down your heart was still wild Headdresses and feathers Some reverence for things tangible And far less malevolent Than a loving God Elements to drown you A sky to burn you An atlas of scintillating stars With beauty to spurn you A dismal wake of cemeteries Greedier with carrion More meager meals to feast on With jarred organs give the last rite And what's left for worms to dine Fastidious pardons from damnation And lonely in divine creation Consigned to apocryphal fact Eidolon that bind Apotheosize the blind And assail the black Vexing mobs by weeping moonlight Doomsayers and tribalism A frail hand of might Making myths to lord over the land Red deer skull mask Descending into madness The evil eye is hiding Graves Grieve Slaves Sleep
4.	Rinse My Eyes With Spit 03:20	lyrics	buy track
The first gassed me out of the watchtower Then the second rinsed my eyes with spit As the slings of arrows flew they splintered And landed like bee stings on their target Every other shield was riven And the weight of the scales turned the tide The noble blood was quickly given And the walls began to crumble from inside I am a prisoner Watching their lives From the bottom of my blindfold As I anticipate being torn apart They only want me to see My own execution At the moment I'd rather go blind They don't want me to remember the rest of the world Cry, whisper, blade The stings of hope fall away I wanted to bleed truths untold But I was afraid to die and my feet got cold The tomb is dug inside my head Picking apart the grace bread Experience nourished their wisdom But it beat bruises into my skin I watched the blooming of spring behind cold bars Watched the harvest while the earth beneath me falls apart Saw their children play in grass; mine sleep on dirt I was told this is life and it's better to die

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In memory of Cruz Garcia and Robert Sanchez...

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released December 22, 2023

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Sasqwytch Albuquerque, New Mexico

Direct-to-video metal anthology

Music written and performed by:

Tso'Apittseisheth - Percussion

Pazuzurayuli - Bass

Ucumasag - Guitars & Vocals ... more