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Birthmark [DEMO]

from Melisma [2009] by owenshire

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This is a live demo. Imagination is needed to appreciate what this song could be at its full potential. A studio version is forthcoming.

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The sun, it took a long, long time to set today.
Just like a man who’s approaching death
His feet swaying below his neck.
Eyes already rolled inside his head
He sees the entrance
He sees the entrance.

Yesterday, in a previous state of arrest
He was the sun’s first guest.
Now, isn’t that a son-of a bitch.
I say, life’s a dirty trick
But now he feels elated
He feels elated.

I was reading out behind the barn
It was a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The day is already approaching dark
And I still have a ways to walk
So I know I won’t finish
But I’m too proud to give in

We were playing behind grandma’s store
When we heard the thunder roar and roar.
You said you “had to piss like a race horse.”
You said a pumpkin was nothing more
Than a house rats live in.
Than a house rats live in.

We worked so hard, we worked so hard
to maintain this level of comfort.
We work so hard to raise our heads
In this public that sees they’re encumbered
And it’s so wrong that this home of ours
Is pregnant with fear, and asunder
And I’d stay and fight, yes I would
but I find that we are outnumbered.
Outnumbered.

I used to want to be a Sorcerer
I walked around a church three times backwards
Repeated all the funny and fancy words.
Drank a homemade elixer
Inebriated
Inebriated

You found me asleep in the graveyard
You shook me awake using both your arms
Your look told exactly from where you stood
I said “I’d never leave this place, if I could”
You said, “pardon?”
You said, “pardon?”

We worked so hard, we worked so hard
At burning all the remains.
Every table, every fable
And now we begin again.
It’s this birthmark, it’s this birthmark
Well, I used to think it a stain.
Now I’m able and I’m thankful
As I see it outshines the plain;
It’s in the right place.

credits

from Melisma [2009], released May 5, 2009
written: robert muhbock
vocals, lyrics, bass: robert muhlbock
guitar: greg muhlbock
drums: dan muhlbock

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Owenshire was born when Robert Muhlbock bought a bass guitar in 1992 and began recording dozens of bass and vocal demos under that name.

Two albums, numerous "live demos," one too-long hiatus and (most importantly) one bass distortion pedal later, Muhlbock continues to release riff-based alt. rock, scattered with lush harmonies and dotted with cryptic and/or disillusioned lyrics. ... more

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