Lay Me Down

from Tachycardia EP by Opeongo

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lyrics

Lay me down,
Lay me down,
Lay me down in a boat on the river so I can drown slowly and they won't know.

My heart's an open wound.
O! My heart's an open flame.
I cauterize myself,
But it just opens up again.

My head's a bloody tomb,
Of all the thoughts that died within.
I mean, there's only so much room for love -
The rest of it's just guilt and sin.

Lay me down,
Lay me down,
Lay me down as a ghost that sends shivers and I'll walk through the walls of the house that I know.

Lasso 'round the moon,
The other end 'round my neck.
I've been waiting for the sunrise,
Ever since the sunset.

Ice cube in my drink,
It's like a corpse within a tomb.
It slowly melts away,
And becomes one with the dark room.

Make a sepulchre of my flesh, all the rest of me is dead.
There's a simple curse in my head, a sampled cure I have been fed.
A set of claws scratched at my chest, I accepted them as I bled red.
And I found the sound push past all my regret.

Lay me down,
Lay me down,
Lay me down as the love that delivers chills down the bend of a spine barely even my own.

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from Tachycardia EP, released January 18, 2015

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