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Dead Or Buried

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Another explosive and Bandcamp-exclusive collab with John Byrne, Dead Or Buried is a layered work that poses as a lyrical riddle.

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Sha-zam
Boom-boom-boom
(Heads up!)
Sha-zam
Boom-boom-boom-bam
(I’m a riddle!)
Sha-zam
Guess who I am?
(I keep everyone’s secret)
Sha-zam
Guess who I am?
(But I’m a riddle. I’m your riddle, so riddle me out)

When you plunged headlong into the lights
that’s when you first cried of not being ready for me.
I sat frail in every one of your classrooms,
my breathing made your teachers unsteady, nay, wobbly.

Been tossed out
a whole lot more than I’ve been carried.
But you can only have me
either dead or buried!

I'm an easy kill—you can murder me a thousand times.
In the dead of night I’ll crash through your weatherproof doors.
You can bury me and I’ll be good and alive—
I'll sing with the banshees under your floors!

You can have me either dead or buried.
Can’t have me both dead and buried!
You can have me either dead or buried.
No-one’s ever had me both dead and buried.

When they told you the good ones never die (and then what to do)
is when I howled out you should come lookin’ for me.
I laugh sickly but my passage no walls can deny.
My heaving crescent makes confessors flushed and fumbly.

Been crossed out
a whole lot more than married.
But you can only have me
either dead or buried!

You can have me either dead or buried.
You can’t have me both dead and buried.
My harsh embrace makes even sages wary.
No-one’s ever found me both dead and buried.

(dead or, dead or) (buried)
(dead or, dead or, dead or) (buried)

And when you let me pick you up you’ll be confused.
(it works if you’re confused)
I can’t drown the buzz of a billion self-medicatin’ hornets
(self-medicatin’)
But at least your trust will never be abused
(not ever)
like those who turned your vigor into rigor mortis...

Most can take me only dead or buried.
Few can handle neither dead nor buried.
They can flaunt me only dead or buried.
You should want me
though I’m dressed in dread
my garbs all woven in thread
that’s indisputably incredible
and most spectacularly varied

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released December 15, 2023

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