At Our Empire's End

from Good Dreams by Galen Hartley

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My enemy is here and I lie down at his side. I am smitten, I am ruined and revived. It's cool, dead calm, a slack tide. The meat shakes on the bone, the meat shakes in the wind, shakes in the grip of its blind and boozy kin. Am I still too young to think that I could win? Yeah, oh yeah, I only want revenge. Real bad, so bad. I want you to be there with me in the cold water at our empire's end. It's not a family, for all that it would claim. That handsome crest, the king, the cock, the lion's mane. Our love is a burden and beneath it I remain. What do I need to know? Which shabby little thread leads to the laughter of the exiles and the dead? Return me to temptations I have fled.

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from Good Dreams, released January 10, 2012
Galen Hartley: vocals, acoustic and electric guitar
Kelby MacNayr: drums
Travis Short: bass
Athena Holmes: vocals
Kate Wyatt: piano

Track art: "bless this robe" by Mike Egan
www.eganpaintings.com

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