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How Cruel That Hunger Binds

by Dietrich Strause

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1.
I came to worship brothers I came to enter in to kneel before the station doors and the beast that rolls within To share in blood the crimson flood through a tunnel of tiled veins in earth embedded, in darkness descended I rode that Charlie train I rode the ways of the hollow days with the weary chained in the cars I found a witness to the emptiness of the chambers of my heart On the tracks below where the garden grows among roots I was lost in my thoughts of my deepest love, my fondest one the thistle in my paw When the brakeman stalled, the conductor called at the end of the long platform I noticed not who we picked up when he stepped into the car From first to last he shuffled past with a can he gathers with I just sat in my row in a hopeless glow clutched to my offering No alms I spared no glance I dared my breath held in my lungs like I didn't hear his sacred prayer the plea from his tongue "Mercy brother, I must beg of you for the good grace and the bright trace of the light that shines in you." The train stood still, my pockets filled with every dime I entered with past the empty can and the turnstile man I crawled from the den
2.
I said all my prayers, for love true and fair for faith that could bear what passion veils for ages we'd make golden with ringing bells and bows but all those words you told me were cast as spells Now the thought of each breath of every word you pledged at every sun we set, it wears me thin You were lying in my arms for hours in the dark as your bright errant heart just beat within Now I still pace the halls, I wait for your calls though I climb the walls to her lights She takes the cross from my crest and all the air in my chest and all that makes me restless tonight In her arms its true, I now stray I think of you of all we lost and all we lacked of all the arrows and swords all the roses and thorns all the ribbons worth just to get you back
3.
The Dove 03:35
Last night I dreamt of a mourning dove across the sea from high above, she sang a sweet hosannah She drifted down on wave and wind lightly on her feathered limb she brought with her the branch and hymn to lay at my feet I laid in the sands I held her in my hands I wished she were mine to keep with my wish I spoke, she flew off, I woke I tried to sing myself back to sleep I listened for the evening bells where the empty steeples shadow fell for you were all I ever held I stood inside the chapel doors I prayed to find the song adored among the stars I was led to shore I crawled on my knees I laid in the sands, I wept in my hands I wished you'd been mine to keep with my eyes I closed another wish I spoke that I would never wake from my sleep Hush the sound of a rising sun where days begin when days are done where bluebells ring when morning comes
4.
Pennsylvania 02:05
Our tears may run three rivers dry Should our sweethearts break us but true love like laurel's lie home in Pennsylvania Through seven gates when we die if the good lord he don't save us but dust to dust in heaven high and home in Pennsylvania
5.
I drove for six long days, on the seventh I stopped to rest in a dusty field a meeting, I walked into the tent they had a book they were reading, a song for the lost and the saved all the sins of this life I've been leading they just got washed away but when I get home from the heartland all the sin of life we'll make I'm coming home from the heartland there's only so much good word I can take I gave them all my money for the offering of the lamb but I think about you when I'm praying and I almost break my hands but when I get home from the heartland all the sin of life we'll make I'm coming home from the heartland there's only so much good word I can take
6.
They sailed around the widest world the darkest seas for the deepest pearls the brightest lace for their sweetest girl the ships they sank, for the love of her but I never tried to prove myself and I never told you how I felt around the world, and off the end if I ever saw you again
7.
Far beyond the timber the wolf with watchful eye on the lamb upon the altar on the hand upon the knife how cold, how slow the winter how cruel that hunger binds the world, not made for living, the boy born to die The wildfire eternal, the vigil flame we keep in it's warmth we gather in shelter in streets so wrap your arms around him, don't waste your time the world not made for living, the boy born to die So lay your veil and flowers, bury your eyes the world not made for living, the boy born to die
8.
The first pitch was thrown, the goalie went home to his wife and kids and dog His nights he spent crying for the one that got by him the one all winter he lost The birds and the bees are shaking the trees the ducks float two by two spring has sprung, I guess time has come to find somebody new I've been trying but all I'm finding are hands in hands of sweet hearts They stroll on by with a look in their eyes like someone is building an ark Girls on bicycles legs like icicles long from their hips they hung I'm just hoping I can stop my moping before they ride into the sun Showers and shaving I even stopped waving to the old goose who sits at the park I thought I knew how to get over you didn't think it'd be that hard
9.
I don't care for roses, petal or thorn forget me nots in a passing storm a wind that sweeps through your dress I don't care to wonder where it went Or how high the moon, what keeps it bright with all that's grown between us in the see and the sky or just how dark and deep and what makes them blue I don't care to wonder what you wonder too All the miles all the stars oh it's been so long so far I used to know your name, and color of eyes it's not I can't remember it's just now I don't try I don't call I don't ask if your dreams are coming true I don't care to wonder but it's all I do All the miles all the stars oh it's been so long so far
10.
Rainy Days 02:35
Dollar stores and fives and dimes I was yours and you were mine a penny saved for a rainy day Now I hold them in my hand for wishing at the river's bend that someday it would roll me back to you I'm broke from all that wishing I do The river runs, the river talks of what's his names and the moons they've walked it's been a while since you have called what I'm told is probably right that you're not on the other side wishing it would roll me back to you your rainy day won't ever come, a penny saved is nothing but I just hope that none of that is true
11.
Wildfires were burning across the ocean floor the world once was turning for us forevermore the sound of water breaking on a kindled shore and the song you were singing was all I adored I wish I were drifting on an ember tide A storm would rise and drown me in your arms tonight Your voice once stirred the heavens as heaven once stirred the seas but now the world once turning stands still to wait for thee

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released August 26, 2016

All songs by Dietrich Strause
Produced by Zachariah Hickman
Recorded by Sam Kassirer at Great North Sound Society
Mixed by Brandon Eggleston
Mastered by Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering
Assistant mastering engineer Maria Rice

Photography by Mike Spencer
Design and layout by Sean Trischka and Leela Wagner

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