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Church Songs

by Them Savages

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1.
Intro / Sun & Sea- Squander all your coins from the wishing well An oasis of riches in your poor hell It’s a beggars life you can’t take any longer You want the satin on your back but no more hunger. The oceans are rising, the sun smiles at it’s dying thinking you can’t survive without me i’ll be the death of all of your family The sky’s taking bites out of you and me Now the ocean is pissed and the sun’s waiting for it for us to drown in that violent sea so it could cook us with the rest of it’s heat We’re all just drowning in the boiling sea The water makes it so i can’t breathe and the daylight’s only showing death to me.
2.
A Gutter Summer- Your burning up that anger in a bent up spoon, shaking like it’s winter in the middle of june You let in run like a flood through your skinny veins You said the feeling gave you something worth living for again You found a lover in the gutter, said he’d keep you clean, but his hands are hard to wash when they’re trembling Now your taking drinks of your own thick blood Can you taste the disease on the tip of that sharp tongue? Your burning up that life in a bent up spoon Found your lover gone that same june
3.
God's Hands 03:20
God’s Hands- I feel i’m getting old as each joint starts to go And i really can’t help but feel like it’s some kind of joke But i keep rolling with the pain until it’s all the same Pissed off at the world but there’s really one to blame ‘cause i’m just a man being strangled by god’s hands And all his anger shows Through his fists blood flows This body’s just a way to show i’m still his slave, but he shows it several ways each and every day Whether it’s the ice on the road or the weakness that i show Regardless of the pain, this life is not my own
4.
Bones In Ribbon- Every single ghost flying out of my mouth they know every single poison i’m trying to sweat out yet they hang in the air and give these strangers a chance to hear all the stupid shit that i put myself through this year When they put me in the dirt make sure to wrap my bones in ribbon and throw in all shiny things that i’ve ever been given then let all those ghosts know that their words will still glow long after this flesh starts to go.
5.
Harlot 02:03
Harlot- I swore you were a harlot because you stirred the hell inside I still swear that your body’s where that devil resides, because it leads me to do wrong, to sing unholy song The bastard that i am just taps that damn foot right along Every word you say causes thunder in my brain Every inch of skin you touch leaves me that burning pain Well, darlin’, i’ve had enough of this old aching love Take pity on a man with no help from above
6.
Here 04:14
Here- Hold me above the tide, ‘cause i’m a bastard in your eyes You think the drinks will help you hide, well that comes as no surprise You kept the view upon it’s back, and i never really knew why You sqeeze the bones until they crack, now you take the bricks and throw them into the sky You never really know where the path’s gonna lead I’ll just stay here You started out alright but got blown away by the breeze I just stayed here Now your drunken grin is all in my bad dreams And i’m living with a fever that i can’t treat, but it’s not quite as bad as all of you might think Because this constant wandering is oh so sweet You never really know where the path’s gonna lead I’ll just stay here You started out alright but got blown away by the breeze I just stayed here
7.
Things Are All Different- The dying sun bled on me, lovingly spreading his disease And then i went blind, because his insides surely shine He goes, “come dance in my heat, I’ll show you the things your eyes will never see Things are different with me” Then the rotting trees took a hold of me My tired lungs forcibly emptied With no insides left to breathe i swing my arms gently He sings, “come hang with my leaves, I’ll hold you bove the dark cracking streats Things are different with me” Things are all different when you dying with me Come hang with my leaves, dance in my heat Things are all different when your dying with me
8.
My Heart/These Banks_ I drank a bottle full of blood, it felt like in my belly Had my head spinning like a top, but my thoughts remain sweaty And i finally found some clarity I yelled out.. I know where there world caves in, it’s right beneathe my feet May be a drunken fucking fool, but it’s the only truth i see ‘Cause my heart and these banks have never taken well with me, And they’re the only two powers that have ever really meant a thing
9.
Pretty Little Thief- Lay me in your bed These rattling bones are noisy in my head, but the flowers you nailed to the wall still bloom in my eyes even in the fall So keep me in your head ‘cause your the reason mine’s clear Why the anger inside me is dead Your why it’s dead Pretty little thief, break on into me Swim your way through my veins, to the blue that helps me see
10.
Two Birds 02:39
Two Birds- She’s a black haired woman with the perfume on her bossoms just to keep this boy from staying clean with her bright owl eyes she looks back in to mine with the hopes that i’ll forget what i’ve seen i’ve seen the lust, the features, the vices, and the creatures that haunt me from within her dress now i’m a bust, an addict, a dirty little monster that can’t fix his own fucking mess Well i’m a weak young man with caloused hands from all the profit that i’ll never see ‘cause you kept them in your pockets to pay for all your lockets which never contained pictures of me but darlin’ i think i can finally rest these old bones because i’ve finally figured out that we’re the two birds that got killed by that same old stone. And it’s called “love”
11.
Church Songs 03:49
Church Songs- Grandpa says, “love until our burning up in hell, ‘cause someday soon your gonna shed that scarred up shell You see it’s been a process since you started to die, and i’m sad to say, son, that’s the the first day you were alive” I still hear that tattered voice in my ear His blistered hands keep beat to what i hear He was just singing church songs He’s always singing church songs He’s still singing, he’s still drinking his wine Throws a collar on then curses at the holy sky He says, “there’s demons raging in all of our minds, but i took care of them when i made them all slaves of mine” Now we sing, “holy shit, we can lift your name on high, but it doesn’t get us over it”

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released January 27, 2012

All songs written by Them Savages
Recorded/Mixed/Mastered by Alex D. Begay
Additional Guitar/Vocals by Bryant Vazquez
Accordion/Vocals by Kate Hinojosa
Bass by Phil Hreniuc
Gang Vocals/Stomps/Claps by
the friends that were around

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Them Savages Seattle, Washington

We started writing songs together in 2009, while living in Flagstaff, AZ. It's 2023 and we're still writing songs, but now we live in Seattle, WA.

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