LEANING INTO KEROSENE

Here are lyrics to one of the songs we (Dead Peasant Insurance) will be playing Tuesday night at Now That's Class! opening for The Membranes. Heart and Lungs will also be playing. Here is a link to the event: 

https://www.facebook.com/events/853065434789002/

Leaning into Kerosene

The lawn is gone grown now

Where the wild things are

We didn’t want it anyway

Movement in the tall grass

Throw your food in it

Leaning into Kerosene
Leaning into Kerosene
Leaning into Kerosene
Leaning into Kerosene

Craning out the window

To see

Extended disembodied

Just a moody eye

But the predawn seemed real

Leaning into Kerosene
Leaning into Kerosene
Leaning into Kerosene
Leaning into Kerosene

The birds were there

The black trees whisper

And the fresh microbial air

Thick with spores

But the roof

The roof is wet

The roof is wet with fire

And my family is in there

my limbs climbing out

the window, catch the

ripping flame clinging

clinging like a dress

to legs planted on

the deck of a boat

Boom

was that an animal

running into the side

of the house in the dark or

Boom

was that a small gas explosion or

waking in the real heat

and you walk downstairs yes

yes from the kitchen window

there is a figure there

a stranger on the lawn

Leaning into Kerosene
Leaning into Kerosene

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