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The Butcher's Wife

from Spit Into Somebody's Mouth by Yi-Lynn

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lyrics

Speaking breathless, double pace
Take my chance to state my case
I can breach a mattress with no noise,
Be your favourite of the other boys

Six o’clock and time for home
I salt our wounds before you go
When they asked you what you wanted with your life
You said you could see yourself butcher’s wife

How I longed to be a butcher then
To roll my sleeves up and attend
To corpses, bloody, disassemble
Bodies, feed the masses, men

Instead I found myself the beast
bleating, reaching, endlessly
I tried to keep my mouth shut, see
But opened wide to catch a piece of you

The village burns so quietly
This light
Makes a joke of me
My touch is not some
Skeleton key
You’re not as easy as you ought to be

Spit into somebody’s mouth
Long enough, the words are drowned
But you can’t stop the sound from coming out
Joy has a funny way of getting ’round

I’m happy bearing both our weight
I know that you would do the same
You take function, I’ll take shame
And what’s disaster without blame?

All bloated and embarrassing
The ties that bind were only string
A celibate pervert, there are worse things to be
An honest woman hiding for you

The village burns so quietly
This light
Makes a joke of me
Your touch is not some
Skeleton key
I’m not as easy as I ought to be

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from Spit Into Somebody's Mouth, released May 2, 2019

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Yi-Lynn Melbourne, Australia

New EP Foul Water out now.

Musician working on Wurundjeri land. Writing songs about family, gore and the apocalypse, mostly.

Debut album out now on digital and vinyl. Message for international shipping rates. ... more

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