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The Hook
03:18
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The Hook
That night we held each other beneath the sky
laid down the past
promised that we'd try
From the dry earth tended our fragile seeds
the best we could never enough to reprieve
Extricate the hook and let it bleed
burn the rags stained by what we don't need
Extricate the hook and let it bleed
I'm not the enemy you tell me I am
consumed a bitter love fed from his hand
Someday we'll taste the sweetness that we had
when we're stronger and it's not so sad
For now I'm swollen with the hurt inside
the scars we bear will prove how we tried
Extricate the hook and let it bleed
Release the sorrow
fall to your knees
Extricate the hook and
let it bleed
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2. |
The Ones We Love
04:35
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The Ones We Love
It's always a part of me, waking up in the night
at the back of my head, can't get off my chest
You're weak and you're broken, but the damage is done
what a hold it takes on me
struggle to stay strong
Get off your high horse, you know what you did
treated us worse than the worst you were given
It's out in the open, should be left friendless
perverted the love you were ever extended
We don't hurt the ones we love
but I want you to hurt, and I want to laugh
and I want to be done
You won't know my children, you lost that right
Wish I could guard all the girls in the night
The right thing is the harder thing, no acceptable defense
Could've made a different choice - I refuse to let you win
Get off your high horse, you know what you did
treated us worse than the worst you were given
Your army emboldened, think you've had the last word
We're listening, hearts broken -
you'll know that we've heard
We don't hurt the ones we love
I want to believe, I do believe that it can be done
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3. |
King of Cups
03:45
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King of Cups
All the times I just wanted to feel loved
Now there’s peace don’t feel anything at all
Now when I dream you are caught between my teeth
Cannot break down what is coming after me
Just waiting for the other shoe to drop
Hold my breath every time we talk
Just waiting for the other shoe to drop
There’s not enough to hold us up
Shouldn’t remember the sweetness we had
Half of my life lost to dreams that we had
Thousands of years passed since we were young
Spaces between glimpses of that time echo on
Just waiting for the other shoe to drop
Hold my breath every time we talk
Just waiting for the other shoe to drop
There’s not enough to hold us up
Just waiting for our miracle to start
Can’t let you go, even though it’s hard
Just waiting for my gleaming king of cups
To make darkness light,
to fill me up
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4. |
Come See My Fire
03:13
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Come See My Fire
I’ve thrown words like sparks onto your lap
Blazing lights up and down my spine
Now it’s cold and dark outside, come and
See my fire
Come see my fire
You won’t stay long, it has to burn out
Come see my fire, if something’s left
We’ll know we were there
Shield your eyes from the heat of the sight
Won’t hurt more than our words can say
If you can’t quite get warm inside, come and
See my fire
Come see my fire
You won’t stay long, it has to burn out
Come see my fire, if something’s left
We’ll know we were there
If we’re brave and look long and clear
We could see an eclipse
Might be left lonelier, but it’s such a
Beautiful risk
Come see my fire
It won’t stay long, it has to burn out
Come see my fire, if something’s left
We’ll know we were there
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5. |
Ruthless
04:00
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Ruthless
Gave it all away
It was a mistake - that will never change
Lined mouth, hard eyes
I was too soft now I let them cry
I want my floors to be clean
I want order in my house
Don’t like it? You can leave
Disagree? You can go
Give in, get hurt
Don’t take a sip or you’ll die from thirst
All night, stand guard
Cleaved from my breast - bled til I’m hard
I move closer - the floor gives way
I could weep for want of touch
All my fingers digging in
Let it open -
the feeling
I’m trying
Ruthless
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6. |
Punishment
03:31
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Punishment
I can’t let down my guard with you
You give me no reason to
Yet still I ask again and again
for something that you cannot give
Why don’t I ever learn
that’s my punishment
look who you’ve made angry
that’s your punishment
We’ll both be sorry now
that’s our punishment
Who is the jailor and who is jailed
Our love is chained and bound to fail
Repeating what we cannot quit
Like Sisyphus we deserve it
Do you think I like it
my punishment
How much can we take
of our punishment
it’s a bitter pill to swallow
this punishment
We’ll both be sorry now
that’s our punishment
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Skin
07:11
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Skin
Son, I know
what you’ve learned may disturb you
Son, I’ll go - now you won’t have to protect me
This I chose: no one’s to blame
for there was life before the dying
There was feast before the famine
You were born in a time of abundance
Close your eyes -
we can still taste the kindness
But he was scared;
he stole what I would have given
If I could - but some things cannot be given
You found my skin, made it wet again
The ocean’s wide, and I was often tempted
Your hand in mine a soft and trusting tether
Dead and dry - shells and bones and sun-bleached feathers
Throw them back - every ill-begotten treasure
What a sin, and what a gift to be selfish
To swim away - I saved myself, and now we’ll all pay
I’ll long for you all the rest of my lone days
You must not come, though you’ll hear me calling your name
You found my skin, made it wet again
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8. |
Orlando
03:01
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Orlando
Take another deep breath
To move me through the day
Burn acquiescence
And swallow brave
Feathered owls and nightjars
I’ll dream wild dreams
With a cool forehead
I’ll wear no golden ring
Let my hair down
Drink forgetfulness dazzled
With strange ecstasy
Can’t lean on life or lover
So I’ll lay down in peace
Intricate and many-chambered
Takes a torch to explore
Something wild in me guards
The dreamy feathered core
Let my hair down
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Adrienne Ammerman Asheville, North Carolina
"[This album is] spare but rich, each song a perfectly encapsulated story. Each story underscored by its own emotional tone,
a soft touch that cuts to the quick."
- Alli Marshall, Mountain Xpress
mountainx.com/arts/sound-track-the-hunt-by-adrienne-ammerman/
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