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Coral Castle

from Skeleton Party by Joshua Powell

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lyrics

Fear and loathing in the glade!
the reptilian arousal of hot beneath the collar,
the lush of summer’s cactus blossoming crush on me
(according to all palmetto leaves)
Heard there’s a seer in this swamp--
I’m sure he wouldn’t mind some company

I’m as meek as moths
but getting riper with the rage borne of our clusterfuck engagement
Don’t get upset
I’m not upset
Are you upset baby?
I wish it could have been like, somewhere in Chicago

But I built your castle from the corpses
of a million tiny seahorses and shells
barnacles up in the belfry
and now with how fractured I feel
I’ve become an electric eel inside a pool of plecos
and I’m cool with it

In my catatonia,
you came to me from in a forest fire
said, “I’m only stopping through for the night
We can order pad thai. settle in, and have a long talk”

So, you’re not coming out
Have I always been so dumb?
How didn’t I see this coming?
So I’m upset, yeah I’m upset, aren’t you upset baby?
I gotta tell these cryptid kids their mom isn’t coming

Well tell me what’s a girl to do when Satan shows up on your stoop
I’m at a loss--he is inverting all my crosses
But turns out to be a lovely dude and I wanna show off my home studio
and we bond over which Black Sabbath LPs we dig

Old Scratch with stingray bass in hand and I make up a metal band
so full of fuzz and so downtuned that it’s disgusting
Plus I’ve got a spot we can rehearse
so cool, crepuscular, and cursed that you could laugh,
like over the credits of a slasher film

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from Skeleton Party, released September 24, 2021

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Joshua Powell Indianapolis, Indiana

Joshua Powell is the exhausted wizard at the helm of IN's most haunted rock band. From his hardcore roots in the Floridian swamps and beyond the fever dream of his folk era, his literary lyrics dig for enlightenment in a surrealist muck. “Four LP's and over 900 shows later, the midwestern road dog's ever- evolving, transcendent style embraces hallucinatory metal and grimy psychedelia.” -Audiotree ... more

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