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Faded Destroyer (acoustic)

from Astral Sister - EP by Joshua Powell

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lyrics

Recorded at Postal Recording Studios with the help of Alex Kercheval and Tyler Watkins, thanks to a generous grant from brother Craig Helmreich and Fourth Sunday Music Co., all of whom make us proud to be Hoosier musicians.
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As stealthy as a stag,
as careful as my dad in his garage
I got you into bed--
you smelled like cigarettes and rosewater

and in that post-connection climate,
you go asking what my sign is
and when I tell you that's not science,
you get out of bed

At a temple in the badlands,
outside a city in the slabs,
I felt every prayer that was ever prayed on my behalf
and said my own:
Don't give up on me!

When I was out on tour,
for forty years or more (is how it felt)
my friends were better sports
as I tried to cram the LORD into their throats

Doing right by my employer?
Or becoming the Destroyer?
My mother sits embroidering her scriptures

While at a temple in the badlands,
outside a city in the slabs,
I felt every prayer that was ever prayed on my behalf
and said my own:
Don't give up on me

At a temple in the badlands, I prayed

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from Astral Sister - EP, released December 3, 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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