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Don't Let Me Die

from Cannibal Now by Caleb Lail

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lyrics

As sleep carries my body in its arms,
And the sun can’t kiss the moon for all of its charms,
My toes tread tidal waves of a thousand ships that’ve lost their way,
Oh Sleeper, come and kiss my lips goodnight.

A liquor bottle pours as the sun turns to glass,
Dripping all the poison on my flesh,
Burning, bleeding, bearing, the wound inside is wearing,
It spells, all too simply, “I’m a Cannibal Now”

Chorus: Don’t let me die, she cries, don’t let me die,
Because I don’t want to have to your face again.

Now my skull’s opened wide on concrete,
As the smell of burning metal my nose meets,
My arm broken back behind my woe-driven back,
And my hand cuts open on the black.

I awaken to a phone call, rings in my head,
She says all the things I wanted said.
My eyes drowned in tears, as sleep reappeared,
And I was carried away to dream once again.

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from Cannibal Now, released September 15, 2016

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Caleb Lail Shelby, North Carolina

Caleb Lail is a multi-instrumental songwriter from Shelby, NC, dealing with topics like God and loneliness and death. Find him in a coffee shop or a mosh pit <3

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