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Giant Elk

by ME REX

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1.
Slow Worm 02:08
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I used to breathe blue flames I spoke in solar flares How I would to scream white sparks Into the thick night air I came here on my knees Arrived all scorched and singed Still bore the uniform That’s worn by all burned things The skin of your eyelids A brittle chrysalis The crystallised dried spit Trod into these carpets Seemed like a hopeless case Maybe the worst you’d seen I’d heard a brand new world above and underneath Under the deep deep deep deep ultramarine Could you love me to death for the best part of a century? A deep deep deep ultramarine could you love me? Could you love me? Made up like animals Rabid and slathering Marks of great beauty lay Across a human skin We’re going to work it out One more unstable week We’re spilling sweat and blood I take it strong and sweet A lasting happiness Cannot be far from here We wake up terrified Kind of get off on fear It was our last escape We always crashed against The barricaded gates Of heaven anyway Under a deep deep deep deep ultramarine Could you love me to death for the best part of a century? A deep deep deep ultramarine could you love me? Could you love me? I know the rivers deep But I think we can swim It makes your cold wet clothes All cling onto your skin And we can tread the water Till we ache and sting For as long as you want It’s never made us clean Till every tongue will sing and every heart will stop Come out into the sun If just to warm your blood Unholy madrigals We used to scream out loud But we all might be here for the last time now Under the deep deep deep deep ultramarine Could you love me to death for the best part of a century? A deep deep deep ultramarine Could you love me? Could you love me? We saw the brightest futures ever prophesied Grind to a jarring halt And then the zeitgeist died but If this love becomes Automatic impulse Something mechanical Fades into background hum and sinks Deep deep deep deep ultramarine Could you love me to death for the best part of a century? A deep deep deep ultramarine Could you love me? Could you love me? Under a deep deep deep deep ultramarine Deep deep deep ultramarine Deep deep deep deep deep deep deep ultramarine Could you love me? Could you love me?
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Don’t let heaven forgive you Don’t let heaven forget you Please When you tear across the sky Rip a great bright hole in heaven for me Do you still see our bodies as vehicles like dirty machines? Still see our perfect circuitry? The nervous system that runs in between The musculoskeletal structure of everything Clinging close on the bones of dead languages Wrapped in the wiring of torn down houses Always among the guts of something good The rubble where the palace stood Do you see how it feels like Like we could not lose Like we could have torn down any star that we could reach to You see how it felt like Like we could not lose But everything that we believed in I guess we were wrong to Don’t let heaven forgive you Don’t let heaven forget you Please We let the light die In an unfamiliar stretch of sky it seems It doesn’t leave you Not completely It doesn’t leave you Not complete It’s not a slow sad march to a dirge into darkness Held on all sides only by gentle night and sludge of sleep but Calooh callay and quelle surprise It turns out you were another frightened child Another frightened child of titan on Bleak and barren moons of Saturn stranded Under absent planets held somewhere beneath Another a whole sky spanned by emptiness Another deep ultramarine do you see How it feels like Like we could not lose Like we could tear down any star that we could reach to You see how feels like Like we cannot lose So rain meteorites and lightning bolts Do the worst you’re going to do And Don’t let heaven forgive you Don’t let heaven forget you please It’s as distant now as you from me As any part of history Don’t let heaven forgive you Don’t let heaven forget you alright And rip a great bright hole in heaven for me When you tear across the sky
5.
Halley 03:32
6.
Oliver 02:01
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Spiders 03:16
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Jawbone 03:43
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Pythons 04:10
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Strangleweed 04:57
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released October 20, 2023

All songs by ME REX

Myles McCabe - vocals, guitar, piano, organ
Phoebe Cross - drums, percussion, vocals
Rich Mandell - bass, synth, vocals

Additional guitar and vocals on tracks 5 & 6 by Kathryn Woods

Produced and mixed by Rich Mandell
Mastered by Tom Woodhead

Recorded at Resident Studios (RIP), Marketstall Recording, The Bookhouse, DC Towers

Illustration by Phoebe Rose Smith
Design and layout by Jono Ganz

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