Ship Graveyard / Into the Pit

from Die Alone by Silence and Secrecy

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The haunting of the haunter. Vicious cycles without end or meaning. Death without dying. All that good stuff. Best way to open an album: With a wall of noise and threats of hungry ghosts.

The noises at the beginning include, among other things, a broken pitchfork head, a lap dulcimer, and microcassette tapes of pots full of water being struck. The coda consists of four entirely different refrains sung at once.

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PRAY THAT YOU DON'T DIE DOWN HERE
PRAY THAT I DON'T FIND YOU

there's the strangest noise in the upper berth
and it keeps me awake at night
gets me to thinking
there's the sound of steps on the lower stair
and it keeps me awake at night
stops me from breathing

there's a scratch like rats in the iron walls
that keeps me awake at night
and it's got me to thinking:
how long's it been since i've seen the sun—
or the daylight
or the sea at night—
how long have i been down here?

There is no end to this torment of silence.

(young and old keep on dying;
do the dead keep on living?)

(Have you never lost someone before?)

WE WILL DIE DOWN HERE
WE WILL DIE DOWN HERE AS ONE

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from Die Alone, released May 7, 2016

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Purveyor of fine musical curios, grotesques and arabesques since 1 January 2014. Mostly just one weirdo in a literal attic.

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