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Battle Cries

by The Amazing Devil

on The Horror and the Wild (2020)

[Madeleine Hyland]
I'm at the brink, don't laugh
At the winks I've masked
Who'll save you when you fall?
[Joey Batey]
The wrinkles and bricks that we're left with at last
And drink will fix all those questions unasked
Who died and made you king of it all

[Madeleine Hyland]
Who wins this war? You've a knack
For applause from the back of the stalls but you lack
The conviction to look at me straight and say yes
[Joey Batey]
Now the wind is so warm on the back of my neck
As I walk with the sun hand in hand from the wreck
Some fictions we took to mean fate believe me I know

[Madeleine Hyland]
Don't be uncouth, be a man
Don't lie with your eyes, you know I despise that look
You're home
For God's sake, I'm
[Joey Batey]
Tell the truth to me love, does my hair look as nice
As it did when you once tangled up in your eyes?
Look at me as you say this, don't look at your phone

[Madeleine Hyland]
Done with your dreams, they won't last
Thirty winters will pass, you'll look back
At the woman 50-year-old you will be proud to have known
[Joey Batey]
'Cause that sun that beams down as my hands touch the grass
After summers of fasting I feel hunger at last
For the person 15-year-old me would be proud to have known

[Chorus: Joey Batey & (Madeleine Hyland)]
'Cause these plates they smash like waves
(Place your smile in mine)
And the wine stains hide the tears
(Why stay? Hide the)
But that
[Together]
Breathing you hear, don't mistake it for sighs
Don't you realise? They're just battle cries, dear

And these lines aren't wrinkles, dear heart
(Hardly knew the words)
They're just dollops of paint on a new work of art
(I'm dolled up, love, don't I deserve to just)
And as I
[Together]
Walk away, I know I've been through the wars
But that creaking you hear in my bones is not pain, it's applause

[Madeleine Hyland]
Come on love, please don't start
Sing your notes, play your part
Then we'll leave. We were gods
[Joey Batey]
With you I could summon the gods and the stars
Watch them dance out the plays that we wrote from the heart
And we'd laugh at the ghosts of our fears. We were kids

[Madeleine Hyland]
‘Come at me your blaggards you'd yell
From the back of the gallery
Say goodbye. I am not
[Joey Batey]
‘Come at me you blaggards', you'd yell from the banks
Wielding words against make-believe wizards and tanks
And by god, love, believe me, I wanted to play too, I did

[Madeleine]
A drunkard, A daughter, A preacher, god knows how you
You dragged us both into the darkness that grows
Oh dear God. I won't
[Joey Batey]
But we sunk into water no creature can know
You dragged me along to watch all your shows
Our devils broke rank, and out of the depths came an army

[Together]
Leave without a fight
I won't let you turn our last night into this
I'm going to binge watch a box set, drink wine, reminisce
This isn't a break up, dear heart, it's a season finale

[Chorus: Joey Batey & (Madeleine Hyland)]
'Cause these plates they smash like waves
(Place your smile in mine)
And the wine stains hide the tears
(Why stay? Hide the)
But that
[Together]
Breathing you hear, don't mistake it for sighs
Don't you realise? They're just battle cries, dear

And these lines aren't wrinkles, dear heart
(Hardly knew the words)
They're just dollops of paint on a new work of art
(I'm dolled up, love, don't I deserve to just)
And as I
[Together]
Walk away, I know I've been through the wars
But that creaking you hear in my bones is not pain, it's applause

(It's not pain) It's applause
(It's not pain) It's applause
It's applause

[Outro: Joey Batey & (Madeleine Hyland)]
All it took to unearth in the dust and the dirt
Some release or respite from the heat and the hurt
Was taking the time now and then to ask how I am

And now at the end
(At the end of all things)
I'm not going to scream, beat my chest at the wind
I'm doing fine