A Lenticular Slap Songtext
von Ryley Walker

Constable
Someones′ faking their disease of empath winding
Into mother's arms are bowing
Sketch lightly
Grazing grey on veins
Lowball craving
For my hubris
Collecting bare bones but I′m undressed
Any lead with deep pockets will do
Stitching corroborates with half truths

Venerable
Someone's ranking up their retreat with good men dying
Into panicked waters drying
Sketchbook charcoal
And I can't trace daylight
It only refracts when shocked blind
On smoke break breaths snow, sniff, sneeze, and lines
Any work release isn′t true
An egghead breaks their mantra and converts to awful


A lenticular slap
To the cross eyed seeker
The bridge written off the map
News crawl from a goddamn tweaker

I faked injury
Call off the bottom feeders
Bent rules of ritual
As fact from a deceiver

Uncanny
Weeds begat a mandolin strung out on faith-works
Splintered into seeds are showing
Under tongue
Patterns upchucked from downstream
A pack a day throat that sings the blues I sing
Transactions cashless its collection call rings
On the other end I′m shaking shivers
Taking requests for queue of givers


Garden mulch
Turned over to see a dead arm reading weekday selections
From the world is agreeing
Can't sniff lightly
Palpitations tick on time
I only wanted one and that was gonna be fine
Mary mother of crack rocks the sun comes through the blinds
On the other end I′m shaking shivers
Taking requests for queue of givers

A lenticular slap
To the cross eyed seeker
The bridge written off the map
News crawl from a goddamn tweaker

I faked injury
To call off the bottom feeders
Bent rules of ritual
As fact from a deceiver

Hold onto the loose ends
Hold onto the loose ends
Hold onto the loose ends
Hold onto the loose ends