Ethric Double - These Arms Are Snakes

They write the songs

And you sing the passages at night

They hold the notes high

You keep them down so it’s hard

Do you cover them up so they can’t hear them?

They can’t hear because they don’t believe them

They don’t believe it because they can’t see it

Do they cover their eyes?

I think you’re in the right place

The shawl over your face is so long

Black and white tooth coat charms

You placed along the bones of your arms

Did you cover them up so they can’t see them?

They can’t see them if they don’t believe them

They don’t believe them because they can’t see them

Do they cover their eyes?

Small lakes, they pour out of my lungs

Down to feed tones in holes

Of depleted roots of the ground

Dug by relics in tombs

Altered and reborn from blight

That was hidden from the eye

My tongue cleanses shapes and encourages return

I am full

I am safe

I am more empty than known