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Northern Lights EP

by Ian Miles

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In silent ink The night is brushed By gods and displayed In my limp focus I imagine your company Through the stained-glass windows of heaven It leans and lilts With the lights In my tired eyes.
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Hail Mary full of grace Who knows the danger sleepin’ in my bones? Only you could! You see I clothed myself in love Before the hatred wore my skin. Like a veiled bride On her wedding night I take this flight Into darkness, With only the promise of a morning. I will come to you. Hail Mary full of grace Have I truly paid for all my sins? For what penitence have I paid To be presented the prize of love so pure? Heaven I imagine Is the sand around you feet Swelling at low-tide Or your breath against cold glass I will come to you.
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Canniballad 04:14
O cannibal! O carnivore! As sweet as innocence: My flesh, Your tongue. O cleft hoof/My heart! You are the sweet meat of my eye And toothy grin of the wolf Against the dark. I am the hunter’s hungry spear Among your skin. I pierce you, pull away And chew my way back in. O cannibal! O carnivore! Your slender legs are pythons Gently choking the white from the swan O! my love you are my killer I devour as you swallow I will absorb you And to you I follow I am the hunter’s hungry spear Among your skin. I pierce you, pull away And chew my way back in. O cannibal! O carnivore! As sweet as innocence: Your flesh, my tongue.
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The Fool 02:41
How many die Without ever knowing a place Beyond the distances they know To never see an ocean Is to be adrift an endless dune! If the poor fool may never find rest, Let the world cry with the rain! How sad: The lack of debt we find In the efforts of the clown? He does not owe us the smile. But still he parades around the square Behind his charade of colored balloons He attempts his painted smile! Last night it was an aluminum mill, As workers punched out on the clock And the last vat of metal was cured after the bell. Now it’s silent like a bone. All of these union men now pace their own kitchens With the virile pride of eunuchs. They hang their heads so low In the shadows they’ve always known I heard the clarion call And danced a coroner’s waltz! The tune of the promenade, Was dry and slow like a drum. Signed sincerely, The fool
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Nylon 04:55
I have nerves of nylon a tiny stab and I run I have a spine so thin I don't stand I shake against you spiky limbs Vulnerable to brushing arms Chock full of disease and a seething hole is left in the shape of the hosiery run This mortal shape of cardiac arrest is so stultifying I'm scratching everywhere I've ever been touched Her body's so sex So she packs in the violence she needs to prove solidity Then cuts it into servings from a box of broken glass So she can eat from the pity we give whores To let break and slide like tarpaulin grain and die Is to shake rattled nerves then release unto a lie It was chance a tool of opposition As cute as a corpse in the back of a car With blue eyes and red lips she died Sometimes I am a fly: landed in wet paint what graceful misfortune In ordinary lifeless color. Winter comes And everything we know on earth dies again I’m scratching everywhere I’ve ever been touched
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Oh my love, My darling I've hungered for your touch A long, lonely time and time goes by so slowly and time can do so much are you still mine? I need your love I need your love godspeed, your love to me lonely rivers flow to the sea, to the sea into the open arms of the sea lonely rivers sigh wait for, wait for me I'm coming home wait for me Oh my love, My darling I've hungered for your touch A long, lonely time and time goes by so slowly and time can do so much are you still mine? I need your love I need your love godspeed, your love to me

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released March 17, 2010

All instruments, music, lyrics, and recording by Ian Miles except for "Unchained Melody" music by Alex North, Lyrics by William Stirrat, and performed by Ian Miles.

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Ian Miles Spokane

Ian Miles is an independent singer-songwriter based out of Spokane, WA.
His Music has been described and "a little cool and a little weird – in a good way" and "very story-telling".
Sometimes mellow and bittersweet; a songbird at your window sill and at other times a thunderous full-throated roar of emotive stomping and hollering like a wild preacher of the end-times!
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