Linoleum

by The Roaring Shell

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LINOLEUM

The fear that you let others in
Payment for your brothers sin
Children swarming, fluttering
Preventing you from uttering
A sound

We're burning
Down your
Gallows and
A curse
Upon this
Hallowed land

Your words are flowing out of hand
Your crime, your sin, the lesser thans
Are worth lesser than
You could ever spend

You're right to be afraid you see
They are what you could never be
Your children are your enemy
Come now for your flesh, at least
A pound

They trap
Your voice
And hours you trade
And spit
Upon your
Shallow grave

And all the things you could have made
Are crushed and molded into blades
All eyes on you, if I was you
I might behave

How could you take something so pure
And call it yours
Only to change it into
Something it never was before
And call it improvement?
Linoleum floors
A garden of poison
Lock all the doors

You're right to be afraid you see
They are what you could never be
Your children are your enemy
Come now for your flesh, at least
A pound

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released October 17, 2020
"Linoleum" written and performed by The Roaring Shell, 2020
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The Roaring Shell Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Roaring Shell explore universal concepts of time, love, fear, and hope in modern pocket symphonies. Together they become a sort of cult wherein everything is sacrificed for the good of the music. Colorful, beautiful, a little brash; they live for the song. Everything lives for the song. Join us.

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