more from
The Flenser
We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Mortality of Doves

from Coffins On Io by Kayo Dot

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $2 USD  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Coffins On Io via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      $11.50 USD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    CD digipak version of "Coffins on Io," so glossy that it's almost impossible to take a good photo! One of our most popular albums featuring our top song on Spotify, "The Mortality of Doves."

    Includes unlimited streaming of Coffins On Io via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 4 days
    3 remaining
    Purchasable with gift card

      $13 USD or more 

     

lyrics

I.
Every angel that drips from the faucet into the sink
Tumbles down the drain
And deep into the ground
The choirs resound in an empty room as
Angels seep into the earth
And no one noticed this coffin heaving
These earthen boards thick with deceiving

Every
Every angel
that drips
from the faucet
in
to the sink
Tumbles down
down the drain
And deep into the ground
The choirs resound in
resound in an empty room
as Angels seep into the earth

And no
And no one
no one noticed this coffin heaving
These earthen boards thick
Thick with deceiving

And
And it swallowed
Up
Up the spirit
In the mire
Of division
As man
As mankind
Looked on and glutted itself
Upon derision trampled underfoot
The seeping of the soil
As man
As mankind
looked on and grumbled ever
Louder with the toil of every day and every year
And every century


And it swallowed up the spirit
In the mire of division
As mankind looked on and
Glutted itself upon derision
Trampled underfoot, the seeping of the soil
As mankind looked on and grumbled
Ever louder with the toil
Of every day and every year
And every century

Lost in thought
Or thought is lost
On the creeping multitude of heaven
They could never see beyond
And so there was nothing beyond to see
One after the next for ever and ever
Stepping over the statues of gods
Lying broken in the streets like tyrants

II.
The cynical heart too oft forgot
Its blood in course of vein
As circulated phantoms drain from
Spout to sink to silence
And vigilance betrayed by neglect
But uttered not in defiance
Sleep, the uncloaked sleep of doves
In mortality
Drawing down the shade of years
Over the monstrosity
Shutting the lids and shutting the sight
Bridging the break and shunning the life
The Earth entire has become a wasteland
A marsh intense, a swamp of flatland
Not so flat as desolate
And deep with poison and with regret
I cry aloud as I am pull’d beneath
And a body hangs over the shower rod
Like a towel left out to dry
Drips call out their protest to a dark and empty room
Sadness decorates the silence
As a gathering of the gloom

My cries are the echoes of a long-lost suicide
An angel bleeding out, a dove that has died

credits

from Coffins On Io, released August 14, 2014

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Kayo Dot (and the music of Toby Driver) Middlefield, Connecticut

KAYO DOT is an undefinable band led by composer Toby Driver. All the other projects and titles on this page are also the work of Toby Driver. Several additional titles are also available exclusively through our subscription service.

contact / help

Contact Kayo Dot (and the music of Toby Driver)

Streaming and
Download help

Shipping and returns

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Kayo Dot (and the music of Toby Driver), you may also like: