Beauty Is Fading

from THE DEVIL IN THE GRAIN by Twelve Thousand Days

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- BEAUTY IS FADING -

. beauty is fading - & a different beauty's born - born of an older skin - wings thin as glass - groaning & growing like the bright earth grows - beneath hidden flowers crouching hiding under stone - sour & sickly golden pale & yet undying so - & I am walking unawares - asleep unto the soul - to cries, to smiles, to play the light - all the beauty of my home .

. my heart, my hands, my sleeping hands : such glory-roses! - how dying-strange this subtle song , this new skin I grow - brought here in hatred, hardship willed for someone dear - as some sighing cruel fate - the cruel comfort of a snare - & many a year wandering in the footsteps of remorse - a path of unkind broken step - a broken step of dirt - a footfall in the snow like peace - like peace drooping to the earth .

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from THE DEVIL IN THE GRAIN, released November 3, 2022

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Martyn Bates UK

(For CD version write to Jerry at eyeless@eyelessingaza.com)
voice +acoustic w/songs/ e-guitars/kybd/ tape. Since 1980, Eyeless in Gaza, & since 2000, Twelve Thousand Days, Mick Harris etc. Knew stuff / Forgot stuff / cared too much / cared too little - perhaps. 2023:current band = Kodax Strophes … with Martyn reportedly "still longing for 'Christmas in my soul". kodaxstrophes.bandcamp.com ... more

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