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Light My Pyre

from Our Grief Is Thus by Oak, Ash & Thorn

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lyrics

Heart awake
Shadows of hate
rise from your memory,
blacken your gaze

Hesitance
isn’t your act to take
I’ve dug my grave:
build it higher

I can see the end (hands bound)
atop the burning ground (urn for your bile)
Flames lick my feet and I scream and you smile

Light my pyre
Set my blood on fire

Strangling me with jealousy
of every time that
my desire grew limp,
and stray I would
with my wandering eyes:
you longed to blind them,
blind my sight once and for all

My skin melts away (I’m yours),
muscle torn and frayed (embraced and scorned)
At last you’ve got what you wanted and
my blood boils for you,
for you and you alone

Light my pyre,
for passion’s lust cannot be mine,
the one you’d see
to set my heart afire
and cast my ashes to the sky

Build a mound for me
and bring me to my knees
before your stubborn love bleeds out

Light my fucking pyre now

The price of love
too steep for me,
and yours fulfilled
would swallow me whole

End this now
Let me go
Disavow:
break my body
over branch and stone

Carrion birds
sick with the rain
that dampens my carcass
clean my remains

Burned out corpse
I have become,
have faith:
my legacy’s erased -
charred and broken

Hold you high your head (I’m gone)
and step oe’r the dead (no more your scourge),
but tell me: what of your spirit is left unscathed?
I beg thee

Light my pyre,
for passion’s lust cannot be mine,
the one you’d see
to set my heart afire
and cast my ashes to the sky

Build a mound for me
and bring me to my knees
before your stubborn love
bleeds out

Light my fucking pyre now

Rend me limb from limb
and all my flesh from bone
I reap as I have sown

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from Our Grief Is Thus, released April 19, 2024

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Oak, Ash & Thorn arose along Colorado’s Rocky Mountain front range out of a collective passion for heavy metal and old-world paganism. New full length album coming early 2024 via Lost Future Records, tours to follow.

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