We Fall and Get Up, We Fall and Get Up, We Fall and Get Up

from 001: Firebelly Salamander b/w We Fall and Get Up, We Fall and Get Up, We Fall and Get Up by Christians & Lions

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I keep
names and emotions in my teeth
when I can't take
the blistering heat
on my tongue.

Often it seems they never cool.
Often, it seems, they never do.
But I must stop starving myself
for fear
of indigestion.

So let my stomach shrink,
to embrace the week,
naturally.

Your words could make my ears bleed,
under these sheets,
like a shotgun in a tunnel.

I have known since
before the kiss
that I could say
such beautiful things with your lips.

Let's taste the words we weren't allowed before.
Let's sing the ones that we can't speak.

So those with the voices of angels
have ended up
singing like
canaries...

They think they can pull a Cain
just 'cause they're able,
but we'll not forget the skin
that we are wearing.

Let's taste the words we weren't allowed before.
Let's sing the ones that we can't speak.

(No more will I let my stomach shrink.)

(Singing:) We shall overcome someday.

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from 001: Firebelly Salamander b/w We Fall and Get Up, We Fall and Get Up, We Fall and Get Up, released January 1, 2004

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A "veritable underdog super group" (TheDig) formed in 2004. Ben Moy Potrykus (Bent Shapes, Receiving End of Sirens, etc), Matt Sisto, Chris Mara, and Chris Barrett are joined by Fiona Wood, Chris D'Amore, James Weinberg, and Sara Honeywell live. Also featuring Sam Potrykus, Kate Virginia, Greg Tellier, and more. ... more

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