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The Dead Ones

from Birds by M Stevens & The Ghasts

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The Dead Ones

There’s a death so slow you could call it living
When the wet wind whistles like a song
And I can only make it through the day
By not knowing what the living say
But the dead ones, they know what’s been and gone
The dead ones, they know what’s been and gone

Burnt trees reaching up to ashen skies
Like a thousand dancing skeletons’ hands
In an empty universe
You can’t hear the cosmonauts curse
But the dead ones, they’re waking up the land
The dead ones, they’re waking up the land

Take me to your lilac window women
Take me to your dancers draped in dew
Give me all your window dressing
Your lemon vodka, your Eastern blessing
‘cause the dead ones, they want these things from you
The dead ones, they want these things from you

A thousand children locked in a lonely spaceship
A crimson planet melts and folds
Someone somewhere's getting really well paid
And on the bridge is John C. McQuaid
The dead ones have no laughter in their soul
The dead ones have no laughter in their soul

And on the box Doc Browne was talking to me
Making purple sounds through liquid mire
And in the sky as the morning paled
Y’know I think I saw chem trails
Yeah the dead ones, they hammer rocks in fire
The dead ones, they hammer rocks in fire

Snow falling on the head of D.O’Connell
Climbing from his place of brass and stone
Staggers down to Parnell Square
Has a smoke with Parnell there
Says “Charlie, the dead ones carry the load”
Says “Charlie, the dead ones carry the load”

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from Birds, released November 12, 2022

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M Stevens & The Ghasts Dublin, Ireland

You may know M Stevens as Mike, that speccy guy from a string of Irish alt folk & indie pop bands like Settler, Groom, Lie Ins and Skelocrats. Or as co-founder of celebrated indie collective Popical Island.

M's band The Ghasts are Mark Jordan, Hugh McCabe, Ciaran Canavan, Donagh O'Brien and sometimes Norah and Anna Stevens and Sadhbh McCabe. ... more

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