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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of DIM SESSION: "The Spectre of 223", BARDOS, CACTUS CROWN, ANONYM (The Hymns of Dakota Slim), GOD GONNA GET ME RIGHT (haunted hymnals 2010 - 2012), w/ THE HALLOWED MARCH: "THE BOTCHED", and w/ THE ZYDECO FUNERAL: "THE BUNGLED".
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The NIGHT THIEF
03:56
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Dripping underneath the leaves
My moon grows
Shadows hide the deeds
The day sowed
Basking in the open breeze
I feed
The Devil I know
I know
In this land of Nod
We hid our poems amongst the trees
The kingdom of the unseen
Begins to see
The final march and hum of hymns
To our victory
And as the kingdom sleeps
We forget to BE
The Devil I know
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WYLIN'
03:17
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Ooh, You keep a Coyote Wylin’
Like we’re on the same track
And with your cunnin’ and you your guilin’
I ain’t never wanna get back
We were always on our way
Up tide in the undertow
I found release in the deeds
Of you and me and the unknown
I keep a long line on my mind
I keep a long line on my mind
It feels fine, I keep a long line on my mind
Down with the lovely weight and see what comes
And it was all worth it
Every bruise and every scrape
And let us never know life without the haste
And we can keep it going for as long as we see
A new road, just you and me
I keep a long line on my mind
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CACTUS CROWN
04:52
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“Your sins will find you out”
Screams the sullied bore
In your folklore
He thinks this desert’s for shore
And with a sooth-said haste
With his sun-bleached brain
Happily deranged
Yet perfectly sane
To exist in one space
Bitter and lamed
No Cactus Crowned
He will rue the day
And with his iron tongue
Yes, you will know his name
And with a sooth-said haste
With his sun-bleached brain
You’re home and you groan
But you can’t keep away
No, you can’t keep
Somewhere under the dunes
The shadows still loom
You buried yours too
Somewhere under the stairs
Caught in the snare
You buried yours too
But you can’t keep away
©dakota slim hymns / we the hallowed 2018
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WEIGHTLESS
02:26
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I am weightless
You rebirthed a dormant ghost
Bright eyed and bushy tailed
Bound to old bones
The inner metranome
The psychic dial tone
Now hushed after years
Of no one picking up the phone
This old devil took one helluva beating
Resilient, he released this skin with a grin
Then he said
"Been fun, kid, let's never, ever do it again"
I'm finally
I'm finally
...me...
At last
May I burst into jubilant praise
To assenting angels
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WASTED BONES
04:01
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Wasted bones
I thought I could use
Whatever keeps in line
Wasted nights
Out of view
With a howl and a bite
Whatever comes our way
You’re never gonna let it go
NO
And I concede that we’re on that line
You know
Wasted love isn’t far out of sight
Wasted love
Sold to you
Sold to me
Soul to find
What comes our way
You’re never gonna let it grow
Wasted bones out of love, out of light
And I concede to the fruitless vines
To grow up
To bone up
To grow old
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The TETHER
04:37
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It’s only when I’ve lost that I’ve found you
Tangled in rope that now binds me to you
I can feel that you’ve gone down this hole
And when I’m feeling like I hold
How I keep me on the runaround
Well life keeps me glowing
I forget the past
And I make it up as a go along
From everyone, I keep me out and dazed
I won’t get caught in the lungs I want to breath
When I’m six feet tall
You will know when I’m on my knees
We must never sever the tether
I want to love
To keep me honest
Down with the left
Down with the right
Never alone
And how I keep me running
I keep me young
And I sigh
When you left me alone
It’s only when I’ve lost that I’ve found you
Chained to the hue of the new moon
I summon severed arms
I cast out the charms to tether and unbind you
Never sever the tether
We drift and sway
As the earth rotates
Though the rope’s now frayed
Pull it tot to give it length
But never sever the tether
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DISOLVA y COAGULA
07:11
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DISOLVA
All will be displaced
With no light or case
Burned and birthed again
Now placed amiss to do it all again
Am I immaterial?
Momento in memorial
Shades of the same sun
Never as one, never as one
With solve underway
Your fists will never sway
Stamina is thunderous
Lord of the Salt
Now remiss again
With solve underway
One must circle to embrace
All will be displaced
To unravel, to unlace
Dissolves, distill
Dissolves distilled
COAGULA
Cast me out
I’ll loom and I’ll haunt
As a specter cursed to breath
You invoked my ghost
And though you hiccuped and choked
Your fears now mostly reprieved
You soured the naysayers who
Told you to go it all alone
Two lights undimmed
Without or with
Brighter within
Without or with
Coagula
From Hazel to Blue
A sea change renews
Coagula
Blinking between scenes
We are what we mean
Coagula
A cactus crown blooms
Without the means to
Coagula
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The CALICO GHOST
04:33
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I cull from my many skins
A new robe of calico
And though the patchwork stems from many sins
It’s now bonafide and sacred again
There ain’t no more sighs
To get up caught in this tide
And like a good natured boy
I haven’t been fit to foil
Let millions more dead moons loom
Soon they’ll come around
Soon they’ll come around
What a ragbag ghost this calico host
Calico ghost
Soon they’ll come around
Soon they’ll come around
They’ll come
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Dakota Slim Seattle, Washington
The audiomancy of Revelator Keats Ross (WtH) since 2004.
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