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Hell's Gate

from East / West by Dao Strom

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These hills of gold are all I have to offer you / my men, my men / & gold you may find here / & toil you will, my dears / but richer will be / the ones who vanish their greed / to find within the trees / the secrets my daughters keep / & the ages do bleed / & their patient eyes weep

long have they scratched my skin / and teased my bones / they dressed in / feathers and skins / they marked the stones / they climbed quiet as mice / to heights humans don't belong / to heights humans don't belong

& then came Fraser's men and the lady / whose search would never end / for the men lost at sea / to the dark northern degrees

My veins they named a portal to hell / my blood was turbulent / & for the canyons walls they scaled / I claimed the souls of some of them

& on my belly they did lay / a powder soft and grey / they set this afire / with a kiss / with a kiss, with a kiss / & the hole this love did create / grew into a cave / that the men could climb deep inside / to extract the substance I hide

these hills of gold are all I have / to offer you / my men, my men / & gold you may find here / & toil you will my dears / but only a few will know / the damage they hold

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from East / West, released September 22, 2015
guitar, vocals, distorted synth - dao strom
percussion, bass - darwin smith
recorded by darwin smith in austin, tx

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