Bullfighter's Union

from The Living Lions by Saint Deadmule

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Well I spent more time in the bullfighters union
than you have spent breaking a stallion or two.
My daughter's a maiden who ain't worth the saving
'less saving's a service you horsebreakers do.

I ain't got no money, I'll give you my graveyard
My mother wore silver when they buried her there.
My stump-legged father enshrined in his armor,
there's gold in his jawbone worth more than I care.

They say when you die you become constellations
unwinding the way for us all,
but the dead do not pay you a nickel for bearing their pall.
No, the dead keep their silence;
the dead do not thank you at all.

Though I see that you're dying, I declare you unable
to sit at the dead singer-songwriter's table.
The song that your heart wrote was green and disheveled—
a reverie written for none.

You sang of the bull what was bleeding out strong,
in terminal darkness it limped its way on,
and its horns were still dripping with the blood of our hero,
who hangs from an alder and rots in the sun.

All hands out to Ohio / godspeed, Allegheny
No, I'd never surrender no Monongahela to thee

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from The Living Lions, released January 1, 2019

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Saint Deadmule Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mostly an illustrator, but I make music sometimes. Lots more to come!

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