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Steel Fingers

from The World Is Yours by Pale People

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lyrics

So this is what it's like in pain
Without the aid of human language
It comes up into me
Like water up the veins of trees
Or two kids skipping joyous 'cross the same bridge

No one sees me when I wake
Nobody stops the scalpels moving
And I lay under blades
Like flowers in the tender shade
Of trees—tall and green—freshly fruiting

Chorus
It's good to be so alive
The moment that they arrive
And flourish cold crooked knives
Under the skin—
Steel fingers that I've
Invited in—
The hurt lingers—but I'll stay alive

So this is what it's like in pain
Just past the limits of translation
The way I fumble for
My language through the roaring gore
Of scissors and their simple separation

I'll never feel like this again
Like someone switched on all the bright stars
Like lilies pressed between
The pages of a magazine
Or gorgeous forests filled with shrieking nightjars

Chorus

It's good to be so alive
The moment that they arrive
And laying under their knives

credits

from The World Is Yours, released October 1, 2017
Mack Gilcrest - Piano, Vocals, Organ
Austin Graef - Drums
Kurt Skrivseth - Bass, Electric Guitar
Produced by Kurt Skrivseth
Mastered by Jason Suko at South Sound Sound - Seattle
Lyrics by Mack Gilcrest
Music by Pale People 
Copyright © 2017 Pale People MusicAll Rights Reserved. Unauthorized Copying, Reproduction, Hiring, Lending, Public Performance and Broadcasting Prohibited. Made in the U.S.

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Pale People Missoula, montana

Missoula, MT’s worst-kept secret.
An eccentric piano-rock quartet with a varied oeuvre, from soft confessionals to howling rants about the lonely and insane.
Better than sex. Cheaper than therapy.

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