Another previously unreleased track from The Sweet Meat Love & Holy Cult “Mystagogue” sessions.
I did a basement goof-off lip-sync video in the basement with a great cat who was since murdered by a poodle in Colorado. That’s Wolfie you see at the end. Great cat who loved me.
Here’s the video: youtu.be/_CfIBgMESgs
MERCHANT OF SOULS by Antic Clay
Ye line your pockets with chaos
Ye wreathe my neck with an albatross
And that’s the popular payoff, merchant of souls!
Ye blindly buying redemption
Ye blandly flouting convention
See you just spreading dementia, merchant of souls!
Ye scalped our tickets to paradise
with one particular parasite
Nothing’s working but terror might, merchant of souls!
Merchant of souls
Merchant of misery
Got me tangled down, raw
Collapsed with a grimace on the visions I saw!
I saw the center collapsing
Upon the pinnacle axis
And asses betting on matchsticks, merchant of souls!
I saw the carnally minded
A god-dog mortally wounded
And my reflection was blinded, merchant of souls!
Ye profit off destruction
Ye prophet of distraction
And relative malefaction, merchant of souls!
Merchant of souls
Merchant of misery
Minister of woes
Collapsed with a grimace on the visions I saw!
I saw those butchered pilgrims
The loathsome vulture children
Woven in the cauldron, merchant of souls!
Merchant of souls
Merchant of misery
Got me tangled down raw
Collapsed with a grimace on the vision I saw
Reduced to corpus delicti
Ye use a noose for a necktie
Ye lard your language with alibi, merchant of souls
The dead are born and bred there
The social fabric threadbare
And many heads are shed there, merchant of souls!
My last request for the hangman!
I want to sing like birds again!
Never worry who listens! Merchant of souls!
Merchant of souls.
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released August 10, 2022
All words and music by Michael Bradley
Recorded, engineered and mixed by Laine Pierce
Copyright ©2007 FurnaceSongs (ASCAP)
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