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"The Invisible Church" from the album Fabulous Dream (c) 2012 Nathan Payne

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The Invisible Church
"A minimalist bare-bones breathtaker. Acoustic gypsy strings swirl and snake around Payne's woeful, mourning voice. Evokes pure, dark saudade." Benny Dreadful, host of Hellhound Howl on CJAM 99.1FM Windsor/Detroit. http://hellhoundhowl.blogspot.com


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The Invisible Church


late at night
when I'm uptight
I sink into the avenue

everyone's
asleep
thank God I don't keep
track of time
or I'd be inclined to mastermind
the perfect crime

I'm everywhere
at once,
& it's not what she wants,
but I'm not afraid of incurring the wrath
of the false prophets
patrolling the path
of the well-beaten herd,
stampeding
at a hundred miles an hour
in their fiberglass pills,
swallowed up
by the mountains & hills,
and all the towers in the city
are falling like confetti
from the sky

under the dreamsicle gloom
& the petrified trees,
the concrete comes up to my knees,
and then the ground around my waist
& that's when your face appears
to me
on a falling leaf
I can see my reflection
in your teeth
tell me,
who had to die
for that wicked gleam in your eye
to finally shine so bright?
you've regained your appetite
and lost your sight
on the boulevard of chokes & screams
tonight

a bed of nails
a sky of stones
your image burned into my bones
& the cloud of smoke rising from your ashes
reminds me of a flock of dirty
turtledoves
hovering above
the ruins of a crumbling empire,
so take my hand,
I'm your angel of death
I'm your misleading man
& I'll never be declawed
& I'm richer than God,
& I'm in control,
for whatever it's worth,
of the whole wide
world
to the ends of the earth,
sharpening my claws
on the laws & broken contracts
you signed with yourself
to increase your illusion
of power & wealth
& now that it's gone,
which side are you on,
man,
we're dying here

(meanwhile,
the pigs expand their search,
but they'll never find me
cuz they'll never think
to look
in the invisible
church)



© 2012 Nathan Payne