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Down by the River

from Down by ZCluster

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Take me down to the river
Where the bodies flow
So serene it's like a dream
That I've always known

The coil in my fist unravels
As it strokes your skin you sigh
Silk parts softly
shimmers and slides
frayed ends loop to glide over thighs
My hand on your throat, you just need to be fed
Your sounds are a colour, you're pretty in red
Your taste on my tongue and my voice in your head

I leant in close and said -

"We shed, my love, so red
it's red, red,
red..."

Your skin is a canvas
we cannot resist
I paint with my hands and my teeth and a fist
You fall like a feather
fall into bliss
You fall so sweetly just like a kiss
Deeper than sorrow
sharp as a sin
pull out the secrets hiding within
Carving these words into your skiin

Hush now.
You're mine.

I know
You needed something
I know
Something deeper than you've been
I know
You want to give everything you are
So held
I'll take it I'll take it I'll take it all

The snake in my head unravels
As it crawls down my spine I sigh
Skin parts softly
shudders and writhes
Sacrament to christen the knives

blade in the small of your shivering spine
You're smiling sweetly on the end of the line
rope tightened and wound
(As you're) hauled off the ground
cradled, exposed and bound.

We shed, my love, so red
so red, red
red

You spun so pretty in the breeze that day
A pale little doll used and left on display
Wind whispered softly and bade us remember
When it all becomes ashes from glowing red embers
Down by the river in the depths of December
We danced to the edge and when it was over
We'd shed our skins down there by the river

I know
You needed something
I know
Something deeper than you've been
I know
You want to give everything you are
So held
I'll take it I'll take it I'll take it all

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from Down, released July 5, 2019

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ZCluster Sydney, Australia

ZCluster is the industrial bastard child of Sai Lillith (Blatherskite, The Abyss Collective) and producer/remixer INfest8 (Other, Konqistador, Sicktronic, The Birthday Massacre, Sara Noxx, Dream Disciples, among others).

Based in Sydney, their undeniable creative chemistry and mutual love of gloomy rock, industrial and esoterica have found an outlet in the birth of z(cluster). ... more

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