SUNDOWNING (2019) BY SLEEP TOKEN PROMPTS
* assorted lyrics as dialogue, adjust wherever necessary.
the night does not belong to god.
the night comes down like heaven.
the whites of your eyes turns black in the low light, in turning divine.
we tangle endlessly, like lovers entwined.
i know for the last time, you will not be mine.
so give me the night, the night, the night.
you are a garden, entwined with all.
you are the silence on sacred shores.
youāve got diamonds for teeth, my love.
so take a bite of me, just once.
this is a giving, an offering in your favour, a sacrifice in your name.
i know you've got a taste.
give in again and let me lay.
my arms belong around you.
the trauma we can't regrow just as you leave again.
will you levitate up where the angels inhabit?
will you levitate where i won't reach you?
we imitate a story of perfect days.
a ballad we fabricate as you forget your words again.
and is that all you need to merely pretend to be falling in love with me?
will you levitate up where my love doesn't matter?
where i was raised, there was no street lights, just pitch black and passing headlights.
where we met, there must have been dark signs, omens in your skies.
most days you reach for safety.
remain calm, forget that you know me.
when we met, i could see dark signs, alarm bells in your eyes.
i miss the man i was the moment we left off.
i might break and bend to my basic need to be loved and close to somebody.
i hate who i have become.
and if you saw the marks on my dashboard, the new scars that i didn't ask for, would you call, asking for answers?
'cause i am a fire and you are dry as bone.
you are taking your time, you are killing me slow.
and i know we instigate, go back and forth, lacerate.
we are exhausted by all this pretending.
we just can't resist the violence.
you need a melody, i only need the silence.
each time we battle, the blood and the fury takes us a little higher.
with all that you believe, you still refuse to shelter me.
you're a long way from home.
you are one among many, but you're now on your own.
i hate the way you look at me when i am not understood.
wait, won't you wait for me?
it sends me shivers how you love like weapons kill.
so take aim at me for once.
just take aim, break me apart.
won't you call out my name like a curse on this world? like a battle cry?
you make me hate myself, make me tear my body. make me yearn for your embrace.
you led me on when the moment is perfect.
i will fire and forget 'til we both lay broken.
you know iāll be yours.
just want to be worth it.
you take the dark and carve me out a home.
i picture you when you are all alone.
i am the shadow, you're a passenger.
if you want to give, then give me all that you can give.
if you want to give me anything, then give. give in again.
iāll tear the fibre from the filament.
iāll be the limit of your light again.
i want to taste you better.
i will be watching for your enemies, to let them know that they contend with me.
i want to know you're out there.
i want to give you all that i can give, all my darkest impulses.
in this open warfare, i won't fight fair.
in your waking moments, i will be there.
i see the gods avert their gaze from me.
my fucking form is but a wreck beneath them.
there are always people i can call on.
no more taking chances, no more teeth to bite with, no more smiling faces. i am alone again.
you want to talk, you want to talk it out? 'cause the joke's on me, and iām laughing too.
you want to watch me bleed, 'cause i bleed so well?
do you like the way it feels? like fire from the heavens tearing me asunder beside you.
you play a twisted little game, but i know in a way, you need to complicate.
believe that though we never eat, we still know how to feed.
sugar, iāve developed a taste for you now.
do you wanna see how far it goes?
do you wanna test me now, my love?
you must be crazy if you think that i will give in so easily.
things we buried low coming to the surface now, my love.
you must be crazy if you think that i will give up the game.
sugar, iāve got a taste for you now.
is that a word you said, my love? or just a gesture in tongues?
well, i live to guess your sorrow and you live to empty my lungs.
you've got me up in a frenzy again and i know you're planning to leave in the end.
wonāt you say that you will?
let the impulse to love and the instinct to kill entangle to one.
in this light you are mine 'til the sweat turns to blood.
wonāt you say that you will? even if you won't.
is that a glint in your eye? is that a blade in your palm?
well, i am yours tonight, so will you lay in my arms?
i know the angels tonight are as lost for words as i am to merely behold you as we lie down together.
drag me under again, deep into your love.
i know the gods will abandon the heavens just to find us. to merely behold you as we lie down together.
hold me beneath the surface, deep into your love.
i want to roll the numbers, i want to feel my stars align againāeven if the earth breaks like burnt skin and the heavens just won't open up for me.
wonāt you pay for your arrogance?
wonāt you show me your weakness?
i made loving you a blood sport.
i made loving you a blood sport i can't win.
iām still your favourite regret.
youāre still my weapon of choosing.
and out there, stuck in a quantum pattern, tangled with what i never said, you say it doesn't matter.
i want to be forgiven. i want to choke up chunks of my own sinsāeven if the sky cracks in mourning and the heavens just won't open up for me.
would you invite me in again? let me pay for my arrogance?
darling, iām noticing your flaws. theyāre exactly what i want. even if you won't believe me, know it.
darling, iām noticing my flaws and iām matching them with yours.
wonāt you take me where you're going this time.
no matter the cost of rain, i will shelter you all the same.