Dead Fish Swimming Upstream

from Two Bridges by Cats On Film

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lyrics

My mother used to revelate
The morals of Giles Corey:
Suffer for your loved ones
Fuck the pilgrims, fuck the state

And I have tried
To abide by that
And I succeed about
As well as you'd expect

But what in the world am I
Supposed to learn
From all of my friends and I
Getting pressed to death?

More weight!
More weight!
More weight!

Woke up last night
I was bleeding down one leg
Three bug bites
Runnin up the other

Looking for vampires
In the corners of my bed
I got a message
from my friend-

They didn't get the job again
Their search already
three months in
Timestamped at 3 a.m.

More weight!
More weight!
More weight!

Simon Sponberg
Showed us a movie
Of a trout that was
swimming upstream

He showed us the movie
Six times before
He told us the fish
Was dead

Pulled it out of the freezer
Put it straight into the water
Oh it moved like a dancer
It still moved like a dancer

The only thing
That pain has to teach us
is how to take a little more pain

The only thing
That death has to teach us
is silence, its shape and its name

The only thing
That weight has to teach us
Is how to ask for more fucking weight

More weight!
More weight!
More weight!
More weight!
More weight!
More weight!
More weight!

credits

from Two Bridges, released March 6, 2021
a: lyrics, vocals, guitar
m: drums, vocals, keyboards

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