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You Write on My Face

from Velorio by Teething Veils

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    2 x LP of Teething Veils' album "Velorio" featuring original commissioned artwork by Adam de Boer. Featuring reverse-board matte gatefold jacket with lyrics printed on inside and black poly-lined sleeves.

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    CD of Teething Veils' album "Velorio" featuring original commissioned artwork by Adam de Boer.

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lyrics

You Write on my Face

I did receive your letter
Wrapped and bound with care
You would not come to meet me
So I found my own way there

Not wind nor rain did slow me
I crept around the halls
Up to the room you rented
On my face you did draw

Mouth against the floor
Wrapped and bound with care
Sole pressed firmly to the chin
Reticence and fare

Dally away the days
On creaking unmade beds
Convivial chasms
Flutter around our heads

Hanging up and catching out
Fabric stalls a potter’s wheel
The wrong tools for the right tasks
Crack the royal seal

I live my expiation
Yet all astir with him
Is the same knit-bombing Circe
Who parboiled my limbs

Heels that bruise my neck
Fingernails that scratch
My effigy is squinting
To know who struck the match

Close your eyes and ears
As you learn to spell
Bless your heart & go away
It’s everyone for themselves

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from Velorio, released July 10, 2013

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Teething Veils Washington, D.C.

"These songs—sepia-toned yet searching, eccentric yet melodically inclined—add up to something that feels like its own universe, sometimes wistful, sometimes the kind of menacing only achieved via a late-career Tom Waits death rattle." -Wash CP

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