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Vice

from Old Salt by Cailean

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lyrics

This bottle, half empty
A hundred days it’s carried me away
From the shipwreck you left me
The burning lights have ferried me today
Your stigma, my heritage
The monster in the marriage is
The cure in my regress
The words I couldn’t say

I fell awake
Tore the veil in half
Sold your name
For a beggar’s price
With bloodied eyes
You smiled back
It grips me like a vice

An ache that runs deep here
Am I my father’s keeper? I’d say
No dreams in your sleep here
No recompense, just shades of your grief, your fear, and your rage
And what about the real world?
What about the time lost-
The faith, the color, the girl?

I fell awake
Tore the veil in half
And sold your name
For a beggar’s price
With bloodied eyes
You smiled back
It grips me like a vice
There’s a counterturn
To your angel-song
And all my devils-
They sing along
I am aware of how this ends
I’ll bury you again

I fell awake
Tore the veil in half
And sold your name
For a beggar’s price
With bloodied eyes
You smiled back
It grips me like a vice

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from Old Salt, released September 20, 2012

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Cailean Grand Rapids, Michigan

We are Cailean, and we believe in stories—the ones we tell and the ones we have been told from generations past. We started Cailean (Kal-un) in early 2012 as a project devoted to the exploration of storytelling in the melding of Irish and American folk-rock themes.

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