WE are boxers. We are fighters. We are born boxers. We are born pugilists. Blessed at birth with a talent for doing grand violence. To our shame we squander it. Our blood flows down from the Norse Gods through the Viking veins into the highlands before spewing across the sea into the heart of the south of North America. Where the Hatfields and McCoys have been feuding for generations over plots of rocks and dirt all the while keeping one eye open and on the herd. My dummy fists, they cannot swing. Like rubber fish that do not swim. My dummy fists, they do not swing. Like rubber fish they just exist. For alight with the weight of flies and then burst into clouds of white, mere moths on the cheek and grind to our knees as bags of sand. Roll around the ground as tomato cans. But no one gives a shit if we are butterflies or bees. We have these fancy wings. We have these handy claws. We traded in our mitts for they would not make hooks no more. So we pissed our genes out onto the parlour floor. We are monsters, we are mothmen. We are shadows of our grandfather's hands. We pissed the goods out onto paper in our finer days while we were fluttering about above our funny pages. We pissed our blood into the air and watched it shower down. We pissed the faces on our comic pages into red.
Lyrics: John Manson
credits
from Citadel,
track released June 1, 2012
Brendan Gibson - Drums
Daniel Madri - Guitar/keyboard
John Manson - Vocals
Music by Gondoliers
Lyrics by John Manson
Recorded and Mixed by Kevin Micka.
Mastered by Scott Craggs
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