LYRICS:

In The Dirt

crows stitched songs through my old head
lifted, holding borrowed dread
fought the thread and followed it
hissing, flaring, wouldn’t quit
sang through static, clear and sane
sank the proof in splintered rain
up and forward marching sea
what do you really believe?
thousand names I tried to scrawl
echoed through these hallowed walls
buried hunger’s broken trust
festered into blistered dust
dreamt of dogs who fed on bones
gnawed through moaning dial tones
ground confessed we won’t admit
wept where silence made its pit

Torrent

what is safe? - what is waste?
how carefree - you don’t see
what a shame - warmth and weight
eat the sun - model light
sit inside - simple life
run along - been so long
search for it - always miss
skin the clouds - wear the storm
what is safe? - what a waste
you’re an act - you attract
now you’ll know - you can go
while you walk - skip the chain
cower end - you descend
round around - bunched and bound
force it back - in the slack
from this curse - you’ll be fine

Alternate

i drank from your grin
tongues like words, I bled
drag me through your mud
spinning shadows tread
let the mirror bend
drowning where you pressed
frayed an edge of skin
your mind and mine regress
salt-spine dialogue
ruin me within
think to strap a hymn
melting in your sin
stripping silver seams,
smoking violet skin
bloom like in my dreams
and moan it all again

Postpartum

clicking limbs in cradle light
kiss the silk and crawl from sight
cutting jaw with crimson sting
eggs in baskets mothers bring
she grows soft in the caterwaul
she grows soft in the caterwaul
lullabies with larval teeth
spit the earth and rot beneath
moonlight hatches in her lungs
flesh remembers being young
she grows soft in the caterwaul

As They Pray

drink their ashes and call it form
the farewell boxes will call it bliss
they watch as you frighten little girls
where lavender meadows quiver
they swim inside and ravage dreams
older stars, they walked on bones
they’re only heart beats in blue
you can’t look up or you might fall down
lifted high and down to tone
string embedded in flourished skin
smothered love on full display
bleeding proud as they pray

hemwick witch EP (2025)

All Good Men (2026)

Intro (Drab Tongues)

drab tongues move young
veins run undone
i kissed my screen to feel this face
his signal hummed in stale disgrace
we danced where our vast love decayed
where fire dissolved and crawled away

Little Death

listening for breath
listening for breath
listening for breath
listen to your breath
follow you to little death
cats all sank to rest
curled inside a careful mess
listen to your breath
follow you to little death
cats all sank to rest
curled inside a careful mess

Open Wide

paint settles in to your skin like oxygen
blood blooms again through the grin in porcelain
paint settles in to your skin like oxygen
blood blooms again through the grin in porcelain
spin, blue beaus collide
mouths open wide and laughter hides
fall, diamonds that grip
red splattered lips tangled in tricks

Partners

in the throes, think and sway
wicked prose, called me crazed
your shelter dogs scattered past
swallowed me in the haze
you crept in
i wept when
to be the creature in your bed
is grace I can’t accept
fitting in hollow sheets,
i aimed to please you where you slept

Consideration

goldenrods walked me through the dust
but couldn’t soothe my hurt
when I saw him in the distance,
i cut through and left
don’t tell me he’s the blood
dripping from the moon
and landing in my dawn
at least he saw and then he fought
the bitter taste of my abattoir
i saw through him, when I saw to
the great destroyer
i could kill the night and spread his life
all cracked through and spent
on the road again
they won’t catch his spirit
but I always hear him
i’m ashamed and
i am shot
with the wounds of
christ’s love

Dancing Together

i saw your name again
wedged under where I crept
and the fool you left too fast
begged for your dire misstep
i found your sunken jaw
resting in an eager claw
but i still like to think
we were dancing together
carve alabaster stars
in my rough blanket fort
seen my dear splitting up
in hearty contact sport
i wanted you to go
with your morning pack of blows
but I still like to think
we were dancing together

All Good Men

they shot me by the empty road
they found a new belief
it’s stretched upon shoulder blades
mother, your sunday gloves shine red,
your sharpened vilipends
trailed us until our end
feel in where wild weakness’s
suffocation, seized inhibition
still then, I see the southern sky
the clouds all pass me by
but hold me while I cry
i see in my crows feet
rife with youth’s hymnery
i believe her crows feet
are carried back within me
drive slow, my saints are ankle-deep
stuck few and far between
their hearts like tangerines
still then, the sky unzipped and bled,
my angels bowed their heads,
where all good men play dead

Boots Gone

look ahead these mondays cut our morning
it’s so nice to play with you tonight, though
get your boots gone, before you leave
identity asks stuck waiting
don't stay in when - the rage is gone
let the outside face, grab and reach
say sparrow and now I know you missed this
sure, we know that time lies dull complacent
should I keep two names, now we’re alone?
it’s the smallest gesture that I know
get your boots gone, before you leave
identity asks stuck waiting
don't stay in when the rage is gone
let the outside face, grab and reach
rooms full of people you don’t know
but you missed out every time before
confess strangers love you way too easy
dive sweetly into the rank and scene

Vessel

he drew out dust and blew
an empty stomach’s rotten truth
he sold us on our line
struck hollow, birth is nigh
in the flesh of festered hearts
and body full of holy parts
beaming visions from on high
eating meantime in the sky
he blew the star and it
held on to words I could spit
trapped in jars of aching souls,
those who lost all their control
he wants what’s left of this
string that tightens up my lips
thrashing out like skelter men,
wailing reaches pitch again

The Knocking

oh, I hear it in the distance
knocking, knocking
battered fists fall on their ways
their hands stay and just obtain
writhed all night and swirled inside
the strike will stick until I die

Outro (Killing Time)

if only I can read her name in lights
she’ll bring out to night, seething her inside
none of us ease when I still taste his blame
black and blue takes shame, wincing as she’s trained
when she’s small, underground
she won’t rest until he’s down
when he’s down, he will see
she can’t breathe while he’s asleep
she’s counting the days
until he reaches face
then just hold her down, so she will not dare
to escape the pair resting in their where

I still believe in the loch ness monster (2026)

Big winter

have I ever told you - how bewitching you are?
i don’t know anymore - which of us gave first
did I ever tell you - your daughter has died?
i don’t know anymore - big winter strikes
these headstrong romantics sweat out their fears
the lobster man never retreats from my dreams
you’re light on your feet - he never forgets
you cheated you lied and you’re no good for me
have I ever told you - how bewitching you are?
i don’t know anymore - which of us gave first
did I ever tell you - your daughter has died?
the girl and the host - big winter strikes