Conquistador Blood

from Water Coils by Post War Germany

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Conquistador Blood

If you see me on the side of the road
Don’t pick me up, I don’t want a ride
I’m fine, I’ll get where I want to go
Once the bottle is empty and the wine’s inside me.

That’s the way it goes, your weekend homes
Cheap booze and cigarettes,
And if you got nothing worth remembering,
I guess you got nothing to regret.

And waking up from sleepless dreams,
To the haunted pleas of coyote wails,
The memories that bite, then leave
And drag what’s left upon the trails

That’s the way it goes, when doors you close
Like stomped out cigarettes,
And if you got nothing worth remembering,
I guess you got nothing to regret.

*And in my veins flows conquistador blood
I fear I’ve drawn the sword with no sheath!
And then my veins say: “I’ve seen enough shed!”
You’ll see, you’ll see, you’ll see, you’ll all see.

And if there was beauty it was all lost on me
And if there was beauty there was none that I could see
And if there was beauty it was all lost on me!

Am I waiting for a sign from Mars,
Staring up at stars, in these arroyos?
Waiting for flash floods or wars
To drag me where I need to go.

That’s the way I’ll leave, no tricks up sleeves
Some cactus for my crown
And if you built your heart of straw
I’ll be the coyote to burn it down.

*

So I hope that this all will end in violence
But I know all screams end in (silence)

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from Water Coils, released July 12, 2012

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Acoustic at KUNM (2016)

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