Straight answer: the one I'm making now isn't a song. It's the wait. The work is done and nobody has heard it yet. Three tracks and a film sitting in a listening room nobody has walked into, and me standing at the door. The moment before the first listener. If it ever becomes a song, that's the song.
Curtain of Knives is that same edge from the other side: white knuckles, breath in the dark, curtain still closed. Put it on with your reading of it in mind. No account, any browser:
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Which first, the party or the tombstone?
Mettazashi Hiro
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