Rawhide

[Verse 1]

This is how you disappear out between midnight

Called up under valleys of torches and stars

Foot, knee, shaggy belly, face, famous hindlegs

As one of their own, you graze with them

[Verse 2]

Cro-magnon herders will stand in the wind

Sweeping tails shining and scaled to begin

Shutting down here

Shutting down here

To where necks leave the air unpossesed

Giant heads lock constellations

A last grain of dust lands in the darkness

On tongues laid bare and turning to chalk

Shutting down here

[Verse 3]

Freezing in red, bent over his ice skin

The insomniac gnaws in the On-Offs;

He is glazed in the hooves all around

It is losing its shape, losing its shape

As the heat in your hands

Carve the muscle away

[Bridge]

And he grins from a break in a backflash

Delivers it up on a break in a backflash

[Outro]

Motionless brands burn into a hipframe

As a saviour loads sightlines backlit by fires

On the ridges of the highest breeder