"Magnanimity (Bigger Man)" lyrics
Can you hear her calling?
My old body that you buried
With the mud and the timber
Tried to snuff the rabid light within her
She wants to wash you from me
This new body that you rattled
Till it was quiet, dry-eyed and mature
Despite your shouts making me so little
She knows that I'm tired
Of turning teary cheeks
You say it's best to forgive
Let go, maintain the peace
But I writhe in my grave
And you've never lost sleep
Begging the moon to have you leave me be
Or give me a
Spine stretching taller than pines
Fingers as long as the space between stars
Tongue rough as bloodsucking tides
Teeth that can grind down entire mountainsides
And all that's been coming for you
(Ooh)
(Every spit, every seethe, let them wash over me)
(Every sob held in, let it glow 'gainst my ribs)
(Every holler I swallowed, every pain left un-wallowed)
(Every cheek turned, tearstained, wax this new skin again)
Her resting grounds are a dark lake
In a little girl's shape
Murky waters churning black
Every sob, all the snot, every tear held back
My ribs crack in half from one small sip
So I leap into it
By the time I raise from my bathing
I send great waves a-breakin' with my
Spine stretching taller than pines
Fingers as long as the space between stars
Tongue rough as bloodsucking tides
Teeth that can grind down entire mountainsides
And I'll cry for forty nights and days
My lake of tears will flood you drowned
(Eyes glowing wilder than night)
When I splay my shoulder blades like tectonic plates
I'll quake the ground
(Footprints blazing down like meteorites)
Shining over horizons
My eye's a flame that never snuffs out
(Blood spilling rivers of wine)
(Heart beating louder than lightning strikes)
And I'll howl so loud I'll thunder the clouds
Say, "Who's the bigger man now?"
Who's the bigger man now?
Who's the bigger man now?
Who's the bigger man now?
(Who's the big man now?)
If all you old men were hares on the mountain
How many young girls would take guns and go huntin'?
If all you old men were hares on the mountain
How many young girls would take guns and go huntin'?
I'll wolf down suns in one whole swallow
So you'll freeze beneath my shoulder's shadow
As cold as my old body you choked
As above, so below
Mercy is not a word that I know
Shed none for me all those moons ago
How dare you beg for maturity
When you have thirty-one years on me
(Every spit, every seethe, let them wash over me)
(Every sob I held in, let it glow 'gainst my ribs)
(Every holler I swallowed, every pain left un-wallowed)
(Every cheek turned, tearstained, wax this new skin again)
(Let my veins shake with weight of a little girl's anger)
(As she wraps shaking arms 'round the waist of her eater)
(Let these lungs rattle dread, every strung curse unsaid)
(I'll never exhale it all, it never ends)
Spine stretching taller than pines
Fingers as long as the space between stars
Tongue rough as bloodsucking tides
Teeth that can grind down entire mountainsides
And I glow with an eternal rage
My bellowing lungs will smoke you out
(Eyes glowing wilder than night)
My middle finger digs your grave
While the other hand will hunt you down
(Footprints blazing down like meteorites)
Bones dangling from the mouth
On a head that hangs beneath a blackthorn crown
(Blood spilling rivers of wine)
Her little laugh behind every shout
Beg, "Who's the bigger man now?"
(Heart beating louder than lightning strikes)
Who's the bigger man now?
Who's the bigger man now?
Who's the bigger man now?
My old body that you buried
With the mud and the timber
Tried to snuff the rabid light within her
She wants to wash you from me
This new body that you rattled
Till it was quiet, dry-eyed and mature
Despite your shouts making me so little
She knows that I'm tired
Of turning teary cheeks
You say it's best to forgive
Let go, maintain the peace
But I writhe in my grave
And you've never lost sleep
Begging the moon to have you leave me be
Or give me a
Spine stretching taller than pines
Fingers as long as the space between stars
Tongue rough as bloodsucking tides
Teeth that can grind down entire mountainsides
And all that's been coming for you
(Ooh)
(Every spit, every seethe, let them wash over me)
(Every sob held in, let it glow 'gainst my ribs)
(Every holler I swallowed, every pain left un-wallowed)
(Every cheek turned, tearstained, wax this new skin again)
Her resting grounds are a dark lake
In a little girl's shape
Murky waters churning black
Every sob, all the snot, every tear held back
My ribs crack in half from one small sip
So I leap into it
By the time I raise from my bathing
I send great waves a-breakin' with my
Spine stretching taller than pines
Fingers as long as the space between stars
Tongue rough as bloodsucking tides
Teeth that can grind down entire mountainsides
And I'll cry for forty nights and days
My lake of tears will flood you drowned
(Eyes glowing wilder than night)
When I splay my shoulder blades like tectonic plates
I'll quake the ground
(Footprints blazing down like meteorites)
Shining over horizons
My eye's a flame that never snuffs out
(Blood spilling rivers of wine)
(Heart beating louder than lightning strikes)
And I'll howl so loud I'll thunder the clouds
Say, "Who's the bigger man now?"
Who's the bigger man now?
Who's the bigger man now?
Who's the bigger man now?
(Who's the big man now?)
If all you old men were hares on the mountain
How many young girls would take guns and go huntin'?
If all you old men were hares on the mountain
How many young girls would take guns and go huntin'?
I'll wolf down suns in one whole swallow
So you'll freeze beneath my shoulder's shadow
As cold as my old body you choked
As above, so below
Mercy is not a word that I know
Shed none for me all those moons ago
How dare you beg for maturity
When you have thirty-one years on me
(Every spit, every seethe, let them wash over me)
(Every sob I held in, let it glow 'gainst my ribs)
(Every holler I swallowed, every pain left un-wallowed)
(Every cheek turned, tearstained, wax this new skin again)
(Let my veins shake with weight of a little girl's anger)
(As she wraps shaking arms 'round the waist of her eater)
(Let these lungs rattle dread, every strung curse unsaid)
(I'll never exhale it all, it never ends)
Spine stretching taller than pines
Fingers as long as the space between stars
Tongue rough as bloodsucking tides
Teeth that can grind down entire mountainsides
And I glow with an eternal rage
My bellowing lungs will smoke you out
(Eyes glowing wilder than night)
My middle finger digs your grave
While the other hand will hunt you down
(Footprints blazing down like meteorites)
Bones dangling from the mouth
On a head that hangs beneath a blackthorn crown
(Blood spilling rivers of wine)
Her little laugh behind every shout
Beg, "Who's the bigger man now?"
(Heart beating louder than lightning strikes)
Who's the bigger man now?
Who's the bigger man now?
Who's the bigger man now?
