Cut the Reaper

from Surge and Burn: 2000 - 2014 by Flaming Fire

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lyrics

CUT THE REAPER
(from "Songs From the Shining Temple")

CHORAL HOWLING

Here he comes in the middle of the night
Take my life before daylight
Remember the knife hidden in the nightstand
I'm gonna chop off his bony hand!

CHORUS:
You’ve got to cut the reaper, cut the reaper, cut the reaper, cut the reaper

I don’t wanna die, they’ll never take my life!
I don’t wanna die, No!
Cut the reaper, make him bleed
Make him suffer for the soul he needs
Crush the hourglass and spill the sand
You don't have to lay down for the master plan!
CHORUS

But I never remember the little things
The sweet-lipped fairies and diamond rings
The carnival smoke and the mommy plates
The crust that busts my heart to break
The dapper dogs with the gold white teeth
The blades of grass that puncture neat
Through soil yards to kiss the heath
For pollen pie that tastes so sweet
And Evangeline and Misty too
And mostly I remember you
Rolling down that purple hill
Asunder with your wonder swill
And all those things that smell of pie
And smear the moldy years gone by
And now I am going to die!
No!
I’ll never ever die!

Cut the Reaper!
CHORUS

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from Surge and Burn: 2000 - 2014, released September 13, 2014

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Flaming Fire

"Flaming Fire’s frontman, Patrick Hambrecht, and his wife, Kate (who sings backup), are preachers’ children who seem as if they accidentally wandered onto the set of a Kenneth Anger film and decided to stay. The Hambrechts are waiting for the apocalypse, and their version of “Whiskey River” is the soundtrack to its aftermath." - Rachel Kushner, Author of "The Flame Throwers," New York Times ... more