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Chop The Wood Not Your Own Head

from Natural Causes: album by WOLVEZ

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Go on spin the bottle
Anticipate where it lands
Fumble in your hustle
Head out keys in hand

The trails of a lifetime
Weathered and crumpled map
Tales of hesitation
Contemplation
Drink and sin

Chop the wood, not your own head

You let the man employ you
Gave him your back and tread
Face into the gravel
Hours and moments dead

You cursed him up the alley
Where the loud music fogged your head
Bottles and smoke surround you
Slaps on the back well said

Oh chop the wood, not your own head

Your sire fed your anger
Cold rage spirit bred
Couldn’t toss a ball to save his skin
Failure on levels red

Your daughter glares right through you
Maternal arms they thread
She speaks in whispers glancing to
Echos down the hallway blend

Oh chop the wood, not your own head

Oh but the lantern kicks on
Clear the bottles till dawn
Find the path there…


Flirted with stars and religion
Jesus, he’s your friend
Not just your mate or a brother
Knows every thought in your head

He likes the bleak ones the best
Feeds them with guilt/regret
Makes you a deal you should refuse
Golden gates locked shut: repent

Oh, chop the wood, not your own head

These days your smile is hollow
But you smile just the same
TV light does flicker
Stroll the corridor to bed

Oh but your dreams distress you
Awaken you in the chill
Cold hands still embrace you
As morning unfurls still

Oh chop the wood, not your own head

Now upon the cliff’s edge
Where the horizon meets the black
Just one slip, or a jump at that
Seconds left to fret

But in you step there’s an engine
Burning from the cry of self
Handful full of gravel - toss it now
The man he’s too dense to duck

Oh, chop the wood, not your own head

Oh but the lantern
Kicks on
Clear the bottles till dawn

Banish them spirits
headlong
Clear the bottles till dawn
Find the path there

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from Natural Causes: album, released March 31, 2022

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WOLVEZ Los Angeles, California

LA based/native.


Erik Herrera: Fender Telecaster, Gretsch Electromatic Double Jet, Epiphone Sheraton, Silvertone guitars, vocals, keys, Danelectro, Epiphone Violin, and Fender Jazz basses, DW and Ludwig drums, Maschine drums/keys programming ... more

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