We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

A silver lining in a golden age of fools
where my mind forsakes my follies yet relishes the rules
set forth by crooked chaplains
who scribe the straightest lines
They provide the widest brush
yet command we “stay inside”

Why do we pay such dogmatic costs?
I’ve lost track of what it is that I’ve lost

So I will whisper wretched wormwood soliloquies so soft the saints still sing to me
songs of sunflowers and sabbaticals spent sailing seven seas in search of stoned saviors not meant for me
Psalms pulsating forth from palms calloused from pornographic patronage
Why do we destroy our humanity in attempt to fit God’s image?

But this isn’t a snapshot it’s more a moving picture
A new age interpretation of an old time scripture
So tell me how you shine while your heroes fade
Tell me how you identify the corpse in the coffin when the ground is already decayed

It’s a stoners stigmata; Ash Wednesday on his palms
Saying “I’ll quit when I gotta,
You don't call the man the devil just because he wears prada.

It was our silver lining and I admit we were fools
But I've stopped forsaking follies and worshiping their rules
I've started living for myself, for my family, and for my friends.
If that is not a suitable "means", than I don't want your end.

credits

from Wormwood Soliloquies, released September 14, 2013
Recorded by David Scanlon

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Christopher Hantman image

Christopher Hantman Massachusetts

Poet. Artist.
Writer of words.
Sometimes they are by themself,
or to music. Sometimes spoken, and sometimes sung. Sometimes screamed to the setting sun.

contact / help

Contact Christopher Hantman

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Christopher Hantman, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring interviews with LA music scene pillar Kamasi Washington, and new London-based duo Mrcy.

listen now