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Mouthful of Grain (Sputnik, French, Jo) Anna Jo - banjo, vocals / Sophie Sputnik - drums, lead vocals / Danielle French - vocals / Liam Hall - vocals

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He had twenty years of service
Working on the bay
In that elevator
Loadin’ up the grain
They gave his final notice
They’re gonna shut her down
She’s too old and outdated
For this lighthouse town

Oh what’s a man to do
When the bottom drops
Cast aside by men in suits
Sittin’ at the top
With a belly full of liquor
And hands clenched like a fist
He climbed that elevator head
To take a piss

Take a fucking piss
Take a fucking piss
He climbed that elevator head
To take a fucking piss

He felt the rail shift
One eighth of an inch
Enough to make him lose
His grip and he fell in

One eighth of an inch
Strange as it sounds
One eighth of an inch
Is what took him down

He went down down down
Deep into the grain
He tried to scream for help
But no one ever came
He went down down down
And no one ever came
There was no salvation
Just a mouth full of grain

Drowning in the grain
Drowning in the grain
There was no salvation
Just a mouth full of grain

Drowning in the grain
Drowning in the grain
There was no salvation
Just a mouth full of grain

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from Dark Songs Vol. 9 : The Taking of the Tower of Song, released October 26, 2018

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