You're Not My Friend

from I Am Dark Sided by Holly Mae and the Painted Room

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I feel you velvet darkness, tugging on my sleeve
yes, I know you've come for me, you haunt me in my sleep
you always drag me down, you mire me in my sickness
take away my happiness and all that I hold precious

the struggle starts, I rip you with my teeth
you grab me by my soft throat, I wait for my release
you pull my life apart, thread by thread
you are a leaden tide, you pull me to the dead

you are not my friend
no matter what the good book said
you took away my paintings in berlin
and you left me for dead

you said that you were nearer to me than my warm red veins
but tell me, where were you, huh, when I couldn't shake the pain off?
when the spell breaks I come to my shattered senses
count myself as lucky, you broke down my defenses

how can I love you when you're so ferocious?
I love the tenderness that ensues from your pursuit of me

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from I Am Dark Sided, released July 1, 2011

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Holly Mae and the Painted Room Berlin, Germany

The Painted Room is an art-folk entity of varying membership that existed in from 2006 to 2012. Members have included Holly Mae Haddock, Sara Kwon, Kathy Kwon, Molly Morgan, Sarah Morris, Mary Fraser, Mike Billmire, Serge Van der Voo, Merilee Philips, Sami Jo Buffington, Ken Lee, Jaime Fordyce & others ... more

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