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II. Aksak: Wolves in the South Loop

from Angelswort by Ben Hjertmann

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Wolves-in-men's-shoes

We follow the wolves, as they retreat into (abandoned?) cities. They have the same instincts and the same fates. Not so much violent as emaciated and desperate, eventually giving in to the metropolitan cold that would swallow them.

At 2 A.M. one night in the South Loop neighborhood of Chicago, I saw a coyote standing in the center of the road. At first glance, I thought it was a wolf. It looked nothing like the beast of traditional fairy tales. Just sad, lonely, starving, or even bored.

[Warning! - this track features the album's only 1.5 naughty words.]

lyrics

Wolves watch too, with red breath on the rear-view, head-starved in the South Loop, trading rubies for rats, red ruin for sour-mash, and I’m hungry.

Wolves walk too, in a theater near you, through miles of Coca-Cola glue, they don’t remember faces, maybe smells. The only true memory, in scars, and I’m angry.

Wolves f*** too, it’s just they don’t remember whose red breath was on their neck, whose bushels they pecked, and I’m horny.

Wolves also shiver in the May-tide winter, blue breath choked on the bathroom window, like a pile of wet rugs no one’s gonna clean up, and I’m cold.

Wolves also die like you, heat-starved in the South Loop, neat scars on every tooth, trading thunder for sleep, the pack for the heap, and I’m tired.

credits

from Angelswort, released June 22, 2013
Ben Hjertmann - vocals
David Reminick - baritone saxophone
Alex Temple - piano
Chris Fisher-Lochhead - bass

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Ben Hjertmann Asheville, North Carolina

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