It's Called "Helena & Gerard: A Vampire Tragedy in Unmetered Limerick", Mom

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(Gerard)
I bid the sunshine adieu! In 1872
When the girl that I liked
Made me a creature of the night
At the midsummer hullabaloo

(Helena)
On the shortest night of the year,
I told him he’d nothing to fear
As I bit his throat and crooned as he choked
“Together forever my dear”

(Gerard)
So disquieted by the quiet in my chest
I put on my jacket and my vest
And my vampire bride, and my gun at my side,
We set off for the Pacific Northwest

(Helena)
We traveled the country by train
Masking our murders in midnight and rain
We made for a coast with no resident ghosts
To start a new life without shame

(Both)
But that red, hot, salt taste of blood
In my mouth is hard to give up
They whisper we’re monsters, I fear that it’s true,
But am I a monster to you?

(Gerard)
We built a small home by a stream
Deep in the dark woods where the water was clean
We’d put on our best and entertain guests
Where no one could hear the screams

(Helena)
But eventually sport starts to bore
Seemed every new throat we’d tasted before
I wanted to find prey of a new kind
But my partner in crime wasn’t sure

(Both)
We’d had lads, we’d had lasses like lambs to the slaughter
The baker, the banker, the governor's daughter.
“You monsters! You demons!” They scream as they bleed,
But vampires like all things must feed!

But one night we took it too far
We propositioned a nun ‘neath a blanket of stars.
(Gerard) My wife lost her life (Helena “I lost my life”) to that daughter of Christ
(Gerard) I still to this day bare the scars.

(Gerard)
Alone I couldn’t face what I’d done, so
I bit me a husband, I bit me a son
A family of three, and happy are we,
I loathe what I have become.

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from Bestiary, released August 23, 2019
Lyrics: Walker Staples and Kit Gripp

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The Forgetmenauts Berkeley, California

The Forgetmenauts weave folklore and mythology into a strange, fresh, and rich soundscape. Their musicality is orchestral, folksy, alternative, and punk all at once. Their lyrics spin old tales and new into exciting and poetic songs that weave together love and queerness, longing and revenge. Come for the Marriage of Bigfoot and Mothman, stay for the Gay Werewolf Murder Ballad. ... more

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