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He​/​Hymn

by Cadaver Cable

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1.
Theophagy 01:40
Kneel with me by the creek And we’ll fill our mouths with wild onions They taste like dirt but fill things up And I crave that wild communion Follow me to unknown divinity We can wade in a river of cream You said all lovers descend to hell But last supper follows me wherever I dream None of you will confess your deaths While my neck is the guillotine You cannot bless me nor what I eat And I’d rather be loved than perceived
2.
Cupid 01:23
Give birth to an angel named cupid You’ve seen them in renaissance paintings Raise that thing with your eyes averted And feed it the most beautiful playthings It’ll know you by the back of your head And the sound of you closing your eyes Fill it with hunger and fill it with dread And make it your most precious dear prize Do not look at your angel named cupid For it has grown hungry and wild It has fangs and claws that it hid And it never was ever your child
3.
Fox 03:02
So this is how the cowboys lived, yeah? They sit around a fire, feasting on your corpses So this is how the cowboys lived, yeah? When they aren’t riding round their horses So this is how the cowboys lived, yeah? Waiting on the world to fall to destructive forces The house next door to me went on sale And I’ll never meet the babysitters again The house next door to me went on sale Have you been held since you were ten? The house next door to me went on sale And they cut down the tree I broke my leg climbing in So this is how the man with the golf club felt When he took it to the road and killed an injured fox So this is how the man with the golf club felt When I packed the songs I knew into a moving box So this is how the man with the golf club felt When I swing it at my future and show them what they’ve lost So this is how the man with the golf club felt When he bought a box of nails and stuck them in the cross And I don’t know what the man with the golf club felt When gathered up the fox’s blood and couldn’t count the cost
4.
Water 02:10
If Judas’s rope was frayed or his tree branch broke He could have walked among the common people And if Pontius Pilate was forgiven because he dipped his hands in water Could Judas have been granted access to this water Or would his blood itself suffice to cleanse the man of his sins And did Mr. Pilate have water brought to him by armies and officers And is suicide the sin for the common man Would choking down bleach make a child a sinner If they were a child of man. Is there innocence to be found in a psychology textbook And a trial at the pearly gates Were you too lost to know that you were sinning Can you be fucked up enough to earn forgiving Can you be loved without first being hated Can you be cleansed without first being ruined And is there enough water for everyone Do I know what I am doing?
5.
Time 00:59
Did you know that People stop aging and things stop changing and metal stops rusting and plastic stops fading and people stop talking When the spark dies And you might think it’s devastating and you might find your heart aching But I think it’s beautiful to be frozen in time I won’t be biodegradable or decay-able if I am capable Of existing in a form you could never recognize
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about

This album is a musical adaptation and exploration of my good friend David Miller's visual art and poetry project, He/Hymn. I took five of his steam-of-consciousness poems, re-wrote them to lyrical form, and put them to music, quickly and impulsively, within a night. David drew the art for the album cover the next day.

Statement from David concerning his project:

"He/Hymn is a multi-media series of art pieces exploring the often ignored experiences of trans men. By blending historical influences with modern queer elements, He/Hymn aims to not only highlight displacement many trans men suffer with, being alienated from family, friends, community, and mainstream history. Uncontent with simply recognizing the lack of transmasculine history, He/Hymn aims to carve a space and discover the past that has been stolen from us."

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released October 15, 2020

Arthur (voice, synth, lyrics)
David Miller (poetry, concept project, art)

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Cadaver Cable Florida

Formed in 2019, Cadaver Cable is the passion project of a Florida goth, and, sometimes, his friends. It's made up of 2am compositions, phone voice memo recordings, twenty-dollar keyboards, sore hands, and desperation.

A friend of the band jokingly referred to its genre as "corpse-core." Another said "it has a very deranged haunted quality." The genres of the albums are not consistent at all.
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