Leathery Wings

  This one was about what happens when you try to repress the angrier, darker side of yourself and follow only your best intentions (that builds up like pus inside until eventually you are sick with it and you really need to be lanced like a putrid boil and/or given some kind of cataclysmic enema of the soul). I wanted kinda punk, and got Jay to do a White Stripes kinda guitar to it to make it sound less like Green Day, as it used to sound uncomfortably like "When I Come Around." Jay also sang the highest notes in the chorus. I'm handling  vocals, bass guitar, and "thickening" drop D snarly guitars on the choruses, along with an end "solo" and some percussion. Again, would like Tyler K to do a bass line that's more varied, if he feels up to it.
  This is designed to follow a virtuous, "good intentions" kinda song on the album, which is all sappy and pretty, and then gets rudely "interrupted" by this song knocking to get in.  The "trick" in this one is that the rhyme scheme, oddly, involves rhyming the first word of every line with the last word of the previous one.

Leathery Wings

I envy the sought-for, the hunted, the wanted

Flaunted the attractions that make life a game

Lame house of memory seems to be haunted

Cries from the roots of the mountains again

Leathery wings batter my ribcage

Leathery wings tear through my veins

Leathery wings disrupt my nightmares

Leathery wings sear my brain

Small parts go missing, the gears grind together

Whether the power is flowing or no

Go to the place where you stand in the weather

Rip it all open, let everything show

Voices hysterical shriek, laugh, they're frantic

Clinic for fear that has made you its own

Groan of black terror is swirling, gigantic

Stand on the stone and throw everything down

Open the iron door, let out the blackness

Cackles and hooting that rend the night air

Fair is the light that will transfix the darkness

Burnt to a cinder the dragon despair