The Biggest Hand

from There is a War by Hog

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All proceeds from song and album purchases will be donated to Greg Klaiber to support his cancer battle costs and continued world domination in perpetuity.

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Hog's debut album, Archetypes, available from Churchkey Records:
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lyrics

THE BIGGEST HAND

Crash down to straddle the shadow
Cast of a mass of decay
The pitch and the night and the kettle
The fate of a flickering flame
It's burning the bones of our fathers
It's stripping the skin from our own
It's sweeping up silent behind
All that we've made, all that we've known

It's certain: the curtain is falling
The tock of the biggest hand
The noise of the void is a howling
The song of the biggest hand

Luck be your legacy slivers of sherd
A word heard with shivers through layers of eras
A ghost of a whisper, a gravediggers dream
And all that you were is obscured, interred in a thimble of soil and cinder
A gasp in the sandstone, raw anthracene.

* * * *

I remember what Micah had said,
"Time's a pony ride, time's an asterisk"
It's only a stone on the bed; it's only a measure of distances.
It's only the peal of the bell, it's only the void of the sky,
It's only the still citadel with it's crumbling granite facade

I remember the wall in the wood; I remember the dread it instilled...
The leathern old shell of a squirrel produced by the casement on sill
Though my blood be the air that we breathe
Though my flesh turn to soft southern clay
May it always be run through with seed
May my blood be respired some day...

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from There is a War, released August 15, 2017
Engineered, recorded, and mixed by Greg Klaiber
Produced by Greg Klaiber and Richard James
Caveman Studios, Durham, NC
November 2012

Mastered by Nick Petersen
Track and Field Recording, Durham, NC

Hog is:
Richard James — guitar, vocals
Ryland Fishel — bass, vocals
Noah Kessler — drums
Alec Ferrell — guitar

Lyrics by Richard James
Music by Hog

℗ 2017 Clearly Records

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Hog Durham, North Carolina

Hog is:
R. James — guitar, vocals
R. Fishel — bass, vocals
N. Kessler — drums
A. Ferrell — guitar

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