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Pray to the Knife

by Black Bouquet

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1.
My Love 03:21
at this rate my love, i don’t think that we’ll grow old together. the angels told me while i slept they don’t see me holding out much longer and i hear bells hush my honeybee, i don’t think that i’ll meet you in heaven there’s somewhere else that i can see it’s just a light coming through blinded windows it shines on me don’t weep, i am not as i do i’ll be the silence in your room just sleep, it will be over soon my love is a knife stuck in you
2.
Pendulum 03:49
the last victim wasn’t declared a murder they’ve got nothing in the evidence folder i can see him peeking over your shoulder he doesn’t know what i can see inside the blacks of your eyes. you can’t help it but he still lives inside you you made a deal with a new devil. you had to not much an option, took the money and high tailed the roses on the wall, they told you everything you should know so far from me, impossibly at night you weep incessantly if that is what you need then it’s between you and me put the rose in my teeth and i won’t say a thing do you feel anything when you’re looking at me? i can’t tell what i feel almost constantly everybody knows, but nobody tells you so you’re just stranded, and you don’t know what to do there’s a pendulum that’s hanging above you and every hour, by the hour, it drops down by an inch and the funny thing is, that doesn’t scare you. it was gonna catch up with you, it had to. you had options, you knew it wasn’t harmless. don’t deserve it. couldn’t stop it if i tried to. i know. “keep your eyes watching me go by,” you say to me put the rose in my teeth, and i won’t say a thing do you feel anything when you’re looking at me? i can’t tell what i feel almost constantly
3.
Serpents 03:50
the shadow in the corner wasn’t there today i have a feeling that i’m gonna change no honey you don’t need to know a thing i promise you don’t need to know a thing you look so simple on the velvet couch but not easy enough for somebody else chin up, so innocent, you’re breaking me down but that does nothing for the rest of the town i won’t, i won’t, i won’t stop quit your crying, it shouldn’t surprise you i’m not dying, i’m just passing through i keep a matchbook and a loaded gun maybe i’m not an angel like you thought. i don’t think you’ll like my kind of fun maybe i’m not an angel like you thought. you might hear something on the news sometime the serpents told me to, they said i’d be fine it’s not like i left a scene to find the ashes of them became one with the night you make me start to think i should settle down i would have long ago if i just knew how but they keep making me go back into town i clean up well enough to never be found no, i won’t, i won’t, i won’t stop quit your crying, it shouldn’t surprise you i’m not dying no i’m just passing through i keep a matchbook and a loaded gun maybe i’m not an angel like you thought no i don’t think you’ll like my kind of fun maybe i’m not an angel like you thought
4.
Footsteps 03:36
i saw you staring i know you saw i might just let you be a fly upon my wall i don’t fear danger i know your game i hear your footsteps when i’m walking in the rain once more come close once more i feel cold when you talk to me you’re not as clever as you might think you watched me change in to something else in my new form i’m sure you saw parts of yourself like your obsessions and your own sin i bet it angered you to know what you have been i feel cold when you talk to me you’re not as special as you might think but stay with me, honey bee. there’s still some things that you have not seen. what... why....? where did you get that.... how long have you been inside? no, stop you’re getting too close to me no, stop what’s it that you’re carrying? no, stop you’re starting to scare me no, stop as i lay still, they stand silently now all my fears have come back to me i saw the end in a thousand dreams that i forgot before i rose from sleep remember me, honey bee as i rest, i will dream of thee there’s something inside me that fills me with sin it’s taking me somewhere that i’ve never been
5.
Carved 02:44
i thought i saw you carve your nails into knives to keep you safe to keep them outside sat by the lake where you would hide you had somebody you were smiling a normal life a normal life by the stairs where you were i felt the cold of winter it’s in your eyes still sharp as knives you’re still alive, lost in the night when you were younger you would hide in the dark it kept you safe i heard you talk they didn’t take your smile just hold on a little while it’s in your eyes still sharp as knives you were alive, lost in the night it’s in your eyes still carved so fine all red inside covered in flies
6.
Prom 04:33
if i see you, i’ll remove you. i don’t need another dollar hung in front of my eyes. like a spider web i’m stuck to, i can never get the thought into the space that i want i don’t love you like i used to now i only can when i’m under the cover of night if i see you, i’ll remove you i can’t stand to witness one more dream onto screen it hurts me i didn’t stick around because it got hard to see you every little spiral like a ribbon of light blue the movement of a hand as a spider to greet you showing off your fangs because they’re coming in so well now i have to see you when i look up at the moon every passing flower is a night spent beside you i don’t think you knew about the heaven we walked through cause i never told you with you gone, i lost myself, i lost myself if i can then, i will find you. i’ll use the ash you left behind to make a call in the night. if i can then, i will find you. i won’t rest until i hear you i didn’t stick around because it got hard to see you every little spiral like a ribbon of light blue the movement of a hand as a spider to greet you showing off your fangs because they’re coming in so well now i have to see you when i look up at the moon every passing flower is a night spent beside you i don’t think you knew about the heaven we walked through cause i never told you with you gone, i lost myself. i lost myself. i never i never told you
7.
a window with no curtains a blind i can see through why would i keep you here? i want to follow you don’t you wake up just yet you better hear me now the burdens i have left they weren’t meant for you there’s something stabbing my side there’s some blood in my drink i can not move my fingers i feel my wishes sink don’t ever meet me here i want you far away it must all be a dream or unforgiving day they drain the blood from me and back to me they serve they show me all the things that i once feared the most no mercy in this seat i have a crime to pay for i feel a numbing heat they took away my mouth i always had a stiff top lip it all was up to you why would you keep me here i have no more to give you i’ve dried up and i’m clear
8.
Ashes 03:37
if i follow in your footsteps then maybe we’ll both stay young just like i never left you i can be a loaded gun those red velvet curtains, once so pretty now blackened dust you never stood a chance i’m getting cold i’m getting cold i’m getting cold leave me something just to keep with me more than memory all your burdens, i will now carry with a rose in my teeth cold, so cold, so cold….. keep your strychnine pages hidden well more secrets you’d never plan to tell burn the pages down with you and maybe they’ll remember only sweet things always just like it should be pack up all of your belongings i’ll send them back to your family they will see you just as pretty they won’t have to know anything you would wake with ash under your feet, that’s how i’ll find you all your burdens, i will now carry with a rose in my teeth i’ll never get you home i dance alone too young too young too young you poor thing you died too young
9.
Run and Hide 03:58
cut your ties, cut all the bedroom eyes, i just want to be loved, i want us to meet love alive lines of salt, outside a light goes off, i just want to be loved, i want us to meet love alive undone clasp, you hide behind a laugh, i just want to be loved, i want us to meet love alive cut your ties, cut all the bedroom lies, i just want to be loved, i want us to meet love alive i wouldn’t lie, i’ll run and hide safe in the night, i’ll run and hide if these soft words keep you calm and tight safe in the night, i’ll run and a stupid mess your favorite dress i watched you burn in the rear view these stupid meds my favorite dress all tattered up i need you what they all said all dressed in red don’t matter now i see you a stupid mess your favorite dress all ashes now we’ll never see the end if these small wounds keep you alive, i’m not the one. there’s no more light if all i have won’t keep it right i’m in the night, i’ll run and hide
10.
after all this, i don’t think i want it any more than it’s worth everything i’ve brought to you it wasn’t enough, no it wasn’t enough to hold you all my efforts only showed me i don’t know how much you’d bleed for me when i close my eyes i still see notes in the floor carved by your nails as they stole you calling out to me, all covered in blood, you still look so tough my angel all my efforts only showed me i dont think you needed me it wasn’t enough, no it wasn’t enough to save you if only once more i could just brush that bit of hair off of your cheek no more blood no more pain not from me not from me enough enough enough
11.
a hand in the dark, moving too fast for me i can feel all your doom. it’s all i can see if i lay myself out, would you still hunt for me? would you come to my side? would you take out my teeth? i knew, i do now some hands may be kind, but they’re too fast for me. i can’t breathe in this room. the dark is all i see i might pray to the knife for the first time in weeks if i get myself first, then you’ll never get to hurt me. it hits me. i don’t know what’s wrong. it’s still your victory, you’ll still make the end of me. you said they’d take me, all of your armies, but i don’t think they’d believe anything you speak. i stare blankly. nothing’s in front of me. i can’t hear them calling, trying to retrieve me. no more little light coming through the blinds. it would only blind me. the big god wouldn’t want us to at night i wake to flinch from dreams you move too quickly i’m living it again

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released February 16, 2024

Instruments engineered by John Agnello at Fallen Trees Recording Studio, with assistance by Chad Barnard
Vocals engineered by John Agnello at Dark Pines Studio
Additional instrumental and vocal engineering by Michael Rumple in his home studio.
Mixed by Michael Rumple
Mastered by Max Gowan
Cover Art by RF Pangborn

Violet O - Lead vocals, Harmony vocals
Ian Jones - 4 string bass, 8 string bass, Pedal board, Paper bag,
Hunter Corrin - Guitar, Acoustic guitar, 12 string guitar, Extra violin on Run and Hide
Dan Irving - Synthesizer (Novation Peak, Roland JV-2080, Roland V Synth, VC-1, Roland JD-Xi, Yamaha MX61), Hammond organ, Chimes, Harmony vocals
Laura Mooney - 5 string electric violin, Acoustic viola, Acoustic violin, Harmony vocals
Michael Rumple - Drums, Percussion, Programming, Samples, Harmony vocals
Choir vocals performed by Black Bouquet

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Black Bouquet Raleigh, North Carolina

Black Bouquet is a six-piece band from Raleigh, North Carolina consisting of viola, guitar, synths, drums, bass and vocals. The band formed in 2017 and has developed a unique sound that fuses 80’s goth, early 2000’s indie rock and the dynamic, baroque arrangements of modern art rock. ... more

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