Moses Sumney - Bystanders

From the double album græ. Order Now: Vinyl Pre-order: Co-directed by Josh Finck and Moses Sumney BYSTANDERS Oh You wanna strip away Veracity is great But you’ll bleed And all For a lukewarm embrace You serrate your face With glee Don’t waste your candor On bystanders They’ll watch you waste away What’s the use of confessing the truth To an executioner in a booth About the dueling forces in you Now you barely remember your youth You used to embrace the eerie and helm Visitations from spirit realms Gifted to see between astral planes now you plead to be plain, a Bystander Of bygone standards They’ll watch you waste away Don’t waste your candor On bystanders They’ll watch you waste away The minute you mitigate your fire (Waste away, waste away waste away) The innocence of carnal desire (