Trinity Tirade

from When I Left Town by Sordid Ordeal

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Sunset dusty clouds on empty hollow bricks
The Duchess missed the train and hitchhiked there instead
Stiletto wine and bullets dressed in jaded suede
Septumal intrigue, The Trinity Tirade
The culprit bed and the King of May
The Queen of Cups and the nun’s stockade
Distorted church bells and stale walls
In decaying silence, the pillar falls

The collar undisturbed, dust cloud on the bookshelf
Torn jeans on the ground, a badge crashing down the staircase
Tombstone humour, musty air, pink, white, bleach and charcoal hair
An afternoon October stare, Eighteen years parole impaired
Bedroom whiskers, marionette,
Razor blades on a silk cravat
Lace arrest with cigarettes,
Empty wine, Eve on my lap

Vigil every day, anticipate the foliage
Letters in red pen, signed with husky voices
Shattered fingertips on hips
Stockings made of Buddhist licks
The guillotine met the preacher’s head
Her tie came off beside the bed

Lines of Dante swill the night, sweat dries under a yellow light
Half outside and half-undressed, half in love and half obsessed
My agency went to my head, politics concerning beds
In 22 years a life found end, because of that a life began
And what I found in a quarter day was libertine and a castaway
A thousand nights in chastity, two lunar circles set us free
And in the scriptures on my back I found I’m baptised in the mass
And in the birthmarks on my neck I found my lineage so far back
So back

In the libertine aristocrat

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from When I Left Town, released February 16, 2024

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Sordid Ordeal Melbourne, Australia

Sordid Ordeal are an Australiana stout rock band from Naarm. They combine folkish story-telling and
ballads with blistering, mangy rock and epic anthems, welding together both the abrasive & heavy
with the gentle & intimate.

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