Accompanied by a short film, an atmospheric, mini-epic, multi-part, 11-minute song by the US indie band fronted by Will Toledo, set around a fictional college campus and heralding their new concept album, The Scholars, due out on 2 May via Matador Records. As Toledo explains: Set at the fictional college campus Parnassus University, the songs on The Scholars are populated with students and staff whose travails illuminate a loose narrative of life, death, and rebirth.”
And on Gethsemane in particular: “Rosa studies at the medical school of Parnassus University. After an experience bringing a medically deceased patient back to life, she begins to regain powers suppressed since childhood, of healing others by absorbing their pain. Each night, instead of dreams, she encounters the raw pain and stories of the souls she touches throughout the day. Reality blurs, and she finds herself taken deep into secret facilities buried beneath the medical school, where ancient beings that covertly reign over the college bring forth their dark plans.”
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It promised me a good life if I followed all its wishes
I never missed a prayer and I always did the dishes
What's beautiful is good, but what’s that blood along the ridges?
What is that for?
Tabernacle
Tabernacle
Tabernacle
Tabernacle (Eternal bachelor)
Stones of white preserve the words unspeakable for ages
It's not a place of honor or esteemed deed commemorated
What's left inside is what’s evolved from what we have forsaken
Check the black box
Tabernacle
Tabernacle
Tabernacle
Tabernacle (Eternal bachelor)
You puke and spit and beat your fists against it, but it's unshaken (Atargatis)
There's nothing left to offer to restore what has been taken
Your body is a temple, but your holy wounds are aching
Leave the fat off
Tabernacle
Tabernacle
Tabernacle
Tabernacle (Eternal bachelor)
I can do whatever the fuck I want when I want to
You're only wearing my skin
I can do whatever the fuck I want when I want to
You're only wearing my skin
It's just a night in your life
(You're only wearing my skin)
Maybe there's something to take the edge off
It’s just the sound of your electric heart
(You’re only wearing my skin)
Cracklelacklelai, and you will be calm
You can dial 9-1-1 if you need to
I can't put out every fire
You can call the whole damn squad if you want to
I can’t put out every fire
You're just a lie in my heart
(You're only wearing my skin)
Everybody starts out curious
Is there no king behind these walls?
(You're only wearing my skin)
Cracklelacklelai, and I will not fall
I can’t put out every fire
I can't put out every fire
I can't put out every fire
I can't put out every fire
Radio tower neck speaks with the accent of my stomach
Early morning birds call with some generator running
A series of simple patterns slowly build themselves into another song
I don't know how it happened
In the false dawn everything is dreamlike and unreal
Somewhere on the periphery is a nightmare I still feel
The fireplace is flickering, black-haired bull is speaking by the bed
You can love again if you try again
You can love again if you try again
You can love again if you try again
You can love again if you try again
You can love again if you try again
Waves wash up the puzzle pieces of high school dioramas
Gifts for your nephew's birthday bring up scenes of childhood trauma
Magic eye clicks into focus, it's something you'd give your right eye to unsee
Is this the only way forward?
I've called to you a thousand times to take away this cup
But there will be no miracles 'til the ransom's added up
Just tell me what you want from me
Tell me what would make it be enough
You can love again if you try again
(I've never seen God in my lifetime)
You can love again if you try again
(Peace in glory above)
You can love again if you try again
(Why is there so little water?)
You can love again if you try again
(You can love again if you try again)
You can love again if you try again
Now you have me as I was born
My breaking heart beats between your horns
What comes next, beloved pet?
I'll be patient waiting for the time to come
To be opened up, helpless and undone
I can't run anymore
I can't run anymore
I can't run anymore
I can't run anymore
I can't run anymore
I lay me down again to sleep
Another soul must be redeemed
Hidden behind a thousand eyes
A hostage heart, a scrap of light
The naked priest, the introvert
The millionaire, conspirator
Misshapen form, rotten wheat
Like war porn, a constant feed
[Outro: Behemoth's Voice & Rosa]
You can love again if you try again
You can love again if you try again
You can love again if you try again
You can love again if you try again
You can love again if you try again
You can love again if you try again
You can love again if you try again
You can love, you can love, you can love, you can love
(Beloved pet)
You can love
(Beloved pet, I'll be patient)
If you try (Now you have me as I was born)
(Beloved pet, I'll be patient)
You can love (My breaking heart beats between your horns)
(Beloved pet, I'll be)
You can love
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