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The Church of Multi-Christ
La couronne d'or
Released August 1, 2026


01 - Would to heaven

Would to heaven. Would to heaven.

Cut the pine on Pelion
Shape the oar, betray the tree
Drive the hull through clashing rock
Through the blue Symplegades

For a fleece the color of morning
For a king who wished him dead
Fifty men against the water
And a girl who lost her head

Unfell the pine, unbuild the ship
Unsail the sea, unswear the oath
Unlove the man, undrown the brother
Would to heaven, would to heaven
It had never come

She tamed the bulls that breathe in fire
She sang the sleepless serpent down
She burned her father's house behind her
Now she wastes beneath his town


02 - Something's wrong with the water tonight

Something's wrong with the water tonight
It's running uphill, it's running home
The salt is leaving the ocean
The stone is leaving the throne

Every oath they swore to heaven
Heaven sent them back unsigned
Honor packed her bags this evening
Left the world of men behind

The rivers climb their mountains
The rivers climb them now
And everything they promised us
Is water anyhow

The dawn is breaking backward

Gold across our faces
The old songs called us faithless
The old songs are ashes
The rivers climb their mountains now

If they'd given us the lyre
If the god had let us sing
We'd have written them an answer
A thousand years of answering

Every oath they swore to heaven
Heaven sent them back unsigned
Honor packed her bags this evening
Left the world of men behind

Between two rocks that close like hands
She came across the boundless gate
By night, by night, by open water
Now the water changes fate


03 - La couronne d'or 

La couronne d'or la couronne d'or
I never wore a crown before
I turn my ankle watch it shine
Everything he has is mine
La couronne d'or

Two little boys came up the stair
With something golden for my hair
Their mother sent it wrapped in white
How kind of her and how polite

The dress they brought is finer still
Than anything my father's gold could buy
I smile into the silver glass
My breathless twin smiles back at I

La couronne d'or la couronne d'or
I never wore a crown before
I turn my ankle watch it shine
Everything he has is mine
La couronne d'or

It's warm 
It's warm the way the sun is warm
It's warm the way the summer it is warm

La couronne d'or la couronne d'or
I never wore a crown before
I turn my ankle watch it shine
Everything he has is mine
La couronne d'or


04 - Every thread I have remembers

Every thread I have remembers
What I was designed to do
I’m a gift for the new girl
The one they want to keep so near

Put me on
Put me on
Measure me against your frame
I only wake to body heat
I only answer to one name
Feel how fine
Feel how light
I fasten at the throat

I am learning her from deep within
She loves the double in the glass
Drawing close the jagged line
Now your beating heart is mine

Put me on
Put me on
Measure me against your frame
I only wake to body heat
I only answer to one name
Feel how fine
Feel how light
I fasten at the throat


05 - They wrote the songs for dinner

They wrote the songs for dinner
For the wine going around
Something at the edge of hearing
Gold dissolving into sound
Every hall has music in it
Every feast, on every floor
Pleasant at the ear, and pouring 
Nobody wrote one for the door

No one found the song
That reaches grief where grief is kept
Rooms of songs for celebration
None for the room where no one slept
And the strings play on in the bright halls
Over the sweet and the fed 
Why sing to a table of plenty?
The banquet plays itself instead

Behind one wall a woman
Behind one wall a sound
That every song slides off of
Like water off a crown
If music could put out a fire
If a chord could close a grave 
They tuned their idle strings for banquets
And this is what they gave


06 - Every word you raise your hand on

Every word you raise your hand on
Gets written where you cannot reach
High in the house that keeps the copies
One for each. One for each.
You can burn the local record
You can pay the local man
But the original is upstairs
Timestamped by an older hand

Keeper of oaths still keeping
Witness of hands still sees
The right hand that you gave her
Is archived in the deep
You can't amend it can't unsay it
Delete is not a word up there
The keeper of oaths is keeping
And the ledger doesn't care

She quotes the terms out on the doorstep
Chapter, clause, the day, the sea
He says the times have changed, the gods changed.
New agreements, new decrees 
But heaven doesn't run new versions
Heaven runs the one you swore
And a breach, they say, a breach
Gets settled at your door. At your door.

The right hand that you gave her
Is archived in the deep


07 - Baby, be reasonable

Baby, be reasonable
Look at the numbers, look at the view
I didn't leave you for a woman
I left you for the revenue
Your sons will have new brothers
Highly placed, correctly born 
I'm building them a future
You're standing in it, making it torn

It was never about her skin
It was never about the bed
It's succession, it's position,
It's the roof above your head 
You'd thank me if the anger
Ever let you do the math
I diversified the bloodline, honey
Don't stand in the aftermath

You got passage out of nowhere
To the center of the world
You got known here, you got named here 
Before me you were nothing, girl,
Just talent in the provinces
That no one came to see.
Whatever you did crossing over
You did for love. Which is to say: for free.
