“Can you follow me out to the water? / I can show you we’re sinking deeper / Let me know / ‘Cause I’m drowning for ya”
BANKS, “Drowning”
“I caught you fishing through the fodder / This whole relationship is underwater”
BANKS, “Fuck With Myself”
“And if you took me fishing, you would never give me bait / I had to get away, I had to get away”
BANKS, “Trainwreck”
“I started all of the wars / I started all of the wars / I’ve been getting messages from my deep waters”
BANKS, “Poltergeist”
“Say it’s hard to breathe inside my ocean / I gave you the deep, but you’re still floating / You would let me drown to save your life / Don’t think I can’t see your soul is soaking”
BANKS, “Stroke”
“You’re treading water and the wound got deeper”
BANKS, “Stroke”
“Certified to scuba dive in my memory”
BANKS, “Sawzall”
“You pushed me in the ocean / Better yet, you put me in the mode / Wrong direction to put you in motion”
BANKS, “The Fall”
“And I’m hurting from the way that this worked out / If you could rearrange your words, you could’ve saved it / If we were made of water, we could swim around it / But I just can’t believe no more”
BANKS, “If We Were Made Of Water”
“I know how to swim far and you like it deep / So we may as well jump”
BANKS, “Meteorite”
“I’m done trying to write about you / But if it’s just something to do / I’ve been diving for the past hour”
BANKS, “Deadend”
“Did I say too much? / Drowned my sorrows, called you up / When the truth is tough / Honesty may not be enough”
BANKS, “Holding Back”
“I want you more than water / I want you more than high tides”
BANKS, “Holding Back”
“I dabble in the past, yeah, I said it / I finally admit it / I told you it was over then I skinny-dipped and did it / I should’ve known better, but I didn’t overthink it / And I probably would’ve floated, but I sank it”
BANKS, “Skinnydipped”
“Took a dive in the deep and forgot to move / Swam with the fish ‘til my kiss turned blue / I aired out my sheets ‘cause they smell like you / I cleaned out the salt in my wounds”
BANKS, “Skinnydipped”
“My legs just caught a cold and so I didn’t wanna spread it / You told me if I tried to walk away I would regret it / Maybe if I didn’t swim, I would’ve sweat it”
BANKS, “Skinnydipped”
“And I’m a little late / Get you water for the wait / Take you out into the lake / Then I’ll let you swim away”
BANKS, “Skinnydipped”
BANKS lyrics + water
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you have gentle eyes
that I love that I hate that I love that I hate that I love that I hate that I love
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Then, on his arrival in Constantinople, after much counsel with himself, considering that he was already unequal to the amount of pressing business and believing that there was no room for delay, on the twenty-eighth of March he brought the aforesaid Valens into one of the suburbs and with the consent of all (for no one ventured to oppose) proclaimed him Augustus. Then he adorned him with the imperial insignia and put a diadem on his head, and brought him back in his own carriage, thus having indeed a lawful partner in his power, but, as the further course of our narrative will show, one who was as compliant as a subordinate.
No sooner were these arrangements perfected without disturbance than both emperors were seized with violent and lingering fevers--
AM 26.4.3-4
this was one of those illustrations that was originally supposed to be a 5 page comic until I realized I don't know anything about later roman empire architecture or visuals or art or anything, so we'll revisit that later. maybe
for right now though, these two are fascinating. we have two brothers acting as one body, even becoming ill in tandem with each other, it's giving This Throne Is Cursed. like, the last time I read about emperors coming down with life threatening illnesses, it was Caligula, and that moment in his biography marked a very specific tone shift. I spent the rest of the (first) time reading about Valens and Valentinian waiting for something comparable to Caligula's reign to happen lmao (Dio 59. 8. 1-2)
and since Caligula was already on the mind, I started thinking about Tiberius: I think he would've loved these two since he had a whole thing about twin-ification and brothers and etc etc etc. ofc, Rome is both a Mouth and a Tomb, so it's going to go badly for someone/everyone eventually, but honestly I think that Valentinian and Valens were the best we could've hoped for. like it could've been so much worse
Tiberius and the Heavenly Twins, Edward Champlin
Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D, Noel Lenski
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