Black Tongue

Release Date March 31, 2026
Catalog Number TRC045

Black Tongue is Those Poor Bastards at their most scorched-earth, mud-caked, and downright broken. Lonesome Wyatt and The Minister peel back every last layer of polish until only the rust and rot remain. The instrumentation is sparse and uneasy. It crackles with warped tape hiss, creaking boards, and the ghost-hum of bad wiring. The songs feel unearthed rather than written, like cursed field recordings found in a burned-out shack at the edge of nowhere. Things haven’t sounded this bad in years.

Formats

Black Vinyl QTY: 8
Transition Color Vinyl QTY: 11
Gold Metallic Swirl Vinyl QTY: 100
Red Vinyl QTY: 100
Purple with Silver Splatter Vinyl QTY: 115
CD
Cassette Tape
Digital

Purchase

Track Listing & Clips

1. Can’t Wait ‘Till Armageddon

Lyrics

I am the one with a corpse black tongue
I know your every desire
I’ve been down here for a million years
Survived the flood and the fire
I can’t wait ’til Armageddon
I can’t wait ’til Armageddon

I wear a ring of bone and string
Its very touch means death
Come over to me and I’ll set you free
Your old body needs some rest
I can’t wait ’til Armageddon
I can’t wait ’til Armageddon

Here is the worm and here is the hook
There is your name in Abaddon’s book
Here is the thief and here is the liar
There is the dark mouth of fire

Plague of the frogs locust descend
Crops all wither and fail
The earth gets too hot water is scarce
Terrible storms, violent hail
I can’t wait ’til Armageddon
I can’t wait ’til Armageddon

When it is done I’ll still be around
Through civilization’s collapse
And those who survive shall swallow their pride
And walk willingly into my traps
I can’t wait ’til Armageddon
I can’t wait ’til Armageddon

I am the one with a corpse black tongue
I know your every desire

2. Oh Pagan Moon

Lyrics

Oh pagan moon
My pagan moon
Shine down on me shine down on me
I need you more than ever now

All I want to do is find a place where evil has a face
All I want to do is find a place
All I want to do is walk around with needles in my shoe
All I want to do is walk around

Oh pagan moon
My pagan moon
Shine down on me shine down on me
I need you more than ever now

All I want to do is shoot the devil’s fire from my eyes
All I want to do shoot some fire
All I want to do is find some kind of life among the rot
All I want to do is find some life

Oh pagan moon
My pagan moon
Shine down on me shine down on me
I need you more than ever now

Pagan moon my pagan moon
Shine your dark on me
Pagan moon oh pagan moon
Shine your dark on me

3. Horrid

Lyrics

Well I been watching slasher movies all week long
There’s really not a whole lot else a going on
I been eating candy corn and drinking lots of beer
The hand of God compels me now to make you disappear
Horrid it’s horrid
Horrid it’s horrid
Oh yeah

Attendance there was mandatory I didn’t want to go
Some things are instinctual somehow you just know
There was nothing else to do I got no kind of skills
I been down so deep my dear I’m growing gills
Horrid it’s horrid
Horrid it’s horrid
Oh yeah

Too late to change too late to change
Too late to change things now

Write myself a letter every weekend without fail
It’s always good to hear from me, it’s nice to get some mail
When I was a teenager I knew I couldn’t stay
I had to get abducted oh I got to get away
Horrid it’s horrid
Horrid it’s horrid
Oh yeah

When I try to run it makes my whole damn body ache
When I try to speak it all just seems so fake
Everywhere I go I been a thousand times before
But I won’t let that stop me no let’s go once more
Horrid it’s horrid
Horrid it’s horrid
Oh yeah

Too late to change too late to change
Too late to change things now

4. Prisoner of the Ocean

Lyrics

I’ve sailed the ocean many years
Due westward I was facing
My telescope held in my hands
With fingers interlacing
The sirens called, the squids attacked
My ship was worn and ragged
But still I longed for sights unseen
And food I’d never tasted
A storm blew in, my crew was lost
The oars and sails were all scattered
My compass spun in circles
As if nothing really mattered
Starving on the endless sea
So weak and lost and stranded
My body fell upon the deck
An empty husk abandoned
Finally the ship it sank
A prisoner of the ocean
Back and forth my spirit sways in nauseating motion