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fall into me
03:42
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I am outdone and thin from the running
But I can see, I have sharpened my cunning
I have nothing and nowhere to be
I’ve covered my trail with a new way of living
And I can be your wolf for the giving
You have nothing and no place to be
It would lose you nothing just to fall into me
It would lose you nothing just to fall into me
Now you’re left alive, but you’ve turned to water
Pray for me, my lamb to the slaughter.
It would lose you nothing just to fall into me
It would lose you nothing just to fall into me
My pants are loose and I’m lame like a goose in the field
Then I’m high on the lamb as your body softens and yields.
It’s what I must do lest my world crumble and die
But is there a chance that you’d join in my dance
And abide.
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I am in the waves that roll around you
Taking everything that’s mine
Water is a story, it’s open for you
Holding everything in time
I am but the mountain that stands above you
With a love that’s old as time
These limbs are severed from holding fast to
Everything that’s mine
Father and a brother, see it my way
Words that settle deep in blood
They become an action that speaks of glory
Living just the way they should
So gather all the stardust from words unspoken
Lay be down upon the sand
And hope the water carries me further
Beyond the reach of men
I am but the shadow walking beside you
I have nothing that is mine
I have nothing that is mine
I have nothing that is mine
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you & i, magpie
04:05
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You & I, Magpie, we steal whatever is untethered
Robin Hood for the good of bringing two lovers
Back together
On your throne sit all alone, your crown’s tilted ‘way from the calling
But your song is mourning long
It holds me when I have fallen
They hold my wings as I try
To steal the light from their eyes
And I, I cry
Bonny Crow, where did she go
I followed you into the fire
Where lovers burn and lust had turned
‘til we lived only for our desires
And your coal-black feathers fall from me
I’ve become burnt leaves on your tree
Now can’t you see?
Now I am known
And in dreams I will go
When I long to see
The magpie in me
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in the arms of the river
03:25
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I went down to the mouth of the river
She brought our lips together
Filled me with her salt water and longing
I asked the river won’t you please hold my hand
Untouched by beast or by man
I gathered my friends all around me
My brothers, my sisters and me
What would I do?
What would I do?
I long to be in the arms of the river
Sleep with you all through the winter
And wake form this dream full-feathered
A swan
But my dreams lay face down in the water
The reflections have all disappeared
I lost all I’d held around me
My brothers, my sisters and me
What would I do?
What would I do?
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our reverie
04:38
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This weather’s refined, it’s been on my mind
That God has been kind to me, he drew a line for me
And showed me on which side to be
But here in my time, this heart’s been maligned
And I’m not inclined to see signs in front of me
That show me the way to be free
But it’s a fine, fine way to be
If I were kind, you’d be on my mind
And this heart would not need reminding
My head’s in the clouds with this thunder so loud
Makes me hard for the finding
It’s a fine, fine way to be
We’re sitting high in our reverie
But I get in trouble, and you’re bursting my bubble
Then the dogs come and break down my door
With their snapping jaws and their bloody paws
When I’ve atoned for this life lived alone
There’ll be some trouble for the making
When time is my own, well, my heart is long to roam
A hard habit that I’m breaking
It’s a fine, fine way to be
I’m sitting high where you’ll never be
We’re sitting high in our reverie
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i'll be on my way
03:45
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I don’t need faith to see what’s right before my eyes
I just need someone to help me
To walk through the fire
And though I make my own way, I am not alone
There’s a hand on my shoulder, from someone much older
My guide on the path that is unknown
When I was a child I lived deep inside a dream
Of the man that I had hoped I could be
But I lacked the kindness and stumbled in my blindness
So someone put the harness back on me.
I don’t need you and you do not need me
When what we have is given free
This love is a choice that’s made when the voice
Of one comes together with two or three
When it’s my time
From this path I will not stray
Just turn me ‘round
And I’ll be on my way.
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forgiveness
03:38
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When I was the world and the world it was on fire
I forgot myself and of lording I had tired
I would hold my hand just closer to the flame
Burn away the past and begin without a name
So I sit and cry
And I wonder why
All the tears that dry
But time keeps on without blinking
I turned to the bird of song that is in me
Singing for the words to remember I am free
There I found my brother laid beneath the rhyme
Father and a mother showing me what’s mine
So my fears they fly
And I wonder why
Falling by and by on the water
They come without sinking
We ask forgiveness for ourselves
When we have forgotten what makes us
So I sit and cry
And I wonder why
All the tears that dry
But time keeps on without blinking
We ask forgiveness for ourselves
When we have forgotten what makes us
Let the hand that held you be that which you hold
And the eyes that felled you save you from what’s old.
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Let us waste no more time
These moments are few
When light shows the way
We’ll do what we do
You’ve been shown by example how to be
Won’t you heed God’s warning when it comes
On the wing unto thee
Let us waste no more time
For that’s all we do
And the touch of an idle hand
Could never save you
But there’s a light in the words of his song
And a fire in your brother as he calls
For you to sing along
Let us waste no more time
For that’s all we do
We linger so long in discouragements tune
‘Til old fruit has turned and love is spurned
Withered and died
But from what I’ve learned if we’re not to be burned
It’s better to hide.
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love the living
04:29
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Down on the sand
Guided by your willing
I entered the water
And I was frightened
But you held my face
Showing me love’s gentle grace
Pulled me under
You said, “All is forgiven”.
If after a time
Your love is not mine
I will go on
And love the living
But this love is not dead
It goes on living in my head
Now I’ve been spurned by the sea
And all that I’ve loved, it’s come back
And is burning me
If after a time
Your love is not mine
I will go on
And love the living
If after a time
Your love is not mine
I will go on
And love the living
But this love is not dead
It goes on living
In the words that you said.
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to be free
05:20
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I don’t recognise what I’ve become
A stranger to myself and everyone
The light’s reflecting so poorly on upon me
Oh oh oh, to be free
Line unread upon your face
You wish to leave this life without a trace
You look into the light, but dark is what you see.
Oh oh oh, to be free
Move, move on
That’s the only way to keep us warm
Move, move on
That’s the only way that we keep our form
The good intentions of your friends
And my weak attempts to make amends
They drift without direction upon the darkest sea
Oh oh oh, to be free
Move, move on
That’s the only way to keep us warm
Move, move on
That’s the only way to keep us from harm
So make not love and make not war
You set aside this life and find what is was for
Come to conclusion before I close the door on you
Because that’s the only way to be.
To be.
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waywardbreed Melbourne, Australia
Stark, spacious dark folk-inspired songs. 'Dark Pastoral' coming soon.
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" hushed songs that swell with a powerful stoicism, illustrated by beautiful imagery...The work of a true craftsman..." - Bandcamp Hunter
"(Gathering for the Feast) is a record that's personal, revealing & spacious all at once." - Robbie Buck 'The Inside Sleeve' (ABC RN)
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