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brother songs - album

by waywardbreed

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    12" LP Vinyl Album of waywardbreed's third release 'brother songs'.

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1.
fall into me 03:42
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.
2.
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
3.
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
4.
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?
5.
our reverie 04:38
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
6.
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.
7.
forgiveness 03:38
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.
8.
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.
9.
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.
10.
to be free 05:20
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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Hawk Moth Records is proud to announce the release of waywardbreed's third album 'brother songs'.

Following in the wake of ‘gathering for the feast’, waywardbreed’s highly regarded 2013 LP, ‘brother songs' is a spacious, outward-looking album that finds songwriter Justin Avery at a crossroads between the restless travels of the past and the hope and harmony of friendships and love forged in the present.

Featuring the single 'In The Arms of The River', a tight, epic suspenseful piece of folk rock, 'brother songs' holds true to Avery's unique scope and vision, while allowing light into the darker corners of his lyricism.

credits

released May 12, 2016

Music & lyrics by Justin Avery
Arrangements by Justin Avery/waywardbreed
©2015 waywardbreedmusic
Hawk Moth Records HWK…

Recorded by Alison Ferrier, October 2015.
Mixed by Jeff Lang in November/December, 2015
Mastered by Simon Grounds in February, 2016.
Produced by Justin Avery.

waywardbreed (my brothers, my sisters and me):

Justin Avery: vocals, acoustic guitar
Elizabeth Barker: vocals
Andrew Watson: violin/viola, noises
Chris Willard: electric guitars
Christopher Mildren: keyboards
Duncan McBride: drums
Tom Hoskins: electric bass
Domenic Stanton: electric bass on ‘In The Arms of The River’

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Alison Ferrier: backing vocals on ‘Fall Into Me’ and ‘In The Arms of The River’.
David Lewis: backing vocals on ‘I’ll Be On My Way’.
Glendon Blazely: banjo on ‘I Have Nothing That is Mine’ and ‘Forgiveness’.
Lisa Marmur: backing vocals on ‘You & I, Magpie’ and ‘I’ll Be On My Way’.

Featuring the dirtbird choir on ‘I Have Nothing That Is Mine’ & ‘Our Reverie’.

dirtbird are David Lewis, Glendon Blazely and Lisa Marmur

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waywardbreed Melbourne, Australia

Stark, spacious dark folk-inspired songs. 'Dark Pastoral' coming soon.

contact waywardbreed@gmail.com for anything.

" 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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