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gathering for the feast - album

by waywardbreed

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Nostro I'd always intended to buy this upon its release - finally I've got back to it it. To give you an idea where this great release sits: think Will Oldham (Bonnie 'Prince' Billy') - esp 'I See a Darkenss' era. It's eerily evocactive & touchingkly warm. It's the kind of music you'd sit by an open fire and spend special moments with a loved one; or alone, eyes closed, drifting away with your personal thoughtts. Favorite track: would you have it.
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1.
sing you 04:58
Sing you, what God made me Sing you, what God made me I’m a little lamb, your weakened limb Sing you, what God made me Sing you, what God made me I’m a broken mast, and I’m all at sea Silence rises on what’s known And his thoughts they bring me low It’s in a story long foretold He is gone and will go no more He shall be brought low And they shall burn together (and while I held him) She said, fly, fly away We can be of one feather Sing you, what God made me Sing you, what God made me I’m your hunted king And I’m fucked right royally Right royally, I’m fucked right royally
2.
unbecoming 03:53
I heard the sound like a bird call Standing here behind the wall There was some talk about a war But the birds still fly like they did before They seem to know what is to come Unaffected by any wrong I saw a man torn limb from limb But there was nothing I could do for him He’d loved a woman back in this town And so I went to make her my own Unaffected by any wrong that I might do So lay me down into your arms I know I will not come to harm And I’ll take you down and be your man But close your eyes and you might feel his hands Unaffected by any wrong that we might do Unbecoming
3.
Would you have it this way, no more to touch The imprint once made now fades in this dwindling light Would you have it this way, no more to feel The limbs that once swelled under a touch known so well would now fight it Would you have it this way, no more to know Yes, it’s true, that’s just what you’d do, and you would have it. Blood spilled is spilt in love only Any skin that we split is split in desire Bodies felled, they fall together But if you would come this way I would be bird for you, I would be rock for you And I’d be your tree If you would come this way I would be wolf for you I’d rain down upon you I’d be your sea Blood spilled is spilt in love only Any skin that we split is split in desire Bodies felled, they fall together There every night and we’re one inside the other I’m a burning tree that has ached for you And has grown for you And my limbs will grow stronger I’m a burning tree that has ached for you But can ache for you no longer
4.
I stole a feather, and stole another And with needle and twine I bound your body to mine There are things we must disguise See how their eyes turn back to shine I’d will it mine, but their mouths they whisper low and mark me I hear her sing her loving words But now I know that my love is for the birds So I stole a feather, and stole another And with needle and thread I sewed you into the lining of my bed So stay here by my side See the Lord abides us in this crime I fell into the sea of her skirt But now I know that my love is for the birds The swallow he eyes me like a killer But he won’t say if he could go one better
5.
I like to watch you rise from the water The steam coming from your skin You dry yourself all over Well a door is open, won’t you let me in? I hear the horses in the stable The dogs that lower in the field As we are dancing around the table And I’m pushing (…) There is something that I must say But the words just disappear from my sight I’ve got a taste for you now So would you let me eat you tonight?
6.
in our way 05:11
The sun rises in the morning It’s time to go again This light makes its slow way across you And I’m ready to go there again In this light, oh this light It has seen us in our perfect way A black dog out in the field Is sometimes a sign And sometimes it’s just a way that I lengthen my time with you It’s what you do with your skin You push me out and then pull me back in Into your tragedies and your comedies But won’t you just let me be Just be in my way It’s what you do with your skin You breathe me out and then breathe me back in Into your tragedies and your comedies And you’d say just let you be Just be in your way A black dog out in the field is sometimes a sign But mostly now it’s just a way That I lengthen my time With you
7.
I would not take exception I want to be your reflection I would not take you lightly I want to be your one nightly For we have borne witness to so many things From the silence we found our way to sing And when we low, all so full of chest While in the night my love, she takes her rest She lays with the wolves I have my method and I have my way And it serves me very well here in my day But the night, man, that’s just another thing The darkness does its slow unravelling And she lays with the wolves Now I unravel some bit of you To see what lies behind But you just laugh and push me away And you say, ”my love, I know what’s on your mind.” She lays with the wolves, now I’m inside In her arms and her legs and her body We’re of one kind Now on reflection I can be An exception and my own mystery We walk in circles just to confuse Your own true loving is what I will use And we’ll build that kingdom for our own Where I will lord over And I’ll wait in the darkness until you fall asleep On my shoulder
8.
I rise early, my love, to see the dawn with you To breathe the light in and the heat from your skin A night beneath a blanket of me I lay across you in praise This is how I would start my days And end them too I made this skin for you In the darkness it seems The trees whisper their dreams But only the owl knows where And which way our love would grow So I hold him close to my chest And just seemed the best way When we long to be wise to our love’s eyes But to know that you’re true I made this skin for you This morning I’m up before the birds And run my hands through owl feathers But when we let go you rise and I stay low And though I have nothing of you I still have these wings Their spreading is like the sing And it’s like they sing But I flap around blind In the darkness to find Some skin to touch

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digital version of waywardbreed's second album 'gathering for the feast'. To order the vinyl, contact waywardbreed@gmail.com or matty@hawkmothrecords.com

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released March 25, 2013

All songs by Justin Avery/waywardbreed 2011
© 2012 waywardbreedmusic
Hawk Moth Records HWK002
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Produced by Justin Avery and Andrew Watson
Recorded between December 2011 and August 2012
Clarke Street, Northcote, Melbourne.
Recording sessions engineered by Andrew Watson
Mixed and mastered for vinyl/digital by Simon Grounds

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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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