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The Fold
03:36
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and when you wake, you'll wake in the mornin
your fingers cold
your fields to be sown
feeble today, just like the seedlins
asleep in the fold
but one day you'll grow
alders breathing, keepin, weepin.
leaves all sinking, fever dreaming.
brothers sleepin, wolves all creepin
weavers weavin
nothin
and what you take, you'll take it for storin
the bitter snow
the winter you know
feeble today, just like the seedlins
sleepin in the fold
but one day you'll grow
alders breathing, keepin, weepin.
leaves all sinking, fever dreaming.
brothers sleepin, wolves all creepin
weavers weavin
nothin
alders breathing, keepin, weepin.
leaves all sinking, fever dreaming.
brothers sleepin, wolves all creepin
weavers weavin
nothin
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2. |
Beargrass
04:57
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down the sound,
i fled for autumn
out her gown,
the woodshed sodden
boards and brown--
we're ever the garden's now
down the ground,
the brush I'm wanderin
now resounds
with thrushes hauntin
fountain-drown,
my wishes wanton
callow down,
my willow's walkin.
all of this was interim
all of them were innocent
in the mire
with the wrens
say oh
down the hound,
we lie with cravens
and unfound,
we make our makings
all our rounds--
and never the dogs did frown
down the mound,
the dark is takin
wound around
our sorrow shakin.
let me now--
forever this love abounds
all of this was interim
all of them were innocent
in the mire
with the wrens
say oh
all of this was interim
all of them were innocent
in the wild
with a grin
say oh
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3. |
The Birds
04:31
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they are nowhere
rest your head there
sleep softly
i will catch thee
now
snow is on the road
torn your mothers clothes
she'll never know know know know
know know know know
oh no
all your fingers cold
hole you dug alone
she'll never know know know know
know know know know
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4. |
Tripoli
03:17
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someday
someday
beside the ocean
we are devotion
we are the same
something
something
deep in the notion
sifting through tokens
nothing will change
but oh my god
i fear what
we
were sent for
and oh my god
ive seen you
here
before
and all the owls
and i in
trees
of maple
and oh my god
the green i've
seen
before
tripoli is calling me
tripoli is calling me
tripoli is calling me
tripoli is calling me
someway
someway
we lie in motion
seeing whats broken
seeing the rain
sunday
sunday
beside the ocean
we'll quaff a potion
we'll die in may
but oh my love
i see what
we
were sent for
and oh my love
ive seen you
here
before
and all the dogs
with him, the
king
of naples
and oh my love,
the queen will
sleep
no more
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5. |
Druids
05:58
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in the day my darlin
i was here before
i was stealin starlins
i was sleepin on the shore
on the shore
in the day youre turning
we were hidden for
we made picture books and
we made fixtures on the floor
on the floor
on the floor
on the floor
but you were gone
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6. |
Knapsack
02:42
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7. |
Tall Rooms
06:31
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we were roamin'
lost
we were searchin'
through the garden
in the perma-
frost
they were turnin'
as we watched them
but I
I wasn't borne away
from tall rooms
to saloons
behind
the fever maids that wait
in volumes
i will find
you
sunken in the
moss
they were callin
from the firmament
drunken by the
faust
we had fallen
we were maudlin
oh i
wasn't shorn away
by calhouns
to say sooth
and i
on these craven legs
i sail through
to fault you
but i
i could see your toes were cold
the dust you wrote was on my
clothes
and oh
of all the incantations
fate had
bared my fearsome never alone
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8. |
Indian Blankets
04:43
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in the pine and
paraffin
they were cold
they were interim
in the wine:
witherin
your ghost
you were slight
very thin
in the snow
we were buried and
in the night,
tarried in
your home
naked
you were
naked
naked
you were
naked
in the brine
bretheren
with the rain
you were glistenin
thin my rind
tethered in
your name
sleep inside
peregrin
round the glade
you were featherin
in my stein
weather
won't abate
naked
you were
naked
naked
you were
naked
naked
you were
naked
naked
you were
naked
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9. |
Towertop
04:32
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been around
sticks and stone
for month or so
all the while
all i know
could be terra-formed
and though
their pocketbooks are vacant,
vagabonds and vagrants
always will know
and though
our bones are newly naked
petty, drunk and shakin
were buried in clothes
but you
seldom see carnations
springing into bloom
god almighty shaking
aching too
bowers where your sisters
whisper in the gloom
towertop's in cinders
all too...
soon
and mama wrote
you be coming home
oooh
my wanton coat
my loss in jericho
cause even in the sty you
never see the lies youd
ever been told
and even though i try to
in the woods
im never alone
but you
seldom hear them ringing
sleigh bells in the noon
callow bodies singing
of the moon
galavanting gosling
walking through the room
all decanting something
of the...
of the swoon
but you
seldom see carnations
springing into bloom
god almighty shaking
aching too
bowers that your sisters
whisper in the gloom
towertop's in cinders
all too...
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10. |
Hinterland
02:35
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11. |
The Crow Mother
06:20
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brother I
married in the grove
passed awhile,
ferried to the shore
you took to the floor
and there, carried on
brother I
never let you know
her tongue
her teeth
were all i know
her cigarettes
were fabled
i took
my hands
upon the stove,
my silhouette
all sable
and i told you,
told you,
told you,
what I told you before
in the wold you,
wold you,
wold you,
in the wold you
will grow
the pyre,
the pine,
were growing high,
the crow that hide
in stables
the words
i find,
from garden-wights
i carved them
in your table
and i told you,
told you,
told you,
what I told you before
in the wold you,
wold you,
wold you,
in the wold you
will grow
and don't break home
to prove you're not alone
they wont let go
the songs are never gone
though their tongues are painted on
and don't break home
to prove you're not alone
they wont let go
the songs are never gone
though their tongues are painted on
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