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Killdeer
02:38
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Killdeer
In the corner of the field the farmer forgets
Grows a wildness that forgetfulness bred
And the thistle towering over me
I will sleep, I will sleep.
Thunder in the meadow where the killdeer cry
Feigned injury performed for the hungry eyed
And the hush that falls from the darkening air
Haze on the horizon and the rain it bears
You told my father you'd return for me
Ere the winter wind set the field to freeze
Now the cold has come twice without word of you
Not a whisper from the man I was promised to
I heard down the river you settled down
Wed a yellow haired woman in a satin gown
And her belly hangs heavy with a child of yours
Hangs heavy with the prize I'd waited for.
What evil have I done to account for this?
By my love forsaken, by my love dismissed.
And what evil must I do to bring reckoning?
For my faithfulness given, for my love spent.
In the corner of the field the farmer forgets
Yellow hair and blood matted to the thistle bed
Redemption is the name of the fruit I reap
Oh, I will sleep, I will sleep.
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Haw and Bray
03:05
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Haw and Bray
How's the air filled with humming?
Relentlessly buzzing?
Smelling like honey here, oppressively green
here I am tremblin' and terrified
weeping and hazy eyed
while the wind comes rushing down to meet me
cowering in my doorway
frantic and fearing a new day
but too frightened to leave the step leave my home leave my
baby you're mine,
I say it all the time
but next to words these actions seem inept and unclear
and we haw and we bray
mouths dusty with hay
we asses, we infants, we ignorant animal minds
mindless still am I
still stubborn and slight
still willful as the day I was made, I was born
born a wretch, born alone
some small writhing form
likened to a stone thrown and tumbling through the water
water so deep, so soothing, so sweet
like the neverending sleep
we're all rushing to try
oh Evangeline, am I wasting my time?
what god do you know now
worth relieving my mind
baby you're mine
I say it all the time
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Rise and Fall
03:29
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Rise and Fall
I am a vengeful god.
And from me a sea of blood
and a decline, a decline
Silent shift in vital fire
But oh, doesn't it seem to shine.
Oh, doesn't it seem to rise and fall and
Rise and fall again
I will fall and I will fade
All mysticism and pulsing veins
And before my eyes, a veil of grey
To the flickering floor, myrtle and bay
But oh, doesn't it seem to shine
Oh, doesn't it seem to rise and fall and
Rise and fall again
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Siúr Boat Song
02:38
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Siúr Boat Song
rowing on the river
with silvery shadows chasing my mind
whispering fields o'er the banks growing near
and the panting i'm bound to abide
I can hear them in the dark
the beating of their hooves like a big bodhran pounding
and they're shifting likes ghosts or a darkening coastline
as seen from a ship departing
and I can hear them calling my name
and a song rising up from every muscle and bone
oh the dapple and the bay and the gunmetal grey
the black and the red red roan
and here, like a shivering foal
wet and clumsy and crying out in the night
and smelling like blood to bring the wolf or the flood
or the crashing and thunder
or the fury of the sundering sea
tree shaking ghosts
on river banks oh
or the cold, cold hands
of godless lands
that envelop and seek to end me
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