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cyclical
01:16
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Come cyclical collective from the mother from the tide
Risen from the water to the heavens and the sky
Rain upon the world for an adventure, for another life and
Purify, purify, purify
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dragonfly
05:25
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Dragonfly dancer
Can’t keep your feet on the ground
I know you’ve got the answer
So stop fooling around
Don’tcha know that you’ll be
A grown up soon
Don’tcha know that you’ll bleed
Soothsaying child
Won’t you say what you see
A devil’s weed schemer
You’ve got tricks up your sleeve
Oh you’re hiding in the crimson clover
Humming with the bees
You’ll always be the winner in solitary
Hide-and-seek
In order to fly, you have to leave the water
Little dream dealer
Are you feeling divine?
You don’t know what you’re after
Don’t know how to cry
But you’ll tumble through the forest
Follow river running by
And the raindrops on your cheeks
Might make you feel a little shy
Come in from the cold, into the light of morning
Don't yet know how fast things can all change with no warning
The opal-winged king of flies will follow you
Til dawn
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3. |
nettle
04:57
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There’s bad blood in the old bones
So we’ve ground them down to flour feeding flesh
And yet they follow
To linger like a shadow on the wall
A kingdom come for a changeling
Where there’s power there’s a pleasure in the dark
There’s a secret to becoming and a pattern to uncovering
The truth where mystery has set the trend
There’s a reckoning that comes with a storm swept sky
I fear the fire from the lightning
And the revenant that comes with a knowing
I do better for the weather yet to come
The night is young and restless
The stars illuminating hallowed ground
And still I want escape from it all
Flee the forest for another place unknown
And the revenant that comes with a knowing
I do better for the weather yet to come
There’s pain in the mistakes our mother’s mothers made
Wild women, their curses are mine
And the medicine is bitter when the wound is deep
I’ve learned to trust my intuition
The nettle is taller than my head when I stand on my tippy toes good thing that I’m just a kid crawling through the weeds through the trees and I follow the river flushed cheeks cause the grass around here’s like a forest, I covered my body in sheets just to make sure that I don’t get stung as I walk the familiar path through the swamp into the wood
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4. |
pavor nocturnus
04:00
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I’ve hit the bottom of the bottle
Another dose downed it would seem
Getting a bit worried for the fallout
I wonder what’s waiting for me
This evening in dreaming
I hope I'll be able to last the night
Paralyzed
My heart skips a beat as I wake
If everything’s fine
Then why do I feel so afraid?
Mother says there’s mold in the attic
Maybe that’s why I always get sick
But then again she also says that when I was a kid
the nighttime still had me in fits
My eyes were wide open
No shaking or pokin’
Could seem to produce an effect
Paralyzed
My heart skips a beat as I wake
If everything’s fine
Then why do I feel so afraid?
Maybe cause sometimes things I'm dreaming
Come to pass when I'm awake
I don't know whether or not
I trust my memory
Probably pointless to run from premonition
When there's so much I could learn
But it hurts not knowing
The difference 'tween future and fear
Paralyzed
My heart skips a beat as I wake
If everything’s fine
Then why do I feel so afraid?
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5. |
sunrise
05:37
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I can’t sleep
I can’t sleep a wink
Counting sheep
If I can count on anything
It’s the sting of salt water
Salt water in wound
Still singing
I’ve got a war in my mind
My pillow is the front line
Liquor on my breath I’ll catch my death of cold one day
Wandering the night
You see it’s only a half hour walk to the water
Where the ghosts won’t bother me
And there I’ll stay
Til sunrise
The days run together
They run round and around
Make me dizzy
And I might as well keep busy
If I’ve got the time to spare
Bare bones
Bare breast against wave crest
Come crashing all around
Lost and found
Drowning down, I’m
Lost and lovely
Don’t make a sound
Hold fast, hold your breath
You’ll come around
I’ve got a war in my mind
My pillow is the front line
Liquor on my breath I’ll catch my death of cold one day
Wandering the night
You see it’s only a half hour walk to the water
Where the ghosts won’t bother me
And there I’ll stay
Til sunrise comes again
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6. |
interlude
03:20
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I pour another glass for the ghosts that haunt the wood
And dream of the room
Hidden behind the wall
And I’ll light a cigarette for the discipline I lack
I won’t say a word
But mother has eyes in the animals
Old regret
The time you spent
The forest now just a memory
Holy death
Baptism by flame
Though I miss it now darling all the same
Change is the nature of this world within a world
The ritual kept
There are reasons I never wept
There was a freedom
In growing as I did
The serpent’s kiss
Still lingers on my mouth
Cold wet
The womb of the sea
Already reborn in a prophecy
Golden thread
Pulling me on
Towards the horizon and onward and onward and on
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7. |
lines
02:10
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Familial lines stand sentinel
Etched into my palms
They are the product of centuries of an inheritance
Ancestors aligned in just the right manner
Genetic coding, compounding
Dictating the predictions of ensuring my existence
Their struggle, their sorrow, their privilage, and
Power - Oh what a power
This magic terrifies me, truthfully
For it is branded into my being
Ancestral wounds of colonization,
An abomination of realization that
I am here to do right where they did wrong, after all
I’ve got my songs; they’re written in my palms
Oh I’ve got things to do in this skin
These tasks I never asked for
A destiny I’ve known in bone ever since i learned to read the signs/lines
Skin peels over those lines that never fade
Read across the table from my mother’s empty teacup
When she navigates their topography
I wonder if she sees herself
If her father stretches across the ligaments of my fingers
A means of connection in my clumsiness
Sometimes I clench my fists
Make half-moon indentations
With unbitten fingernails
A testament to patience, or something
Harder
These feelings are fleeting, in their own way.
A destiny delayed, lying in wait,
An ever present awareness of an unknown fate
Half moons linger, but they fade too, in time
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8. |
gemini moon
03:58
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They say I’m a curious kid
I run with the wind
I run back to the water
Changing like the tide
Thoughts running quick through my mind
There’s something hiding underneath the surface like a shadow
Ashes to ashes we all fall down
Around the ring of roses at our feet
I smile as the thorns cut into flesh
I’m unbothered yet I’m in my head
I don’t wanna be bored
I’m just so sore
So sore
I feel it all but I’m far away from my body
Stuck in the clouds just waiting to come back down
Yes I’m restless
But how can I sleep when the moon is full
Of secrets I must keep
I’m full of tears that I can’t weep
For I’ve forgotten how
Now I just wait and try to keep my mouth shut
To learn a little more
I feel it all but I’m far away from my body
Stuck in the clouds just waiting to come back down
And when I howl to the stars they just say it’s a power
Of a gemini moon
I think too much, I think too much, I think I overthink too much
I feel it all but I’m far away from my body
Stuck in the clouds just waiting to come back down
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9. |
tempt me
02:52
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Show me your wounds, darling
I’m so bored of mine
Tell me one good reason
I should try and stay away this time
Tempt me baby
Come in closer, mind the tide
Tread the water with me
Cold as ice
And yet I still feel fine
To tell the truth my memory’s fine
I just forget the pain
I hide away what hurts to pay it mind
Something seems familiar in your eye
Reminds me of a place I’ve yet to find
And so I’m tempted to ask why
Caught my interest
Would you like to let me in?
Leave behind all of your worries
Leave behind all of your sins
Drown me gently
With a smile and a sigh
Do I tempt you baby
Do you think you'd try me on for size
Home is a fantasy I conjure when I’m lonely
I have never been that good at making friends
I’m beside myself when questioning reality
Are you?
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10. |
serpentskin i
04:05
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I’m feeling a little lost lately
Don’t know how I got here or where I’m going now
Feels like I’ve got sharp things in my body
Knives and broken glass stick out of my ribs and hurt the things that I hold close
I wanna be a little baby bird living in a nest
Soft and singing and getting all the rest I need
But I’m not I am an animal with claws and teeth
To survive some things in the wild need blood and meat
And I am hungry
And I still feel empty
I’ve lived so many lives
I’ve lived so many lives
I’ve lived so many lives
Dying all the time, all the time, all the time
Don’t really know what I look like these days
I’ve been having trouble looking in the mirror
Can’t seem to recognize my own face
I wanna peel back all my skin til I see something familiar
But snakes shed lives and grow their new ones underneath
All I’ve got to show for my past is the collection of my baby teeth
The rest of me I guess is really long since shed
I miss you, I miss me, I miss them
I miss you, I miss me, I miss them
I miss me, I miss me, I miss me, I miss me…
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11. |
honey-tongued
04:35
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Rain come down, oh
Rain come down on me
Honey tongued I fall in love with everything I see
How nice to be a witch like me
I cast my spell
I know it will work well
I’ve got a power bloody pumping through my veins
It’s all so strange but there’s no-one I’d rather be
Rain come down, oh
Rain come down tell a story
Tell me how it feels to leave the comfort of mother, salt water
Tell me all the things that you have seen as
A the river running home
My spell is cast
I know it will work fast
The moon is bright but even night can’t last forever
The weather’s changing storm’s a brewing magic moving in me
When I die please bury me
Underneath the Rowan tree
So that I have roots instead of itchy feet
Yes I love to run but it’s so tiring
I’m sleepy dreaming dripping honey sweet
From time to time I’m tired of this skin
I’m tired of this destiny I want to begin again
I just want to swim all day my friend
But that’s another life
And that’s another way
And that’s another river running
So I’ll wait until another rainy day
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12. |
the car came very fast
02:02
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the car came very fast around the corner
the light turned green as it screamed
straight through the intersection
I can’t say it was unexpected
See I’ve seen this scene before when I’ve been sleeping
the car came very fast at the sidewalk
If you hadn’t been there oh I would be gone
So long, so long
But time after time I survived
And I don’t really know why
For some reason I’m not surprised
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13. |
end act I
02:27
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If I could cry I’d weep an ocean
Drown the world in my emotion
But my eyes are dry as desert heat
Unbroken bleaching bones
Saline streaks are distant memories
Rivers flowed once in these sands
But the cactus flowers blooming
Cannot bring the nectar back
I could bleed myself to bring
The wetness that I need to life
Open up old wounds with knives
Who crave that sweet forgotten rite
But it wouldn’t save my mother from the hunters
Who would see us die
Why should it save me from myself
When all I’ve ever done is lie?
Lay me down to rest, I’ve made a mess
Of making up my face
The streaks of red just berry stains
And nothing more, make no mistake
I was fearless once, I packed a punch
It left me bruised and beat
A fallen peach no one will eat
I’ll rot before you taste me sweet
So leave me in the past
I walk too fast to count the teardrops shed
Maybe I can cry again when I’ve gone through another death
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Rowan Rain Ireland
rhythmic & intuitive
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