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\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Witch’s Hand – collaboration with Mother Bear (Germany)<\/p>\n

In a ditch
\nditch ditch<\/p>\n

Find a witch
\nwitch witch<\/p>\n

Witch\u2019s hand<\/p>\n

In a ditch
\nditch ditch<\/p>\n

Find a witch
\nwitch witch<\/p>\n

Witch\u2019s hand<\/p>\n

Make a wish
\nMake a wish<\/p>\n

Was that what you wanted?
\nMirror mirror !
\nIt’s in reverse
\nWhat you think you want
\nIt is a curse<\/p>\n

No where to run<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not scared of the dark<\/p>\n

Vapor like smoke
\nSwirling ’round my lonely room
\nI am a shadow
\nYou\u2019re not quite like
\nanything at all<\/p>\n

Knows me chose me calls me
\nby my middle name<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not scared of the dark
\nI\u2019m a friend to the night
\nI\u2019m a friend to the night
\nI\u2019m not scared of the dark<\/p>\n

Creep here with me
\nKeep it close and you might see
\nThe little things that glow
\nAnd they all have teeth<\/p>\n

Knows you chose you calls you
\nBy your middle name
\nYou won\u2019t have to say a word
\nFor understanding<\/p>\n

Death Skull<\/p>\n

Death skull
\nYour eyes they shine
\nSay you’ll be mine
\nFor all of time<\/p>\n

Take you for a Ride
\non the other side
\nother side
\nWe’ll go where we want to<\/p>\n

If you make me believe it
\nBelieve me I\u2019ll make you
\nMake you death skull
\nIf you make me believe it
\nBelieve me I\u2019ll make you
\nMake you my death skull
\nShine<\/p>\n

The things you whisper to me
\nI will whisper to you
\nI want to whisper to you<\/p>\n

Take you for a Ride
\nOn the other side
\nOther side
\nWe’ll go where we want to<\/p>\n

If you make me believe it
\nBelieve me I\u2019ll make you
\nMake you death skull
\nIf you make me believe it
\nBelieve me I\u2019ll make you
\nMake you my death skull
\nShine<\/p>\n

Ride<\/p>\n

Consuming Rites (written by Mother Bear & you should ask!)<\/p>\n

Rat<\/p>\n

I hear you I hear you
\nRat<\/p>\n

crawling and scratching
\nStealing the food of our useless cats<\/p>\n

I am going to bed
\nI\u2019m not cleaning anything
\nEver again
\nLet in your friends
\nTake it over<\/p>\n

I\u2019m dead<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
Ghost Folk<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ghost Folk<\/p>\n

1. Beautiful Teeth
\nBeautiful teeth like wolves\u2019
\nyour smile makes the rabbits run
\nAll hail the moon
\nyour neck, it\u2019s light on the water
\non the water
\non the water
\nYour broad chest and the space between your breasts
\nsoftly, the wolves are sleeping
\nYour broad chest and the space between your breasts
\nsoftly, the wolves are sleeping
\nBeautiful teeth like wolves\u2019
\nYour smile makes the rabbits run
\nAll hail the moon
\nYour neck, it\u2019s light on the water
\non the water
\non the water<\/p>\n

2. I Can\u2019t See You
\nI can\u2019t see you, I\u2019m not going tonight
\nOh run away run away run away run away
\nAnd hide
\nOh run away run away run away with me tonight
\nI can\u2019t see you, I\u2019m not going tonight
\nOh run away run away run away run away
\nAnd hide
\nOh run away run away run away with me tonight<\/p>\n

I know a place where we can go
\nwe both know very well
\nI know the dark place that we both do go
\nwe both know very well<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t see you, I\u2019m not going tonight
\nOh run away run away run away
\nAnd hide
\nOh run away run away run away with me tonight<\/p>\n

Lean a little closer to me dear
\nI can almost breathe when you are near
\nLean a little closer to me dear
\nI can almost breathe you in<\/p>\n

3. Sea Change
\nHelena walks the city streets
\nand her playlist guides her feet
\nfrom Neptune to the beach<\/p>\n

Serve them coffee, bring them tea
\nthinking of nothing, and everything
\nnothing of him can now remain
\nbut does suffer a sea change<\/p>\n

Sea change sea change sea change<\/p>\n

From where you thought you\u2019d be
\nNothing is fixed in stone
\nsee how below here how they roll
\nroll the bones and now the tide
\nbring you back to where you felt alive<\/p>\n

Sea change sea change sea change<\/p>\n

4. Tarot Card
\nThis is a new day
\nand I tuck your tarot card away
\nThree of Wands , you said it was arbitrary
\ndidn\u2019t mean anything
\nbut you said a lot of things<\/p>\n

Speaking in riddles
\nso no one could understand you
\nmaking complicated
\nwhat was really so easy<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you your future
\nI\u2019ll tell you your future
\nI\u2019ll tell you your future
\nbut it\u2019s far too lonely<\/p>\n

This is a new day
\nand I tuck your tarot card away
\nThis is a new day, a new day<\/p>\n

Like a bird from the snare of the fowler
\nLike a beast from the hand of the hunter
\nLike a bird from the snare of the fowler
\nFree yourself<\/p>\n

5. Fair Warning
\nIf I sing my song through the trees you might
\nhear me, fair warning
\nLittle lonesome love, it has been awhile I know
\nDon\u2019t you know the most beautiful things
\nthat crawl or fly are full of poison<\/p>\n

I have eyes on my back so it seems
\nI am watching
\nHer Monarch wings are lovely and bright
\nso you know, she won\u2019t taste nice<\/p>\n

He sings his song through the trees
\nand it seems he is lonely<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you know the most beautiful things
\ngive fair warning
\nthey are full of poison<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you know the most beautiful things
\ngive fair warning
\nDon\u2019t you know the most beautiful things
\ngive fair warning
\nthey are full of poison<\/p>\n

6. In Your Perfumed Chambers
\nInstrumental<\/p>\n

7. November Man
\nNovember man, with your coat of black
\nflap your wings against the ghost
\ngrey sky
\nSing your song of November
\nnaked trees and the promise of ice
\novernight
\nThere\u2019s no warm fire
\nfor you, or me<\/p>\n

Meet me there
\ngrey as a ghost
\nthe sky where you and I fly by
\nEach and the other
\nblack coats and wings<\/p>\n

Hear my song of November
\nYou\u2019ll never know
\nyou\u2019ll never know
\nyou\u2019ll never know
\nmy name
\nYou\u2019ll never know
\nyou\u2019ll never know
\nyou\u2019ll never know
\nmy name<\/p>\n

8. Katie Cruel (Trad)<\/p>\n

9. Elemental Child<\/p>\n

Elemental child, made up of sun and wind
\nI see the tree of you whipped and bend
\nall in an instant then your face
\nturns pensive and sad
\n\u2018til it picks up again, like the wind<\/p>\n

Elemental child
\ntears fall to earth in rain
\nspring from the ground again
\nchanged and unchanging<\/p>\n

Constantly blustering
\ncurses and philosophy
\nit is a tempest and I
\nI am a kite<\/p>\n

10. Go Your Way \u2013 By Anne Briggs<\/p>\n

11. I Remember Everything
\nAwaken in the morning
\nin the still and solitary light
\nto stand beside your shadow
\nfrom a dream I had last night<\/p>\n

You return and talk to me
\nwe\u2019re walking like we used to do
\nHow can I shake you off this way
\nI remember everything<\/p>\n

How wrong can one woman be
\nor how lost and how lonely
\nTell me you don\u2019t feel any pain
\nI remember everything<\/p>\n

Well, I miss the thoughts that I used to think
\nand you walking beside me
\nSay you never my friend
\nI remember everything<\/p>\n

12. Our Lady of the Highway
\nOh , Our Lady of the Highway
\nwon\u2019t you lend me some Grace
\nI can\u2019t close my eyes
\nor I\u2019ll see his pretty face
\nI\u2019d get drunk on some whiskey
\nbut I can\u2019t stand the taste
\nOh Our Lady of the Highway
\nTake me far away from here<\/p>\n

Oh , Our Lady of the Highway
\nWon\u2019t you ease my head
\nHe lay down the sunset
\nwhen he lay back in that bed
\nand oh my skies
\nmy skies went gold, pink and red
\nFarewell
\nis what I have left
\nnow all I have left is farewell
\nFarewell<\/p>\n

Oh , Our Lady of the Highway
\nwon\u2019t you lend me some Grace
\nI can\u2019t close my eyes
\nor I\u2019ll see his pretty face, such a pretty face
\nI get drunk on some whiskey
\nbut I can\u2019t stand the taste
\nOh Our Lady of the Highway
\nTake me far away from here<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Prince’s Pine<\/p>\n

1. First Amongst the Flowers<\/p>\n

Stop haunting me with your name
\ncommon as pebbles
\nunder my bare feet<\/p>\n

Each step I take
\naway from you
\nleads me doubled back
\nuntil I stand in your garden<\/p>\n

First amongst the flowers
\nunder a rainless sky
\nwith it’s unrelenting sun<\/p>\n

2. Dark Winged Sparrow<\/p>\n

Sweet as Bee’s pollen on gentlest breezing
\nmore bitter than the taste of wormwood
\nin love with the dark
\nin love with death
\nkisses your mouth where my fingers might’ve been
\nin another place
\nin another time
\nPretty boy I would’ve made you mine
\nin another place
\nin another time
\nLover boy my dark winged sparrow<\/p>\n

3 . Prince of the Morning<\/p>\n

Prince of the Morning
\nwalking in golden light
\nhigh in the city
\nyour solitary citadel
\n& when you closed your eyes
\nit was for a long time
\n& did you close your eyes
\nalmost for forever?<\/p>\n

Prince of the Morning
\nyour hands are lily white
\nmove clothed in darkness
\napart from common
\npopulace
\n& speaking at length
\nof what ails & moves you
\nof what you love & what you hate & who
\n& who do you love<\/p>\n

Prince of the Morning
\nwalking by columbine
\nbachelor’s button
\ncockscomb & crossing lines
\nto the stately house
\nwith it’s many windows
\nsome were for looking out
\nsome for looking inward<\/p>\n

& who do you love?<\/p>\n

4. When you are Awakening (instrumental)<\/p>\n

5. They Killed my Crippled Prince with the Sea Glass Eyes
\nThey killed my crippled prince with the sea glass eyes
\nhe won’t sing his sad songs any more
\nhe says his songs are far too sad
\nbut his songs could open up the truest heart
\nthe truest heart is filled with blood & roses<\/p>\n

They killed my crippled prince with the sea glass eyes
\nsaid his story was all wrong
\nthey were silent when they should’ve laughed
\n& they laughed when they should’ve been in mourning<\/p>\n

They killed my crippled prince with the sea glass eyes
\nhe won’t let his fingers play
\nup & down the neck of his guitar
\nlike a Spanish courtesan
\nwearing crimson robes
\nlips stained with wine<\/p>\n

They killed my crippled prince with the sea glass eyes
\nhe won’t sing his sad songs any more
\nhe says there’s only so many sad songs a man can sing
\nbefore life takes another path & he is gone<\/p>\n

\"TSTSSsmaller\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Song the Songbird Sings<\/p>\n

1. It’s not the Ocean<\/p>\n

It’s not the ocean
\nit’s the water that will
\ndrag you under<\/p>\n

We’re out of sugar
\nI’m not shopping anymore
\nWatching the rain fall
\nat your door<\/p>\n

It’s not the ocean
\nIt’s the water that will
\nDrag you under<\/p>\n

When they see us together
\nand they tell their sister and
\ntheir brother
\nI was looking out to sea
\nyou were hidden somewhere
\nbehind me<\/p>\n

It’s not the ocean
\nit’s the water that will
\ndrag you under<\/p>\n

2. Bluest Bird<\/p>\n

Bluest bird
\nflew just once by my window
\nNow I know
\nwhat you were trying to tell me now<\/p>\n

Saying won’t you save a place for me?
\nI said I’d give you anything
\nI said I’d give you anything
\nI didn’t see you fly<\/p>\n

I am walking
\nThrough a desert of snow
\nwith no shoes and no water
\nfor my thirst<\/p>\n

I took from you just one single kiss
\nSo I am no longer thirsty
\nOnce you held me in your arms
\n& I am warm<\/p>\n

Bluest bird flew just once by my window
\nNow I know what you’ve been trying to tell me now<\/p>\n

Saying wont you save a place for me?
\nI said I’d give you anything
\nI said I’d give you anything
\nDidn’t see you fly<\/p>\n

3. Crabapple<\/p>\n

Crabapple crab if you have to
\njust smile for me once in awhile
\nCrabapple nothing goes right all the time<\/p>\n

Caught in the downs
\nof your pocket-sized thunderclouds still I
\nlike how you say what you want
\nRain it comes down, but your blue skies gonna come around
\nand you sing like a bird in the sun<\/p>\n

Crabapple bow your head down, beneath those blankets of brown
\nwhisper thanks to a merciful God
\nCaught in the downs
\nof your pocket-sized thunderclouds still I
\nlike how you say what you want
\nRain it comes down, but your blue skies gonna come around
\nand you sing like a bird in the sun<\/p>\n

4. Sundown Lyrics by Gordon Lightfoot<\/p>\n

5. Shoot Me<\/p>\n

I met a man he was a very bad man
\nhe said “I have my grandfather’s hands”
\nand he led me down a long twisty path
\nfull of stones and broken glass and he
\nbroke my back
\nand he hurt my heart and bit my skin and left his mark
\nand said “You old broken thing, you’re gonna wait on me”
\nand he bent down to slip a yoke on me and I said<\/p>\n

Oh, shoot me
\nI won’t carry no burden baby I won’t carry no burden baby
\nI was made for better things
\nand you better have a bullet for me<\/p>\n

Go on take my heart, leave me an old broken thing
\ngo on take my eyes , if you’re gonna take your sight from me
\ngo on take my ears, and I’ll never hear you
\ncall my name
\ngo on and take my life if you would take your love from me
\nShoot me I won’t carry no burden baby
\nI won’t carry no burden baby
\nI was made for better things
\nand this love’s a burden on me<\/p>\n

Just last night I had the strangest dream
\nI was walking underneath the leaves
\nhow my heart still sang a song so sweet
\nI heard a little bird up in the tree
\nwhistle it to me
\nOh, shoot me baby
\nI won’t carry no burden baby
\nI won’t carry no burden baby<\/p>\n

I met a man he was a very bad man
\ntell him by his old granddaddy hands
\nand he’ll lead you down a long twisty path
\nfull of old bones and broken glass<\/p>\n

6. O Deathless and Divine<\/p>\n

O Deathless and Divine
\nHoly fire and wine
\nthat is ever drunk and replenishing<\/p>\n

Let me be the drunk that wets themselves in the car
\nlet me be a fool
\nlet me die for love<\/p>\n

Let me step in front of trains
\n’cause your words are running through my brains
\nyour eyes with their long lashes
\nyour neck, the cord you wear around it
\nyour big hands and their ring<\/p>\n

7. The Song the Songbird Sings<\/p>\n

The sun is come into my world
\nMy Love has come today
\nSaying small and sweet things
\nThe song the songbird sings
\nWithin the trees
\nPlease please to me
\nSend your sweet song to me
\nSo I may know where you reside and sleep
\nA bed of lavender a bed of rosewood
\nMoss
\nWhen you stand in the sun it is against the sky
\nIt’s rays fall upon you like a waterfall
\nBathing you in light
\nI see this in my mind<\/p>\n

8. The Snow Fox<\/p>\n

One day the magician turned his
\ncloak all inside out
\nIt no longer held the moon and the stars
\nBut was stark white
\nHospital sheets
\nYou’d visit him at night and brought him seeds to eat<\/p>\n

And all the blackest night
\nwas bright and white<\/p>\n

The swirling sisters descended
\nIn a murder of crows
\nTheir fingers extended and he
\nDisappeared in a puff of smoke
\nHow you were left alone
\nLike the goose girl <\/p>\n

How then you closed the door
\nAnd you turned the lock
\nYou became a witch
\nWho lived inside a log
\nDeep inside the forest like a fox
\nLike a fox<\/p>\n

Like a snow fox<\/p>\n

9. Gentle is the Angel<\/p>\n

Gentle, gentle is the angel
\ngentle, gentle is the angel who blows the candle out<\/p>\n

and you were running through the wood
\nhow the branches grabbed at you with human hands
\nand the stars in the night swirling ’round her face
\nWas the moon in the sky come to kiss
\nyou goodbye<\/p>\n

Gentle, gentle is the angel
\ngentle, gentle is the angel who blows the candle out<\/p>\n

They were running in the night
\nhow their teeth were long and white
\nand voices low
\nand the frozen air you worked
\nwith shallow breath
\nand you stood alone in the snow
\nWith the scent of blood<\/p>\n

Gentle, gentle is the angel
\ngentle, gentle is the angel who blows the candle out<\/p>\n

10. Aliana<\/p>\n

The endless sky of blue
\nWashes over you
\nWashes over you
\nSmallest of the white
\nflowers
\nIs a part of you
\nIs a part of you<\/p>\n

Always Aliana<\/p>\n

Picked a small flower
\nThey’d Picked the small flower
\nIn the sky of blue
\nYou fly
\nYou are flying<\/p>\n

Always Aliana<\/p>\n