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Thorn & Shout Demo June 2012

by THORN & SHOUT

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1.
I wear you out but hold your faith as sure as day: a thorn and shout. ______________ my toes touch the october sea -- a wave fall back to welcome me foul overpass I lie beneath -- my train might come so I can't sleep and you've been lurking round this hole to pray for rain and save your soul: a dance that happens more and more, as hopeful as an apple core. the sage that blossoms fragrantly -- it shelters things that I can't see now take me to the eastern shore -- for in the snow our tracks are clear. I lay my love down like a lamb and spill the blood from both our hands: to softly mingle in the mud, O foolish great eternal blood. will Armageddon come to call -- for I desire the slightest thrill the unrequited multiply -- the satisfied stand still.
2.
fulfilled i will find my way out of the night that chasm, dark kingdom, a waste of my time once over yon ledge, the weather is fine but that gravity makes for a difficult climb and i recall your gift of the infinite kind -- encouraging words wearing wings well designed a bond that won't bend 'till the stars cease their shine unfaltering faith, even though, and despite but i'm just blood and bones and attempts at atonement and there's nothing i know but that nothing is permanent and our love is strong, an oak old and towering or a bird on the wing casting cries towards the heavens a beautiful things, what luck this deliverance now i will become what in needed of me a beacon to mirror the glistening sea and i will lose myself so completely that no compass no map could find me whether fated thus, or a fool's leap neither story seems too troubling and with all things magical indeed, the world nearly brings me to my knees
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Name & Noise 05:12
dead eyes fixed upon the east, so keen to catch another glimpse the creases in your robes collecting snow but the sun will never dawn for you encased in bronze with all you know condensed into a monumental stone a statue in a square the birds nest upon your hair and use your hollow volume as a hiding place for seed but will you ever rest again, with all the world speaking your name? do you tire to live on eternally and small we are so blame we must invent the gods to punish us we fear the flame we fear the void we fear to lose our name & noise and who am i to proclaim anything i'm but name pinned to the collar of a shirt a momentary bloom, a single thread upon a loom a flag atop a mound of dirt ... but matter cannot be destroyed only transformed exchanged like coins so go acquaint yourself with the dust you'll one day find yourself amongst
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Trouble 05:44
from the midst of the winter I will lead you to spring: every home needs an altar every year fills a hole with the dead. how the once fallow field may divinely exchange sweat for bread -- out among the rocks and snakes I'm laying down: "it's more fun to live with trouble than without..." on our long narrow road we will be merry friends with the moon: perfect seeds buried deep though the surface be still as the tomb. all await being born an ordeal that can come none too soon -- out among the rocks and snakes I'm laying down: "it's more fun to live with trouble than without..." from the mouth of our cave I will show you a bird blocks the sun: if they spoke we would tremble but they teach not in language alone. how the uncharted world is a word once inscribed on a stone -- out among the rocks and snakes I'm laying down: while castles fall and kings are toppled all around... you can see the awful cloud that forms ahead: but inside the hearth is dry and warm the bed... in the midst of the winter I will lead you to spring: every year builds an altar every home digs a hole for the dead --

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released June 22, 2012

Sofia Crowsfoot - voice, viola, banjo, guitar
Link Crowsfoot - voice, guitar, banjo, bells, drum, shruti box, harmonica

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