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Swaddled in Gloaming
02:15
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Swaddled in gloaming
Kissed by the fairies
My enchanted lover
Skips from one stone to the next one
Dropping sticks in the burn
Gathers up brambles for me
Bathed in the pale light
Darling of witches
My enchanted lover
Looks out for dreams in the Heather
Stops by the crows for a blether
Brings home a new song for me
Ahh...
When the smoke from the chimney
Embraces the mist
Home come a-tripping
Steeped in the bliss
Stranger than fiction
Familiar as shadows
My enchanted lover
Swaddled in gloaming
Kissed by the fairies
My enchanted lover loves the world
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Storm in my Head
03:17
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This weather is mental
It’s entirely in my mind
But it’s not any less real
For taking place inside
Ah Ah Ah
Soles on the soil
Spirit uncoil
I kiss the ground that we tread
Negative ions
Like faerie lights flying
All to calm the storm in my head
Static discharged
Colours bled
Moved and changed and mantra said
All to calm the storm in my head
All to calm the storm in my head
All to calm the storm in my head
All to calm the storm in my head
All to calm the storm in my head
All to calm the storm in my head
All to calm the storm in my head
All to calm the storm in my head
Free the wild
Quiet the child
I kiss the ground that we tread
Out in the pines
Wandering wynds
All to calm the storm in my head
Static discharged
Colours bled
Moved and changed and mantra said
All to calm the storm in my head
All to calm the storm in my head
This weather is mental
It’s entirely in my mind
But it’s not any less real
For taking place inside
Ah Ah Ah
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The Seventh Floor
03:18
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Here’s to the witch on the seventh floor
The silver moon hangs above their door
You’ll find your centre find your core
In shades of petrichor
On the seventh floor
On the seventh floor
In the allotment tending the marrows
On their shoulder settles a sparrow
And sings as love is reaped and heaped in the barrow
So
Here’s to the witch on the seventh floor
The silver moon hangs above their door
You’ll find your centre find your core
In shades of petrichor
On the seventh floor
On the seventh floor
It’s wyrd what you can find
When you’re looking for yourself
Oh mirror in the sky
Please send a friend to help
One evening in their apartment
From a chest they drew a compartment
And read my cards as five familiars purred in contentment
So
Here’s to the witch on the seventh floor
The silver moon hangs above their door
You’ll find your centre find your core
In shades of petrichor
On the seventh floor
On the seventh floor
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Vernal Spell
03:15
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Everything is going to plan
The world is catching light
Budding writers wake
And fledglings take flight
I’m starting a new book
Ink upon the skin
Fertile is the soil
Let my life begin
I am rabbit I am lamb
I am living I am real
I am otter I am fox
I’m the turning of the wheel
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I do not wish to be perceived
And so I step out in the gloaming
Among the rust and amber leaves
And the mellow wind a-moaning
Out on the edge of thought it's quieter as you go
Here at the edge of night no one knows
When the morning breaks startling is the glow
Bringing fools and their concerns in tow
I do not wish to be perceived
So I shall wear my cloak of midnight
Speaking only to the bees
And the bats abroad in twilight
Strangers hassle and deceive
And so I do not wish to be perceived
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Chrysalis
03:02
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Facets of a sunbeam
Thought I’d seen them all
Until my re-emergence
When many more would call
And when a million fireflies
Danced around the blaze
Right then I knew my nature
Had never been a phase
I climbed out of my chrysalis
And suddenly everyone was beautiful
The sun beamed down
The shadow on the dial was spinning round
I met the dancing foxes
The otters and the bears
The wildcats and domestic
And the singers of the air
I braved an oak in rapture
With squirrel friend and owl
Decked out all in dewdrops
Sidesaddle on a bow
I climbed out of my chrysalis
And suddenly everyone was beautiful
The sun beamed down
The shadow on the dial was spinning round
The frogs bop in
The pink of the sunset
By blue pond serene
And the bonnie purple heather in between
Being seen
I climbed out of my chrysalis
And suddenly everyone was beautiful
The sun beamed down
The shadow on the dial would spin
I climbed out of my chrysalis
And suddenly everyone was beautiful
The sun beamed down
The shadow on the dial was spinning round
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Bundles
01:14
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Staircase in the Woods
03:33
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I’ve been a ranger for some years
The forest had ceased to hold any fears
Til one dusky evening there it stood
Freestanding staircase deep in the woods
It was a void that I could have avoided
At the top of that staircase in the woods
Should have known it’d do no good
And stayed away from that staircase in the woods
At the top my mind turned inside out
I tumbled down like I had taken a clout
Since then my thick skin has turned to bark
And no one wants to meet me in the dark
It was a void that I would have avoided
At the top of that staircase in the woods
Should have known it’d do no good
And stayed away from that staircase in the woods
So if you go out searching for the truth
Wrap up warm or you’ll catch your death of wolf
And if when wand’ring wildly through the pines
You see a staircase just don’t pay it any mind
It was a void that I should have avoided
At the top of that staircase in the woods
Should have known it’d do no good
And stayed away from that staircase in the woods
Stay away from that staircase in the woods
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Long Shadow
03:39
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From my corpse there grew a pine
Fast of trunk and strong of spine
Looking out along the line
But this tall and mighty tree
Still no match for you was he
Let your branches cover me
When you’re around I know
You cast a long shadow
You keep me guessing
Such a long shadow
But it’s a blessing
You keep me sheltered from the sun
You keep me safe so I don’t burn
Now reborn I head to town
Clad all in your hand me down
Mosscap, bracket, coral crown
Righting all your favourite wrongs
Playing all your favourite songs
Feed the bugs and sing along
When you’re around I know
You cast a long shadow
You keep me guessing
Such a long shadow
But it’s a blessing
You keep me sheltered from the sun
You keep me safe so I don’t burn
Let sparkles dance
From branch to branch
Like all of my tears still to flow
Cause when you’re around I know
You cast a long shadow
You keep me guessing
Such a long shadow
But it’s a blessing
You keep me sheltered from the sun
You keep me safe so I don’t burn
Such a long shadow
But it’s a blessing
You keep me sheltered from the sun
You keep me safe so I don’t burn
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Pillar of Faults
02:08
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In the beating heart between now and next
Birds hang in mid flight
Until the broken is all fixed
I’ll have to hold them all tight
From one breath to one blink
Leaves float in the air
I’ve got to try to more than think
Got to weave the air
I got stuck in a liminal space
In between this time and place
Like a sinking ship on the river Styx
Birds drown in mid flight
Until the broken is all fixed
Repeat repeat until right
I am become a pillar of faults
Here beneath this verdant vault
In the breaking heart between now and next
Birds hang in mid flight
Until the broken is all fixed
I’ll have to keep them all right
I got stuck in a liminal space
In between this time and place
I am become a pillar of faults
Here beneath this verdant vault
Yes, I am become a pillar of faults
Here beneath this verdant vault
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Terror begone
In your embrace
Out of the dark
Glows your face
Leaves for a beard
Wreath of a mane
Firefly smile
Sweet smell of rain
You led me out
Led me out of
Out of the woods
Warped in the bark
Trapped for all time
That was my fate
Also my crime
Out of the dark
You reached a hand
You led me out of the woods
You led me out
Led me out of
Out of the woods
Out of the woods
Out of the woods
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The Stone's Reply
02:00
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Listen To The Air
04:32
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I sit back and listen to the air
It’s fun though everyone says there’s nothing there
So seductive it just lays you bare
The air
Tentatively entering its chorus
Intensely as it turns dark to light
It’s my wake up call each morning glorious
It’s my lullaby into the night
I sit back and listen to the air
It’s fun though everyone says there’s nothing there
So seductive it just lays you bare
The air
Travels light in feathers like a gypsy
Its siren call comes always out the blue
Follows its own footsteps through whirling winds
Won’t utter a word unless it’s true
I sit back and listen to the air
Its secret thread weaves through my head eager to share
Open up, it’s everywhere
The air
Don’t make any sudden movements
Just keep still til you can hear it clear
Chill out and relax or you will lose it
The lovely sound of air will disappear
I sit back and listen to the air
It’s fun though everyone says there’s nothing there
So seductive it just lays you bare
The air
The air
The air
The air
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Lewis Mullen Glasgow, UK
I write the kind of music I'd like to listen to, and I hope you enjoy listening to it to. It's a window into a slightly different world that's a more honest mirror of our own
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