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I Will Name Your Dead
03:13
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I will name your dead
If you will name mine
For two voices raised in song
Are better than one that can falter
I will mark your steps
You may tread in mine
If you have enemies, we have enemies
And if I’m still living, you’ve got time
This is the promise oft made
Forcèd, unmeant
Laid at the foot of a god long dead
Who will hold us to task for what we’ve said
If we say
If we say
The magic has long left the land
We may climb the mountain and stand where once was holy to stand
I, eyes closed, to see if I feel it
Close as I’ve ever come would be with you
Name the dead!
Times with gods is gone
I can do too much and know such
That I need not think of the dead or the death to come
But double voiced we may invoke any chosen magic twice as deep
And if you have a restless night, you may share my sleep
This is the promise, this is the promise
(I will name your dead)
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Wolfwalking
03:44
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I am walking in the woods
There’s a wolf in front of me - he looks good
I would eat him if I could
But I think he might eat me
Beneath the trees the light is dim
The night is wide, the day is thin, dark closing in
The wolf turns back and looks at me
I see the moon in his teeth
I have my shotgun and my bow
But I find I do not know
What I came to hunt - but then I see
The wolf and me - where one will go, the other follows
Oh we build dens in the snow
We build dens everywhere we go
For to sleep alone here is to perish
At least we tell each other this
And we cannot lie, my wolf and I
There is a village yet nearby
I know it when I’m civilised
But my wolf is all of jaws and fight
I decline its lights for fur tonight
Many children, many times
Fingers hurt by flames burnt bright
“You must not let the wolf within
“You must not let him ‘neath your skin”
But I must walk with him or else
I am not walking with myself
I must hear his howl and howl in turn
Let the candles blister, children, let them burn!
Oh we build dens in the snow
We build dens everywhere we go
For to sleep alone here is to perish
At least we tell each other this
And we cannot lie, my wolf and I
Oh we build dens in the snow
We build dens everywhere we go
For to sleep alone here is to perish
At least we tell each other this
And we cannot lie, my wolf and I
Oh we build dens in the snow
We build dens everywhere we go
For to sleep alone here is to perish
At least we tell each other this
And we cannot lie, my wolf and I
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Easy to Love You
01:45
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Why do I write so dramatically?
Cannot write simply yet emphatically
It is too easy to love you
Is there love at first sight?
Love that reforms life, hurts-the-eyes bright?
Are the stories true?
We just laugh and love it easy
Is that not enough to please me?
Will I resent some lack?
Yet when I think of you done wrong
Like I do you in every damn song
I would burn the whole earth black
I love words cause the way they flow
Love the places I do and do not know
And I love them best through you
You are a prism, mirror, balm
But mostly a man who makes me laugh
And strengthens what I do
So when I try to write you poetry
Honestly I write the lines for me
But without you they’d stay unsaid
Isn’t that what the tales yearn for?
To do what we do but make it more
And to share a well-warmed bed
So knowing I can ease your way
Fight your fights and bright your day
Is that not enough?
It is easy to love you
It flows through everything I do
But why should it be tough?
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Bethan Le Mas England, UK
I am a British singer-songwriter, playing piano, guitar, cello,Celtic harp, ukulele, and whatever else I can get my hands on. Livestreaming on twitch.tv/cornyears
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