1. |
half the battle
02:11
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2. |
fortress without doors
05:23
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first contact
small black windowpane i fogged with
warm breath
inside a fortress
without doors
a hunter
ceiling lifting as her snow white
wings spread
her eyes bright emeralds
just like yours
were
dawn finds a dazed animal
blinking in the light
this can’t be the
same sky
i fell for
last night
through cold wind
leaning into forces i don’t
understand
i’m ripping chains out of the floors
and climbing high
like i could emerge above
the avalanche
we were alive one year before
this
building impossible walls
learning to survive
this can’t be the same sky
i fell for
last night
fly the secret frontier
no cover
no fear
no Others
i’m here
our moon seems so near
salt in the air
life in my hands
slow motion animals
carry me home
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3. |
must be out there
04:26
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the wind cuts through
without you
i must be stronger
i must be stronger now
beneath this strange new weight
i share with songbirds
who’ve had their trees cut down
oh darling
do you need my love
throat’s burning
and then freezing up
you must be out there
you must be out there
i asked the shadow horses
across the sunset gorges
but they hadn’t seen you
yet
the sharpest needle tracked me
ten thousand birches
ten thousand cries of thirst
the mother fox was killed
i saw the hunter
i should have killed him first
oh darling
don’t you think i know
how far i’ve let my dreaming go
you must be out there
you must be out there
i locked the lakeside portal
the years we were immortal
my wishes lit like torches
inside a paper fortress
darling don’t you think i know
i’m kicking in the afterglow
darling don’t you think i know
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4. |
helpless insect
03:12
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lean your dizzy head
against the damaged glass
savour every
single
silver
heartbeat
quickened pulses tapping
honeyed code
pollen upon
the cobblestone
fall under the thrall
of night
will you wait for me
where no one
can get hurt
empty nest above
the blinded
churches
singing other lovers
lullabies
find me and finally
sing me mine
break the bough and ride
the storm
there’s no time anymore
helpless insect
you’re not alone
come on and try
within the amber
we’ll dream ourselves
to life
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5. |
spells
02:45
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once upon a long distance phone call
we met up inside the wires
as infinite light
every time i try to remember
how i saw the world then
i kind of go blind
i cast my own spells
i know alone well
a backdrop of glowing eyes
awake/a wake for the dawn of time
you were so far ahead
and i’m not there yet
but i can still summon fire
but i can still summon fire
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6. |
______
00:06
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7. |
my own private rapture
04:14
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every fathom we passed
first to the last
i want them back
spiral stairways of smoke
explosive bolts
loosening holds
fantasies
holding me captive
here
can you imagine?
earthquakes under my skin
anchors i’ve lost
ripples i’ve been
green light luring me down
where i can breathe but
sorrows are drowned
you and me
dreams
that i capture
and keep
my own private rapture
of the deep
there’s still a way home
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8. |
final island
02:47
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wild hopes
so alive they burn
let’s watch from the final island
for their
return
we’re the eiders
against
a small sky
will we ever learn
wild hopes
sun
shine on our tell-tale hearts
maybe
one wish is a lonesome sparkle
but it’s a start
we’re the eiders
against
a blue sky
may we never be apart
wild hopes
wild hopes
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9. |
the lonely hunter
05:12
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sometimes i’m
scarlet snow
wild eyes
splintered bone
sometimes i’m
on my knees
drunk on stars
at the peaks
the lonely hunter
dark lantern in a hollow tree
you know what’s in my blood
come running over
cup runneth over
long drought upon the land
and yet
the valley’s going to flood
a deluge from the core against
a camouflage of mud
not sure
how this started
if i’m falling through
if i’m falling for you
no roads
where i’m wandering now
only scattered crumbs and
ladders i’ve rescued
from
the heavens
heaven’s only dreaming
dreaming that an ending
isn’t all we’ve started
the lonely hunter
day breaks from all directions
fires burning
at first blush
come roll like thunder
come hold me under
seduced by solitude but
have i given away too much
a snow cave holding echoes of
the memories
of touch
not sure
how this started
if i’m falling through
if i’m falling for you
no roads where i’m wandering now
only scattered crumbs and
ladders i’ve rescued
from
the heavens
heaven’s only dreaming
dreaming that an ending
isn’t all we’ve started
hold me in your arms
goddess of night
hold me in your arms now
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10. |
firestorms /DCI
05:24
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every burning house
every spark i’ve tried
stomping out
every new world i’ve
drowned in its sleep
certain it wasn’t meant for me
there in your tireless arms
a conjured moon
whose magic was used up too soon
where birds
protect their young
and every new sunrise
is sung
the lucky don’t only die once
they rise from the minefields
as doves
they fly with their wings
pouring blood
they fall from the knife’s edge
and crawl for the light switch
oh true love
my darling
i can’t let go
i’m burning
i can’t let go
read my sentence there
i will live always
everywhere
run with the reels of
bombers offshore
embers from dreams of
firestorms
radar still sweeps the sea
for what is left
and for what has not happened yet
throw fortune to the flames
kiss me and whisper
my name
the lucky don’t only die once
they fall through the fog
call its bluff
they land when it seems
real enough
they dare to believe it
dare to receive it
oh true love
my darling
i can’t let go
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11. |
N harbour
02:30
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unknown alphabets
are thrashing in nets inside
your eyes
hauled on to the decks and
fighting for breath
love
take your time
here and now
we’re the chorus
don’t look down
they’re right before us
the words
wonder-flooded engines
waiting on landings
still because
spring will thaw the harbour
freeing the endings
we thought
we’d tied up
here and now
build a chorus
don’t look down
it’s right before us
then and now
we’re the chorus
don’t look down
it’s here before us
the world
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12. |
the softest needle
02:48
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now
it dropped like a bomb
from the clouds
into this old ruin
on a hideaway moon
softness
something you always did best
as hard as the hard rain
beat at my chest
so needle
i beg your softness
tonight
know you stop two hearts
leave a kingdom breathless
free a weary star
from its earthly nest
all hail the love
that we had
all hail love
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13. |
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fall asleep
small one
there’s no fear left
only sleep
though i lie awake
despite this
tall grass closing in
like the sea
can that be my dream
an island where
the beds
were the backs
of my knees
no answers needed yet
can that be my dream
an origami fjord
sheltering shipwrecked heartbeats
for just a moment
more
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Raised By Swans
Raised by Swans is Canadian solo artist Eric Howden.
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