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raised by swans is the name of a man, volume 1

by Raised By Swans

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    Comes in clear jewel case with four panel booklet; artwork design, photographs and layout by Eric Howden; arctic fox drawing by Antranik Tchalekian. This special CD edition features two bonus songs, before now available only as digital downloads; "trains we both missed" and "pale blue black holes".

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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
3.
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
4.
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
5.
spells 02:45
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
6.
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7.
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
8.
final island 02:47
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
9.
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
10.
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
11.
N harbour 02:30
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
12.
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
13.
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

credits

released February 9, 2021

raised by swans is eric howden

all music and lyrics written, arranged and produced by eric howden
december 2014 - december 2020

all vocals and all instruments (all songs) performed by eric howden

recorded/engineered by andy magoffin
at the house of miracles (houseofmiracles.ca)
mixed by eric and andy
mastered by andy magoffin
artwork concept, layout and design by eric
arctic fox drawing by antranik tchalekian (underwoodghostways.com)

for number six
1995-2017
all hail love

all songs and content © eric howden (raised by swans), SOCAN, 2021
contact and information: raisedbyswans.com

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