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Let your eyes go low and fall onto the glass.
The picture their that forms, silvered in the past.
Spirits slowly move, rise from where they lay.
Keep the moon in sight, watch them passing by.
Evil grows in the space where light can't hold.
And there again it shows, a glass within your hand.
And paradise be found, if we're loved by this land.
As the mist descends, veins run icy cold.
Fire now burning down, and must remain untold.
Say a prayer t go along with these distracted times.
Victims of the reign of the uninvited host.
Fortune save the innocent, beautiful and brave.
Leave behind such wretched blooms marked upon the grave.
Evil grows in the space where light can't hold.
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They Worked the Fields
04:25
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They worked the fields dreaming of the hereafter
Underneath the skies a single season from disaster
Out of time there was nothing that they could save
So come the rains they saw their fields wash away
Grown on the seed awakened in the bread
What they'd seen made them wish that they were dead
Now the chains holds them apart again
We left them here and here they will remain
Rivers run wide in the minds, got to let it flow
Lost inside and it's time to let it go, let it go
They worked the fields dreaming of the hereafter
Underneath the skies a single season from disaster
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A lost forest path they crowd beside.
Beckoning for me to join them inside.
Comfort and feast, lay next to the fire.
Disguising the bitterest taste of the mire.
And this cold night like steel through the veins.
Their is beauty but beauty brings pain.
When you're all alone with the walls closing in.
The pain's in your heart as the witch twists the pins.
Broken twisted, all feeling long gone.
My eyes do plead to look what they'd done.
Smiles that creep, crazed to their souls.
Now only sleep, my life they had stole.
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Seven Years
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It's hard to carry on when this world seems upside down.
Gave you all we had now all we had has gone.
We gave everything but it never was enough.
You watched us starve and dreamt of holding back the sea.
It's plain to see and perceive to be borne free eternally.
All those things thrown in our way be put aside for better days.
So all the plains you conceive, downing starts, endless reverie.
And those who fall down at you feet, are never what they appear to be.
It's hard to carry on now the was is almost won.
Gave it all we had, the struggle was so long.
We gave everything, but it never was enough.
The day comes fast, all must be returned to the king.
Seven times in seven years, you watched the seed rot in the fields.
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A Common Treasury
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Instrumental.
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The Digger's Song
03:46
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You noble Diggers all, stand up now, stand up now.
You noble Diggers all, stand up now.
The waste land to maintain, seeing cavaliers by name.
Your digging does disdain, and persons all defame.
Stand up now, Diggers all, stand up now.
The gentry are all 'round, stand up now, stand up now.
The gentry are all 'round, stand up now.
The gentry are all 'round on each side they are found.
Their wisdom so profound to cheat us of our ground.
Stand up now, Diggers all, stand up now.
The lawyers they conjoin stand up now, stand up now.
The lawyers they conjoin stand up now.
To arrest you they advise, such fury they devise.
The devil in them lies and hath blinded both their eyes.
Stand up now, Diggers all, stand up now.
The cavaliers are foes, stand up now, stand up now.
The cavaliers are foes, stand up now, stand up now.
The cavaliers are foes, themselves they do disclose.
By verses not in prose to please the singing bows.
Stand up now, Diggers all, stand up now.
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The Tree at Tyburn
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Onward to that wretched court, where whores and princes do consort,
there hidden be thy traitor king, bloated by his feted kin.
A man unfit to wield such power, be dragged to thy righteous tower.
So full of noble enterprise, with rats he now is deigned to lie.
String him up at old Tyburn, it's there they'll make the tyrants learn.
'Neath branches of the bloody tree, red will blend into the green.
Roll him down the common streets, for all true righteousness to speak,
to those who break such heads to rule, be cast as kings but played as fools.
Like a fish upon a hook, we'll raise his head to take a look.
For thy judgement now must come, so swift the blade of justice won.
String him up at old Tyburn, it's there they'll make the tyrants learn.
'Neath branches of the bloody tree, red will blend into the green.
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O' the devil found no work for me though my idle hands were plain to see.
A' hunting it must be for me, to earn such coin and fineries.
My quarry is fair hard to find they don't exist in any kind.
But, that won't see my pockets lined, devils must be put in their mind.
O got to let it go.
I travel on my milk white steed, through the East to spread the seed.
To light the fires in words and deeds, fan the flames skip to my lead.
I'll hang 'em high and burn em low, an easy way to make my dough.
Like a bitter wind with cuts and blows, with every stroke this mania grows.
O it grows, got to let it grow.
If I spoke to you, you'd dance to my tune.
If I walked away, you'd beg me to stay. You'd beg me to stay.
Through blunted pins and deathly lies, trick them 'fore their very eyes.
It's quick to cheat and cheap to bribe, push the truth fair well aside.
Now every man he has a price, I gather now a pack of spies.
To Spare them not the chairs and ties, to the lake and cast inside.
Let 'em float, got to let 'em float.
Water rejects renounced baptiseds, if they float and do survive,
they'll meet the judges of assize, and I will get to keep my prize.
Let 'em float, got to let 'em float.
I've met the bidding of the king, through sleight of hand and much tricking,
to spread the fear and reckoning, I'll take my leave for coin counting.
Bury me thrice deep in the ground, bones so low they wont be found.
But, I advise you don't sleep sound, as you'll see me every time around.
For all time, you'll see me around.
For all time, you'll see me around.
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Split Two Ways
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My lover, I can't let you go,
Into the arms of another, you're everything I love.
And no other is as sweet as the summer rain.
You are my lover, I am your lover.
Don't you run to him, come home with me.
My brother, I forgive you everything.
You stole my lover, and fought for the king.
And no other is as cold as the great North wind.
Oh my my brother, if you are my brother.
Don't hold on to her, let her stay with me.
My mother, you changed everything.
You gave my brother all the joy to bring.
Left me stranded, at the mercy of the moon.
Not evenhanded, you left me stranded.
Don't you talk to me, nothing left to say.
I've seen all the tears. I've seen all the rage.
Had to keep it in, had to keep it caged.
The fever cuts so deep in me.
Like no other, it's like it had to be.
My last breath is readying to leave.
The fever has taken me.
My love don't stay with me, go back to him.
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A' Hunting (Cavaliers)
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Instrumental.
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Through Nature's Power
06:34
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Through nature's power we will survive righteously to raise.
To the ground such offices that keep the poor men slaves.
I will join the dance to the words they bring.
All we have we are of what we are we'll sing.
Cast the stones onto the sand, hope they will land right.
Time to rest, time to breathe, be ready for the fight.
AS long as we stay on this hill, the battle's out of sight.
We all must pass this way again.
Through nature's power we will survive, the struggle carries on.
To deliver true democracy, when these wars be won.
We will fight the devils, we will smash their crowns.
Though they starve us to our bones, they'll never keep us down.
And what will be your name, when self is swept away.
Escape into the night, chase you down by day.
If you raise the sword, that is where you'll lay.
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Final Battle
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Come me boys it's time to go, one last push to beat this foe.
When this world's turned upside down, you'll be there to take the crown.
Come me boy's with stealth and speed, our model friends to be relived.
Hidden by a mist so deep, that fortune wove our souls to keep.
One last push me boys, one last hill, one last kill.
One last push me boys, then life can be what it's mean't to be.
Come me boys, it's time to run, no escape from the sword and drum.
If this world be upside down, why be bound to scrape and bow.
Come me boys the war's not won, even though this battle's done.
Hidden by they stately gowns, waiting to restore the crown.
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Egd eh Ehthgu Orhtk Cab
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Instrumental.
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Instrumental.
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Instrumental.
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The Rowan Amber Mill Devon, UK
Since 2007 The Rowan Amber Mill have been purveyors of Woodland Folkadelica/alt-Folk. Releases include: "folk devils & moral panics", "midsummers" and "Heartwood". The Book of the Lost (with Emily Jones). Silent Night Songs (with Angeline Morrison).The folk horror collection Harvest the Ears. The synth album Follows Shortly (as Making Tea For Robots). They are half of Rowan:Morrison. ... more
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