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This song was inspired by the harvest, the green man and the circular nature of both the seasons and of life itself, but most particularly about the value of life.
What value of a life lived?
What value of a life lost in war?
What value of our blood and bones if to be used only to nourish the fields?

This is us in The Wicker Man stylee.

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We carved wood and stones to see through their eyes
With roots in the soil are traces beyond time
I held her close to the mid-summers morn
The light split the sky and the seed moved through the corn

Placed for the heart and the soul
Fashioned with cuts from the corn
Hung high in the eaves in the homes
In shaping the sheaf who strikes the final blow

Oh the grinding at the stone
Oh to receive my blood and bones

And to combine this dark into light
The feast feeds the soil oaks burning for their eyes
Fresh from the fields and down through the fair
With branches of green. Yellow flowers for her hair

Faces shone green into gold
It's there in the trees that they roam
Projecting their leaves through a smile
of carved wood and stones blank, spaces for their eyes

Oh the carving of the stone
Oh to receive my blood and bones
Oh the grinding at the stone
Oh to receive my blood and bones

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from folk devils and moral panics, released August 25, 2008
Written, Produced, vocals and all intruments played by Stephen Stannard.

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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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