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New Skin
03:43
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Villianise all I see
Even those who carry me
Pouring scorn on rain that falls to the ground
But I am not as I was found
Two thirds below the surface we go
Unnoticed, tangled as we are, we are
Starved of peace and stained by living
now my feet newly fit the earth
and I’m in my new skin
Two thirds below the surface we go
Unnoticed, tangled as we are, we are
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Ellie
04:34
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Nothing goes unknown
Even sounds of growing bones
Rain on a tin roof, the noise of tears
from those with past beyond their breathing years
Press your body to the wall
Voices rise and fall
in your heart and in your ears
the endless hum of fear
One side of a lockless door
Raised on scorn
But you don’t know what for
A harvest of regret for a life unknown
Yet you are kind even when alone
Press your body to the wall
Voices rise and fall
in your heart and in your ears
the endless hum of fear
If innocence is an absence of action
we’re as pure as things un-grown
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Prolong
03:59
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Lock the doors and draw the blinds
to stop us now from seeping away
Turn your gaze to the floor and say nothing
but your silence speaks a thousand words,
words, words
Prolong love or no sense or reason
when it’s time you feel it in your bones
anyway, anyway
Together alone in this endless space and
dissolving fast
A snapshot of your life
Without them by your side
There to catch you when you fall
From a great height
Prolong love for no sense or reason
when it’s time you feel it in your bones
anyway, anyway
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Peace
03:51
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I wake up beside my foe, my anchor long ago
and there are ghosts in every room
I was your spine, you were my skin
These regrets they breathe (and sigh)
There’s no safer place (than the scene of this crime)
No worse than the rest
But deserving peace none the less,
peace none the less
Pins drop like the rain
Your mother sighs again
For songs I no more sing
You are perched so still
With folded wings
These regrets they breathe (and sigh)
There’s no safer place (than the scene of this crime)
No worse than the rest
But deserving peace none the less,
peace none the less
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5. |
Diminutive Man
03:26
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You wait to be shown wrong from right
all around you rivers burn and brave men fight
Though never the first to cast a stone
How you bray behind the tyrant's throne, the tyrant's throne
Hide and cower as you do,
in your dreams you’re noble through and through
turn your back and hang your pride
in weakness evil lies
Oh the time to pick a side is now (oh the time is now)
You are nowhere to be found (nowhere to be found)
Under the rocks you hide
Harboured by those you despise
Stand up, Oh stand up
And I'll grant you my hate not pity
Hide and cower as you do,
in your dreams you’re noble through and through
turn your back and hang your pride
in weakness evil lies
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6. |
We Talked Again
03:30
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The ice came, the ice came
and we talked again, we talked again
A child strayed in our neighbourhood
and we talked again, we talked again
Reaching out for human warmth
Long to be loved for the small things once
more
Once more
They built fences high
and darkened the sky
we forgot to be strangers
and we talked again, we talked again
Reaching out for human warmth
Long to be loved for the small things once
more
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Hold thy way, my bonny bairn,
Hold thy way up on my arm,
Hold thy way, thou soon may learn
to say Dada, so canny
I wish thy daddy may be well,
He’s long in coming from the keel,
Though his black face be like the devil,
I’d like a kiss from Johnny
Thou really has thy daddy’s chin,
Thou art like him, leg and wing,
And I, with pleasure, can thee sing,
Since thou belongs my Johnny
When daddy’s drunk, he’ll take his knife
And threaten sore to take my life,
Who wouldn’t be a keelman’s wife,
To have a man like Johnny
Hold thy way, my bonny bairn,
Hold thy way up on my arm,
Hold thy way, thou soon may learn
to say Dada, so canny
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Scarecrow
03:08
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On my wedding day, they only rang a single bell
No witness came: You had me all to yourself
A willow veil and gown of long leaf pine instead of lace
An embroidered train endowed with twines of every muted shade
On my wedding day, fronds of fern were flower girls
Their dresses frayed, and the rice replaced with earth
Love was my only journey until the dark swallowed me whole
Now no one will return me to your door
On my wedding day, limbs of trees strained to receive
Forget-me-not bouquets, though many called them wreaths
Of all the seasons Winter always tells the fewest lies
And on snowy days I’d slowly fade in folds of bridal white
Can a love start in a bloodless heart
Can it shelter my life in its shade
Will no one tell me why I was fated to die
The night before my wedding day?
On my wedding night, I lingered long but lay alone
No hint of morning light, no dew upon the lawn
There’s a wilderness within these walls
This box of cold unanswered calls
Desire lives on, survives the form,
It will never feel the dawn
Now my wedding gown is on a scarecrow in a field
won’t you take it down and lay it by my grave concealed
of all the seasons winter always tells the fewest lies
and on snowy days I slowly fade beneath folds of bridal white
Can a love start in a bloodless heart
Can it shelter my life in its shade
Will no one tell me why I was fated to die
The night before my wedding day?
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Crying Beast
04:51
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Crying beast frets and moans
in this house that once was home
the floorboards sulk; the windows cry
you and I turn a blind eye, a blind eye
I'm shrinking as you grow;
they have taken all we know
my hand in yours like scattered seeds
broken love fed by need
Beware of the ones, the ones that come
into your home unbidden, they will always be forgiven
No matter what they do.
Like a fading bell tenderness rings
Shared past and the grief it brings
And the grief that it brings
I'm shrinking as you grow; they have taken all we know
my hand in yours like scattered seeds
broken love fed by need
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One Winter Evening
03:16
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Silence will follow pride
And last words catch the light
And when no words remain
And when no words remain
We read lines in hands known so long
For this is a song we dare not hum
Sleeves fray with each heart beat
And imprints fade like night streets
And when no words remain
And when no words remain
We read lines in hands known so long
For this is a song we dare not hum
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Bridie Jackson and The Arbour Newcastle, UK
Newcastle based trio Bridie Jackson and The Arbour are an eclectic group of folk-influenced musicians. Hauntingly ethereal,
yet fused with dark and powerful undertones; this eccentric ensemble inject contradictions galore, with their union of bright melody and sombre lyricism.
'Original and magical' (Consequence of Sound)
'Movingly soulful' (Telegraph)
'Seriously awesome' (For Folk's Sake)
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Bridie Jackson and The Arbour recommends:
Ditte has an amazing voice and lovely, natural style, making her beautiful songs seem effortless. We collaborated with her on our Music in Museums project last year. She is definitely worth a listen!
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The Daydream Club are just brilliant! If you get a chance to see them live we really recommend you do.
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