1. |
Give Chase
04:06
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If as you give chase
The earth gives beneath me
Who am I to say
Who gives, who receives?
And if as I wander through your woods
Lying about your roots
Who am I to say
Who leaves, who stays?
Home has never been where I wanted to be
Safe is always something to find
How can I begin to crave
An end to this, an answer in kind?
And if all my nettles sting stars to your skin
A constellation I hope you’ll read
Who am I to say in the sublunar world
Who follows, who leads?
Home has never been where I wanted to be
Safe is always something to find
How can I begin to crave
An end to this, an answer in kind?
Thistle sting, hawthorn rosehips open wide
I don’t know what it means having you by myside
Who knows what I’ll find in the quiet of night
Who knows what I’ll find
Who knows what I’ll hide
As long as there’s space to breath
But if as you give chase
(Who knows what I’ll find?)
And the laurel shrugs soft in the breeze
(Who knows what I’ll hide?)
All that I can say is I’m glad that you’re here
Breathing lilac wind with me
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2. |
Hunter
04:24
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It started on a night like this
There was cold and there were stars and there was mist
And somewhere on the way I found a hart
Within my path I felt his horns I felt his kiss
But I am not a girl I am a hunter
I am not a girl I am a flame
I am not a girl I am a lock without a key
If you’d listen you’d know I have no name
I stood transfixed by the pool
My hounds were waiting, they are bold but never cruel
And underneath my bones, I felt a tremor
Felt a glow but I was cool, yeah I was cool
Because I am not a girl I am a hunter
I am not a girl I am a beast
I am not a girl who waits for hunger
I take flight when I need and you need it the least
I can trace a thousand years clear above skyline
I can count the stars from the mines
I could change a thousand fates,
many hundreds more
But only in the dark, where it ends
But I am not a girl I am a hunter
I am not a girl I am a tree
I am not a girl I am the ocean
So take care wading into my sea
It started on a night like this
It was dark I saw the moon I saw the mists
I saw the deer in the clearing
I saw my heart it was beating
I took aim I closed my eyes I never miss
Cause I am not a girl I am a hunter
I am not a girl I am the lark
I am not a girl I am a song out of time
So listen close when I pass in the dark
I am not a girl I am the center
I am not a girl I am the sky
I am not a girl I am the answer
So you’d do well to stop asking why
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3. |
Bell Child
02:23
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Bellchild bright and ever clear
I promise I'll take you away from here
Leave your old offerings under the bed
Leave the unspoken prayers, the ache in your head
They won't even notice they've been fighting since dawn
It'll be morning again when they realize you're gone
Bellchild bright and ever clear
I promise we'll outrun your kerosene of fear
Lift up your skirt as we pass through the thorns
I won't leave you behind to drown in that storm
Hold up the lantern
I'll pull back your hair
I promise we'll burn
What we can't take there
Bellchild bright and ever clear
Run fast through the dark now the green light is here
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4. |
Stella Stellarum
04:02
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Starry eyes and starry thighs
Silver tongue successes
How can I believe
In my eyes when I cry?
Starry eyes and scarry sighs
O, but what perfect
How can I believe in your rise?
When I sigh when I cry?
Oh but I wonder
Oh but can I thunder
Oh but can I close
My eyes
Cause I want you…
Starry eyes and sorry skies
White and shining echoes
O, how they sing
When you survive
Oh but I wonder
Oh but can I thunder
Oh but can I close
My eyes
Oh before I get to forget
Oh before I go to forgo
This is where I give to forgive
But O, always O
All these starry eyes…
Stella Stellarum
Stella we kneel before you
Crowned in constellations
Cloaked in consecrations
Listen, listen close, Star of Stars,
Because there was never anything quite so beautiful as you
Nor quite so beautiful as this.
Gatherer of Galaxies,
Look down as we look up,
Stella Stellarum...
Starry eyes…
Starry thighs…
Oh how you blind me
When I lie when I cry
Starry eyes starry thighs
Silver tongue perfect
How can I believe in your highs?
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5. |
Ceremony
04:10
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When this began you had all of the answers
And I asked you all the right questions
And when we hit winter I froze all my fears
Not knowing that your heart was splintered
But the crocus was budding in my melting snow
And I thought it was our time to help something grow
But you were root digging when I was tending our garden
Yes you were pretending when I was tending our garden
So now...
When you say to me sorry’s of silver silence
What can I do but promise you songs of ceremonial violence
Roses in your eyes
When you ask of me stories of casual sirens
What can I do but sing to you songs of ceremonial violence
Snow falls in your eyes
Promise me honesty
I’ll sing the song you've been waiting for
Hart bound, birch flock, low in the snow Dark night, new year, my heart aches low
Close your eyes
When you ask of me when will this all be over
What can I do but lie to you and say the end's ever closer
Roses in your snow falls in your eyes
Close your roses in your eyes snow falls in your eyes
Promise me honest I'll sing the song you've been waiting for.
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6. |
Shine
03:14
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Riot of blackbirds
Charger of hearts
How can I tell you
Where this all starts?
Once round the rowan
Three times to the sea
How can I show you
What we’re meant to be?
(To shine, shine)
Lady in the stars
Bright above my head
Guide me green willow
To the late river bed
I could count your eyes
Weave your flower crown
O but I beseech you, I entreat you,
burn my forests down
And shine shine (x2)
Darksome night & shining moon
East and south and west and north
I could wait a year for you
To come for me and call me forth
To shine, o, shine
Twice past the elder
My love ever roams
I’ve hidden by darklight
In your sweet catacombs
At the full moon
Bright blooded and wild
I will meet him, I will greet him,
heart humming like a child, waiting to
To shine, o, shine x2
I ken not your start and I seek not your end but to shine
I know not your start and I want not your end but to shine.
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Elana Low New York, New York
Elana Low is a dark folk musician based in New York City with a heavy harmonium and a slightly lighter heart. With a honeyed voice, haunting lyrics, and ancient yet modern melodies, she'll lead you through the veil and back again. Her latest single "Goldest Hour" is out now. Her follow-up EP is coming June 25th, 2023. ... more
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