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Katie Cruel
03:15
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Wishing Bone Hands
05:22
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Under the mistletoe
Cuckoo shrieks and woodswallow
I'll make my fire with you
I'm gonna make my fire with you
Under the curious gaze
Of a moon in a headlight haze
Towns people are disgraced
As you make a lover of me you do
You make a lover
Oh, how beautifully tied
To you I am
Oh your fire
Your wishing bone hands
Oh, how beautifully tied
To you I am
Oh your fire
Your wishing bone hands
Your wishing bone hands
Under his dark beard I'm sleeping
His heart is a gambler and me I'm a weeping
Willow with my limbs so long
And I carry his heart in my song
Under this roof top steepled
A whittled girl meets her wooden maker
Carve a heart out of me sir
With your name writ in me
I am stirred, I am stirred
Oh, how beautifully tied
To you I am
Oh your fire
Your wishing bone hands
Oh, how beautifully tied
To you I am
Oh your fire
Your wishing bone hands
Oh your fire
Your wishing bone hands
Oh your fire
Your wishing bone hands
Oh your fire
Your wishing bone hands
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This is all I've known
And this is all that is
And how could you love me
Oh, with words like that
It's the kill, it's the bloodstain
It's the kill, it's the bloodstain
Copy paste is dangerous for the world
Words with no mouth
And you touch with no meaning
With sure footedness
I'll crack the heart of him
Beautifully human
I'm crying out for him now
I thought I'd lost all meaning
I'm crying out for him now
I'm crying out
It's the kill
It's the bloodstain
It's the kill
It's the bloodstain
It's the way he says my name
Over and over and over again
It's the kill
It's the bloodstain
It's the kill
It's the bloodstain
It's the way he says my name
Over and over and over again
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4. |
Leaves
04:33
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Leaves that have known
The pressure of your feet
Your weight and your women
Your laughter my sweet
Leaves that have blown
Across your beautiful face
And undressed you like winter
And you, you full of grace
Copy paste is dangerous for the world
When you and I are finally no one
The weight from our hallowed bones
We will run, we will run
When you and I are finally no- one
The weight from our hallowed bones
We will run, we will run
Darling, I remember
You in your sunday best
Your old car yard
Our rusted hearts
Tin cans blowing a din
In the tatters of my autumn dress
How in your arms i was blessed
In a song that only knew us
Only knew the notes of us
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Bird
03:25
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My dad he fell in love with a bird
My dad he fell in love with a bird
Sweetest words I ever heard
Sweetest words I ever heard
Fed her from the palm of his hand
Fed her from the palm of his hand
And this was his first love
This was his true love
One morning, one morning
She did come calling
Of death she had heard
Through the night
One morning, one morning
She did come calling
Of death she had heard
Through the darkest night
So she did cover him
With fern and braken
And lay atop of him
With her black beating wing
This murder of crows
They come from below
And gather your bones
And carry you home
This murder of crows
They come from below
And gather your bones
And carry you home
My dad he told this story to me
My dad he told this story to me
My dad he told this story to me
Oh, with eyes black as coal
You look just like she
Oh, with eyes black as coal
You look just like she
Oh, with eyes black as coal
You look just like she
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6. |
Two Dangers
05:22
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Strange lights
In the trees that night
Come out
Anaraks and holding hands tight
We escape for a while
Don't know where you've been
Don't know where you've been
Don't know who you've been seeing
Between two dangers
Of finding love
And losing love
It was in your steps
Your movements
Your courage
Mouths never spoken
Such sweet sorrow
Such sweet sadness
Between two dangers
Of finding love
And losing love
It breaks our bones
It breaks us open
With clothes unstitched
Our hearts in bits
Between two dangers
Of finding love
And losing love
Oh between
Finding love
And losing love
Oh between
Finding love
And losing love
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Crestfallen
04:04
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In rabbit skin
In an old rusty tin
I'll hide it from him
I'll hide it from him
I beg with the gods
You'll be heavy on me
Heavy on my bones
And hard to breathe
The wind she blew
A spell in our room
A storm in us, we turn to lust
We snagged a deer with an arrow
And cried salty tears for the morrow
The morrow
We move like horses do in the dawn
With black mane and sunlight in your eyelashes form
A shadow for me to lie and be your faun
A pelt of fur
And your fingers worn
And your words cut through
This earthly form
And all I held back you robbed me of
Thieving ways unknown to love
The salt on your brow
I'll never forget
The taste of it
The taste of it
What's life after all
And yes, you will fall
Yes, you will fall
The crestfallen
The crestfallen
We move like horses do in the dawn
With black mane and sunlight in your eyelashes form
A shadow for me to lie and be your faun
We move like horses do in the dawn
With black mane and sunlight in your eyelashes form
A shadow for me to lie and be your faun
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8. |
Take Hold Of My Heart
03:25
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Warfaring Ways
04:18
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I met my love down by the sea
On a bridge he found me
His heart was full of arrows
Rib cage full of sparrows
All my war wounds he did bind
I was drunk on holy wine
Joan of arc heart shining clear
Dressed in armour as battles near
Me and my warfaring ways
Are nearly over
Me and my warfaring ways
Are nearly over
I am gonna run
With you
And I am gonna run
With you
I am gonna take this wounded heart
And run with you
Oh my love where have you been
Fighting battles never win
I'm a soldier for your love
I heard the call from god above
Me and my warfaring ways
Are nearly over
Me and my warfaring ways
Are nearly over
I am gonna run
With you
And I am gonna run
With you
I am gonna take this wounded heart
And run with you
I surrender with a white flag
I surrender with a white flag
I surrender with a white flag
I surrender with a white flag
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10. |
Wooden Leg
04:16
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From the boat
Wooden and oared
Wooden leg
Anchor of stone
Light us a fire
We burn once again
Your pipe I smoke
You warm me again my friend
We've been afloat
On this girl for days
We crash on her rocks
Violent and grazed
This can't go on
This can't last
With our hearts of stone
And our paper mast
We just go down, down, down...
From the boat
Wooden and oared
Foam in your mouth
Starfish afloat
The sinking sound
Cracks in my throat
We go down
We just go down
This can't last
This won't last
With our hearts of stone
And our paper mast
I will love
I will love again
I will love
I will love again
Not the same girl I was before
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11. |
Black Is The Colour
04:22
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In rabbit skin
In an old rusty tin
I'll hide it from him
I'll hide it from him
I beg with the gods
You'll be heavy on me
Heavy on my bones
And hard to breathe
The wind she blew
A spell in our room
A storm in us, we turn to lust
We snagged a deer with an arrow
And cried salty tears for the morrow
The morrow
We move like horses do in the dawn
With black mane and sunlight in your eyelashes form
A shadow for me to lie and be your faun
A pelt of fur
And your fingers worn
And your words cut through
This earthly form
And all I held back you robbed me of
Thieving ways unknown to love
The salt on your brow
I'll never forget
The taste of it
The taste of it
What's life after all
And yes, you will fall
Yes, you will fall
The crestfallen
The crestfallen
We move like horses do in the dawn
With black mane and sunlight in your eyelashes form
A shadow for me to lie and be your faun
We move like horses do in the dawn
With black mane and sunlight in your eyelashes form
A shadow for me to lie and be your faun
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Inga Liljeström Melbourne, Australia
I am an Australian/Finnish composer, vocalist and performer. I've also begun to experiment with film, collage, music for
installations and an iPhone app, and have recently collaborated with universities in Australia and Finland in music and performance art.
Currently based in the UK.
Banner photography by Sarah Delaney. Profile image painted by Esmeralda Raven Aponte
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