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Dead Forests
04:17
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Dead Forests
Take the path to his grave
Whisper the words and his name
and leave the way you came...
Take the reigns from within
Sever the guilt like a limb
and raise it high, like a flag to the wind...
Like a tattoo on the skin...
Block off the passage to light
Summon the strength for the fight
and bring on the vast unending night...
Shadows blacken the tongue
And the old will feed off the young
We will never see the sun...
Our day has surely come...
But I'm here for you, I've always been
He is nowhere, He'll never be
Beneath the storm clouds and the rain
Dead forests will keep us safe,
for now...
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The Shepherd
03:40
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The Shepherd
The blessed shade of midnight hue
And out the window she had flew
The trail of feathers led to you
Right through an open door...
The perfect song was never sung
A painting that was never hung
I waited til our twos became one
and both as one we fell...
Now I walk on bloodied feet
Through ruins and deserted streets
Over the hills and to the sea
The clouds are gathering...
If the shepherd leaves behind his herd
And sleeps beneath a blanket of fur
His vision would begin to blur
And this day will be his last day in this world...
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Morton
03:00
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Morton
I grew in your arms
I lived in your body
I never flew the nest...
A shelter from rain
With memories like mountains
You'll haunt me to the grave...
I'm leaving soon
but I'll take you with me
wherever I may go...
I'm leaving soon
I'm falling forever
I'll never see you again...
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Village Bell
03:18
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Village Bell
The sound of their whispers
Blood after blood
Strapped to a chair
Going nowhere...
I don't want to lose myself
here among the others
Beneath the looming gaze
no longer afraid...
I'll kneel before no one
and no one kneels before me
I won't shrivel at their feet
in sad defeat...
Until the hair goes grey
they won't take me away
No coin in the well
just the village bell to be heard...
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Christopher
02:30
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Christopher
In his hands he held a lifetime ago
He walks away from everything that he knows
Takes the muddy trail and never looks back
at every teardrop in his track...
In his eyes the light is still shining bright
over the years he's kept the burning flame alive
He buries both his hands into the soil
and whispers a name...
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Death Comes Howling
07:14
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Death Comes Howling
This life's a web
We walk right in
We've been ravaged by the wind
Into this body falls the snow
Some will linger
and some will go...
When death comes howling at my door
When he comes riding from the shore
Will I walk the line round every curve?
or will I ride the flame and transcend this world?
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Ali Murray Scotland, UK
Ali Murray is a songwriter/musician from the cold windy Isle of Lewis in the north of
Scotland.
He writes and releases music under his own name, as well as dark introspective ambient music under the name The Lonely Bell.
THE LONELY BELL :
thelonelybell.bandcamp.com
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