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Changeling
04:01
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Changeling
When I was a child, I spoke like a child,
I looked like a child, but I was not a child
Dropped in all alone in a land so strange,
So far from home, and left for an age
Changeling, misfit,
Odd-born, time-slipped
Wandering through the days
Wondering if you will ever come my way
I couldn’t believe this turn of fate
A bitter cup was all I could taste
These people aren’t mine, why can’t they see
I’m not their kind, and I’ll never be?
Changeling, misfit,
Odd-born, time-slipped
Wandering through the days
Wondering if you will ever come my way
Through years I have made a life apart
And longed for home with an ache in my heart
In dreams I have found you in a wood
Eternal are the ties of blood
Changeling, misfit,
Odd-born, time-slipped
Wandering through the days
Wondering if you will ever come my way
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The Lovers
04:32
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The Lovers
Once, so long ago,
We were clothed in time
Life began with death
A swollen fruit between us as a bind
A snake slithered through the brush
In undulating waves
Your skin shivered in the hush
The choice before us one already made
Created from the dust of stars
Eternity was nearly ours
We loved, and for a time,
The whole world was alive
Is alive
The whole world is alive
Is alive
One divides in two
And suffering begins
What’s lost can’t be reduced
And freedom gained is worth the price of truth
Now we both should know
The folly in the fall
And fools surrender most
Emerging from the love that binds us all
Created from the dust of stars
Eternity was nearly ours
We loved, and for a time,
The whole world was alive
Is alive
The whole world is alive
Is alive
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Dreambody
03:57
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Dreambody
What rests on the shore cerulean bright?
Sleeps through the day and sings through the night?
Elephantine, yet translucent and light?
It’s waiting
Old as the sea, its lover the moon
Breathing in water, it breathes out the tune
That you dance to each night, yet forget all too soon
It’s waiting
The Dreambody’s waiting
It’s always been waiting
The Dreambody waits at the ocean
You may think all is lost
You may think you’re alone
You may wander a land going farther from home
No matter the distance, wherever you roam
It’s waiting
The Dreambody’s waiting
It’s always been waiting
The Dreambody waits at the ocean
A storm’s drawing close; now’s the time to be brave
You’re not alone; your life it can save
Gathering strength with every wave
It’s waiting
Climb into your vessel and set out to sea
Sometimes you’ll be lost, but you’ll always be free
It’s never abandoned you, listen to me
It’s waiting
The Dreambody’s waiting
It’s always been waiting
The Dreambody waits at the ocean
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Ephemerals
04:52
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Ephemerals
—for Susan
Now that the ice has gone
And the river flows and the day is long
The creatures low have resumed their song
I remember you; you are not quite gone
Everywhere, yet nowhere
You steal inside my heart
Borne on the wings of ephemeral things
Here the worlds are not far apart
Mayfly lives but for a day
Evanescent as it fades away
Efflorescent is the eglantine
Beauty is a thorn, rose upon a spine
Everywhere, yet nowhere
You slip inside my heart
Borne on the wings of ephemeral things
Here the worlds are not far apart
Last night I dreamt you were by my side
As I held a worm and we watched it writhe
Strange this mortal coil, heavy is its ride
Lighter than a thread through the needle’s eye
Everywhere, yet nowhere
You live inside my heart
Borne on the wings of ephemeral things
Here the worlds are not far apart
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Lily
04:42
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Lily
Lily on the lake
Floating on the water
So few are awake
Most are still in slumber
Rising from a dream
Pushing past the mire
Ancient stories ring
And with them you conspire
Empty of longing
Full of the light of our becoming
Lily still as death
Noble in your silence
Have you seen our birth
Its beauty and its violence?
Have you seen our end
Blazing bright with fire?
Water always wins
In lowliness endures
Empty of promise
Full of the sound of our dissolving
Murky are the depths that lie beneath you
Fishes eat the dying flesh below
A mirrored world, the pattern gnarled
Reflects your light
Silver wing of bee
Body black as midnight
Honeyed is its sting
Stealing from your sunlight
Quietly you rose
And quietly unfurled
Humming now you glow
At the still point of the world
Empty of meaning
Full of the stories that we tell
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Thistledown
04:16
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Thistledown
On a hill far away they are calling, calling
All through the day
I have heard them before with a longing, longing
Sound that held me sway
Hear, hear them now
O’er a cairn made of stone they are floating, floating
’gainst the hills of gray
I have seen them before with a longing, longing
Stole my heart away
See, see them now
White thistledown
Come to me
In a hall of gilt and stone
I was standing quite alone
Then they stole into my dreams
Life’s not only what it seems
In a land far away they are shining, shining
Beckoning to me
I have felt them before with a longing, longing
For a life that’s free
Feel, feel them now
White thistledown
Come to me
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Limnology I
01:52
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Abscission
03:48
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Abscission
Gone are the days when we were together
In a time evergreen
Gone are the nights barely spent in slumber
Stars so bright in our dreams
The change is so clear
And winter draws near
Here under trees, leaves are falling ’round us
Colors swirl at our feet
Cold is the wind, blowing every memory
Fingers light as a thief
The change is so clear
And winter draws near
The morning bell fades into evensong
And tides that swell must surely ebb
The shadows gather in the corridor
And fire burns its way into an egg
Soon we will stand by the bitter river
Edges hardened to ice
You’ll take my hand; we’ll walk on in silence
Path is turning to white
The change is so clear
And winter draws near
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Limnology II
01:59
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Hollow
07:09
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Hollow
Hollow is the world
Follow what you heard into the hole
That can’t be filled
Here inside a dream
Time’s not what it seems to you and me
Out in the light
Through a passage into places dark and unknown
Past the twisted roots, the walls of mud—
A room inside
On a table lies a feast that’s gone too soon
Hollow is the world
Swallow what is curled inside the hole
That must be fed
Here inside a dream
Offer all that breathes and writhes with joy
Out in the light
We are traveling into places dark and unknown
Past the twisted roots, the walls of mud—
A stone inside
Place your portion with the feast that’s gone too soon
Hollow is the world
Let your dreams unfurl into the hole
Where beauty’s born
Here inside a dream
Life’s not what it seemed to you and me
Out in the light
We are here inside a place once dark and unknown
Pushing past the veil into a secret room inside
And before us lies a feast that’s gone too soon
Someday our prince will come
Bones from his pocket drawn
But until then
Feed the ghosts
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Plus ça change
04:29
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Plus ça change
The clock it rings, o the clock it rings, o the clock it rings
Your eyes are open wide
The curtain draws the darkness
You feel it deep inside
You wonder where the night went
You can’t recall your dreams
How will you spend your hours?
The sun’s not all it seems
Plus ça change, plus la même chose
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Plus ça change, plus la même chose
À la centre, plus la même chose
A cigarette is a cigarette is a cigarette
A book, a book, a book
The soap is getting thinner
The worm is on the hook
Distracted from distraction
By distraction bittersweet
You thought you were getting somewhere
Press repeat, press repeat, press repeat
Plus ça change, plus la même chose
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Plus ça change, plus la même chose
À la centre, plus la même chose
Time that’s past and time to come
And now, the same
Circling ’round, this spinning world
Be still and you might see the endless game
Caught between past and future
At night begins the haunt
You can never get enough of what
You do not truly want
Outside the stars are shining
Bright fires in skies opaque
Somewhere the day is dawning
Somewhere begins an ache
Plus ça change, plus la même chose
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
Plus ça change, plus la même chose
À la centre, plus la même chose
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The Hooked Heart
03:36
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The Hooked Heart
The hooked heart cannot breathe
The hooked heart, watch it seethe
It tightens terribly
Frightens all who see
I am circling
You are swimming
In this ocean
No beginning
I’ve a notion
To taste what moves you
Waters darken
Beckon me to you
The hooked heart cannot breathe
The hooked heart, watch it seethe
It tightens terribly
Frightens all who see
I come closer
You seem frantic
Locked in struggle
Most romantic
Chambered puzzle
Hear it beating
Growing louder
Time is fleeting
The hooked heart cannot breathe
The hooked heart, watch it seethe
It tightens terribly
Frightens all who see
Steel barbs, sharp hooks
Slip in, catch so tight
Pierced, caught, gasping for breath
In the air nothing feels right
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Angela Winter Carrboro, North Carolina
Ambient, ritual, and experimental music for thresholds, where synths, keys, and strings meet otherworldly vocals, shimmering
drones, and overtones.
“Beautifully haunting.” —Bandcamp Daily
“Stunning.” —Foxy Digitalis
“Spellbinding” —Lost and Found Sounds
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