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Decay
02:57
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They came across a dark and empty sea
With hearts filled up with hope and fear and love and greed
They came to build a great, bright dream from in their minds
What would they say if they could look into our time?
Decay!
This creeping moss with soon devour all
As leaves in autumn, so our spirits fall
Barren branches seeking summer’s call
Under rain that falls eternal
And now we reap a crop sown many years ago
In this land of fog and wood and snow
Did they think this great, bright dream could ever last?
What did they think we’d see when we looked in the past?
Decay!
A land so endless, wild, and vast
All hope of going back has passed
To a beast undying we are lashed
This endless falling rain will always last
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Here Come the Navvies
02:48
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I am a navigational and come from County Cork
And I had to leave my native land to find a job of work
The crops were bad in Ireland and the tax too much to pay
So I travelled far across the sea to build the rail way.
Here come the navvies, out to earn their pay
We work with barrow, plough and spade to clear the cut away
And when we swing our hammers down, with sweat all through the day
And we scar the face of nature for to build the rail way
Once I was a ploughman and I did a decent job
I worked from dawn 'til darkness just to earn a couple o' bob
But when the praties died on us I couldn't pay me way
And so I travelled far across the sea to build the railway
The lads who build the railway, we are a motley crew
And when we've sweated all day long, we like a drink or two
The local folk don't take to us, but still I'm proud to say
In years to come our monument will be the railway
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From the east there rides a man
A stranger to this land
He comes to till the soil
And plant new seeds within
Seeds of a new beginning
In the land where the sunset
Touches endless fields of gold
There lives a young boy on the rails
Workin’ hard on the iron roads
One hundred long years
Since his folk had left their land
Perhaps they had forgotten
The time when the Bruce and Wallace made their stand
But that old spirit
Had not gone from their hearts
For soon their forgotten brothers
called across the sea, the end of their world was to start
Fire up the guns! Start up the drums!
Through fields of green stained thick with red we run
Wastin’ away at the end of the day
Every sunrise brings a new decay
Fire up the guns! Start up the drums!
With your blood there will be peace for everyone
Pipin’ through the gore, worse than before
Did you know what you are fighting for?
From the east there rides a man
A stranger to this land
He comes to harrow up the soil, bury deep the past
And plant new seeds within
Seeds of a new beginning
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Shatter
03:35
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The stars fly at night
Under this darling sky
The darkness of the mind
Reaches towards the light
Oh, I wish you well!
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Arms of the Mountain
05:55
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The Arms of the Mountain call you home
Is there an ending to love?
There is an ending
The Arms of the Mountain call you home
Is there an ending to love?
There is no ending
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A Bindrune for You
02:21
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When the rhythm is broken
And the melody lacks
Can the grip of time’s hands on us
Ever be slacked?
Or this way must we ever stay?
As a broken-hearted man wants others to feel his pain
Inside, he knows it’s all in vain
So I carve a bindrune into my flesh
Raging against this terrible fear of death
For out of the winds of the howling black
We know in our hearts we can never go back
To a time before this crime
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Farewell to Brackendale
01:59
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The spirit of a place
It can subside
Leaving just a trace
Of what you once felt inside
So I take my leave
I burn what was sacred
To me
And as my ancestors once proved
It’s in our nature
To start anew...
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Crooked Mouth Vilnius, Lithuania
Founded by Ian Campbell in western Canada in 2012, CROOKED MOUTH has developed their own style of post-industrial folk music, blending influences from the original neofolk wave , with the obscurities of 60/70s acid folk, archaic folklore groups, post-punk music, and the contemporary underground. ... more
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