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Carved Upon The Air
02:23
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2. |
Burning Poems
03:52
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BURNING POEMS
Only young, not twenty-one
He hitched across the Nullarbor Plain
His face was brown and broken down
As he looked for the summer rain
And when he got to the western land
He found the same old pain
So he walked around to the north of town
Where the road took him again
And he saw his freedom
Like the moon escaping from the clouds
He saw the fragments of the light
As they fell upon his arm
He heard the singing of the dawn
In its crowning golden psalm
He felt the ice of winter
And the shadows in the night
He could taste the ash of a burning world
As his soul prepared for flight
And he saw his freedom
Like the moon escaping from the clouds
And he saw his freedom
Like fire returning to the sun
The ghosts of the past came crowding down
Put the mist before his eyes
Obscured the sun and everyone
Who was listening to his cries
Inside he felt the hour
And direction of his fate
So he marched towards his meeting with
A beauty that awaits…
And he saw his freedom
Like the moon escaping from the clouds
And he saw his freedom
Like fire returning to the sun
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3. |
Changing of the Guard
03:32
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CHANGING OF THE GUARD
Is this the time? The changing of the guard
As the cygnet flies far beyond its home
To where the eagle cries and the spirits roam
Naked through the skies, driven from their home
It is a time of signs, a fated hour awaits
As destiny unwinds we hurtle on to face
A seething wind of time that kisses us and burns
With arms raised to the skies – a joyous love that yearns
A clear note is sung
By the moon and the stars and the sun
The land cries its eternal call
For those who will fight and stand tall
The secrets shining in the dawn are seeking those who ask
The wind that gallops at our back begs of us a task
As we arise to meet our fate, called by ancient sound
We can use the fire to keep us warm or burn the world right down
Right down…
Right down…
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4. |
The World Awaits You
05:46
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THE WORLD AWAITS YOU
(for Arwen and Aurora)
The world awaits you, see how it plans
To mould and misshape you with soft honeyed hands
To serve its unceasing and restless design
To bend your brave purpose to its crooked line
So keep your heart beating to rhythms divine
Seek where your freedom and virtue align
Let what you burn for not burn down your light
Safeguard the flame that will give you your sight
Your mind will debate you, try to make you its own
Decrees that negate you from a pale blue sky throne
Will cloud your pure instinct, the song in your veins
Fear its dominion and let pour the rains
So keep your heart beating to rhythms divine
Seek where your freedom and virtue align
Let what you burn for not burn down your light
Safeguard the flame that will give you your sight
Grieve not for me
Believe I am free
Grieve not for me
Believe I am free
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5. |
Exiled
06:38
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EXILED
I see a light as it gleams through smoke and haze
Dark is the night, and darker still through history’s gaze
Move only forwards, never think of up or down
Your greatest triumph of the age wears a charred and bloody crown
Take all you can and run away
Push down your death another day
Disquiet dwells like a thorn in your eye
Exiled beyond sight, where the greyness gnaws away
All hope and fight, now the sun picks at my brain
The ocean’s menace and its roar, and its sweeping unwalled maze
Rather I had its terror now than these endless dying days
You are alone in your skin, in the hush a howling din
No matter what you do or say, the hate won’t go away
Your legacy unto us all is to teach us how to fall
Yes, somewhere even within thee a dying heart longs to be free
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6. |
Holding Pattern
08:59
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HOLDING PATTERN
Your pain so plain to see for the brother in me
Is this why you turn away to yesterday?
Before the grief compounded and mutiny sounded
A discourse in your blood, an empty flood
Feel
something in this holding pattern
circling you
Feel
nothing in this holding pattern
circling you
A bouquet to the sun and everyone
Disquiet in your eyes is paralysed
Anger for the kill is tempered still
Turns itself around to demon ground
And I will still maintain a brother's refrain
Misaligned and still to find us scared and blind
The wind and scouring sand of time and land
Will grind away the reticence, the evidence
Feel… Heal…
Feel… Heal…
Feel… Heal…
Feel… Heal…
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7. |
Midnight Under Glass
05:34
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MIDNIGHT UNDER GLASS
When the day comes to an ending
Bodies lie asleep and I'm alone
I hold tight onto the memory
Of our midnight under glass
My heart longs once more to hold you
Feeling warm and safe, loved and adored
I know the day shall arrive, dear
Drawing near and near
I await you here
Midnight under glass
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8. |
The Beloved
05:42
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THE BELOVED
I see you in the forest, dancing in the virgin breeze
I see you in the harrowed eyes of famished entities
I feel you in the river flowing to eternity
I feel you everywhere, in the silence touching me
Like a kiss from the lips of God that burns on
Like a kiss from the lips of God that burns
Like a kiss from the lips of God that burns on
Igniting my soul forever
You are the striking snake, you are the cooing dove
You are the essence in the eyes of everyone I love
You are the tearing storm, you are the diamond sea
You are the wordless bliss, the whisper washing over me
Like a kiss from the lips of God that burns on
Like a kiss from the lips of God that burns
Like a kiss from the lips of God that burns on
Igniting my soul forever
Been wandering in the wilderness of all that is
Searching through the labyrinth of creation
Dreaming in the nothingness of everything
Dancing in the spirit-land of illumination
Seasons of pain clear the way
Seasons of shame are yesterday
Seasons of pain clear the way
Seasons of shame are yesterday
O my beloved, the enchantment of your endless song!
You are the path that I have wandered loving for so long
O my divine Friend, you are the one that sets me free
My heart is yearning, desiring you to be in me
Like a kiss from the lips of God that burns on
Like a kiss from the lips of God that burns
Like a kiss from the lips of God that burns on
Igniting my soul forever
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9. |
The Sea
04:10
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THE SEA
The greatest gift you’ve given me
Is to make me feel
Like I’m just another human being
While at the very same time
You make me feel like I’m a god
Like I’m graceful and divine
And the sea that I swim in
When I look into your eyes
Is the sea that I swim in
When I’m tearing down the lies
That hold me inside
The more you love me
Is the more I love myself
And when you touch me
I feel my inner wealth
Yes it’s true
I could do this without anybody’s help
I just don’t want to anymore
O the freedom that we feel
This love is so real
I come to you to heal
The wounds inside myself
The dusty books upon your shelf
I want to taste the kiss of our ideal
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10. |
Tendrils
03:41
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TENDRILS
Slender young sapling that waves in the air
Dancing before me throwing your hair
The wind in your leaves as you move easily
Alone in your ocean, weaving a soft web of glee
The looks they alight in your eyes, I’m filled with surprise
at the knowing… the knowing you’re showing your prize
I am filled with this mysterious… delirious sensation
And what can I say?
I know I will remember you this way…
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The Anecdote Warburton, Australia
Formed in 2014 in Warburton, Australia, The Anecdote are a seasoned live act, having performed at a range of festivals
throughout the country. Throughout their careers, members of The Anecdote have performed and recorded with Gotye, Dan Kelly, Jeff Lang, Liz Stringer, Gareth Liddiard (The Drones) and Greg Arnold (Things of Stone and Wood).
'Carved Upon The Air' is their debut album.
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