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Born into the waves

by And Also The Trees

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1.
Your guess 05:09
YOUR GUESS I can't know you Guess my face my eyes Your guess is as good as mine The weight of your head in my arms And the sound of the streets The taste of your tongue sweet I can't know you. And when the night opens up in golden wings Lift me up, lift me up, lift me up Wrapped in your fine bead dress Your caged love bird song Maësharn Maësharn Maësharn I can't know you So don't turn your head from mine I want to see behind your closed eyes... Stags touch the water's edge And emerald serpents rise. The desert night stirs With unholy sighs/size Like poems like choirs. And when the night opens up in golden wings Lift me up lift me up lift me up Wrapped in your fine bead dress Your caged love Bird song Maësharn Maësharn Maësharn.
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HAWKSMOOR AND THE SAVAGE I've been hunting, out again I'm holding up all that I've found here - A head And a piece of meat The meat bleeds The head speaks A string of pearls of wisdom A necklace of teeth The spider and the fly In the end which one am I?. Petals fall In the garden as I walk To the house called winter And when I wake again I find the souls of men Illusive, misunderstood Growing with the yarrow In the purple shaded wood Savage! Throw me another line But cast it out Just a little bit further next time The spider and the fly In the end which one am I?. And I'm standing blood smeared Looking out across wastelands What's in my sights?.
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Winter sea 04:00
WINTER SEA Arise sea Black rocking waves above me In the winter morning And in my head I see a land Steppes of green my love. Oh winter sea Your funnel blows The sails flick gracefully Below the whales turning Invisible Oh John wait for me Though the snow is falling onto the sea A sun rises red over me. I smell the land but I cannot see Any trace of earth or tree I smell the winter rain on the dark streets Crossing your legs hand on your chin Watching me my love. Can you hear me in Moscow As the snow turns to rain Over land locked fields From Paris to Marseille Can you hear me in Rostock Can you hear me in Maine? Oh winter sea.
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SEASONS AND THE STORMS Rising, lifts her up Up above his head And takes her outside Bringing out the sunshine, Smiling freckle face Eyes just like a cat He swings her back down Looks at the clock and turns around... A boys voice deep wading across the moor His hands to his lips he shouts. Gold rays of light Shine though the hammock on the lawn Shadows rising with the dawn With the rhythms of the seasons and the storms Beating on the shore. Standing by the car The house behind she says We'll catch the high tide And holds a hand above her eyes Clouds pass to the south There's ships out in the bay The weathers set fine And everything seems far away... A woman's feet Moving across the floor Her hand on her hip Her mouth. Gold rays of light Shine though the hammock on the lawn Shadows rising in the dawn With the rhythms of the seasons and the storms Gold rays of light Shine though the hammock on the lawn Breaking on the shore.
5.
The sleepers 04:18
THE SLEEPERS Quicksilver light Shines on the sheets I saw you standing there Against the dark window Beneath the white bedclothes The sleepers lie One loose limbed on his back One turned on her side And we see their slim figures curl Across the heath Sublime and ridiculous Naked obese Dipping in and out of pools Of everlasting peace Sleep blinded eyes Their feet kicking out Joined at the hip Joined at the mouth. And he sees the dust coast round Her neck her cheek Observes the moonlight passing across The soles of his feet The sleepers fly Unchained in the night One loose limbed on his back One turned on her side.
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Bridges 05:12
BRIDGES Oh come take the bridges with me Through the streets of the town Where we would meet I follow you down Your silent call Slits of sky where the winter falls Oh take me to the bridges of your town Past the waterways, railways and by-roads Down down my love we go Thin streets and alleyways In the beautiful snow Your lips red like flowers grow Down down the paths we go Ransacked my heart Floats into the dark. Show me the streets Where the waters speak Last night I dreamed about your house Precarious on the fault line Last night I dreamed about your face Immovable as the summer night I'm in your arms now High in the garrets above the town Stars shining here above the sea Come down Come die with me My hand inside your head Between your legs Oh take me through the bridges of your town.
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THE BELLS OF SAINT CHRISTOPHER'S I get out of bed and I stand on the cold hard floor My breath smoking in front of me and the window frozen A child crying in the street And a woman smiles in her sleep And I hear the bells of saint Christopher's call And the hammers below bouncing off the walls. I face myself grey in the looking glass And I see my eyes up close where the pupils spark The sky is hanging like ripped curtains above the town And the trains pull in and out of the station Making their heavy sound And all around the chaos rang A rainbow arcs perfect across this troubled land.
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Boden 03:42
BODEN In the night Boden moves Through fields where the moon shone Geese fly from his mouth And outside Thin breeze through the damson trees And they sleep on, sleep on…. Boden came to a house Along a wild and narrow lane Smoke from a single chimney came A waterfall, moonlight on the wall And outside in the damson trees A thin breeze And they sleep on, sleep on…. And the sleepers fall deeper His hand on her ribcage Her heart unwound Sculpted around him. And the light of the moon Throws patterns on his body Moves silent around the room. How the long night grows Through their fingers and their toes And outside Thin breeze thought the damson trees And they sleep on sleep on….
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THE SKEINS OF LOVE (Wait there - wait there And I will come) The skeins of love are tied Untied and welded Wrapped around my hands my feet my arms The skeins of love Are drawn across this map these streets this land Like wires (Wait there - wait there And we will come) The skeins of love Drift behind your back Beneath our skin Reckless and billowing The skeins of love Brilliant in the nights slow flood Born into the waves (Wait there - wait there And we will come) The skeins of love Steady as the pumping of our blood. Bewildering, fabulous it plays In its polyhedron ways To dance The dance untold.

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released March 18, 2016

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And Also The Trees London, UK

England, 1979 - present day.
Recorded 13 studio albums. Toured with The Cure. Robert Smith and Lol Tolhurst produced early recordings. Have since toured frequently in Europe and on occasion America and Japan.
Known for their captivating live performances, a unique style of mandolin like electric guitar, poetic lyrics and dark jazz rhythms.
Most recent album - 'Born into the waves' 2016.
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