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INTO THE DARKENED SUNWORLD
Stars scatter like fire seeds
Hooter calling in the black woods
I am breathing in the darkness
My rings ache
Roots in the alldark grow
Throw me in the fire, and watch me as I burn
Stars scatter like dead seeds
over the darkened sunworld
I am breathing in the darkness
My rings ache
Roots in the alldark grow
Throw me in the fire, and watch me as I burn
Smokesnakes with smutflies climb high
into the darkened sunworld
Throw me in the fire, and watch me as I burn
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Blodau - Sophie McKeand
00:52
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Ice
04:10
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ICE
Breathe in, seedfriend,
to one old and ringwise;
for the ice do come, and the ice do go
for the ice do come, and the ice do go
and the ice be seedfoe
the ice be blossomblister
Winter’s a cold hearted friend who takes more than she gives
Well I’m no hunter gatherer, so how then will you live?
When it’s oh so cold out here,
Oh so cold out here…
And I am my treehood
as my livings tremble to the branchbend
It’s time to make my amends
I am Heartwood and I’m afraid
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Kinrade
03:30
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KINRADE
Hurtling backwards, hungover, I travel on trains
Re-tracing your pace in an alleyway air raid
Growing pains
Partially painted green cracked plastic
Drainage climbing frames
And the fields are full of you, and the trees are full of you
I would follow you into the Mountain, rocky and tumultuous
I can't pretend it wasn't slightly messing up the both of us
Especially me
Coach trips to futile kettles of fish, I wandered through wars
Studio ceilings squint up ladders, sellotape games on floors
A leg long hedgehog the head and the mouth holding stories were yours
And the rooms are full of you, and the rooms are full of you
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The Only Words
04:11
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THE ONLY WORDS
I’ve been up & down this house, these walls,
Have heard the stories, the triumphs, the falls
And these stairs may creak, but the silence they seek
Is the seemingly only word they can speak,
But the only words, the only words I know
Are of you, they’re of you and the stories we’ve grown
I’ve been down and out, so high, so low
I’ve been terrified when I’ve looked at you
In the stillness I find a peace of mind
But I will never give you a piece of mine
But the only words, the only words I know
Are of you, they’re of you and the stories we’ve grown
I’ve been waiting by the window, waiting by the phone
I’ve been etching an escape plan for sixty seconds on my own
And your face may be smiling, but I know what you’re hiding
There’s no way you are leaving, you're waiting for me to go
But the only words, the only words I know
Are of you, they’re of you and the stories we’ve grown
The only voice I can replicate
Is my own and the reasons to sleep create
But you can’t take my dreams, no you can’t read my thoughts
And you won’t take my freedom, of this I am sure
But the only words, the only words I know
Are of you, they’re of you and the stories we’ve grown
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Sun Sets Fire
02:17
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SUN SETS FIRE
Ruby red wine illuminates the autumn sky
I watch the leaves tumble from the trees singing the same lullaby
As the sun sets fire to the mountain high,
I know I’m falling, falling, falling - falling for the fall
The winter is close, it’s dark, but still I have light,
I’m like the leaves, I will let go, I’ll let this season take flight,
And as the sun sets fire to the mountain high,
I know I’m falling, falling, falling - falling for the fall
Nothing stays the same, prepare to change, to live or to die,
The naked branches show that everything will fade with time,
And as the sun sets fire to the mountain high,
I know I’m falling, falling, falling - falling for the fall
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Traxx (For The River)
04:10
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TRAXX (FOR THE RIVER)
“Losing track of all the tracks I have travelled,
I am not on the map; yesterday is no tomorrow
And I won’t look back, & I won’t let go when this ocean overflows…”
She knows she will dry, as she stands in the rain
& stares up at the clouds, so when the storm starts again
She knows she will dry, as she stands with no shame
& cares not for the crowds, who ridicule her name
She knows she will dry, so when the heavens open wide
She knows it’s her time, she will know to be alive,
And she said, “I’m…
Losing track of all the tracks I have travelled,
I am not on the map; yesterday is no tomorrow
So I won’t look back, & I won’t let go when this ocean overflows…
I’m searching for something worth seeking
Instead of giving in to what’s given
I regret it appears that I have lost my head
The emerald rivers have swallowed my bed
And now I… can’t lie… any more…”
So when the truth comes out,
When the whispers of the waves begin to shout,
She said, “I know I’ll find my way”
She said, “I know I’ll find my way, but I’m…
Losing track of all the tracks I have travelled…
I know I will dry, so when the heavens open wide
I know it’s my time, I will know to be alive”
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Rootless
04:27
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ROOTLESS
We are singing, all my livings, in a glee of Alltree, rainjoy
Ring through to ring, down to the core, rainjoy
This rootless will be in the redstone nest
No taint of his sorrow on the breeze.
When the sun comes I will grow him,
But now he must rest (but now he must rest)
We are singing, all my livings, in a glee of Alltree, rainjoy
Ring through to ring, down to the core, rainjoy
This rootless will be in my leafen.
He will be in my twigs and branch.
His mossboll songs will wave in the wind;
His breath hum in my blossomsongs (his breath hum in my blossomsongs)
We are singing, all my livings, in a glee of Alltree, rainjoy
Ring through to ring, down to the core, rainjoy
When the sky opens wide, Oh, that’s when I come alive
The rains come from no cloud, but straight from the snakemouth.
Look at how my leafen dance, madness drowning in romance,
Watching as I clap my hands, quench fever,
So let my love fill your lungs, I long to listen to your songs,
I’ll be swaying, simply singing rainjoy.
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Fabric
03:47
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FABRIC
She will carry you down quicksand like the earth is her hand
She will contort the land like she fought all your plans
She has pocketed your Paris in her rain-mac and
She has promised you particles to breathe in but
All she wants is your undivided attention,
So pay attention ‘cause she’s insisting that
Everything is so much more beautiful her way
She will domino disasters just to practice her powers
She will dominate decisions & make you see your powerlessness
She manipulates your mindset with motions of magic and
She monopolizes the fabric,
She’s everything, she’s everywhere
It’s always about her,
But all she wants is your undivided attention
So pay attention ‘cause she’s insisting that
Everything is so much more beautiful her way
She, she, she,
All about she, she, she
She be the beginning, she be the end
If you listen, she is speaking,
She is speaking, if you’re listening
Now
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Metaforestry UK
Metaforestry (storiau o’r Gogledd). Wilderness & dreams.
Poetry: Sophie McKeand | Music: Emmi Manteau | Art: Erica Taylor
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