Cabinet of Natural Curiosities' "Searchlight Needles" CD with handmade, hand-printed, limited-edition packaging, also includes an immediate download in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
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Little lamb, why are you walking here, down the river's path
the loons have frozen down in ice, the water hasn't yet
learned to break its cracks, though the oaks they will be
blooming soon, waving through the glass
with matchsticks in their hands, and you will build
a temple here, where the aspens' silver lungs
breathe into their silver tongues, you will build
a chapel, too, in their silver heads, lay down
in their silver beds, you will learn to love the sun
like them, and the world will come to you,
the world will come to you
Little lamb, you will not walk here long
you will learn to climb, like a mountain lion
you will learn to love the thing that you desire
the things that make you burn like lightning on the pines
like wires in the soil, you will learn to love the sun
you will ring the bells above, where the ravens build
their nest, where the egret' snowy breast broods upon
the emptiness, the muscles in the sands
that stretch across the salty flats
with fire in the glands in the bad, badlands
(and the world will come to you)
where the bulbs of the black brands curl like myrtle
(and the world will come to you)
in the bees, in the bears, in the smoky scarab squirrels
(my love, my love will come and I will comfort you)
I will pluck your thorns and string them up like pearls
My little lion, dressed in kid gloves,
my love's steel boiled
even my lead is love
The world will come to you
the world will come to you
the sun will come and comfort you
my love, my love will come and I will comfort you
credits
from Searchlight Needles,
track released January 1, 2009
Jasmine Dreame Wagner
Alec Bowman perfectly captures the dark soil under the pastoral world of British folk with this collection of melancholy originals. Bandcamp New & Notable May 12, 2020