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muunokhoy
01:51
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It's safe in here
High upon the steppe I sleep under goatskin
They feed me milk and iron
Men with eagle-crested heads stand guard at night
She names me Muunokhoy
She says it means 'vicious hound'
She tells me it's to keep demons away
She watches over me
She has pitch-black eyes and yellow-gold skin
She sings in harsh rasping wolf tones
She lulls me to sleep
She names me Muunokhoy
She says it means 'vicious hound'
She tells me it's to keep demons away
She names me Muunokhoy
She says it means 'vicious hound'
She tells me it's to keep demons away
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I wandered far out on the ice
The cold winds threatened to take my hands
King Angutaa loured, fetched a knife
He took Sedna's fingers, he lays claim to mine
A dark-eyed huntress raised her hand and said, halt
Drunken madman, leave this place, you're nothing but trouble
She tells me a story of sea monsters
She says it's to soothe my rage
She wields a half moon ulu knife
She calmly cuts seal meat, she says, here, you're failing
She fills a stone basin with seal oil
She lights arctic cotton with dexterous hands
She says, sleep, Ululijarnaq will not touch you
She has not held power since the dawn of deep time
She tells me a story of sea monsters
She says it's to soothe my rage
She tells me a story of sea monsters
She says it's to soothe my rage
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demon of mine
02:38
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He has done nothing to me
Venom pools in my mouth, makes for my lips
My fingertips twist into talons
Irreversible cruelty burns on my tongue
Irreversible cruelty spills from my tongue
I can't remember the human I used to be
I think I had white skin and dark grey eyes
Demon of mine
Save your red for when the henchmen come
They are vicious and they are many
I can't remember my name
The red has taken words from me
I hear your voice, you're still here
Far beyond the blood red of my rage
Far away beyond the blood red of my rage
I can't remember the human I used to be
I find I have membrane wings and yellow-gold eyes
Demon of mine
Save your red for when the henchmen come
They are vicious and they are many
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the goldfinch
01:12
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It's vicious and cold out here
I wear a red cap to keep winter's chill from my head
The wind strikes at my back with its cowardly fists
I wear a grey mantle dotted with white and yellow
And I go now
Fluttering delicate flight muscles, one, two, three...
She has kindly left food for me…
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great grey owl
02:54
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It's dark in the taiga
Close to the sixty-sixth parallel, it is vicious and cold
I sleep by day in the dark northern pines
Night dons her black velvet mantle, it is time to go
I wear grey hunting camouflage
Somewhere here I keep yellow lamps for eyes
Strapped to my heels are yellow horn knives, I take flight
And I become part of the night, and the night becomes part of me
I see in harsh white and grey
Night vision lenses show a bleak world of ice and snow
The tiniest blur of motion tugs at my sight
I fold my wings close to my back, I drop from the sky
Stout cords of sinew engage
Flight muscles of agile and weightless steel
I plunge to the snow, I wield my yellow horn knives
I am a part of the night, and the night is a part of me
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water nymph
02:18
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I go now
To the iron laced rocks and the green moss of the river bed
I'll sleep safely under the green mantle
I have no lungs to drown
And when I return
I'll be a thousand years old
And my skin will be unlined and silken
I go now
To the place beneath the soil where a bluebell forms
I'll sleep safely under her watch as she blooms in summer
She sings a soft lullaby to me
And when I return
I'll be a thousand years old
And my skin will be unlined and silken
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wanderlust
03:50
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Somewhere out there, there are worlds where many sun discs light the sky
Where the storm clouds are many shades of glittering malachite
Somewhere out there, the mountain eagles have three heads and six eyes
And the faraway latitudes are made of brilliant fire
And Aeshna wheels and shimmers at evening time
And the oaks are blood red and the vines have eyes
And membrane-winged creatures wheel and glide
And many-headed hydras mesmerize
Somewhere out there, there are worlds where the poles are covered with rubellite
Where black bands form in the white sky as the lights are ionized
Somewhere out there, the white wolverine prowls the night
Black gun barrels form the pupils of his ice blue eyes
And clusters of many red moons light the night
And bursts of vermilion ignite the bleached white sky
And terrible medusas hypnotize
And the great serpents have many eyes and many lives
And I'll wander away from here...
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cold air
02:38
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He said I love you...
I missed the heights, the beating of aquiline wings
I missed the plunge off the mountain's spine
I missed cold air
And I flew far away into the pines...
And I wheeled and twisted in bands of green light...
He said I love you...
I missed my long and elegant flight feathers
I fluttered clumsily...lurching...vertigo...
I made it to the top of a wire fence
And I flew far away into the pines...
And I wheeled and twisted in bands of green light...
He washed up on the shore
He said I swam the ocean to find you
The red light swooped low above the moor
I said I don't want this any more
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