1. |
Mending Season
04:45
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Stood blankly as walls
love will not
set you going
a stopped watch
Give thankingly
to that which is not
your own tended plot
grows unseen
Hush those voices
failing starting
autumn waters
hear the rush coming
All that lives on
is all that gives up
the mending season
carries us in
Cast as mutes
in another fight
the subtle rite even
numbers can't sanctify
Turn to the sun
hallowed by the light
such golden inside
you've kept hidden
Hush those voices
failing starting
autumn waters
feel the rush coming
All that lives on
is all that gives up
the mending season
carries us in
Feel the rush
coming
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2. |
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You say you want war
you say you want war
this is what you asked for
All against all
all against all
this is what you asked for
And all your riches
and all your rents can't
keep us out
And all your titles
and all your trinkets can't
keep you safe
And all your excuses
that you call ideas can't
keep us out
What you reap
is what you sew
and what we eat
is what you've grown
This is what you asked for
And all your garlands
and all your guard dogs can't
keep us out
And all your trespass
and all your tithes can't
keep you safe
And all of your wisdom
that builds all your walls can't
keep us out
It's coming
it's coming now
And all your garlands
and all your guard dogs can't
keep us out
And all your trespass
and all your tithes can't
keep you safe
And all your wisdom
that builds all your walls can't
keep us out
It's coming
it's coming now
This is what you asked for
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3. |
Rewild
05:57
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Suddenly
they were all gone
an exponent
function
The West
undressed
and we turned our eyes
the clever ape
metastasized
Down from the trees
across the land
destined or
just happenstance?
Not in our natures
not in our stars
no other witnesses
to call
Rewild the
turning can’t
turn too soon
the last sigh of
lunatics
this empire of plastic
extinct or evolved
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4. |
Monuments
06:55
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Turn the machine round
tear the eiffels down
start again
quiet that awful sound
bring the tall to ground
start again
face the organs down
burn the towers to powder
start again
The highest will not make right
the highest will not make right
Unseen unheard
stillborn the last word
start again
they who lost who won
they who have and have-none
start again
too big to fail
too old to change
start again
The highest will not make right
the highest will not make right
Monuments sore
idols of edifice
regard we overlooked, we
clamour to make you low
make you low
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5. |
Absent
06:32
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Close the door
turn down the light
tonight we go
absent
from the world
Forget their eyes
and the small
brutalities
Won't flinch at the scars
inflicted and undeserved
Tomorrow will rise again
do battle with the world
tonight just be a friend
We'll plot and scheme
to seize the means
of our providence
We'll take our share
and leave the fighting
to the dogs
For while we sleep
there are those who dream
of undoing the peace
They'll get their turn
once we're reminded
and restored
Tomorrow will rise again
do battle with the world
tonight just be a friend
Tonight we go
absent from the world
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6. |
Longest Night
04:58
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Life is unfolded
unfolding
fast
Like last light
on the
longest night
Stars are singing
grieving
their end
The last breath
of the
briefest life
Don’t close your eyes
too soon
morning follows
the moon
All the lights go together
they will be gone
but not forever
not forever
Day is opened
opening
at last
Turned from dark
on the
longest night
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7. |
Old Road
04:53
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Take a turn off the old road
to the land of here-who-knows
take a chance on a new wind
maybe there I'll see you friend
And all our lives
will be standing there
all those doors unopened
Take the old road down
so many paths still unfound
time
Make this bond to not turn back
so many roads have turned to traps
If we don't meet when you get there
At least for a time we walked together
And all our lives
will be standing there
all those doors unopened
Take the old road down
so many paths still unfound
time
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8. |
In My Armour
07:33
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Feared too long
not over it yet
put it down in song
not over it yet
Time to learn
or forget
feared too long
not over it yet
Spent too long
in my armour
rehearsed too well
my best errors
Traded blows
not good graces
spent too long
what time before us
it's unknown
Obscured too long
to discern it yet
sought the word
can't discern it yet
Time to learn
or forget
obscured too long
to discern it yet
Been too long
Still feels real
ask the minute hand
how long?
In my armour
rehearsed too well
my best errors
Traded blows
not good graces
spent too long
what time before us
it's unknown
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ROSH Sheffield, UK
'Beautiful stuff... warm folk music' - BBC Introducing
ROSH is proud to announce the release
of his debut album, 'Ask The Minute Hand'. Written over two continents and recorded during the middle of the pandemic, the record is about what it means to live during a time of multiple crises and crippling uncertainties, and the possiblities we have to collectively heal and rise together.
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ROSH recommends:
Along with my musical-brothers-in-arms I am 1/5 of King Capisce. I am the bassist and co-composer, and I think Memento Mori is the best distillation of who we are and what we're about.
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