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Anything bright or startling?

by Áine O Dwyer

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Not through learning did I wittingly embark When first I found our bearings cross I trained a falcon for more than a year And taught in it my will to take We spoke at length some crude, some brave Upon our yearnings and our fear And learned through passing through our mouths to fill the gaps between our ears I hear things spoken in your voice My good friend And so perceive what you would think Of where I've been and what I've dealt And what of others needs opinion And with this granted conformation I choose my ways and make my deals Far from the days and lands In which we spoke And tempered by each others wisdom Saw our own
2.
Be still, don't do that I wanted to be here alone Who are you, I only know You're not the person I wanted to look like what's up with you look like you've seen a ghost Stark-raven- waters Rolling rivers in the river Broken giant lanterns Why I come here, where I stay thusly thither Floating quiet light worlds: Floating quiet light worlds! It's...gotten lost now, where; Where was I? Oh- Floating quiet light worlds In the giant broken lanterns And so- It's you No I'm not pleased to see yuh I thought you weren't coming But now that you're here Tell me what's with this debris? How should I know what went down; Please pull yourself together- You talk awful queer... Old-Cracked-Come down- To the rive, water raging From the broken giant headland Try to touch down but I could not; s; Off you gone or go now I will head long-running inland Let a-leave me out the coast road And a bobbin in the see weed
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Albion Awake Albion! Awake tumble you cedars! Owls begone; beaks, tear the fabric of the night to sparks! Moles, spit the soil, crime' beaks destroy O ermine, maculate Invert the starry firmament of night! Split graves apart - quick! and suck nourriture from death, sack cities and upraise the slain! Awake! Awake! Let banners fly, like shrapnel, Unfurl and efface the sky! Lifeboy There are things which fly above my head The hours and the days And ahoy! A boy! Legs over fences, arms on terrains Touching ground with the wild of this place. I see a trace of me in him But I've always been here I'm up there and down here Traveling ground here.
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Silent O Moyle Silent, O Moyle, be the roar of thy water, Break not, ye breezes, your chain of repose, While murmuring mournfully, Lir's lonely daughter Tells to the night-star her tale of woes. When shall the swan, her death-note singing, Sleep, with wings in darkness furl'd? When wil head'n, it's sweet bell ringing, Call her spirit from this stormy world? Sadly, oh Moyle, to thy winter-wave weeping, Fate bids me languish long ages away; Yet still in her darkness Erin lies sleeping, Still doth the pure light it's dawning day When will that day star, wildly springing, Warm out isle with peace and love? When will heav'n, its sweet bell ringing, Call her spirit from the fields up there?

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All tracks by Áine Except Falcon RWM Hunt/O'Dwyer. Hyperbolia Hunt/O'Dwyer Albion Awake Chris Cutler/Hunt/O'Dwyer Silent O Moyle Thomas Moore/O'Dwyer

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released June 6, 2013

Mixed by Áine. Engineered by Simon Trout. Mastered by Anthony Ryan. Art concept, direction, props, costume by Áine. Photographer and design work Marin M. Andersen. Released on Second language label reissued here and soon to be made physical again sometime soon on VINYL!

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