Material folds
>From rough, modest clothes
Slabs of cold sacred stone
The peasant girl kneels
In strips of feeble water light
Slim fingers clasped
Warm steady, precise
The unwanted...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - And Also The Trees
Winter words blow the trees
Creatures trapped have to fall
Hear their howls claw the sky
Whispers follow Shantell
Shantell sleeps, tables creak
Mirrors start to speak
Branches scra...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - And Also The Trees
We look up, silently
Without quite music
My face four days old
You look newborn
There's fear in your frown, like mine
No distance away
Noticing your hand
Half round my head
And on ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - And Also The Trees
Somewhere the blast furnace explodes
Plumes of amber in the night sky
Each explosion bounces
>From horizon to horizon
>From horizon... To horizon
And for a while, the slow pulse bo...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - And Also The Trees
The day flees the town with a drunkard's yell
Silence from the slaughterhouse
And the midnight bell
Shudders down Shambles alley
Slamming shutters
And the market litter flies
Newsp...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - And Also The Trees
The boy walked round the jagged rocks
Caught between ideals and desires
He sinks into oblivion
And there was silence, as he sat so still
Averted face stares at the floor
So this is...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - And Also The Trees
I came upon a house
In a place I'd never been before
All painted white and open doors
With the sunlight dancing on the floor
I saw the wind in the spring trees
Smelt the poplar and...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - And Also The Trees
Never beginning, never ending days
Days when the ceiling is so low
I cannot stand
And the blunted knife presses into me
Melting in the airless heat
The walls close into me
Nudging ...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - And Also The Trees
Waist high in the wild oats
Goose-grass burrs on his old coat
A knife tears through his throat.
Sunlight sparkles in the old stones by the wall
Surprise in his eyes as he begins t...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - And Also The Trees
It's quarter past seven when I hold you
A head floats above the sleeping town
Somebody shouts to me you're calling
But nobody's out there to reply
It's quarter past seven and I ho...Read Full Lyrics
Artist - And Also The Trees