Feb 2022 english prog-folk through-composed
A curious clump, quite querulous and catch-all
Clanking and tympanic, tall limbs tousled and tumbled
Uppermosts gale-battered and spirally upswept
Negligibly nestled at the base of the boughs
Shielded from shouty sheets of rain rod rattling and torrential raging roars
Cro can hear a whisper to the thunder
Like an eye opening in the darkness
The pale-lipped White Helleborine defies the shade
Exquisite tenderness and delicate dissonance
A pure un-white, smudged yet clean
The Beech strews tresses of three-cornered mast down onto its protegee, garlanding the glade
A feast for yellow-necked woodmice and stock dove alike
Crowden
Cro tries to assimilate the vibrance of the Helleborine, to taste the nutty wholesomeness of the beechmast, but to no avail
Cro's dark eyes fall but do not grasp
Cro is patient, persistent, peerless, and tries and tries and tries some more
But still no flavour, no resonance
Cro shrugs, flies on
Sometimes the world is transparent to us; we have no receptors
Sometimes giving up is neutral, easy, a word scratched out in soil, erased by the wind
Cephalanthera damasonium
@sheslin Feb 2022
You have an incredible command of the English language! Your lyrics read like beautiful poetry and are filled with vivid imagery. These ;yrics really spoke to me
"Sometimes the world is transparent to us; we have no receptors
Sometimes giving up is neutral, easy, a word scratched out in soil, erased by the wind"
I like how unexpected your melody is - it carries your lyrics well. Your vocals interact in such an interesting and engaging way with the guitar. I am not sure what prog folk is, but I know I like it. Super cool song.
@toms Feb 2022
These are some of the most splendid lyrics I have heard this year. I totally also dig through composed stuff. What a great write.
@elainedimasi Feb 2022
Quite a specific seeming word painting in this one.
"Exquisite tenderness and delicate dissonance
A pure un-white, smudged yet clean" really is a Hellebore!
Love the lesson about walking away naturally from what's transparent to us. Something a bit Thomas-Dolby-ish about that way that section was done musically, but I can't say exactly what?
@hamiltonpoolhall Feb 2022
Oh man, this is amazing! I love the stop-and-start opening, the doubled (?) vocal moments, the interplay between the melody and that darker clean guitar, the clean, clanky bass...it just keeps unfolding and unfolding, and the lyrics...where to begin? This sounds like nothing else I've heard on FAWM this year, and I feel a little like a dutiful bebopper hearing Ornette Coleman for the first time in 1959.
@fuzzy Feb 2022
Really great lyrics and such an interesting vocal approach.
Your through-composed tunes really really work for me.
Unpredictable and yet it all hangs together so nicely.
I love it.
@elesimo Feb 2022
I wasn't able to listen ("Bandwidth Limit Exceeded"), but I love the lyrics — great alliteration and rhythm to the words.