Autumn Song

by SwiftBird

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The brittle husks of memory
Blow like withered leaves in the dark
Creased like the folds of your skin
The old road on toward nothing
And the grass turns ghostly white
As the summer sun dulls to slate
Like the slow callousing of your eyes
This bone chill autumn rain

Light collapse to moonlight
Fade, and fade, and fade

And the earth just open and swallow me
I want to rest among all the bones
I want to hear the heartbeat of the dust
I want to leave this desolate prairie sky
And the summer light in your hair
I barely remember in the early dusk
Halfway just ain’t enough anymore
Even if its all that we have got

Waited, waited so long
Waited, waited so long

And I’ll let you go when leaves are ripe
On the first bite of the winter frost
All once vibrant, once warm
In splendid slow, cold decay
There is an hour to die
There is an hour to end
Abandon never to pass again
Give all light unto the grave

Summer melt away
Lose every luster
Summer melt away
Sun’s opulence to grey

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released July 10, 2022
Tom Frear - Drums
NaTasha Edelweiss - Vocals
Tom SwiftBird - Vocals, Guitar, Bass

Recorded @ Cottonwood Studio in Rapid City, South Dakota

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Various blood offerings to the black hole.

Based out of the Black Hills of South Dakota. Lakota territory.

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