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PREDATOR

by Predator/Prey

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1.
Unkindness of Ravens 04:30
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Alone in the empty, open Searching for others, under the cover Tracks of the hungry, stretch out We watch them cross, one another Scavenge the forest, for food Dark in the bright sky, red in the snow Coaxing the hunters, to their prey Taking the scraps, as tax for our role And oh this is not to be moralized And oh this is not to be canonized And if this is just our mean little lives We live them out like everybody else Sometimes your pecking, on bones So when you can, eat the heart first Days when the hunger, has flown Perch in the silence, speaking in verse And oh this is not to be moralized And oh this is not to be canonized And if this is just our mean little lives We live them out, in and of themselves
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Bed of Mussels 04:57
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Sounder of Boar 04:12
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I just want to lie down I ache under these pounds Stys that keep my sides bound Cries from all around I just wanna lie down I just wanna lie down Rush the bush and take this field Crashing through the day and night Wrecking all thats in my path See them run_ning from my eyes Bust the gate, tear out the fence Stamp and crush your kids and crops Kill the dogs who bay like ghosts For the men who eat our flesh Born, in houses of stone Torn, from mother than grown Shorn, the tusk I should own Mourn, the mind I’ve not known Bite the post to hang on Grind my teeth ‘til they’re gone Squeals that peirce and fill the sky Sharpened tusks and steel wool hair If I stripped you of your tools You would bow before my eyes I am both a beast and stock Understanding humankind They live such short_sighted lives I a slave, my son is wild Looking in on hallowed ground Rip ing out the foreign soil I eat all that I see fit Slash a leg as I scream by Heating up to fevered pitch Drowning out my softer side Roaring loud the wildest cry Let my spirit break this mold I was bred for this chore I am dead on this floor I should be so much more I have wild in my core Rush to take and crash to wreck Bust to tear and stamp to crush Squeal to peirce the air with sound Sharpened tusks and steel wool hair I am rage and power grown Braver now and free to roam I don't want to leave this home Sooner die than be dethrowned
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Knot of Snakes 05:19
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I want us touching Light but firm no rushing Glide on your essence Slide on my presence I’m on the outside pushing in I’m slipping through, I’m touching skin I taste your breath, I feel your heat Our bodies stretched and bent They’re pulling hard to push me off I’m fighting back its not enough Sweeping me back to where i’ve been I’m on the outside pushing in I won’t stop trying To feel you sighing Pull back don’t smother They’ll push let them push us into each other I’m on the outside pushing in I’m slipping through, I’m touching skin I taste your breath, I feel your heat Our bodies stretched and bent They’re pulling hard to push me off I’m fighting back its not enough Sweeping me back to where i’ve been I’m on the outside pushing in
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Skulk of Foxes 04:42
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Let me find a place to hide A place where stillness has once again returned A place, you said, we’d never die You left to search the night As you assassinate through blood and bone The blazing chandeliers of steel and stone Enunciate your shape and lead you home to me Take me to the other side A razing clips the forest’s knee Their occupation, the seizing of our hollows tears there fragile hearts from me Too nearly new to see Sulphur cracks the air and scalds my nose The iron smoke it soaks my eyelids closed Sometimes we’re all by ourselves, but I’m all alone Take me to the other side A stillness black as deepest sea No tiny secrets reveal themselves to say your swiftly coming back to me To set our family free A flashing of the earth, a shaking sky is torn apart before my blinded eye The empty lake of mud exposed in fractured time to me Take me to the other side
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Rout of Wolves 03:28
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Oh no daddy we’ll start an army Oh no daddy and we’ll pick up the pieces In the morning we’ll be warring In the evening we’ll be picking up pieces Oh no daddy you were mighty Oh my daddy now you’re falling to pieces Your old fingers are oh so brittle They can’t gather or pick up the pieces Daddy you taught me so much Sun rises like it always does Oh my daddy, oh they’re gathering Oh my daddy they’re uniting the pieces And they bare down on well our homestead You must greet them and tear them to pieces Daddy you taught me so much Son rises like it always does And When we meet them at the gates I’ll be behind you my jaws in wait And when we see the whites of their eyes I’ll raise my claws quench their cries ‘Cause when they see you Dad dead at my feet Oh they will beat hasty retreat Because they’ll see you Dad there in my eyes A monster born revitalized Daddy you taught me so much Son rises like it always does Oh my brother we’ll start an army Oh my brother and we’ll pick up the pieces In the morning we’ll be warring In the evening we’ll be picking up pieces
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Priory of Panther 07:57
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William I am your horn; The truth I love, a lie I scorn. Fill me with, best of powder, Ile make your rifle crack the lowder. In valleys of fir the powers that were encircled by a great invasion The Panther arose the first time to find the predators under predation I see you wolf badger and bear I see our paths intertwining Like roots of the forest exposed to the sun I see the best of you dying The forest can teach us protection The hunted can teach us to kill Let's be like the porcupine's mantle Together we'll each wield a quill Prepare a death song for the great divide, alone Sing your death song and die like a hero going home The forests can teach us protection The hunted can teach us to kill Let's be like the porcupine's mantle Together we'll each wield a quill It’s never fair but maybe one day we’ll be happy right there

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Predator is the first concept album in a double-album written about North American wild animals. This album explores the living experience through the perspectives of different predatory species.

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released February 7, 2014

Produced by .................... PREDATOR/PREY
Recorded by .................... PREDATOR/PREY
Instruments/Vox .................ADAM PHIPPS
Instruments/Vox ................ DAK DeKERCKHOVE
Vox ............................ CARE PHIPPS
Drums .......................... SCOTT EVERINGHAM
Trumpet ........................ BRIAN MOYER
Mixed by........................ MATHIEU PARISIEN
Mastered by...................GREYMARKET MASTERING


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Predator/Prey is a concept double-album about the living experience. Each song is written from the perspective of a different North American wild animal.

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