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Plump of Grouse
05:06
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I worked through the summer in my sunburnt fields
trying to put a piece, trying to put a piece together
Then you came into my life
in the middle of July, in the form of bad weather
Now I’m working even harder to try to fill my larder
although I’m so sure I’ll starve
Fall’s dark skies, over fields, a third the size
and my stores aren’t looking much better
When the forest shuts down, when the first frost falls
it closes for all, closes for the season
And I am not alone, each beast is skin and bones
and together we’re sown, we’re all poor eating
Although we hope our bodies will cope
we know they won’t and we’re so sure we will starve
Still I check my traps, they’re as empty as my sack
and when I head back I dine only on the reason
And now I’m waiting to die
I’m thinner each day I rise
When I think back to winters ago
when my stores were low, I still found sleep easy
Then you came into my life
as the grouse took wing and the meat came freely
I hate to think about it these days
were all those kills in vain if then this year I just starve
Where are they, are they wasting away
or keeping hunger at bay, I think about it constantly
I woke to the sun, under the folds
of snow covered cold, ice forming thick on my bed
Tucked under skins of the animal kins
I once took in, on which my body once fed
Ensnared in fate we struggle with hope
succumb or we cope, although mostly we just starve
Shuttered in dens, as the warm life ends
under hides of friends, that we made hunting last winter
And now I’m waiting to die
I’m thinner each day I rise
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2. |
Run of Rabbits
05:42
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I never settle down
I built a lifetime
I never settle down settle down
I built a lifetime
All I do is keep running
to stay in one place
I see some fall behind, some disappear
over this lifetime
Do you ever realize
why we’re running
from nothing
This world is such a size
we don’t see
when pain is coming
Until you conceptualize
it behind you
and its running
You could dematerialize
from something
into nothing
I never settle down
I built a lifetime
I never settle down settle down
I built a lifetime
Let’s keep on keep on running
Until our feet blur
And when they disappear when they disappear
We’ll be floating
This world will be all ours
All ours
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3. |
Mischief of Mice
05:07
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Though they do not show
When the sun is at hand
They’ll be lying low
Making their plans
I’ve been waiting here
For their armies
They know I know they’re near
And day and night I worry
Cause they’ll be back, they’ll be back
And when they come back, they’ll attack
No good
We’re in collusion with the beast
One and one push under
So much that we compete
And drive each one asunder
When you accept defeat
they’ll come to plunder
And now that you’ve lost your seat
You’ll see their power in numbers
Because this mischief kills yeah
And I don’t want to wait
Until this mischief fills, yeah
And the fragile balance breaks
Cause it’s the poor man still, yeah
Who leaves this up to fate
And when they come they will, yeah
Just take and take and take
No good
This mischief occurs in darkness
This mischief occurs in darkness
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4. |
Shoal of Fish
05:52
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Every night I come here by the moon
And every night I come out you’re here too
I would come out later
When it would be much safer
If there was something to consume
Oh Oh Oh and you
Oh Oh Oh and you
Oh Oh Oh and you
Oh Oh Oh and you
I made it my purpose to watch you
Though it made me nervous I learned some truth
I could see you were scared
And I could see what lurked there
I saw you couldn’t wait to leave here too
Oh Oh Oh and you
Oh Oh Oh and you
Oh Oh Oh and you
Oh Oh Oh and you
And I, well I, come here to feed
And you, well you, you make me flee
But I, know you are hunted too
And that’s why this will never change
Oh Oh Oh and you
Oh Oh Oh and you
Oh Oh Oh and you
Oh Oh Oh and you
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5. |
Gang of Elk
03:44
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You can have my heart just not my soul
Try to get away trapped in this foliage
Keep me under target with one eye
A scoured look as thoughts run through your mind
Of how I taste so good
You'd pull the trigger if you could
Standing with the others in the brush,
we were browsing on the branches and the fresh new leaves
They would keep an eye out or an ear poised for anything strange, and we all copied what she they did
Now I know why they kept us hid
Oh papa no
Karma leave me here just run just please go
Oh mama no
You don’t need to see what I will be
Just go just go just go just go
When we run, one is bound to fall, lost from us all
Out behind us, you can hear 'em call, lost from us all
Some of us will be killed and shared
And for a while the rest of us are spared
Oh papa no
Karma leave me here just run just please go
Oh mama no
You don’t need to see what I will be
Just go just go just go just go
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6. |
Piteousness of Doves
07:15
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Once I was wilder than moonlight
stranger than twilight
darker than true night
but I'm tamer now, tamer still
Encased in an old tomb
At home in a new womb
My old self is cocooned
cause I'm tamer now, tamer still
What we gave up was powerful enough
to defeat the hawks while remaining doves
What we gave up was powerful enough
to thrive amongst hawks and doves
Once I understood you
I could see through you
I could predict what you'd do
but i'm tamer now, tamer still
Since the day you pretended
that we were befriended
Our spines have been bended
cause we're tamer now, tamer still
What we gave up was powerful enough
to defeat the hawks while remaining doves
What we gave up was powerful enough
to thrive amongst hawks and doves
What we gave up, tamer now, tamer still
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7. |
Swell of Cicadas
05:29
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Sing a song as one
Make the song your own
Life is forward shared
Death is yours alone
The soil invites a home
For roots to grow within
And feed a hungry mouth
To grow and start again
Wake up and start the climb
Ascend towards the sun
Break off your hardened shell
A new life has begun
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Predator/Prey Toronto, Ontario
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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