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Plump of Grouse

from PREY by Predator/Prey

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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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from PREY, released February 8, 2014

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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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