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benediction

by the ghost elegies

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1.
birds are murmuring he was always one of us entering the garden flowers face the son whispering of sky tears return to jewels the light within his eyes fade but never die his chair is empty now at the backroom door intimate the silence echos from before the light within his eyes fade but never die birds are murmuring he was always one of us
2.
from what is sung the world becomes let it whisper light to tongues i know your eyes saint's disguise little sparrow traverse the skies psalm of shadow shine tomorrow ascending cloud amend the sorrow from what we know seeds will sow fields of green love to grow i hear your hum heart is a drum if rain were words flood has begun
3.
ascending 04:29
where the river meets the mountain wedded in descending bring the night and the beginning rush of wings ascending arc of flight curve of earth the sum of all an ending drawing down into the garden turning and return to fallow fields here heart belongs at evensong the shadow yields
4.
flame 04:33
hey, don't let the shadows merge and steal away your sight take the sound from heaven's hymn the hum of wings in flight see all again return in birth shafts of sun the new attire learn the murmur of the earth and the whispering of fire i give to you this little flame borrowed from my broken heart this is who and what we are remnants of a distant star i offer you this little light reflected in a single eye the silence is a last reply fragment from an ancient sky
5.
hymn 04:54
sky seduces shadow merging with the night eventide will acquiesce slipping out of sight remembering the laughter and a single tear gossamer the tapestry soon to disappear names of the forgotten scarred into the stones candle in the ossuary refuge made of bones a million fires burn to mark the arc of time only ashes will remain to stain the dreamer's mind a thousand words return echoes from the past the humming of the world language of the vast birdsong hymn rosary of wings feathered prayer dragonfly sings
6.
brother can you hear me are you so far away are you listening whispered song of praise were you baptized with a thousand tears brother can you touch it and know that it is near can you feel the wind it's right here wings will sweep the ground the place where you will lie stars above your head diamonds in your eyes brother can you hear me are you so far away
7.
garden 04:54
one foot in the ocean blue alma mater one foot on the ground wing touches water tracing the movement song in the air at the very beginning breath is a prayer rain is the weeping the story of clouds night is the grieving stars for a shroud garden of shadows forest of light wedding of moments the groom and the bride the root of the arbor a whispered reply the canopy reaching caressing the sky deep in the darkness emerging from earth a lattice of branches poet of birth dreaming the seas ancestral home singing of suns still in our bones ghosts in the garden phantoms that shine these are the ancients that sleep in the shrine
8.
trace 05:04
watch the swallows fall to earth redeemed by wind and wing see them swimming in the light hear the days are born to sing night will bring a thousand suns so far away the diamonds fade stretched across the many years dewdrops on a mountain glade this is what it is paradise was never lost this is what is known asleep beneath the winter frost map the teardrops in the oceans collecting all the shattered hearts trace the remnants of the hour spirits whispered hymn departs this is what it is paradise was never lost this is what is known asleep beneath the winter frost
9.
dream 04:49
departed here without permission needing no one asking none left behind the gift of silence in the songs that were sung heard the frequencies of flowers the wavelengths of the stars traced the paths of those with wings lightning bugs in childhood jars he said it's ok everything is alright it's ok everything is alright...

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released March 12, 2019

g.e. stinson - vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards, harmonica, bass guitar, mbira, drums
miller wrenn - electric bass (tracks 2, 3, & 5)

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tone drop is textural electronics, electro-acoustic composition, and song forms by g.e. stinson.

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