Through the Deep, Dark Valley: 3. Eat You Alive
he said to me, child, I'm afraid for your soul these things that you're after, they can't be controlled this beast that you're after will eat you alive and spit out your bones she'll string you along...
View ArticleThrough the Deep, Dark Valley: 2. Like the Dawn
I was sleeping in the garden when I saw you first he'd put me deep, deep under so that he could work and like the dawn you broke the dark and my whole earth shook I was sleeping in the garden when I...
View ArticleThrough the Deep, Dark Valley: 1. The Valley
we were born in the valley of the dead and the wicked that our father's father found and where we laid him down we were born in the shadow of the crimes of our fathers blood was our inheritance no, we...
View ArticleThe Oh Hellos' Family Christmas Album: 4. Mvmt IV, "Every Bell On Earth Will...
joy to the world! the Lord is come let earth receive her King! let every heart prepare him room, and heaven and nature sing! He rules the world with truth and grace and makes the nations prove the...
View ArticleThe Oh Hellos' Family Christmas Album: 3. Mvmt III, "Silent Night, Holy Night"
silent night, holy night all is calm, all is bright'round yon virgin Mother and Child holy infant, so tender and mild sleep in heavenly peace! silent night, holy night shepherds quake at the sight!...
View ArticleThe Oh Hellos' Family Christmas Album: 2. Mvmt II, "Begin and Never Cease"
while shepherds watched their flocks by night all seated on the ground the angel of the Lord came down and glory shone around"fear not," said he, for mighty dread had seized their troubled minds"glad...
View ArticleThe Oh Hellos' Family Christmas Album: 1. Mvmt I, "Rejoice! Rejoice!"
o come, o come Emmanuel and ransom captive Israel who mourns in lonely exile here until the Son of God appear o come, Thou Rod of Jesse, free Thine own from Satan's tyranny from depths of Hell Thy...
View ArticleDear Wormwood: 13. Thus Always To Tyrants
Let me die, let me drown, lay my bones in the ground I will still come around when the time for sleep is through Over hill, over dale, through the valley and vale Do not weep, do not wail, I am coming...
View ArticleDear Wormwood: 11. Dear Wormwood
When I was a child, I didn't hear a single word you said The things I was afraid of, they were all confined beneath my bed But the years have been long, and you have taught me well to hide away The...
View ArticleDear Wormwood: 10. Soldier, Poet, King
There will come a soldier Who carries a mighty sword He will tear your city down, o lei o lai o lord O lei, o lai, o lei, o lord He will tear your city down, o lei o lai o lord There will come a poet...
View ArticleDear Wormwood: 9. Where Is Your Rider
Was it you 'mid the fire and the ember? Were you there to bedevil and beguile? See, your face wasn't quite as I remember But I know that wicked shape to your smile Bury me as it pleases you, lover At...
View ArticleDear Wormwood: 8. Pale White Horse
Down they fell like the children of Eden Down they fell like the tower As the land relinquished her ghost Heed the sirens, take shelter, my lover Flee the fire that devours But the sight held me fixed...
View ArticleDear Wormwood: 7. This Will End
No, I am not afraid to die It's every breath that comes before Heartache, I've heard, is part of life And I have broken more and more But I can hope how this will end With every line a comedy That we...
View ArticleDear Wormwood: 6. Caesar
Hear on the wind how the pendulum swings Feel how the winter succumbs to the spring Over the palisade morning will break Rise up to meet it, oh sleeper awake Gather the soldiers, the heir to enfold...
View ArticleDear Wormwood: 5. Exeunt
I was all alone, we were young, you were like wine Heady as the fog rolling in o'er the hillside Lovely as the song in the air as the wind blows Opiate as the cold of the frost on the windows Lo, the...
View ArticleDear Wormwood: 3. There Beneath
There beneath the willow tree I learned a lot about the way of things I learned that everything (the wind, the leaves) has breath inside They were pointing ever east To see the ever-turning aeon cease...
View ArticleDear Wormwood: 2. Bitter Water
Oh fair and flighty love My aerolite above The only dove I see Could you love me more If by the sun and moon I swore That I would never flee? I still taste you on my lips Lovely bitter water The...
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