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The Witnessing
04:19
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The Witnessing
DADF#AD Capo 2
Nobody's listening
Fast crowds are thickening
White velvet skies are slowly vanishing
As the masses lay their hands all over me
Down to the witnessing, we go
Girls gather for the show
Appointed sons are piling sticks and stones,
I recollect my tattooed skin and bones
For you
Judge me for my innocent young eyes, my treasons
I got no truths to hide, no!
The earth has issued us these savages of men,
Let's start this civilization again
Throw up all the whispers that you heard today
Build the fallen branches high, mighty high, and say
"I tried to escape but I'm here to stay"
Faded-out faces that I used to know
Dizzy depths way above spinning echoes
Round this endless judgement day
They brought me down here where the sea does weep
And is coughing up a red moon, a black star,
Sweep me into the belly of the lone and hungry night
Tangled at my ankles in an unfair trial
I can hear Vivaldi in the sky now
Sweetest strings for the end as it blooms a mile away
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Oh-My-O
05:01
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Oh-My-O
CGDGAD Capo 2
Somehow I have woken as far off you land
It's easy, easy to let these strange notions of fate take my hand
As you're wandering you fly, O, with one not I
Oh My O
Oh My O you've given away all your things
You leave me one last possession for safe keep
In the cold night it's not important but some day it just might be
Oh My O
They say the rain will come and they ask, what will I do
So please love, tell them that I'll bear my teeth for you
Come into the trees we'll be, O, animals soon
Oh My O
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Atlas Sky
06:17
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Atlas Sky
CGDGAD Capo 2
Like a devil in a daydream
Earth does shake my ears and eyes
I'll be waking soon
Fever curses in the night
Lights ascending, gives me something to defy
Sun defeats us, waking in the Atlas Sky
Like a newborn in a nightmare
Know my number's coming round
Watch the crimson moon
Rising from the dirty ground
Darkness fading, earth does shake our ears and eyes
Sun defeats us, tangled in the Atlas Sky
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Various Humans
06:00
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Now that you're gone you are close
Thousands of long days all driftin' like smoke
Escapin' like fireflies
Earthly strangers did take my hand through dark, dark lands
Miles from the Dust City drone,
Two various humans, together alone
Alone on the vast plain
I wish our roots could tangle, dear
Know that I'd ever leave here
Love is a cycle that spins while we sleep
Sleep tight love, carousel's pickin' up speed
Circles, spinning again
Black seas, bought from the river's end
So, downstream, I do descend
And there's no bolder blue
For seldom-believers who've found something true to be
A trick of the dusk-light
And if our roots could tangle, dear
'Know that I'd never leave here
Circles, spinning again
Black seas, bought from the river's end
So, downstream, I do descend
Circles, spinning again and again
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Rebel Kites London, UK
“Lovingly crafted, rich cinematic folk-scapes, The Witnessing is an impressive debut”
– Iain Lowery
(John Peel Archive)
"Rebel Kites is a fitting name for a band that fell out of the sky and hit me on the head"
– Sean O'Leary (Indie Shuffle)
"The production certainly combines to bring everything to the fore with a seemingly effortless ease"
– Jim Craigen (BBC Fresh on the Net)
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