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FOLKLORE

by Wolf & Crow

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1.
Fear No Evil 05:59
I’ve gone walking, walking long time ago. Searching, searching for my halo. And I roll like fire on a fiery road. And I will fear no evil. Seek no, fear no evil. Water, water, weave your story. Over under into the morning. Lead me, Lead me, to where that you go And I will fear no evil. Seek no, Fear no evil. Mountain, mountain, speak your wisdom. I will climb on, climb on, to your white aspen. Guide me. Guide me to your sweet meadows. And I will fear no evil. Seek no, fear no evil. I will fear no evil. Seek no, fear no evil. If the rain come down upon my head I’ll cover my soul beneath the trees ahead If the path is thread with thorn and vine I’ll mend my wounds with smoke and cherry wine These chains, they gone follow me to the grave These chains, ain’t gone find my children
2.
O'Mama 04:45
I’m on my way... to the grave Mother was a soul Pure as morning snow Every hour of All her days Til she wandered down To the burial grounds Found me there in the Mud and rain Time can be just a Curse to those who want To go back to some Where they’ve been But mama always said You’ve got 2 grown legs Walk on them up Until the end Higher road, Only thunderin’ pain Lower road, Only riddles and rain Oh mama don’t you come To the river in the midnight sun Or call my name to show the way No don’t you take that ride With the devil in the moonlit night I’m on my way to the grave When she come back home That old light was gone From her eyes, and skin Pale white Some say she'd been bless’d Some said she possessed Others say she just Lost her mind Elders told Some old spirit that died Taken hold And it just crept on inside
3.
Shaker 03:43
You were brilliant on your birthday In the warm setting sun Running through the meadow To catch a fire bug Shaker We chased the day to the furrows And in the last fading light You were shaking in your waistcoat And I held your body tight Shaker When your soul gets to heaven Eat a whole jar of jam All that withers in the winter Will rise on up again Shaker Can’t catch the butterflies If your hands touch their wings they will die Can’t catch a butterfly You touch their wings they die
4.
Orchid Child 05:24
Three years old I was torn from sleep By a vision most dreadful My body’s singed and smoldering Waking like paper on a bed of coal Oh my boy, you’re just an orchid child My mother, she said to me You’ll shine thrice as bright as a dandelion But your wounds will run thrice as deep How the old seasons churn the valley How the old bones are wearing thin And ever this wicked apparition Is lingering just beneath the skin That’s the plight of an orchid child Not a blessing nor a curse Just a fistful of earthly magic That leaves you with an insatiable thirst I’ve got dandelions in my pockets now
5.
Nothing 05:02
I lit the house And burned it down And left my horses for dead I wandered out Into the dark and empty night And kept my aim straight ahead And here alone In the silent cold I feel the strangest thing I’ve never felt before I’ve got nothing and nothing is what I’ll take with me. Far away Beneath the sky The sea of white sacred lights The morning sleeps Inside the earth, the air, the leaves Waiting for to arrive And here alone In the silent cold I feel the strangest thing I’ve never felt before I’ve got nothing and nothing is what I’ll take with me. I’m here alone
6.
Dreamed I watched my body sleeping Pressed a palm against my chest And pushed until the flesh turned river white And in the morning I was dark as cinder Brittle as the words that make me wonder If we’d ever believed in light What fate we’d form I’ve been feeling a change A change in the weather These days are seeming so strange Stranger than ever Stare into me now and I’d be blessed to find The courage of a woman in the frailty of a man Whose heart has abandoned The spiricide we learned as children To be too kind to say the hell with them If they don’t understand the destination I’ve been feeling a change A change in the weather These days are seeming so strange Stranger than ever
7.
If I dare to reach my hands across This precarious divide Would I suffer at the cost Would I find you reaching From the other side Privately as frightened as I If you trust to place a frail heart Inside these wounded hands And it’s abraded by the scars Will you reach again for The will to understand I'm trying just as hard as I can Mindful we fold our hands One foot on the stone One foot on the land Praying we don’t come unhinged And fall into the water Below this drawing bridge Living deep beneath the earth We soil our Christly flesh Writhing in the dirt How I long to have you Naked in the sun Before the eyes of heaven In the waves. In the waves. In the waves. Mindful we fold our hands One foot on the stone One foot on the land Praying we don’t come unhinged And fall into the water Below this drawing bridge
8.
Adelaide 06:11
Through the window in the morning Came the sound of seabirds calling and I was wakened by a whisper But my failing eyes could find no one there Oh Adelaide Can you hear me child Howling out into the air I’ve gone oceans wide Over endless tides Praying I would find you there without a sign Of Adelaide I dreamed her ashen Clipper sails Pierced the heather Fog wind veil To find her diving Neath towering water That swallowed the fortress down Stern and bow Oh Adelaide My poor troubled mind It wont let me lay you down For I have lived and died In this wakeless night With nothing to be found but a silent tide of Adelaide Peering over The turning water blackened billows The sky a’thunder Something out there Pulled me closer And I charged the broken waves For the sight Oh Adelaide I can hear you child Come to call my spirit home n’ tho the frozen tide Chills my body white I’ve never felt so un-alone Oh Adelaide I'm right behind

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released October 23, 2015

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Wolf & Crow San Francisco, California

Sweetly chilling harmonies, woody folk-guitar picking, and their trademark rustic slide guitar interweave to form a haunting and beautiful American-Primitive landscape. They've branded their sound "cinematic folk" for its western filmscore instrumentation and vivid lyrical narrative. ... more

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