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Traveller Hide Your Soul
06:04
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Traveller hide your soul, hide your soul.
Traveller hide your soul
Collector’s on his way
Collector’s on his way
Collector comes to take your soul, take your soul, take your soul
Collector comes to take your soul
Steal your soul away
Steal your soul away
Now your soul belongs to him, belongs to him, belongs to him
But old meets new today
Time to make him pay
He don’t know the old ways, old ways, old ways
He don’t know the old ways
Now we know his name
Now we know his name
Overlook one for all, one for all, one for all
Overlook one for all
Dog has had his day
The dog has had his day
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We Are The Harvest
05:46
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She is in the cornfield
She is in the corn
& She is in the summer
The goddess is reborn
We see her in the moon
We see her in stars
We see her in the sun
& Everywhere that we are
Because
We Are the Harvest X 8
From here from far & near
The harvest is for you
& our roots run deep
A home for the winter
A home by the hearth
Last sheaf is for the dolly
The beat to her heart
We see her in the moon
We see her in stars
We see her in the sun
& Everywhere that we are
Because
We Are the Harvest X 8
From here from far & near
The harvest is for you
& our roots run deep
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Pan To Artemis
09:33
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Uncharmable charmer
Of Bacchus and Mars
In the sounding rebounding
Abyss of the stars!
O virgin in armour,
Thine arrows unsling
In the brilliant resilient
First rays of the spring!
By the force of the fashion
Of love, when I broke
Through the shroud, through the cloud,
Through the storm, through the smoke,
To the mountain of passion
Volcanic that woke ---
By the rage of the mage
I invoke, I invoke!
By the midnight of madness: -
The lone-lying sea,
The swoon of the moon,
Your swoon into me,
The sentinel sadness
Of cliff-clinging pine,
That night of delight
You were mine, you were mine!
You were mine, O my saint,
My maiden, my mate,
By the might of the right
Of the night of our fate.
Though I fall, though I faint,
Though I char, though I choke,
By the hour of our power
I invoke, I invoke!
By the mystical union
Of fairy and faun,
Unspoken, unbroken -
The dust to the dawn! -
A secret communion
Unmeasured, unsung,
The listless, resistless,
Tumultuous tongue! -
O virgin in armour,
Thine arrows unsling,
In the brilliant resilient
First rays of the spring!
No Godhead could charm her,
But manhood awoke -
O fiery Valkyrie,
I invoke, I invoke!
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4. |
A Quest For The Teacher
03:32
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On a quest for the teacher
Aryavata
A surrogate mother
Transcending the world
Thought forms
Freedom carries
New love across the universe
Annie, She knows, she knows, she knows what the Secret Chiefs know
Annie, She knows, she knows, she knows where the Secret Chiefs go
Fruits of philosophy a servant of destiny
A Karma call transcending the world
Thought forms
Freedom carries
New love across the universe
Annie, She knows, she knows, she knows what the Secret Chiefs know
Annie, She knows, she knows, she knows where the Secret Chiefs go
Khrishna
Khrishna
Vehicle for love
Annie, She knows, she knows, she knows what the Secret Chiefs know
Annie, She knows, she knows, she knows where the Secret Chiefs go
It’s an easy way to believe in the other places where we all belong
Transcend the world & live in magic that’s where we lived all along
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The Goddess
04:22
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I want to stay here tonight
Between the dark & the light
I want to make a ritual
& dance with her & dance with her
She’s a goddess
She’s a goddess
She’s a goddess
She’s a goddess
I want to taste her on my kiss
A love in spirit with no barriers
I want to live until I die
I want to dance with her, I want to dance with her
She’s a goddess
She’s a goddess
She’s a goddess
She’s a goddess
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A Casual Invocation
07:09
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I got mine
I got mine
In a weird woven weave
A universe of dream
I’m a lonely soul
In a lonely world
Taken to the edge of unknown
wishing for a place to call my own
I’ll do a deal with you
That’s old & new
It takes & it gives
It dies & it lives
Somewhere in between
The seen & unseen
A wishing unreal
In the teeth of the sea
In the fear
In the fear
In the fear
It’s an open invitation
It’s a casual invocation
It’s an endless iteration
It’s a ghost in a ghost in a ghost in a ghost of me
In the fear
In the fear
& love is love
Have you had enough?
In the fear
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Witches
04:36
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Many are of the opinion that there are no witches
But let them read Leviticus & they will find them in the time of Moses
& Isn’t that close enough?
Close enough to take her away
& hang her high at Tyburn come Monday
Witches
Can you hear them calling
Out of the wilderness
Witches
Can you hear them
Crying out for the love of the Goddess
The devilish practice of woman
Liaison with familiars
The charming of God’s children
The hexing of her neighbours
Walk her a round for confession
See if she will linger
Look for the marks upon her
Tell us what we want to know
Witches
Can you hear them calling
Out of the wilderness
Witches
Can you hear them
Crying out for the love of the Goddess
What time it is
Is time enough
It’s trouble time
It’s trouble time
For Witches
I see a trouble sign
Hawthorn in a house approaching
Come for my Rowan to cut her down
It’s so easy to overlook
I’ll climb a ladder to revenge me for the souls you took
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8. |
Always The Sun
05:25
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Cold winter
Gold horizon
Here from the frost comes fire
Day breaks out the night
Always the Sun
Stand still
In the light; in the moment
Outside it shines
We rise, we rise
Always the Sun
Sol Invictus
Come & take us
Through the Solstice Dawn
Always the Sun
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Nature take her
Higher favour
Love transcend her
Nature take her
Higher favour
Love transcend her
Nature take her
Dawn rise
On the sea
From the east
Night fall from dew on the flower
Breath cry give time
Live high
Mourn
Mourn
In sympathy
In sympathy
In sympathy
In sympathy
In sympathy
In sympathy
We return
We return
Have you ever felt like this
As you wander through the mist
To the lighthouse
It’s on the hill
& forever you do what you will
With love & harmony
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Cunning Folk London, UK
Cunning Folk takes folklore & magic as inspiration for musical journeys. Prog-folk made with love for
you.
A Casual Invocation was in Songlines Magazine's essential 10 folk albums.
Ritual Land Uncommon Ground: “beautifully-rendered pastoral and Pagan acoustic folk-pop.” fRoots
” a record that manages to demonstrate integrity without affectation. A breath of fresh air.” Shindig
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