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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of To Everything a Season (2024) - Album, Loops (2024) - Single, Home (2024) - Single, Two in One (2024) - Single, Trembling (2024) - Single, No One's Fault (2022) - Single, A Reckoning Bell (2021) - Album, My Soul Is A Strange Country (2020) - EP, and 7 more.
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Trembling
04:20
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Who knows, but soon
In a too bright-lit room
Caul-shrouded journeys begin
The pause then the cry
The storm and the eye
A mother, a father, a child
Let a tear roll down
You’ve stared at the sun
And seen how it’s made
You can gasp, you can gasp, you can gasp
From this broken body
Trembling love comes afraid
So rest your head my love
I’m so proud of you
And I was scared too
I was scared too
Who knows quite how
We’ll muddle through now
When in us the world’s born anew
The joy and the hope
You dream and we cope
Moment by moment we grow
Let a tear roll down
You’ve reached in the earth and felt a heart beat there
You can laugh, you can laugh, you can laugh
From this broken body
Trembling love calls it’s name
So rest your head my love
I’m so proud of you
And I was scared too
Yes I was scared too
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2. |
Two in One
05:19
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When I look at you I could scream
Spirit bursting out A Love Supreme
Patiently your tongue unpicked the seams
And we’ve made a life
We’ve made a life
Spitting out my teeth’s a bad dream
What if all we have had never been?
Urgently I search damp sheets between
For the life we’ve made
For the life we’ve made
Well come on Rhia
Can you believe it?
It’s a most unlikely situation
For it all to coincide
So come on Rhia
When you fill an empty vessel up
You set the silence free
Stitching days to years, a bell unseen
Ringing through the dusk soaked Blue in Green
Defiantly we’ll face the final scene
So if it has to end
Then it has to end
Like all the other lives we could have led
Sacrificed to chase this single thread
Joyfully our limbs make knots in bed
So if it has to end
Then here it ends
So come on Rhia
Can you believe it?
It’s a most unlikely situation
For it all to coincide
So come on Rhia
The beauty when two waves collide
Is when they beat as one
When they beat as two in one
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Loops
05:27
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Met grandad in a nursing home
At three weeks young
He didn’t know who he was looking at
But something of him was screaming back
With two bright lungs
And the threads of a helix in a genome
Can you see the loop looming?
Can you see the loop looming?
Our fathers sons, we stagger on
Our faith in nurture
Chase the dream, make the desert green
God loves a searcher
That won’t be me, no that won’t be me
You said over and over
But nature waits, like a sullen wave
With great composure
Can you see the loop looming?
Can you see the loop looming?
Time’s a dam, now I’m holding your hand
And I have a daughter
It was gonna burst, oh how love’s a thirst
These shoes are full of water
Please not you, Cora needs you too
I said over and over
But the code is clear, so press enter here
For full disclosure
Can you see the loop looming?
Can you see the loop looming?
She met grandad in a nursing home
At three weeks young
He didn’t know who he was looking at
But something of him was screaming back
With two bright lungs
And the threads of a helix in a genome
When he died he was all alone
At one they rung
Didn’t remember how to breathe
But something of him was left to grieve
And five throats sung
Songs like a blanket so tightly woven
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Hear Me
04:58
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I know that you hear me
You hear me, you hear me
From a father to his father
To his father, we reach farther back
I’m laughing, hands open
Our choices determined
The rings stretching back
Into your mothers belly
Now you’re screaming there rawly
Blue-pink, new and poorly
Warm blood on the floor
A vivid new beginning
I know that you hear me
You hear me, you hear me
From a father to his father
To his father, we reach farther back
Now we’re singing, half-naked
A dream we created
And Time After Time
We’ll always have each other
While close by a tree’s falling
In silence appalling
Cold earth feels the sun
And soon the sap is rising
The feeling moves me
The feeling moves through me
Nothing ever good came easy
Nothing ever felt so right
Nothing ever ripped me open quite like this
The feeling moves through me
The feeling moves through
The feeling moves through me
The feeling moves through
No one ever looked so deeply
No one ever took it all
No one ever gave life meaning quite like this
The meaning moves through me
The meaning moves through
I know that you hear me
You hear me, you hear me
From a father to his father
To his father, we reach farther back
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Data Points
04:25
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Distanced from ourselves
By algorithmic sleight of hand
The medium is the message
And this future was unplanned
Howling angry voices
Each corralled behind a screen
Desperate for connection
And yearning to be seen
To be alone together
All crying out for tender touch
Too human, too sad, too much
The walls are full of writing
We’ve forgotten how to read
Marks that tell of human hearts
Desire to be freed
Circuits driving nations
Crowning emperors by caprice
And content killing kindness
Just to see the price increase
To be alone together
All crying out for tender touch
Too human, too sad, too much
I’m not a data point
No I’m not a data point
And I’m not for sale
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6. |
Love's a Tailor
04:11
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I know you lost touch with yourself
Hospital was so damn hot
Bruised postpartum pupils pleading
‘Stop the train and let me off’
Shallow breaths and snare drum racing
Panic drenched you all alone
Lost beside our baby, crying
‘I’m so tired, let me go home babe’
‘I can’t do this’
Mind and body separated
Patched and aching, stitched and sore
Strung-out, scared and empty feeling
‘Cut me loose, leave me ashore’
Seven days of fevered dreaming
Sweat and UV lights aglow
Weeks of fraying threads and feeding
Love’s a tailor, let us sew babe
You can do this
You’ve never been more of a stranger to me
We clung to each other with no guarantee
As puddled up family-wise two became three
Hope conceived
Overwhelmed with expectation
‘What just happened? What comes now?’
Tides of tender exploration
Trust’s a wave, we made a vow
Gently nature nurtured healing
Confidence like small hands grew
Sisters made a morning ritual
Eyes pellucid, born anew
We can do this
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7. |
Home
03:54
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I put lemon in my water
The thought of you is too sweet
Crossed the ocean, had a daughter
There’s nothing like the thirst of missing home
There’s nothing like the thirst of missing home
What’s to come is undecided
But I’m happy where my peach grows
It’s a life of love divided
A burning that reminds you there’s a sun
A burning that reminds you there’s a sun
Let me go, but I can’t go
But if you asked me, if you asked me
In a heap, i’m in a heap, it’s messy
It’s messy, life is messy like that
Every choice has consequences
And I own them with a dull ache
But I dream of jumping fences
That separate the halves that make me whole
That separate the halves that me me whole
Oh I’d go, but I can’t go
If you asked me, if you asked me
In a heap, i’m in a heap, it’s messy
Oh it’s messy, life is messy like that
Home is the place we shed our skin
Home is the face that drinks you in
Oh it’s bitter in the winter here
We huddle together
Won’t you come and visit?
Won’t you come and visit?
Won’t you come and visit?
And bring a lemon from Dad’s favourite tree
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8. |
Sweetheart
04:17
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Oh Sweetheart how can I repay
The oceans you’ve kissed away?
The nights spent holding
The flood unfolding
Oh sweetheart lay your head on my chest
I don’t know how to say it, but I think it’s for the best
If there’s a crack within me
Can’t let it break you too
Break you too sweetheart
Oh sweetheart
I’ll die before I forget you
Would that be a selfish thing to do?
Oh sweetheart let me take it back
I never meant to hurt you I’m just scared what’s down the track
And In fate’s blue vastness
Our fears surround us
Oh sweetheart I’d never follow through
I couldn’t bear to leave you, even if I wanted to
And is love a weakness
Or just the strength we’ve built?
The strength we’ve built sweetheart
Oh sweetheart
A drowning man’s a dangerous thing
With savage flailing arms that cling on
Sweetheart
Oh sweetheart
Beautiful’s the burden shared
Of life contingent, two hearts paired
For one more
One more
One more
One more
Day
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Joy is a Choice
04:54
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A human chain oh the pyrrhic strain
Of holding back the tide
Life’s a boat taking on water slowly
Alone but side by side
We float and drift oh each day’s a gift
To catch the wind anew
Dawn’s a grief, but grief is my friend each morning
That lonely hour with you
If joy is a choice, babe
Then why is it so hard to choose?
I still hear his voice, babe
Better to try than never to loose
The ageing light slipping grey to night
Stow your tired oars
Love’s a breath that ripples the darkness slowly
To kiss some distant shore
If joy is a choice, babe
Then why’s it so hard to choose?
I still hear his voice, babe
Better to try than never to lose
We jumped on your back
As you dived to the bottom
The splash was the sound
Of all weight being forgotten
You swam, your eyes open
Us holding on tightly
Till bubbles betrayed us
And we peeled off lightly
The things we remember
The things we remember
Make us
The things we remember
The things we remember
Shape us
You swam, your eyes open
Us holding on tightly
Till bubbles betrayed us
And we peeled off lightly
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10. |
Epilogue
02:16
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The Magic Lantern London, UK
The Magic Lantern is the musical moniker of singer-songwriter Jamie Doe
His fifth album
’To Everything A Season’ was written and recorded in the months following his daughters birth and his fathers death six weeks later. In their brief meeting in a dementia nursing home, two ends of the circle of life touched.
'To Everything A Season' is out now.
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