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Sonnenwende
05:26
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Autumn Light
03:00
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Hail to the autumn light
Hail to the autumn night
How I live for your gentle respite
And the long slow death of the year
Summer is over and autumn is come
The sun now gentle, her strength fading long
She sheds her light on homestead and tree
And bears her burden to shadowed reprieve
The wind whispers a soothing harmony
Amid red leaves that shed to the time
Of some hidden rhythm deep inside the earth
That bears us down and into rebirth
Hail to the autumn light
Hail to the autumn night
How I live for your gentle respite
And the long slow death of the year
I love the shadows of rustling tree leaves
I love the soothing scent of cold air shifting
I love the long nights borne round the home fire
And the arms of my lover that stoke my desire
I love the cool tang of the earth on my feet
I love the storm clouds that brood without conceit
I love the bird song as life ekes its last
The days grow shorter, the moon reclaims his task
Hail to the autumn light
Hail to the autumn night
How I live for your gentle respite
And the long slow death of the year
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Harvest Tide
04:27
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The scarecrow has done his job well
The tide of harvest has begun
All heavy and rich and gold
But beware the cold to come, to come
Yes, we’ve work ahead
To race the cold wind’s call, its call
To fight off the rats and the thieves
To take our year’s return
Singing hail, hail, hail, hail
Now we’re all rejoicing
The harvest it is done
Slaughter some animals
Aye we’ll bless our holy haul, we shall
Dear Frey and Freya
Dear Eir and Idunn
Dear Thorr and Jord
Lady Sif bless us this harvest’s good
Singing hail, hail, hail, hail
Well winter, it is coming
You better rug up my dears, my dears
It’ll gnaw at you like a wolf
It’ll sharpen your fears
You know it will be hard
Some will not survive, survive
But have hope to bear past Yule
Into Easter’s light…
Singing hail, hail, hail, hail
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4. |
Evergreen in the Frost
03:51
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Hypothermia
03:19
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Cold through my spirit
Losing my strength
Dissolving in silence
Ice in my marrow
Frost on my breath
Heart fades to stillness
In wintery death
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6. |
Winter Oath
06:31
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As long as my heart beats
As long as my blood flows
As long as my lungs breathe
The ice-wind from my soul:
I’ll keep on living
I’ll keep on dreaming
As long as my heart beats
And spills life through my veins
As long as hope I keep,
To endure frostbite’s claim:
I’ll keep on living
I’ll keep on dreaming
I’ll keep on living
Through death and loss
The clutching frost
Through cruelty’s costs
I’ll keep on living
Through veils of pain
The hail-seed grain
Through black ice bane:
As long as my heart beats
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7. |
Spring Oath
06:17
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I’ve been buried beneath ice and snow
My bark is cracked from the cold
My limbs are naked in the air
My leaves rot in the earth below
Winter has taken my strength away
I’m starved for light in these bitter days
I try not to forget
My hard armour hides a holy flame
It rises up from in the earth
It rides outstretched limbs to the sun
Winter has taken my strength away
I’m starved for light in these bitter days
Winter has taken my strength away
I’m starved for the solace of better days
But I’m going to keep on living
Keep on reaching to the sun
I’m swearing my spring oath
To live as though my life has just begun
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8. |
The Thaw
03:41
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Quickening
Quickening
Lost in cold sleep
Now I awake
Quickening
Quickening
I’ve overslept my dear
But better late than never
Ice has closed my veins
Snow has drowned my face
Cold winds pierce my skin
Avalanches gnaw my flesh
Quickening
Quickening
Nightmares are over
Be healed by the sun
Quickening
Quickening
Just keep on breathing
Winter’s course is run
Hope has come to my life again
Things will turn to green
Nothing lasts forever
How can anything be the same?
Hold on for long enough
You’ll see this is the truth of things
In the end you’ll find yourself
Made holy, by defying your suffering
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9. |
The Spiral Turns
11:16
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Here we hide
I’ll keep you safe
Until the snow melts away
You just rest
You need your strength
Folks’ll need you
When it comes your day
You know I love you
I always will
I cannot help myself
To love you is to be myself
Here we hide
I’ll keep you warm
Wait until the trees bloom again
You just sleep
Heal your wounds
Folks’ll need you
When dawn lights your way
You know I love you
I always will
I cannot help myself
To love you is to be myself
***
I hear the call of the land
her blood is quickening
rivers will run again their ways
their beds woken from frozen sleep
oh my darling what sacrifice
you’ve made for me to live
I will gain my strength and ride on forth
to reveal my bounty
and if I am not for eternity
at least for a time I may be –
oh my love, you look so pale,
while life bursts all around
All your strength gone to preserve the spark
Now so weak and wan
What a terrible sacrifice
You’ve made to see me through
I will make sure it was not in vain
For the land will live again soon!
And if I am not for eternity
At least for a time, I may be –
Free
***
Do you know the myth
Of the eternal return?
Recurring dreams of
Wyrd’s worldly workings
Round the circle
We do whirl
Round the spiral weaves
A story of turning love
Carries me away from you
And back again
Our love barely born
And death it strikes so sudden
But we will carry on
Around the Endless yew-tree column
The eternal dance
Of winter facing summer...
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