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Oxygen
04:14
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LYRICS
There's serpents in the undertow
and dogs in the grass.
I would've told you that it was so,
but you never dared to ask.
An open heart is an open door.
What you give is what you're looking for.
I bit my hands and I hold the truth,
I've been to a lie like you,
Coz you know you're hands are the hands that hold me down.
Your words are the words that can't be found.
I'm missing the show but I'll stay in control till I drown.
A graze on your head
and blood on the door.
How much longer before you
don't take this shit anymore?
An open heart is an open door.
What you give is what you're looking for.
I bit my hands and I hold the truth,
I've been to a lie like you,
Coz you know you're hands are the hands that hold me down.
Your words are the words that can't be found.
I'm missing the show but I'll stay in control till I drown.
And I will light up, I will light up, I will light up now.
I will light up, I will light up, I will light up now.
Oh I will light up, I will light up, I will light up now.
An open heart is an open door.
What you give is what you're looking for.
I bit my hands and I hold the truth.
I've been to a lie like you.
Coz you know your hands won't be the hands that hold me down.
Your words won't be the words that can't be found.
We're missing the show coz we're out of control till we drown.
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I swear by the wind and the waves
We’re gonna be alright
The searchlights lost their way
In this holy night
Invisible fishing will you hold me tight?
Why have I been here,
My whole life?
So out of sight
So out, so out of sight
You're invisible fishing, your feelers are out
Trawling for the answer, you're hard to put out
Buried under lazuli and your cries ring out
A voice that’s unsung
Doesn't know if it’s gonna be alright
So out, so out of sight
So out, so out of sight
You say ‘Hold Hold Hold Tight’
You say ‘Hold Hold Hold Tight’
We’re invisible fishing
In Dark night
Did the angels forget us
or lose us from sight?
Are all our terrible imaginings right?
The Sea keeps the starlight
Hold Hold Hold Tight
Hold Hold Hold Tight
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Adversity
05:16
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Who should we follow
Now the saints are dead?
Feeding the hollow ground with the blood they bled.
Now the great awakening has come
and the time for fighting in the garden, it has gone.
Dancing with the gallows
Fighting with our shadows
Come friend to the bitter end
We’re immune to arrows
Adversity
Adversity
I want to end the violence
in me
Hating at the unkind world
Painted with a lack of discipline
Cause the great escape that we live in
Is to demonstrate how the weak must fall.
Don’t be scared to shatter
not afraid of shadows
And I’m immune to arrows
This light’s immune to arrows
Adversity
Adversity
Adversity
I want to end to violence
Adversity
Adversity
I want to end the violence in me
(Namo Guan Shi Yin Pusa)
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Allumez
04:07
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Mechanical Ballerina
03:12
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These four walls are falling
but I can live as though, I can still keep walking.
We're full of holes and empty goals,
who are we to call on,
to save us all.
Yes I've been above it all before
but I can't fake it anymore.
You're not the only one who keeps on moving.
Coz, when you run, when you run
you're not falling.
Yes I will be on the rope.
Hold your head above the water
Mechanical Ballerina
Mechanical Ballerina
Without a key.
Put yourself
Put yourself back together.
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Pandora's Aquarium
04:40
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BRIGID
03:42
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BRIGID
And I was drowning, drowning, drowning
when you fell.
I knew you were hiding,
wanting something as well.
Call me, when you need me
Then drop me down
When I’m not around.
And I was flying, climbing, trying so hard.
Didn’t know you would be higher, harder
further than I could climb.
Couldn’t beam up to you darling.
Will you come back for me?
(Coming back for me)
Will you be coming back for me?
Coz I gave myself away.
We do it every day.
I gave myself away.
We do it every day.
Give me February
Yes I’m ready
February Nights.
February, February
February Light.
February February, February
Light.
Call me when you need me.
February Light
February Light.
Written by Jo Beth Young copyright 2021
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NIGHTSONG - The Spell
04:00
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One of Jo’s ancestors, Issobel Young, suffered death by strangulation and burning after her husband accused her of "attempting to kill him with magic after quarrelling about an unsavoury house guest." Interestingly, this nugget of information was discovered only after Jo had written this song. Sometimes past spirits seem to beckon their descendants to reveal their stories.
lyrics
The Spell
Before the Essenes, there were we.
The gift came down from my Mother to me.
A guardian I was of sound
To sing the Earth into the clouds.
Who will hold you when you sleep?
In the vale of death, your heart to keep?
Who will mend the ills you fall?
The healing balm remembers all.
I could make my throat, like a butterfly.
I could pierce the heart like an arrow in flame.
I’m earth and wind and fire and rain.
Yeah they were afraid of the folk like me
A witch they said would burn at sea
They were afraid of the folk like me
But the sea is my mother
and she will carry me
from one life to another
I keep coming back
(The healers, the seers, the handlers of truth)
©️ Copyright NIGHTSONG 2020. All rights reserved.
Lyrics © Jo Beth Young 2020
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from The Peasants' Revolt, released December 21, 2020
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Pauper's Son (Remix) - Single
Jun 2021
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Verticality
05:49
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I don't know why
there's verticality.
But let them sing.
Shouting open, open the door.
Vertical doors.
In moonlight and moonshine.
Nature of bright foggy eyes.
Sleep.
Foggy eyes, sleep then awake.
Transient states.
Limbo.
Watery windows.
Watching you.
Watching you in vertical skies.
Moonlight, Moonshine.
Up open the wings of sleepy foggy eyes.
Grey watery drops.
I don't know why,
There's verticality.
Vertical skies.
Vertical skies.
Open wings
of sleepy eyes.
Foggy eyes.
Grey Grey.
watery drops.
I don't know
I don't know
why..
there's verticality.
(SHIU)
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Jo Beth Young England, UK
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"This is an absolutely beautiful, spellbinding and mesmerising record. ..heartbreakingly beautiful.
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"Pure artistry... one of the most innovative folk artists of recent years...
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