Strange Birds

from Ghost of a Crow by Nicholas Breeze Wood

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She rides, forgotten now
We scarce recall her name
And hold scant memory
Of all that was her fame
Strange birds they with her fly
Who wake the silent dead
But, if the living hear
Do slumber them instead

To a lord these birds were brought
To sooth his final night
Before a marriage feast
Which would cut short his life
And in these twilight times
These songs again are heard
To steal our wakefulness
As the dead are stirred

Blood ran once, so life would sustain
From bones lain in the earth, the life would come again
But now she tells me, with her song low to the floor
This is not her land, nor her birds any more

She rides, forgotten now
We scarce recall her name
But these are still her hills
And still she does remain
Her birds, still fly with her
They fly both far and long
And sing enchantments in
The lands they still belong

Blood runs still, so the life is sustained
From bones lain in the earth, the life has come again
And now she tells me, as her song become a roar
This will be her land, and her birds for ever more

She rides, forgotten now
We scarce recall her name
She rides, forgotten now
But still here the same

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from Ghost of a Crow, released September 6, 1999

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Multi instrumentalist singer-songwriter drawing on Rock, Arabic and Medieval music, using instruments from all those traditions

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