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The Elder Tree

from Wild Wedding by Moth Rah

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This track appears on the five track EP, 'Wild Wedding'.

A small collection of songs for faeries, children, lovers and those who like to dream.

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Let out the ghost from his haunt.
There is a sighing that chills me quite to the bone.
The branches of this tree groan with the weight of his memories.

Oh the Elder Tree,
Break its branches and cleave its heart in two.
Oh the Elder Tree,
There is spirit that wishes to break free.

It happened long, long ago
Before our dreams were old.
Trudging through deep winter snow,
a man who was almost a child.
He'd fathered a babe born cold
With a girl who lived by the lake.
She had been forced out from her home
But he had not known til too late.

His heavy love died where she lay.
Her breath was turned to ice.
So with a heart so cold it burned,
he vowed her father would pay the price.

Through and though, with the axe kept outside for fire wood.
Blood ran thick and steam rose up from the corpse.

With blood that froze to his hands
He ran down to the lake.
But the ice there was so thick
Though he tried it would not break.
Into the thicket he ran, more pained with every breath.
With the belt tied at his waist
In the arms of this tree he'd find rest.

He swung high on that tree that never bore fruit again.
The sap is poison to touch and the wind it rattles her name.
The wind it rattles her name.

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from Wild Wedding, released June 1, 2015
Performed and recorded at home by Moth Rah © ℗ 2015.

Written and composed by Cassandra Solon Parry.
All instruments and sounds performed or synthesized by Cassandra Solon Parry.

Mixed and mastered by Cassandra Solon Parry.

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Casting songs and singing spells in London town.

Moth Rah is the music project of Cassandra Solon Parry.

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