
Date of issue: 29.04.2013
Record label: Jagjaguwar
Song language: English
Hesperus |
Looking for a lighthouse keeper |
Climb the hill and turn around |
Fallen stones and railway sleepers |
Are scattered like rice across the ground |
Severed hands of seven hunters |
Poised as if to draw a bow |
Arrow loosed to tear asunder |
Whistles to the earth |
I’ll collect the feathers from the three black birds |
That scattered as we landed on St Stephen’s day |
The Hesperus has bought me here to try to find you |
Drawn in by the blinded eye |
Confounded by the fearful mess you left behind |
Who could pass you by? |
Has some raging serpent coiling |
Dragged you from your posts |
Bidden by a tempest to disturb your toiling work? |
I don’t believe it’s so |
Three good men were savaged by the same two things |
That carried me to find them, on St Stephen’s day |
When I look upon |
The shattered crane |
The battered rail, the severed chain |
I know of no force so great |
Save that which bore me here |
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Kingfisher | 2016 |
Night Witch | 2016 |
Silbury Sands | 2010 |
Salts Mill | 2016 |
Not Me Sir | 2016 |
Crumbling Dais | 2016 |
Banks of Sweet Dundee Pt. 1 | 2010 |
When the Fire is Dead in the Grate | 2013 |
Cromlech | 2010 |
Empty Vessels | 2013 |
Thief | 2013 |
Athol | 2013 |
Become The Ground | 2013 |
Answer | 2013 |