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The Heart of a Great Silence

by Bitter Tree

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1.
And so the age when all is naught And naught is all is come. Yet the sun rises bright and hot, And from the cave still beats the drum. When man and atom behave differently under observation, Beyond the veil of truth and god Within a thousand years of meditation. Descend from the high ground Continue to plough the field For you are as much as beast as the ones beneath the yoke There is waiting for you the grandest feast Will you indulge? will you divulge that the masks in theatre have more bearing than the numbers of arithmetic? Ask yourself what costume you are wearing. When myth can teach more than the innards of basest matter And when the naked nature is cast into light Reason and action shatter in the dusk The truth is a worthless husk Find your place in the sun For there is only one
2.
Death i am become you I am a child of Sahara And a cast upon samsara Dancer, stranger, weaver of gold Destroyer of worlds Crescent moon swing low sun becometh mine eyes Heaven's weight come down on me Rain down over thee Breaker, creator, spirit of stone A running man Drifting ice I carved the shores Beautiful child of the Sahara Beloved I do not depart
3.
Akhenaten 03:38
The pre becoming weeping soul Waits beneath the tides Of time and space, beauty and grace Wears a face unborn Ascend from chains of earthly guise And of thought made flesh High aloft and deep below earth is soft And wears a face unborn A running man inside star unknown Casts off untouched light To fly ceaseless and without form In straightest line he holds the divine And he wears a face unborn
4.
Whalesong 08:06
Rush over me a murder of crows They issued from you Tear through skin soft and fair And they cry fall fall When the iron fell from sky A face forever changed And they laugh haw haw Let the black birds sing Split upon me the sun And come into me the one Sit upon me the sun And unto me speak the son In presence a tide of whales Smash upon the wooden hull And leviathan said When you meet your maker Remember you were greater And the waters rose upon us all And we did not forget the deep Or the great whale's song Split upon me the sphere Strip from me beauty and fear Sit upon me the sphere Weight of a universe sheer Speak of Jehovah then As atlas laughs below

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And their memory was a bitter tree which bore crimson fruit for years to come- Robert E. Howard

credits

released July 9, 2013

Cascading Lung:
Steven Whitely- Trumpet
Gabrielle Pelletier- Accordion
Martine Gange- Flute
Matthew Sanders- Guitar
William Patton- Bowed Guitar, Throat Singing
The Dean of Laval Park- Vocals

Mourning Wars:
Kristaops Berzins- percussion and arrangement
William Patton- Bowed Guitar
The Dean of Laval Park- vocals

Akhenaton:
William Patton- Guitar
Dean of Laval Park- Vocals

Whalesong:
Eric Seguin- Vocals, Production
William Patton: Bowed Guitar
The Dean of Laval Park- Vocals

Cover Art: Madeline Patton

Special Thanks: Eric Seguin

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Bitter Tree Jeju-do, South Korea

The winds howl nobody's melody through a bitter tree's branches that reach up past the sky. Mountainous bow-tar ambiance, post-doom and drone. Ottawa, Canada/ Jeju-do, South Korea.

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