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Silence of Birds

by The Sheiling

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1.
Wintertime 04:04
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Wintertime Run around you now the snow is falling and you hear the world calling something beats in wintertime every hill is bare every hill is there to climb in wintertime in wintertime something beats in wintertime every hill is there to climb Run behind us now a cold horizon and we touch the sun rising things we hold in wintertime a lightness in the air it could be yours or mine it's our wintertime just our wintertime things we hold in wintertime everything is yours or mine Run around you now the snow is falling and you hear the world calling something beats in wintertime every hill is bare every hill is there to climb in wintertime in wintertime every hill is there to climb everything is yours & mine something beats in wintertime
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The silence of birds 05:32
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The Silence of Birds Running before you dreams of your head hanging around you a shadow instead in the morning the silence of birds falls like a warning on your halo of words CHORUS who remembers how remote is that smile the cold looks you carry mile after mile you're wild with sorrow you're wild with sorrow sorrow in the summer we hurry time but linger behind you we're partners in crime winter becomes you the scheme of the frost a path in the snowfall shows where you're lost who remembers how remote is that smile the cold looks you carry mile after mile you're wild with sorrow you're wild with sorrow sorrow First break Running before you the dreams of your head hanging around you a shadow instead in the morning the silence of birds falls like a warning on your halo of words who remembers how remote is that smile the cold looks you carry mile after mile you're wild with sorrow you're wild with sorrow sorrow Instrumental outro
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Starlight company 03:35
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Starlight Company Before the day is over before the light is through always in that moment there was always you every dream that lingered all that hope implied swam across your eyes again how the image shines oh in the night how the stars rode high all through the night how the stars fell stars fell from your eyes repeat
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The low ground 04:10
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THE LOW GROUND Fallin down sweet fallin down ever the low ground fast on the low ground both fallin down hard on the ground ever the low ground almost below ground Please come down with me fading is fast you see Always the low ground nearly below ground such is the way down lonely the low ground Come here again no more this surely is not the thing you've been searching for Break Sweet the lonely sound music of the low ground sweet the lonely sound music of the low ground sweet the lonely sound Oh oh music of the low ground sweet the lonely sound music of....
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Waking when the magpie calls 03:35
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Waking When the Magpie Calls Waking when the magpie calls it's easy how a summer stalls hearing music weary in my mind what was right now seems so wrong in some dark place these words belong To heal a wound we press down tight we lay in silence all the night the last drop might be slowly kissed away all the time we had was dear but we kept something in the future clear we rinsed the heavy ground where anger lay All the stubborn season does is write again the line we know and lay another patch on punctured dreams there comes a rain to wash away the heavy banks of all their mud in the broken castle one last column leans World is weary, wise, unwise, less certain than a smile implies reflect again on what small needs we feel turn to me & let me through the door you're always running to - it's a safe room where broken bodies heal Waking when the magpie calls it's easy how a summer stalls hearing music weary in my mind what was right now seems so wrong in some dark place these words belong
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Calling 05:12
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Calling When the lights are low and the evening's falling you hear them come & go there's someone calling all that you knew before hits you like a sudden blow If reason is in our head let it go whisper more than can be said keep it so words unsaid are softly said let it go let it go In the light we're calling something like the sense of falling where the day is going deep within the heart a sense of growing We whisper more than can be said beyond the wisdom of the head tracks where loneliness has led let it go let it go let it go Everything is glowing in the night the water's flowing beyond the shade a voice is calling there's still that simple sense of falling If reason is in our head let it go whisper more than can be said something low a face whose want is never fed let it go let it go let it go let it go etc.
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The day before it falls 03:47
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The Day Before it Falls long intro Everything you need is in your hand somehow everything you're losing then you must know the reason now every summer stalling on the moment slowly stalling on the moment when the waters came now you give up everything everything the heart can bleed - the day before it falls everything you say is lost in silence now everything you take you mark a loving hand somehow all the summers leaning on the moment slowly leaning on the moment when the waters came now you've given everything everything the heart can bleed the day before it falls Break Everything you need is in your hand somehow everything you're losing then you must know the reason now every summer stalling on the moment slowly stalling on the moment when the waters came now you've given everything everything the heart can bleed the day before it falls the day before it falls the day before it falls the day before it falls
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Song for Mathias 05:24
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Song for Mathias Running before me never a straight line don't hold it against me I tried to get there on time over the mountain a slope to the sea behind cries & the shouting help is following me heaven is lonely hell is the place to be star of truth rises slowly but who will look down & see over the mountain a slope to the sea behind cries & the shouting help is following me following me (interlude in the night-time wood) before & behind me I watch their torches shine if I move on them slowly the only hands burnt are mine over the mountain a slope to the sea cries & the shouting help is following me following me
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Lights 04:00
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Lights All the moments that you gave every living word you said all the dreams that made you cry in my head we smile goodbye every moment that you saved every lingering thought you made in the madness of the day never a one to say every path that leads us on shapes a world that's born then gone in the shadows where we stay secret lives are blown away all the memories in my head dust the sentences unsaid one smile to borrow one tomorrow the box of sorrow open it there all the lights are in our head worlds in darkness put to bed give us meaning, give us joy, and our hearts employ
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Bring your sadness 02:54
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Bring your Sadness When the midnight comes and the maddest day is gone then the night with its guns & drums entertains till the morning comes entertains till the morning comes bring your sadness along to me bring it all along When your best is done and the day is on the run you're holding tight within in each hand an emptiness you don't understand an empty space you don't understand bring your sadness along to me bring it all along A dusty road is hard to bear and the track leads on & on there's not an easy face walks there not a stone to rest upon When the midnight comes and the maddest day is gone then the night with its guns & drums entertains till the morning comes entertains till the morning comes bring your sadness along to me bring it all along bring your sadness along to me bring it all along
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Fires (from the backwoods) 03:57
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Fires We saw the frost-fire rise like smoke across the sky we watched the red sun lift where frozen waters lie never again my dear shall they push us out of here never again shall we leave, shall we leave Oh no - born to be denied Oh no - denied We watched real houses burn saw shadows in the trees faces of sadness in a land dragged to its knees Never again my dear Shall we steal away from here never again shall we leave shall we leave We saw the frost-fires burn smoke rising in the sky a red....... sun.........lifts
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Summer song 05:20
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Summer Song Moving along where you belong keeping the sun on your arm letting you know now letting you see how the light it enters the dark Where you belong where you feel strong where you catch light in the dark together we see now together we know how the tinder catches the spark There's a line in the sand you trace with your hand that quickly closes up with the sea whatever we feel now whatever is real now shapes into a lost memory Moving along where you belong keeping the sun on your arm letting you know now letting you see how the light so clearly enters the dark Where you belong where you feel strong where you catch light in the dark together we see now together we know how the tinder catches the spark there's a line in the sand you trace with your hand that quickly closes up with the sea whatever we feel now whatever is real now shapes into a lost memory.
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Perfect angle 03:53
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Perfect Angle Came the light in a perfect angle came your shape into the room the music shrank to a lone triangle a single bass drums quick boom-boom CHORUS: Through it all you let me step on the snare you set me smile like you've never met me on & on & on & on Ohhh So loud the silence grows You shape your mouth & I lean to listen but you turn your head so no-one can hear in the line of your neck a small drop glistens - is it the light of hate or fear? REPEAT CHORUS: All in all it's a perfect angle all in all it's a perfect room the music's great with its lone triangle heavy & loud the bass drum's big boom-boom REPEAT CHORUS: on & on & on & on & on & on Ohhh so loud the silence grows
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Waiting when the magpie calls (acoustic reprise) 04:34
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Waking When the Magpie Calls Waking when the magpie calls it's easy how a summer stalls what was right now seems so wrong in some dark place these words belong To heal a wound we press down tight we lay in silence all the night all the time we had was dear we kept something in the future clear All the stubborn season does is write again the line we know and lay another patch on punctured dreams there comes a rain to wash away the heavy banks of all their mud in the broken castle one last column leans World is weary, wise, unwise, less certain than a smile implies turn to me & let me through the door you're always running to - Waking when the magpie calls it's easy how a summer stalls what was right now seems so wrong in some dark place these words belong

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Original release 2018
Steve Blaquire - acoustic & electric guitars, fretless & fretted bass, Ebow, effects, keyboard, banjo
Dylan Jones - vocals, backing vocals, percussion, keyboard, drum pedals
Sian Bennett - backing vocals
Lisa Smalldon - vocals, backing vocals
Niamh Manley - backing vocals
Rachel Phillips - backing vocals

All songs Blaquire/Jones

Recorded, mixed & mastered in The Garden Studio, Cnwch Coch
by The Sheiling

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released January 15, 2021

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The Sheiling Aberystwyth, UK

Formed in 2000, THE SHEILING have primarily been a recording band and have produced a number of albums on their miniature UMBRELLA HEAD label – ranging from the folksy ‘A Touch of Rain’ (2000) to the entirely self-penned 'Undiscerned' (2014) . Currently THE SHEILING is
the songwriting duo Steve Blaquire & Dylan Jones.
Work emanates from a wooden shed in mid-Wales, serenaded by owls & robin-song. ... more

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