Name: Thistles
Duration: P00H05M30S
Description: . Thistles – & thistles are survivors. they have deep roots. they twist and twine everywhere – chop them down and they will always come back. the seed of the thistle is carried aloft and grows where it settles be the land so barren …

Thistles

from From The Walled Garden by Twelve Thousand Days

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. Thistles – & thistles are survivors. they have deep roots. they twist and twine everywhere – chop them down and they will always come back. the seed of the thistle is carried aloft and grows where it settles be the land so barren …

lyrics

. darkness rise, rising from the ground . rising all around . last bright disc of western gold . leaves like thoughts aswirl with fire . great grey battlements & towers . on the distant blasted marches . dream of softness, pomegranates - hidden whiteness veiled & torn . eye with iris black & bright . incense wreathing in the night . bloom & brush of bruising touch . lost within the garden walls . and that which once you were is gone - and in the world you are reborn .

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from From The Walled Garden, released August 4, 2022
Alan Trench : Guitar, Dulcimer, Tin Whistle, Recorder, Keyboards, Glass Harp, Percussion, Bells [Tibetan], Flute [Moseño], E-Bow
Martyn Bates : Guitar, Tin Whistle, Vocals, Kalimba, Percussion, Tibetan Bells

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Martyn Bates UK

(For CD version write to Jerry at eyeless@eyelessingaza.com)
voice +acoustic w/songs/ e-guitars/kybd/ tape. Since 1980, Eyeless in Gaza, & since 2000, Twelve Thousand Days, Mick Harris etc. Knew stuff / Forgot stuff / cared too much / cared too little - perhaps. 2023:current band = Kodax Strophes … with Martyn reportedly "still longing for 'Christmas in my soul". kodaxstrophes.bandcamp.com ... more

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