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from secrets replete by noah mclaughlin

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This song has a sister named Ruth, who lives in Judea with much prettier company.

This was written for a Song Fight! in July. No one got the reference.

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in the depths of Hades’ halls
she awaits in shadowed thrall
oh my
on the banks of Mnemosyne
she bathes in her memories
of sky
how she sings the hymn of us
it echoes on through Tartarus
oh me
in the gold of Elysian fields
she sows these seeds & shields
for me

and the Sisters one-eyed watch
all black winter long
when the poet comes: debauch
with his lover’s song

on the mount above the clouds
there drinks a mighty crowd
ambrosia
at Delphi writhes a little girl
who questions a divided world
but won’t heed
she asks the Sphinx and Tiresias
to divine our secret trust
they can’t say
all the spring and the summer, too
we soar on 'cross those fields of blue
can’t stay, please stay

and the Sisters one-eyed watch
all white summer long
when the poet comes: debauch
with his lover’s song

and there she goes my divided love
another year gone by
but i know that we will meet again
another year gone by

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from secrets replete, released September 13, 2011

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Appalachian distortion, folk samples, and ancient myths.

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