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Longbows (EP)

by Lucy Roleff

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1.
Volkshaus 03:24
what is this here? nestled in my arms walking the dog is like a mime dragging a rope along the council footpath and the neighbours, mostly kind pouring the dandelion wine filling a box with thistle pies and white peach stars and it gets dark sometimes working in a mine filling a trough of sediment knobbly mounds of diamond and blood black stone waiting for a whistle cry watching a speckle breasted bird a ribcage through a lens of earth on a sunday you were mine the orange morning curls bringing the teacake to my lap filling a cup with peppermint and clover pearl as we step into the light shaking the sugar from our coats noticing where the woolly thyme has grown in spurts and though the walls grow damp and yes they look diseased and strange I hang tapestries, marble frames I think that I do so for you one day I will go underground tell the master I have got a lead somewhere a kitchen or a dock punch the clock and prime the cart I wonder what a diamond weighs nestled in a pocket of earth
2.
Bodies 03:50
you’re filling the room somehow as you’re rolling that giant tongue you brandish as a gun a wet finger and a crooked thumb we’re tilting the wooden bed frame so no two corners sit quite the same and the floorboards retain the scars of the cigarettes once discarded and the lovers’ bodies serving as stepping stones to the houses you call your own i’m filling a small chipped tea cup and giving the fine string a tug you press into my back a thigh sits level with my neck now the ceiling is warped and cracked bed is splinters and some thumbtacks and i’ve hardly cause to call when your foot is in the door
3.
Longbows 04:37
one of us leaving a coffee ring one of us leaving the dog inside if it gets that hard one of us is long gone the other’s leaning a long back up against the wall if it gets that hard then i’m sure and i get just a ribbon of line some wine cork and a net plucking the line of your hickory bow pulling for sport, for wild mice for doves couldn’t love you more one of us is lying low the other’s leading a warm light up against the snow if it gets that hard then i’ll go
4.
in the afternoon the iron post lamp flickers on not a moment too soon white lace lines a shop front window ‘neath the elderberry cakes as the train pulled out I remarked at your hair pressed up to the filthy glass and you turned alabaster throat a golden apple swan I would gladly stroke that antelope sized eagle with a broom and rope if you harness here some strength for me as I flit about the evergreens dear little premature but below my navel thrums a slow and a delicate bloom christ not I would surely collapse I would bury my face in cement still, a novel thought I close my eyes and we’re there on your father’s porch town talk bearing down on our necks as we tend to the blossoms and the land
5.
Mount Honey 03:01
what would you say if we called this place off wrapped up some bread and the feather down coats down to old mount honey that’s where we’re going down to that hut at the foot of the hill unleash the dogs leave their leads on the sill clean out the oven we each gotta eat lay out the spoons and i’ll rustle some heat tell your mother we’ve surfaced alive make up the bed and i’ll muster some wine call up your boss I don’t care if you lie tell them we’re laying our bones here to die

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released October 1, 2013

Songs composed by Lucy Roleff

Arranged, Recorded & Mixed by Tony Dupé
Clarinet on 'Bodies' by Rosalind Hall

Mastered by Denis Blackham at Skye Mastering, UK

© Lucy Roleff 2013

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Lucy Roleff Melbourne, Australia

Lucy Roleff is a classically trained, folk musician from Melbourne.

"The focal point of Roleff’s music is, of course, her voice: this quavering, rather deep husk, that has the blunt European tongue of singers like Nico and Sibylle Baier"- Happy ... more

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