Moody, orchestral, song with grief, strength, and purpose.

The Wild Unrest

Raven

Moody, reflective, shadows within and without, war, grief, legacy

I stood below the Lincoln
Lily white in a marble seat
He stood a trifle tall and so
They took him off his feet
The war has not been won he said
"The dyings just begun" he said
"The dying of our will to crawl
Up the ranks of men"

The shadows of a man will keep you guessing
The shadows of a man can take their toll
The shadows of a man can break your back then take your hand
But the shadows of your own can take you whole

I stood in a sea of stone-etched names
Some I recognized and others blurred into the same
Like the colors of a flag when all the red's run in the ground
A meadow bed of fallen men
Their shadows standing round

Standing in the shadows
Walking through their dust
Wading in the echoes

The shadows of a man can take their toll
But the shadows of your own can take you whole

Shadows of a Man

Written for Shared Hope International, a non-profit that walks alongside sex-trafficking victims through recovery.
lyrics
I don't remember much
But I still feel that floor
Cold on my face and alone as before
A swarm in my head of voices unkind
Some of them his and none of them mine

He said don't fight it
He said its too late
He said I'm just like the others
As he gave me away
To that red light
Where my days are made of nights and he said
"Won't nobody love you like this"

Touch the scar on my skin
Where the ink used to live
Said that I'm his for the take or the give
I took up the lies
All at once over time
Some of them his
And none of them mine

Would you take this
Would you take this cup from me
Touch the scar on my skin
Said I'm just like the others
Oh that red light
Not going back to that red light
I belong to me
I will walk through the fire into a new day
Oh I will walk through the fire into a new day
Would you take this
Would you take this cup from me

Days of Nights

Lyrics 

here come the fireflies
with their staccato lights
their tiny headlamps blinking
in silence through the tall grass

here come the fireflies
with their staccato lights
like constellations cut loose
cut loose from the night sky

here come the fireflies
with their staccato lights
see how desire transforms us
the plainest of us

here come the fireflies
with their staccato lights
flashes of insight that flare
for a moment
for a moment
for a moment
then flicker out

Produced by Brandon Bee
*Fireflies uses an original poem by Linda Pastan

Fireflies

A song embracing the free-fall of life, the vulnerability of loving others, and walking through anxiety.

She walked along the seam of a roof
Arms stretched out to side and I wondered why
What a morning she said
Fog lay like lashes on a the quiet rye
to a wild eye

Don't fall
Don't fall
Please don't fall

Where the wild things close their yellow eyes
A boy a sailor becomes a king
Tows this heart near
On foreign seas here
But I'm losing line
Sure as the time

Don't fall
Don't fall
Please don't fall

Morning star rise up to meet me
Like a diamond in the dark
"Love like this" he said
"Love like ours fills the poets pages
paints those cavern walls"

Don't fall
Don't fall
Please don't fall

I walked along the seam of a roof
Arms stretched out to side
Like a dragon fly

If I fall
If I fall
If I fall
Hang my picture on the wall

Morning Star

Wild orchestral folk from the Pacific Northwest.

Beth Whitney

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