SHAPESHIFTER

oh, ehlonna 
I don’t know what I should do 
I don’t know my own heart 
I don’t fit in my skin 
I feel so askew 
she says she loves me 
why she asking me to change 
in familiar form 
into size not my own 
into a beastly shape 
I was the raven who scouted her skies 
(she feel my blackened feather) 
finding her flowers with my nimble eyes 
(we look so good together) 
but when I changed back I gave her such a fright 
I was once her shapeshifter 
but I won’t be tonight 
give me the wisdom to know what I can’t understand 
why my own lover don’t love me when I’m my own man 
why I’m coerced to become 
a companion 
ehlenestra, 
hope you hear my sylvan song 
I’ve been sleeping inside 
I’ve been burning the earth 
to make myself feel right 
and I was the raven who scouted her skies 
(she feel my blackened feather) 
feeding her berries and cawing my lies 
(we look so good together) 
but when I changed back I gave her such a fright 
I was once her shapeshifter 
but I won’t be tonight

Written and recorded by Chamber Band in the extended winter of 2012/2013. Produced and mixed by Michael Flannery at Bass Hit Studios in the neighborhood known to absolutely no one as “upper-Chelsea” New York City. 

Co-Produced by Chris Littler and Sam Monaco with Chamber Band. Tracked by David Darlington and Michael Flannery. Mastered by Emily Lazar at The Lodge, NYC, assisted by Rich Morales. Special thanks to Kyle Benson for appreciating antique lighting fixtures. 

Cover image by Jasmine Wigandt, with script by Margo Dittmer. The original cover art and design, and minotaur image, by Aaron Nestor at Death to All False Metal. Painted minotaur image by Anthony Cerretani. 

Shapeshifter

Chamber Band plays songs about love, heartbreak, and dragons.