great musical telling of Abigail's story, love all your song info!

A top song carried by a top vocal Mr Vortex. And no expletives! Loved it.

Action, love, adultery & suspense... or am I hearing the wrong story ?

A powerful story delivered with just the bare bones, voice & guitar. Fine work!

Absolutely love it, and reading the description...best of witchy tales!

Lovely skullduggerous and horny thoughts😜

swoop and slide
in summer skies
the sun high
gliding by

awake in slumber
deadpan rings
spiral thoughts
forgotten things

swoop and slide
skylarks fly
the day lies
gliding by

awake in slumber
deadpan rings
spiral thoughts
forgotten things

spiral under the light
spiral under the sky

Awake In Slumber

a very short piece...

rims of light
upon the surface haze
reeling into it too
in the delicate
distant rays
on a pale afternoon

in the haze of 
a distant light
reeling into it too
in the delicate 
distant rays
on a pale afternoon

Hazy excerpt

Electric Deathtrap Circus

Ritch Bitch (1995)

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@janinelevinson - Haven Vocals
@phil-mcwalter - The Other Asylum Stuff

SANCTUARY

I want you
I think I see you everywhere
We want love
We want to see love everywhere
 
Under the sway of thy gentle wings
All the world comes together
 
Old friends, no more these sounds! 
Let us sing more cheerful songs 
More full of joy! 
More full of joy!
Joy, bright spark of divinity, daughter of Elysium 
Fire-inspired we tread thy Sanctuary 
Sanctuary…

Joy!

I want you
I think I see you everywhere
We want love
We want to see love everywhere

Under the sway of thy gentle wings
All the world comes together
 
All you millions, I embrace you 
Well this kiss is for all the world
And you millions, oh I embrace you all
This kiss is for everyone 
All the world…

© Aug 2023 Phil McWalter

Lyrics and music inspired by Friedrich von Schiller's (1759-1805) poem: "A die Freude" [Which also appears in the choral fourth movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.]

Image: The Sanctuary, Avebury, Wiltshire UK. Dates from 2,500BC

"For there is nothing lost, that may be found, if sought."
from 'The Faerie Queene' Edmund Spenser 1552-1599

Sanctuary

Spotify

A song for Amy

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northern hemisphere
coffee warming
you are with me dear
misty morning
the news is dreadful
again
i’ve got a headful
but then
you and your crimson nightgown
from way back when


southern hemisphere
1990
you were with me dear
we were briny
the tanks were empty
again
we went to fill them
and then
a drive to Saba cliffside
with our new friends


we have memories           (we go way back)
but we’re not done yet
come ride beside me        (while we still can)
again
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Thanks to Janine Levinson, Wheelwright, and Cheesemont Paisley-Paisley for early listening.

Love Song #1000

Beauty in Chaos

Across the sulphur light

Tomorrow Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Hypocrite

Isle of Sleep

Swirling the silence amplified
Falling so crystalline
Whirring a distant hum that slides
Seizing unyielding time

Swathes of yellow fading
Fleeting moments swaying
Fragments breaking through
Moments we once knew

Veils of drab hollow magnified
Falling so crystalline
Whirring of dances reeling by
seizing unyielding time

Stasis of Reeling Dances

Abigail Craister was a witch who fell into the bottomless Gormire Lake whilst trying to escape a mob. She emerged some nine miles away, unscathed they say. I present a different version...

https://justbod.blogspot.com/2018/01/-folklore-myths-gormire-lake.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1L1h0LwqUA&feature=youtu.be

Two robbers lay
by the road 
with midnight schemes

Blade and throttling wire
in their hands
gold in their dreams

There may be witches near
are we safe ? 
Beneath this moon?
There will be riches here,
Thank the fool
the lonely traveller.

She's old, an easy mark
a lark, for such as we
I've taken down bigger
I've taken down prettier
I've taken down many
smaller than me

Be quick, be bloody
Oh, the gleam of that gold
Yet, who would travel through
such a storm, so bold ?

Abigail Craister's life  hung by a  thread
Wishing no harm to a soul  Abigail said
'All of God's creatures should get along
live or dead'. 
Abigail smiled and uncovered
the horns on her head...


If you followed the link above you will know that Abigail Craister lived in a cave on 'Black Hambleton' a dark broody looking hill in the North York Moors National Park. Even on sunny days the place has no cheer and walkers hurry past to the more welcoming 'Fangdale' or 'Skelbeast Crag'.

For a view of 'Black Hambleton' without the risk of going there, follow this link...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAkjko4hwCw

Cut-throat's Moon  (two takes on video)

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A few ( printable ) quotes.

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 "Shit, you got me crying"----RosesAreBlue
  " A Legend".....RosesAreBlue
 "I brought my kazooo"------  Faerytale
 " Unaffected Eccentricity"-----Gil Gillespie
" Uniquely Mad "----- Phil McWalter
" F*ckin' space chords man" ------Phil McWalter
 "Unhinged seriousness"----Wheelwright
 " Slightly Deranged".......Superhowl
"F***ing Hell "  ----Man on a Grill
"Chaos and Beauty"-----Steph Casey
" Nutter" -----  Kim Guy
" F**K's Sake ! LOL "------Bekah B
" You are definitely Cool " .......lola-demo
" A bloody good racket"   ,,,,,,Steph Casey 
" Intelligent, uniquely beautiful music " .  Kerijohnson.
" Devastatingly cute"  Aerogene 070. 
" Cool husky crooner at play "   Soundboard tinkerers.
"Keep your knees together"      RosesAreBlue.

Cut-throat's Moon (two takes on video)

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