Words: Cloud
Music: Stone, Timpson
Artwork: Rembrandt - The Storm on the Sea of Galilee


End?, no kid, there's no end to the mystery, will we float now?
Just me and you kid, no more burning tin, love or loss now
Lets make tales kid, something of these oceans, will we sink now?
Come with me kid, lets dance in these endless waves, jynx my words now

Can you keep my secrets or will they burn you too
No more dancing in the flames
Make me fearless too
Lets make something of the oceans we've seen
More than before
Remember all these tales my kid
For we'll be making more

We've seen horrors
Breathless and still
We've seen beauty locked eyes with ygdrasil
We've seen glory lights in the morning
We've seen sadness come without warning
We've seen phantoms and built on their fear
We've seen nothing of which we hold dear
Nothing of mountains draw down the moon
Something of oceans all gone too soon.

I know she's here, i see her bright light again, smiling at me
As long as shes here, i know we will be just fine, she has blessed me
Do you see? She's there, her hair dancing with the wind, reaching to me
As long as, you're here all the shattered hearts will heal
Please stay with me

Can you keep my secrets or will they burn you too
No more dancing in the flames
Make me fearless too
Lets make something of the oceans we've seen
More than before
Remember all these tales my kid
For we'll be making more

We've seen horrors
Breathless and still
We've seen beauty locked eyes with ygdrasil
We've seen glory lights in the morning
We've seen sadness come without warning
We've seen phantoms and built on their fear
We've seen nothing of which we hold dear
Nothing of mountains draw down the moon
Something of oceans all gone too soon.

Something Of Oceans (Short version)

Words and music: Stone
Artwork: Hermes Ordering Calypso to Release Odysseus by Gerard de Lairesse (circa 1670)

We can make islands

It's autumn in eden
And i fall for the cold
Each seed held a promise
Now it waits for the thaw
Winters waiting

I thought i was freezing
I knew nothing of frost
As each day escapes me
I learn more of loss
I know what i saw

We can make islands 
Little hideaways
We do it everyday its like a game
it's a quiet pretty art
Behind your eyelids
There's a grand parade
And yeah it's not always great
But you gotta work with what you got

You think i can't see you
See i saw you before
My mind built a statue
Now it's covered in moss
I know thats not how you roll

Islands
Catch F

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We can make islands

Words and music: Stone
Artwork: Ulysses and the Sirens (Waterhouse)1891

In the depths of the dark
You can see make believe
The deep draws you in
With it's soothing ennui

Horizen blurs to sky
A desert made of bitter brine
So easy here to lose your way

Rest rest, there's nothing out there
Nothing you can do today
Wait wait. My sweetest friend
You seem so tired
So take a break
I see your bones are aching
Lay a while and sooth your hurts
The salt sea air will heal your spirit
Sleep a while to sounds of surf

You've had a world of time
to dream upon this endless sea
hear the sirens pretty songs
they sing to you to bring you peace

nothing here not even birds
see the writing on the walls
this endless blue feels like a curse
for every second that i stole

lie now in open water
will the wilds below to rise
as above the starlight falters
stormsclouds boil before your eyes

blessed blessed
the rain comes falling
Cold as winter sharp as spite
fate fate
it comes a calling
see the door blown open wide

You've had a world of time
to dream upon this endless sea
Hear the sirens pretty songs
And shiver as they come for thee

nothing here not even birds
see the writing on the walls
the endless blue feels like a curse
for every second that you stole

nothing here not even birds
see the writing on the walls
the endless blue feels like a curse
for every second that you stole

Endless Blue

Lyrics: Stone
Music: Kissing witches

I’m burning tin 
To let it all in
I’ll draw down the moon for you 
Follow the old black elk
You’ve been hungry far too long 
Feeding off the spirits 
Small hours, hidden songs 

One circle wide as daylight 
The roots of Yggdrasil 
Under starlight made from nothing 
The earth is burning still 

Listen to the stories 
Find secrets in their sides 
Everything is waiting for you 
In the mountains of your mind
Fill your guts with poison 
Just to spit out joyous glee 
Can you feel rhythm?
Can you feel the beat?

Picture: The Funeral Pyre by Joseph Wright of Derby

Burning Tin

Artwork - Faust and Mephistopheles - Eugene Delacroix 1798
Music and Lyrics - Stone

LITTLESANDCASTLES

Pretty little promises

Artwork - Rembrandt - The Philosopher in Meditation 1606
Music and Lyrics - Stone

I watched my life as it passed me by
It never said a word
Addicted and preoccupied
With nothing much of worth
Haunted by the terror
To walk a lonely earth
I held on to my little hopes
But instead became a ghost

Became a ghost

Head bowed and quiet
Waiting for trying
Oh I'll be just fine
Just give me more time
Just give me more time

I search for you in manekins
Drifting through the crowd
Of spirits captured in the draw
Of those that conquered doubt
I haunt myself with hopes
I know that i could do without
A revenant of all i was
A ghost I'll become now

What could of been
A beautiful dream

Coloured candles

Became a ghost

Artwork - Philip Burne-Jones - The Vampire 1897
Words - Stone, Terry
Music - Stone

It's asleep

Come, come lie beneath
I'll be your drug
You'll be my thief
Think of all you could steal
For one taste of me
Oh darling come
Come lie beneath

Break
Break promises
You can always make more
It's only a kiss
And I'll keep you as warm
As a line on a wrist
how delicious a sin
From your heart to my lips

Help!
Help me believe
Oh father I've sinned
Will you be my priest
And if you save my soul
I'll be your hole
y
Ghost
So you're never alone
So we're never alone

And I'll, I'll watch you sleep
Baby please don't wake up
I'll take what I need 
And you'll never know
Just how far i'll go
For what lies beneath

Run!
Run your hands on my skin
Oh please open the door
And I'll let you in
And if you try to leave
I'll give you more of me
Like a feverish dream
Where you can't even scream

And down
Down here in the dark
We talk in touch
And we never shut up
So if you want to be numb
I'll rip you apart
And we'll talk in tongues
Down here in the dark

More

More
I always want more
Oh i'll be your queen
I'll be your purest 
Whore
Cuz I know what you want
Put your hands round my throat
And squeeze til you're done

Cuz I like when it hurts
And I hurt what I want
And I want it all
And it's never enough

So come lie with me
Come lie beneath 
Come lie beneath
And you'll never know
Just how far I'd go

For what lies beneath

What lies beneath

Artwork - Georg von Rosen - Oden som vandringsman, 1886
Words and music - Stone

Once you take the eye

Come out Come down
We've all been waiting
We've made a dawn especially for you
The time has now come
For dreams not sleeping
Become the key and turn the world a new

Once you take the eye
You will find
The place between the lines
Comes alive
Forever by your side
In plain sight
Oh once you take the eye
You're alive you're alive you're alive you're alive

Beneath your heart there is an ocean
You've gotta hat a hat full of sky
And when when you see behind the curtain 
You're gunna take wing take wing and fly

Once you take the eye
You will find
The place between the lines
Comes alive
Forever by your side
In plain sight
Oh once you take the eye
You're alive you're alive you're alive you're alive

Oh the beauty in echos
Reality unfolds
Lotus smoke on moonlit meadows
See reality unfold
I'll remember all the long roads
You have taken took their toll
Paid in full with nothing owed 
Off you go you're alive welcome home

Once you take the eye
You will find
The place between the lines
Comes alive
Forever by your side
In plain sight
Oh once you take the eye
You're alive you're alive you're alive you're alive

Once you take the eye

Artwork - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), Mnemosyne (The Lamp of Memory, or Ricordanza)

Words and music - Stone

All of that magic was a moment in time
In late summer sunset where gold came alive
I was brought to my knees by a vision so bright
In late summer sunset 
Where I lost my mind

And through the autumn leaves
I just see evergreens

And though I know
That all things must end
There is a home inside of my chest
Where winters cold never will tread
And until the end
Goodbye my friend

I became immortal
When I knew I would die
Took me so long to know
That the joke was sublime
Now the molehills are mountains
And they reach to the sky
In that late summer sunset
Where I lost my mind

Evergreen
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Evergreen

Artwork - The Nightmare 1781 by Henry Fuseli.
Words and music - Stone

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A matter of time

Artwork - Jan Matejko - Stańczyk 1862
Attempt at words and music - Stone

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I put the martyr in my killing jar
I watched it scream and no one heard
All of its pretty little promises
It begged and begged for one more word
I drove a pin into it's thorax
Stuck it under yet more glass
It's so quiet now and I ask
What was the point of all the hurt

I hear the guilty whispers
I know the circle songs
I should cast them in the fires
That have kept me warm for so damn long

You want to feel wanted
You need something to need
Your back broken with promise
When will you cease this endless greed
Someday it all will make sense
A dawn of majesty
Until then you're in the gutter
Festering in make believe
Make believe
In make believe
We are free in make believe

Our fruits been rotting in the orchard
Bitter sweet in waspish glee
And every blossom on the carcass
Smells oh so fucking sweet
I saw you resting in the mansion
My soul created in my dreams
I see a future of expansion
A question mark a hungry seed

Whos going to know? how far this goes

You want to feel wanted
You need something to need
Your backs been broken with a promise
When will you cease this endless greed
Someday all of this will make sense
A dawn of majesty
Til then you're rotting in the gutter
Festering in make believe
Make believe
Make believe
We are free in make believe

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You put the treasure in your killing jar
You watched it scream and never heard
All of its pretty little promises
It begged and begged for one more word
You drove a pin into it's thorax
Watched it squirm and loved it's dance
It's so quiet now and I ask
In it's hard death is there more worth

I hear the same old stories
I know the circle songs
I cast them in the fire
That has kept me warm for so damn long

You want to feel wanted
You need something to need
Your back broken with promise
When will you cease this endless greed
Someday it all will make sense
A dawn of majesty
Until then you're crawling in the gutter
Festering in make believe
Make believe
In make believe
We are free in make believe

Our fruit's been rotting in the orchard
A harvest made of faded dreams
And every blossom on the carcass
Smells oh so fucking sweet
I saw you lost within the mansion
Trapped within a wishers plea
The ghosts beg you to listen
The cursed left beg you to flee

You see the way was always open
You just refused to see the door
And now you slumber little dragon on a mound of bones and gold
Begging the gatekeeper to open up the path
It's not to late to end this
Sometimes the only way is back

You want to feel wanted
You need something to need
Your backs been broken with a promise
When will you cease this endless greed
Someday all of this will make sense
A dawn of majesty
Til then you're rotting in the gutter
Festering in make believe
Make believe
Make believe
We are free in make believe

Make believe

Artwork Tiziano Vecellio- Death of Actaeon 1559
Lyrics - Stone and Thompson
Music - Stone and Balzani

Through the Vale
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Intro

Verse 1:
I will not suffer, love
I've walked that road to long
Because all of my desires
Turn to ruin, wine and song

Bridge:
Caught between the lines
You'll find me here bewitched
Screaming at the sky
That starlight filled abyss
Lost in morning mist
Fragile as a wish
Of broken promises
Oh I want no part of this

Chorus:
But I will find a way
Just maybe not today
I'll rove and I'll roam never make a sound
Disappear in the wind 'for my heart bleeds out
All the paths I've had to take
But I will find a way

Verse 2:
Through fell or brook or holt
Under dark nights of the soul
Be the journey short or long
Still I will carry on

Bridge:
Caught between the lines
You'll find me here betwixt
Yet I'll be gone before the sun
Be gone before I'm missed
As bitter as a wish
In shadows I will drift
in broken promises
Oh I'm done with all of this

Chorus:
So I will find a way
Just maybe not today
I'll rove and I'll roam forest holy ground
Widdershins in the rain where i won't be found
Upon the paths I've wont to take
Know I will find a way
I'll rove and I'll roam forest holy ground
Widdershins in the rain where i won't be found
Upon the paths I've wont to take
Know I will find a way



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Through the vale...

Words: Stone 
Music: Stone, Quartly
Artwork: The Goddess Melissa Reclining By A Beehive In A Landscape (18th Century)

Into the grey

Verse 1
She caught me alone in the cold in the cold
Iron and sulphur. Glittering gold
I went with her freely her horror my home
Make me forsaken, to hell with a soul

Bridge
I have turned
Into despair
I become, the winter sun 
I will now cremate my cares
Blood will run blood will run run run run run

Verse 2
Find me in brambles and briars
Thorny with poison and pain
The hunt is what she desires
Screams in the night are her game
She stalks so quiet and cunning
Teeth for a throat with a tongue in a vein
Delicious red coated in fire
Feral wicked deranged

Chorus
Now, you know what you want
You want it all, the honey of blood
You wish, for the thrill of the hunt
And pray to the wild within as you give into the grey

Verse 3
So long has she burnt deep within you
Sweet savage cruelty, aching in wait
Unleashed now she uncoils her beauty
Slick in her sanguine embrace

Middle 8
Here laid to rest, your innocence
Or what was left
Fear tastes the best, from innocence
[Mellisas nest], deliciousness
Run run run run run run

Chorus

Outro (verse)
Into the gray, into the grey, give in to the gray
Run run run run run run

...Into the grey

Lyrics: Stone, Thompson & Quartly
Music: Stone, Quartly & Catling
Artwork: La Ronde du Sabbat by Louis Boulanger

All the paths to me I showed you all the signs
You walked the tended gardens with a wistful sigh
Such a place holds so much promise you agreed (oh please)
So I took you in a drunken lust behind the scenes
Cuz' I am weak, I am weak

There were snakes amongst the roses that's for sure
No altruist exists but poses like a whore
Because all I ever wanted was your arms
Secure and juxtaposed with all the harms that I hold close

Now the walls they all come down
Of this ruin once stood proud
I'm still figuring this all out
Can someone pull this thorn i carry out, and let me down
Let me down let me down let me down 

Why do they call the morning mourning
I was drinking to forget
You always come without a warning
Just when I have nothing left
Let's make regrets, Let's go to bed

All the kisses that were stolen weren't enough
Through gritted teeth I felt relief in every touch that fell on me
Maybe i just want this far too much
Let's take it fast and make it slow cuz we all know how this all goes

05 Gritted teeth (Demo)

Lyrics and Music: Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová
Photograph: Dartmoor by Tryg Thompson


I don't know you
But I want you
All the more for that
Words fall through me
And always fool me
And I can't react
And games that never amount
To more than they're meant
Will play themselves out
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice
You'll make it now
Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can't go back
And moods that take me and erase me
And I'm painted black
Well, you have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly, sing your melody
I'll sing along
Take it all
I played the cards too late
Now you're gone

16 Falling Slowly (Cover from The musical Once) (Demo)

Lyrics: Stone
Music: Stone, Quartly, Timson, Lennon, Wren & Baillie-Hamilton
Artwork: The Magic Circle by John William Waterhouse

I'm burning tin to let it all in
I'll draw down the moon for you
Follow the old black elk
You've been hungry far too long
Feeding off the spirits
The small hours hidden songs

One circle, wide as daylight
The roots of yggdrasil
Under starlight made from nothing
The earth is burning still

Listen to the stories
Find the secrets in the sighs
Everything is waiting for you
In the mountains  of your mind
Fill your guts with poison
Just to spit out joyous glee
Can you feel the rythm?
Can you feel the beat?
Can you feel the rythm?
Can you feel the beat?
Can you feel?, the rythm
Can you feel the beat?

01 Burning tin (Live demo)

Lyrics: Stone, Timson & Baillie-Hamilton
Music: Stone , Thompson & Timson
Picture: L'Inquisizione e la caccia alle streghe.
by Valentina Vissicchio

Never been accused of asking
Beauty leaves me paralysed
Just to talk in tongues embracing
Lips are tight & stained with wine

Fever wrought of thought & static
Haunts me, bites down like a vice
A trap was set and caught a hunter
Watch the hanged man dance tonight

I'll float out on the rushing waters
While I sink behind my eyes
Thrown by guilt and mental illness
Red handed, with no alibi

The warm touch of pins & needles
A hell tail heart beats inside
Crash through the mirror fearless
To be a curse, brings me delight

I'll float out on the rushing waters
Hope for a raging flood
Sink in your eyes and stay there focused
Drowning, smiling, shy and stunned

I'll float out in the freezing waters
Warm as summer, bright as blood
Sink into the benthic gardens
Breath you deep with bursting lungs

I'll float to show the dead i'm trying
Fight a civil war for wants
Sink my teeth into you darling
Noose or necklace, love or loss

Tell me silence, what's the cost?

04 Floating while sinking (Demo)

Lyrics: Stone, Lennon & Baillie-hamilton
Music: Stone, Lennon, Mayberry, Catling & Bailie-hamilton
Artwork: The Witch Hunt by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris

I have seen horrors
Wax work and faded
Lights in the morning
Shadows in twilight

I have seen horrors
Felt pressure build
Fit unto bursting 
Breathless and still

I have seen horrors
In sad stricken eyes
Filled with regrets
Guilt ripping inside

I have seen beauty
In the dancing leaves
My own private whirlwind
Dancing for me

I have seen glory
In you my valiant friend
Rejoice in your stories
Good will I do send

I have seen sadness
Wholesome and true
All parts of you matter
Take strength in your truth

I have seen phantoms
Of what there once was
But they cannot hurt you
Let go and be done

I have seen nothing
And built on it's shores
My little sandcastles
Of which, This song is one

10 The Dancing leaves(Demo)

Lyrics: Stone
Music: Stone, Baillie-Hamilton & Quartly
Artwork: The Witches Sabbath by Francisco Goya

The city is upside down
The sky the colour of dirt
We walk upon chewing gum constellations
We can't feel the hum of the earth

There's no relief on tilted seats
The smog just rolls right through
Pay no heed to the sirens song
Buzzing sulphur stains the view

And when it comes to you
It will be as inland rain
That still tastes of distant shores
Which know nothing of mountains

We met inside a dream somewhere
I never took their name
We were scared and completely in love
Lost in an endless maze

When I awoke I was a ghost
That knew that it just died
Tried so hard to sleep, but they were gone
Buried beneath the tide

So take care when you close your eyes
For the mountains you can form
May raise you to a higher plane
And just destroy you come the dawn, come the dawn

You know nothing of mountains
Nothing of mountains

03 Nothing Of Mountains (Demo)

Lyrics: Stone & Lennon
Music: Stone, Lennon, Catling & Mayberry
Artwork: The Lady and the lamp by Henrietta Rae

Can I hear your voice?
Isn't that sound your smile
Maybe I'm in the ward again
Am I mute, unresponsive?
Pupils fixed as pinpricks
Please hold my hand and beg me
"Come back to your senses"

I think I hear you smiling
Whoever you may be
You sing to break the silence, but a song won't set you free
I swear I heard you smiling
As you told me of your day
But still I don't know you
Though your whispers fall like rain

Count the hours
Don't watch the screens
Keep reaching through reaching through 
Scratch into my shell
Reaching through
Into me

I don't think I can wake up
Could never fall asleep
I wonder what your world is, not this twisted fantasy
Do you whisper to me?
Through coma walls I keep
You told me I was hiding
But I'm buried far too deep

If I could talk back to you
Tell you all I heard
I'd love to be your echo
And jynx your every word

They mostly come at night

02 Jynx pt 1 (Pareidolie) (Demo)

Music: Lennon
Lyrics: Stone & Lennon
Artwork: Empress Elisabeth of Austria at the bier of Ferenc Deák, 1877 - 
Anonymous

08 Jynx pt 2 (Præsciences)

Music: Stone & Timpson
Lyrics: Timpson, Thompson & Mazikim
Artwork: Frank Frazetta - The Sea Witch

Looking up at the canopy
Can't imagine it's only you and me
And a sky made of gold
My warmth in the cold

Staring out into the sea
I can see the stars
So bright
And so far

13 Something of Oceans (WIP)

Recorded live March 6th.
Lyrics: Stone
Music: Kissing witches
Artwork:  Maxmilion ur Pirner - Hekate

I breathed deep 
Come run away with me 
I know you want to speak 
And throw your hate at me 

But those fists I’ll twist 
Into a novelists
And we’ll write adventures 
Until they exist 

Come on, let’s go 
We cannot save them now 

And we’ll bring the ghosts of what has come before 
And we’ll sing to them to keep their spirits warm 
Remember all the tales so that we can write some more 
This house is on fire 
Open the fuckin door, open the door 

This I swear 
Through gritted teeth 
All vulnerabilities 
We shall defeat 

Live fearlessly 
Like the dancing leaves 
Run away with me 
Come run away with me

We’ll run and make a home 
While they burn down the house that you have known 
Come on, let’s go 
We cannot save them now and this you know 

Submit ourselves unto raging storms 
We’ll tear through thunder just like hunting hawks 
Make a little nest for us on distant shores
This house is on fire, open the fuckin door, open the door

Open the door , Open the door
Nothing more , Open the door 
No one can touch us , Never fucking more 

Love is, love is a dirty fucking whore 
Love is a hungry wolf at the door 
Love is waiting way out in the cold all alone 
Love is freely giving something pure 
Love is not a damned thing you can hold and feel warm 
Love is a nightmare, kid, and you’ll be screaming, wanting more 

Open the door

A House on Fire (Live)

The Kissing Witches coven was:

Hannah - Vocals & Recording
Rosy - Vocals, Guitar, Thigh & Alto Sax
Cloud - Vocals & Piano
Stone - Vocals, Guitar, Egg & Samples
Tryg - Vocals, Harm, Artwork, Birds & Photography
Owen - Bass guitar
Munky - Guitar, Drums, Sound engineer & Scapes
Wren - Djembe, percussion & Cajone
Mazzikin - Vocals & Biting
Spoony - Violin
Barrow - Violin

Logo by Christophe Szpajdel (The lord of the logos)and Tryg Thompson.

Kissing witches

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