From 2009 album Memoirs of John Hume. (BandCamp: https://lentilfamine.bandcamp.com/album/memoirs-of-john-hume)

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqxI0jRWwTw

Hold the phone 
A little farther from your ear I don't 
Think you want to hear this now,
But I can't keep it inside

How come I always have to hide?
How come the truth always just hurts us?
I don't want to have to hide from you
But trouble in your face belies your heart,
Defies my heart,
Defies my heart

The trouble in your face will tear us apart
Oh, I know it's hard to smile now
I only tried to make you smile:
The only thing that keeps me safe
The only thing that keeps me safe

My dear, it's good to see you smile again (if only in my mind)
If you hold me from my heart
Well you don't have to move at all
Honey, you just sit and frown
I'll do all the work for you
You don't even have to think
I think enough for you

You know, they say to keep your friends close
And those who hate you even closer
Well you're the closest one I know...
Oh?
No

The Vivid Unknown (2009)

I have held
And I have hurt you
And I have torn
myself apart for you
myself apart from you

If I had known how I
would hurt you
I still don't know
If I could have saved you
Or if I would have saved you

I can't draw near you
but I can touch and I release you
And I have learned
words will never do
Still too much
fear has followed you

I can touch and 
I release you and 
I can grasp and 
I can forget you but 
I have not forgiven you

I have held
I have abandoned you
I have tried to heal you and
I have tried to forget you and

I have held and
I have hurt you and
I can forget you but
I have not forgiven you
Have not forgiven you
Have not forgiven you
Not forgiven you

I Can Touch and Forget You

From the album Integration: https://lentilfamine.bandcamp.com/album/integration

Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ak2g2r0PlL0

Smile
I feel better

Cry
I am tethered
My own ice's height
It's crushing, girl, to fight
But i can hold yours better

Come when you're weathered
I will rinse your feathers
Try as i might
My own are razored
Not for flight
But i can hold yours better

Try when you're gone
And i know what is wrong
But i can understand your pain
And i can try to hold your name

Come when you're weathered
I will rinse your feathers
Try as i might
My own are razored
Not for flight
But i can hold yours better

eagle above, lake below, blameless

[2018.02.22]

When the sun escaped to her winter retreat
I know your leaves bent low in withered grief
One by one, we all fall, babe
Now let the earth eat what's left of love and day

I know love left you out in the cold
Your paws, you cut in arroyos
But leave your scavenged bones behind
All you need for now, my girl, are mine

Come home kitfox
Nestle in my heart
Spring at last can bring
What's decayed to art

Come home kitfox
Nestle in my heart
Spring at last can bring
What's decayed to art

The sun, she leaned away while i
Hand to my heart, i tried, i tried
To find a space in me for love
And in this you can make nest of

Come home kitfox
Nestle in my heart

Come home kitfox
Nestle in my heart

come home kitfox

[2019.03.24]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aiVbOcfKpk

Such a flower
Such sweet earth
Don’t you know
What you’re worth

You are every shower
Spring has birthed,
Flesh is fire
And your soul, earth

There's no need to think about it
No need, girl, to wonder why
You were dreams
Before you were sunlight

In my deep dark
You were there
My soft spark
You're the dream
Dancing in my heart

There’s no need to think about it
No need, girl, to wonder why
You were dreams
Before you were sunlight

In my deep dark
You were there
My soft spark
You're the dream
Dancing in my heart

In my deep dark
You were there
My soft spark
You're the dream
Dancing in my heart

In my deep dark
You were there
My soft spark
You're the dream
Dancing in my heart

Dreamlight

Utter Love

Mirror of a Starless Night

Sunlit Sound

Silent Sarah

Hope Phase

Inlight

Razordawn

Soft Starling (Tell Me Where To Start)

Suntaste

Multi-instrumentalist Wes Jackson began producing bedroom pop as Lentil Famine in 2007. Lentil Famine has explored elements of folk, electronica, rock, synth pop. It is mandolins and drum machines. Acoustic guitar and synths. It explores the boundary between quirk and honesty, fear and love, but synthesizers, electronic techniques, and the tragedies of the heart have remained the dark star of its orbit throughout.

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