Name: Live And Die (Avett Brothers cover) by Scott & Gilbert in BDG
Duration: 4 min 6 s
Description: Our entry to the Avett Brothers' "Live and Die" cover contest.

I just re-listended to all of your music whilst making lunch & eating it; Needless to say, it was the best lunch ever. Thanks for being awesome!

Song commissioned by Crayvay, inspired by their original fairytale "The Lady with the Star in her Eye." It was a beautiful story and I loved turning it into a song.

If you're interested in commissioning a song from me, go here: http://therosielord.tumblr.com/commissions

Lady with black hair and strong shoulder bone
beloved by the place that you call home
square your shoulders strong, defend the weak
listen to your heart before you speak
pluck a white stone from the dirt-stamped mud
this is more than the stars, it was written in blood
so look down on the girl that you swept up in your arms…

Maiden with green eyes, not of this place
freckles like brown sugar ‘cross your face
cover starlight up with flesh of white
leave behind your kingdom of the night
drop a white stone in the dirt at her feet
wait for your star-crossed eyes to meet
and look up at the girl who will keep you safe from harm

and hold her tight, and sleep by her side night after night
for this strange love – one girl from below, the other, above –
is the reason why you no longer weep and you no longer cry
and your tears feel so long ago.

Maiden with a secret home in the sky
leave a note and fly, don’t wish, don’t cry
Lady with a broken heart in her chest
mourn the loss of one that you love best
Sleep away days and live in the night air
point your eyes at the sky ‘cause she’s up there somewhere
she’s a light in the dark, but a light you’ll never find.

Lady with a single star in her eye, 
climb a mountain top to reach the sky
Maiden with her eyes trained on the ground
wait a while and surely you’ll be found
your tongue is so silver, the words so sweet
when you see your strong Lady you met on the street
who you guided up with the bit you left behind

So she held her tight: the strong and the weak, the dark and the light
and this strange love lived on underneath the world up above
and the reason why we now talk of love and of stars in our eyes
is a story from the long-ago.

Love Song for Stars

Fare Thee Well jam

Finally, new song! I've been gone for way too long, I know.
This one was commissioned by terezi-shmerezi for her story. It takes place in a futuristic but steampunk world and centers around a young woman named Rosa who can communicate with ghosts and see the inevitable death of anyone she touches. 
•••
She walks like no woman that I’ve ever seen before
like dancing on the air instead of dancing on the floor
and each step she takes just fills you with such grace
that you’re always left wanting more.

I’ve heard but some whispers that I cannot quite believe
I’ve heard that she keeps men and women hanging to her sleeve
and begging for some scraps of her voice of golden silk
which they will, gratefully, receive.

But they say, oh they say, that her skin is a spell
and they see, oh they see, the sadness in her eyes when she wishes them farewell

Oh dancing girl, let’s see you twirl, we will watch you through the night
and when you feel us, you will know us, you will see a horrid sight
they tell me you can foretell the doom of every hand within your clutch
and all the mortals will cower before your touch.

She seems to reach the sky with her gloves of woven milk
and every star she touches falls into her palm of silk
and every time she pulls off them off and leaves her fingers cold
her smile turns sad and wise and so old.

But they tell of some darkness that haunts behind her eyes
They say that she hears whispers, they say that she is wise
they say that they have heard her saying in her sleep
that everyone eventually dies.

And she cries, oh she cries, and never answers why
but there are whispers that she knows endings and she knows how we will die.

Oh cursed child, let’s see you smile, at the people you have doomed
and paint the patterns on the floor when you dance across the room
oh young companion, let’s see your gold skin, it is nearly too much
and you will grow up learning to fear your touch.

Touch

2 One - Way Ticket

12 Maps

Home Unplugged

Finally, as promised long ago, a Night Vale song! This one is for Carlos the Scientist, back when he was still stuck in that desert otherworld.

Stay tuned for the upcoming Home Pt. 2...
•••
As I wander through this strange world
with these bright skies and these red lights
I just wonder how you all are
all the way back home.
 
Is it sunny? Is your cold gone?
Did I leave the kitchen stove on?
Are you happy? Do you miss me?
How are you getting by alone?
 
Well I’m alright, I’m fine.
I guess I’m meant to roam.
To never settle down somewhere,
to never have a home.
 
And I don’t know where your town is
and I don’t know how I came
I just know that once I got there
my entire life had changed.
 
It’s not what I was expecting
it’s not what I thought I wanted
but these moments I’ve collected
are the times I’d never trade.
 
And they’re all in my mind
These memories you’ve sown
like when I asked and you agreed
that we could start a home
 
I guess I was delusional or otherwise just juvenile
to think that just by wishing I could change the facts
but I’m a scientist and none of this can alter the hypothesis
that I don’t belong anywhere, in fact
 
I’ve been thinking for some time now
maybe this was meant to be
maybe I’m meant to get stuck here
and you’re meant to be here with me
 
But sometimes I close my eyes and
I see nothing but the strange land
where I found friends, love, and purpose
and for once I was not alone.
 
When those doors shut, then I realized
that no matter how hard I tried
I could never be a part of
that place that I called home.
 
But that’s alright, it’s fine
‘cause thanks to you I’ve known
what it feels like to live somewhere
what it feels like to love someone
to truly have a home.

Home Pt. 1

from my album "the summer i met the storm" inspired by denpasei's "ultramarine weather." 
download the album: http://helenaruth.com/storm
read the comic: https://tapas.io/series/ultramarineweather

lyrics:
highline, licorice 
nicotine, flick the wrist 
daylight, wasted... 
lover, it's an easy miss 

bar-side, riverbed, say; 
where you gonna rest your weary head? 
oh, what a fine night... 
say _sir,_ could you spare a light? 

--- 

highline, 
licorice nicotine, 
flick the wrist. 
daylight, wasted... 
lover, it's an easy miss. 

bar-side, 
riverbed, 
say. 
where you gonna rest your weary head? 
snakebites and long sighs 
get off the counter, get a life. 

--- 

[i don't THINK so. huh!] 
[did'ya hear what she said?]

Live And Die (Avett Brothers cover)

Scott & Gilbert

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