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Ride

by Quiver

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1.
Proud, proud fools, Would you look at you? You're addicted to destruction Lonely fools So desperate and cruel Trying to take us with you when you go Trying to send us ahead down that road I hear you, I know you, I'm with you So show me how to live alongside you Grey as far as the eye can see The wind is whipping through my bones And I am haunted by this memory But the drought has found it's home And all of the paths we walk are built On dishonored bones Oh when did we decide we had to walk alone? I hear you, I know you, I'm with you So show me how to live alongside you And I would reach up to the stars above And draw down their sweet songs Let them pour their love out on the earth I will hold it in my palms If I sing into the wind it will Carry out that song When did we decide we had to walk alone? Brought from caves below, built of blood and bone My hands are reaching out would you take them on? When all is gone And no one is coming to take you home Stand up! We are what we have You were never alone. When did we decide we had to walk alone? Brought from caves below, built of blood and bone My hands are reaching out would you take them on?
2.
When the moon is growing full the trees all come awake the big fir tree that guards the north reaches down to tend the lines and oh, the cedars they gather songs from birds and stars a singing the willow drinks the moon so sweet and sends the silver down the lines When I was young Living on grandmother’s land I watched a sapling maple With every season that passed Oh, how it changed I knew what was to come, Yellow for the cold months In spring the gathering buds. When I see a chevron of geese fly overhead Warm winds will follow And so, migration is set All of the animals come out of the wings Coyotes sing the bacchanal to the decadence Of Spring. The long rains or spring clear and the milky way shines upon the earth oh a million suns, breathing Down deep, deep down where the earth holds its own time the roots of the mountains are dancing, deep down The crows are yelling in the cold about the things they find the early dark will send them home flying in their lovely lines And oh, they know the land so well, from close and far above they teach me how to look and see the running of the shining lines You plant the nightshades I listen for the owl Bats are in the bat house Until it’s time to prowl Then everything is shaking off The cold months of sleep When maple conserves energy And inwardly retreats. The rains may not abate But the air will faintly warm The plans respond anew With every shade of green they know And in the swirl of layers of life, That in rain's shadow grow Upon the past years season’s deaths So old it’s turned to stone.
3.
These days are so small You could fold them up and tuck them away Now is the time, love When the best thing to do is wait Wait for the wheel to turn Wait for the sap to rise This is the time of year When we are grateful for the fire Now is the time, dear, To be patient with desire And wait for the wheel to turn Wait for the sap to rise These nights are so tall They could pick you up and sweep you away And if you would ride them They could show you things unknown to the day So let their richness feed your dreams Let them make you whole Slip in and let them feed your dreams Rest and be made whole
4.
Owl Eyes 04:54
Come here, my dear Come into the dark Bring all your fears Bring your first brave spark Follow the path Down into the dark Come here, my dear It's time we had a talk An owl can mean so many things: Protection, An omen, An other-worldly being. This is not the land of faults This is not the land of wounds This is just the warm sweet dark but you can bring them you if you choose This is not the land of faults This is not the land of wounds This is just the warm sweet dark But you can bring them if you choose Such is the darkness, What came before, What lies beyond The shore.
5.
Beast 05:14
Out under the alders I sat all day and told stories to the dead Memories as a child The earth bestows Through the woods of my heart The oldest lexicon they led me on I followed the stories home Time passes through me Suddenly not who I was before Honor experience, significance Not passing through the door The streets are wet with rain How to transform? And my little shoes are scuffed With no rite of passage And your hand is way too big Through the unknown And it swallows mine With no guide And the pain that sits between us Is this giant shiny longing But until the time is right We treat it like a baby bird And in my heart there is an owl and it's watching yes it's watching yes it's watching everything Come the high summer I'll find the pool And offer my flowers there After all these trials Painfully displayed Join my voice to the song But I still recall The water sings The wilds We have always been home And the laughter that remains The threads are shining golden and they hang between the stars How to transform? and all the roaring hearts are commanding us With no rite of Saying, "open up those doors, dammit, Passage take these gorgeous gifts, Through the oh, lift those stubborn chins and step in to it." Unknown In my heart there is a spider With no guide and it's weaving yes it's weaving yes it's weaving everything
6.
Samhain Song 07:22
The body hurts The mind is like Filaments burned out The heart in blood Sinks with the weight of iron All of my dear departed would You sing with me now? Synchronized voices Through The Veil The family ghosts On my mother’s line Like a leaking Hull Call for me to join them below I honor friends Who’ve passed from me I still feel the loss From when they crossed into The Beyond. We have always been held And we have always been whole And we have always been held And rooted to our home
7.
Ride 08:56
We follow the river We come from the river We come from the water Cascade, Into the river We fall into the water. We follow the river

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released September 30, 2016

Maeanna Welti- piano, vocals
Paris McClusky- guitar, dulcimer, bodhran, vocals

All songs written by Paris and Maeanna

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Joester

Album art by Rebekah Erev

Special thanks to Erica Freas, MaeDea Lady LaRose, Shameka Gagnier, Pomegranate Doyle, Colette Gardiner, Amy Cooper, Willow Stockwell, Avi Roig, Sophia Welti, Consuelo Bowen, Nomy Lamm, Ekstasis, Joey Seward, Rebekah Erev, the Olympic Mountains, the Cascade Range, the Salish Sea, the Pacific Ocean, Tahoma, the Rivers and Tree People of the PNW, the Pasayten Wilderness

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Quiver Olympia, Washington

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Maeanna Welti:
Her music evokes and honors the forests, the Hoh and the Buckthorn, the ocean coast of the Peninsula, the Elwha and Dungeness rivers, the lands around her home.

Paris McClusky:
His music is a gift from and a tribute to the Pacific coast and ocean, the Olympic rainforests, the North Cascades, the Pasayten wilderness, the redwood forest, the lands of his home.
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