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Tend The Lines

from Ride by Quiver

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lyrics

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.

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from Ride, released September 30, 2016

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Quiver Olympia, Washington

Artist Bios:

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. ... more

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