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This Kindly Slumber

by Birds Of Passage

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MoonLight, come and find me hidden behind my closed eyes, draw your shadow over the secrets of my two lives. MoonLight, please, i beg you see through me and my distance. i dreamt i stole your kisses.. i stole them while you slumbered. the romance i remember is simplicity. have i killed the flame or just heightened my ideals? this spring and all its blossoms i give leave to get the best of me and cover me with flowers till i've healed. i'm censored by the choices of the web i've spun around me. but i fell in love with kindness and he fell in love with me. so take me as i want to be, surrendered under your breath. naked, steal my kisses and hound me to my death. this mask i wear is wounded like the soldier underneath. this heart i hide is delicate and worn. use me in the shadows for the shadows bring out light and love, my light is almost gone.
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who are you anyway? and what, if we remember your name? what will it mean to you cold in the grave? warm in your palace with all you are worth. but now you are cold in the earth. oh ladybird, ladybird, fly away home. your house is on fire, your children are gone, and all of your dreams, they came true. and all of your dreams died with you. who are we anyway? and what, if they remember our name? what will it mean to us cold in the grave?
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Stranger 04:32
you're the one followed me home. hands of the giant, beard of the gods. sacred and secret. sacred and secret. you took your broken, followed my steed, bestowed your kindness on me. tremble me over. now where shall i follow to make for the shore? bring me back stranger than before. stranger, stranger.
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fallen shine, remember a time when smiles begot me, the words were mine. is this the dark, dreadful now? is this before me and is this behind? take my breath, undo my sash. is this the darkness beckoning us? this is the flame i wished for now. this is before you and this is behind. take my breath. take my breath. take my breath...
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we don't know their minds. i'm so tired and so behind. suicide child with life in her veins, blood for tomorrow in yesterday's stains. in blackest air the winter here gives birth to emptiness. and she believes the evening breathes the hopelessness in us. suicide child with life in her veins. blood for tomorrow for yesterday's stains. suicide child with life in her veins. blood for tomorrow in yesterday's stains. in yesterday's stains.
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lonesome tame; sorry believer in the cause. do you know the truth? lonesome days; sorry deceiver of the years. will they welcome you? will they welcome you?

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Following 'Without the World' and 'Winter Lady', the New Zealander Alicia Merz of Birds of Passage returns with her third album 'This Kindly Slumber'.

Like a cocoon, this album will envelope you in its many layers. Quiet storms filled with ambient atmospheres, densely layered choral drones, fragile vocals. Harsh reverberation, gently lulled by sweet musings, offset by poetic and philosophical lyrics, ebb away into blissful ambience.

With allusions to dark-pop and classic broken-folk, the anti-climactic compositions of Alicia remind us that she is a singer songwriter for people who don't like singer songwriters.

Climb into the cocoon of 'This Kindly Slumber'. This place of refuge will find you when you most need it, take you to the world within its folds.

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released January 24, 2014

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lo-fi, minimalist, ambient artist in voluntary exile since 1985

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