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Queen Of The Meadow

by Elysian Fields

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    2010 10th anniversary Digipak reissue of the 2000 album Queen Of The Meadow with new art by Lance Scott Walker

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1.
Black Acres 04:27
Whirlwind take me there Where I will be his lady fair Sheets of night hiding us Gusts of wind riding us I'm blown away into his hands I'm weak and high, can barely stand In the web of dizzy leaves Virgins all, elude the trees Touch me now, touch me The black acres are claiming me They're claiming me He holds me up like a babe Pressing close I can't behave I need to have this little death I'm up against his downy chest In the web of dizzy leaves Virgins all, elude the trees The chill is flush with burning flesh It's so refined this little death Touch me now, touch me The black acres are claiming me They're claiming me Touch me now, touch me The black acres are claiming me They're claiming me Black acres I'm running away from home And the wind, the wind is blowin' And the weathervane Its heathen song Lulls the world With silver tongue
2.
Bayonne 04:08
By the time I reach tomorrow I won't be me any way And I'm not collecting sorrow Don't disengage You can't finger what you filter When it travels like the clouds floating away I thought he'd never take it this far I can see where this is going As the undertow is pulling me down With your cross examination I'm receding in the teeth of your plow But I wont dig my own grave By the time I reach tomorrow Will you be there in the you Is your pride too big to swallow Know what's true Did you figure I would falter When I travel like the clouds floating away I Thought he'd never take it this far I can feel I'm getting smaller As your twisting every word that I say There's a snare in the forest Under brush where you want me to play But I won't dig my own grave No I won't, won't dig my own grave Bayonne, Bayonne, Bayonne
3.
Let me bend your mind Just give up your body If you give it a try Know you won't be sorry Filling inside turn you outside Find you shining Spanning acres crashing breakers Can be blinding Ride sweet smelling ride Your shoulder blades like sails And your mouth my rosary That terrifies my tail The feral dance of infinity Limbs are singing velvet stinging Seashell pining Dripping sapling nature grappling Tear the binding wide Spread so wide I wanna hear you sigh Just give me your body I want to see it in the light Surrender to debauchery Bend your mind dear Now your mine dear Earth is grinding Keep on beaming Are we dreaming are we dying Ride sweet smelling ride Ride sweet swelling ride On the verge dear, as we merge dear Now we're flying Sacred balling so enthralling Mystifying Ride to the other side Til we're sanctified On the verge dear, as we merge dear Now we're flying Sacred balling so enthralling Mystifying Minds are bending happy ending Silver lining Ride, Ride
4.
I can hear the wild waves break This island of bone Below the swell the stars are waking No matter how much I shake I'm gonna find home Though I've been overtaken By the tides of the moon I'm swimming against the tides of the moon You'll hear from me yet I'll get to you soon Savage cities on my trail Won't leave me alone Terrorize the song I'm veiling Even though my arms are frail I'm gonna find home You know my faith aint failing 'Lo the tides of the moon I'm swimming against the tides of the moon I'll get to you yet You'll hear from me soon Swimming against the tides of the moon I'll get to you yet You'll hear from me soon Follow every wave that traces my name You know that I have been detained And I feel I could die Swimming against the tides of the moon You'll hear from me yet I'll get to you, get to you
5.
Take me to you dark places Below the paint your secret faces Together we'll inter the bones Clandestine shutters overthrown (ch)Never be ashamed my love All hearts are open graves All hearts are open graves Never be ashamed my love All hearts are open graves Take me to your dark places Like an asp I'll suck the traces Meet you there beneath the crisis Slowly melt the ancient ices (chorus) I'll hold you there and stare right in Unstitch the letter you've sewn within And in your midnight dress Blessed nakedness Never be ashamed my love All hearts are open graves And no one can be saved Never be ashamed my love All hearts are open graves
6.
Night cracked like a skull Made the moon convulse Wrapped its chilly tongue around my mast A fortnight it would be Since I'd been out at sea Ne'er another soul had crossed my path I was hauling salt In my bleached and battered boat Trawling just to pass the restless night When I felt the queerest tug Against that fraying cord Reeling in a devastating sight In the brackish sound Somebody had drowned She wrapped her raven rings around my line In a tangled open dress The most comely bloodless breasts A distant look was frozen in her eyes A fiend possessed my soul As I helped her to disrobe A rope of weeds was woven round her thighs My ill and frenzied heart And the quiet lapping song Beaten by the splendor of her hips I had to lay her down Atop those briny beds And press my mouth against her silent lips The frigid moon was green Upon my wicked scene My wasted angel shimmering in sand I had to be with her And leave the world behind I knew that no one else could understand And I slipped her silver palm inside my hand Married to the bower I threw our bodies overboard Our hearts were bound by heavy rusted chain Now I roam the ocean floor With the lady I adore This is where we remain
7.
Take this kiss upon the brow And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day In a vision, or in none Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf- tormented shore, And I hold within my hands Grains of the golden sand- Oh how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep-while I weep! Oh god! can I not grasp Them with a tighter clasp Oh god! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that we see or seem But a dream within a dream? *text by Edgar Allan Poe
8.
Feel like I waited forever for you to arrive You took too long, perhaps you lost your drive You were touched by too many hands Why'd you get soft, I can't understand (ch)They made you apologize I can barely recognize you Let his love paralyze you You know death should inspire you You let his love paralyze you You followed their flags Now you're flapping in the rain You took the main drag, denying the coarse terrain You were once a firebrand How'd you burn out, I don't understand (ch) You brought me liberation Fought the contamination You left a trail like Dillinger Then you joined the congregation (ch)
9.
Fright Night 05:50
Black-out, the power's been tripped Better not slip, watch your step Quiet, someone might hear They know that you're there, 'cause your flashlight's dim and flickering Holy mother, run for cover Hot on my shoulder Far from over It goes on, on, on, on, on Fright night, wont leave you alone Fright night, you may never get home Dead night, the chicks are coming to roost You hear the most horrible sounds Your heart, how heavy it pounds You fear the worse is yet to come Listen, what's that shadow on the ceiling Who's that, whispering your brain sick Who's there, hanging by my window Swinging patiently The taste that's been left in your mouth Of rot, but for acid a drought Your head, you will never empty it out Listen, what's that shadow on the ceiling Who's that fingering my brain stem Who's there, hanging round my window Swinging patiently Come no closer brisket choker Boxed dog scratching Earth collapsing Sky is gone, gone, gone, gone, gone Gone, gone, gone, gone, gone
10.
I'm in league With the queen of the meadow I'm in league With the queen of the meadow I bring her storms to feed her thirst I bring her seed to swallow She rides bareback thru it all And whispers by the willow The Queen of the meadow With her widow's heart she sings her song To the stars she carries on And it's peaceful in her loving arms Peaceful in the meadow Peaceful in her loving arms Peaceful in the meadow I'm in league With the queen of the meadow And as the sun I rise upon The pastures of her charms Riveted to her mystery beds Drawn to her fragrant sorrow The queen of the meadow With her widow's heart she sings her song To the stars she carries on And it's peaceful in her loving arms Peaceful in the meadow Peaceful in her loving arms Peaceful in the meadow And I'm burning in her fiery fields And I'm sleeping in the meadow And I'm burning in her loving arms The queen of the meadow
11.
Born of your rib was my first catacomb Back raging inside you I finally felt home How could I prepare for the final feedback Now I'm scanning the heavens and ballin the jack We traded our secrets, melted the chill He wept in my water He's rising it still Sucked on the marrow until we were blind In the wake of this nightmare I'm losing my mind You said cities will fall Cities will fall Have no regrets in spite of it all As the walls tumble down I wont rest til I've found you Parallel wave length anointed musk waves Pornography gardens winding our maze Delivered my shame to your altar divine And now I'm your prisoner Embalmed in your shrine You said cities will fall Cities will fall Have no regrets in spite of it all As the walls tumble down I won't rest til I've found you My sacrosanct priest, my medicine man Bathing me, blazing me utopian Apocalypse rising We saw it play out Chasing the moon Your siren's devout You said cities will fall Cities will fall Have no regrets in spite of it all As the walls tumble down I'll be wrapped around you

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released November 14, 2000

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Jennifer Charles and Oren Bloedow are the writers who make up the critically acclaimed New York band. Cult status, cosmic appeal, since 1995

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