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Snow
04:28
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Like that kind of snow that doesn’t melt for days and days
They move it on and move it off the streets in spades of grey
I’m leaving this town for a hinterland
The trees bending down with their winter-brown hands
Feelings rise and then grow colder with the seasons
People come and people go for different reasons
I’m leaving this town for a breathing place
The moon in her gown, the river weaving round her face
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Rising
03:39
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Love comes rising to the surface
The peaty waters that preserve us
Oh how sweetly it came to pass
Oh how gently it sang its breathing last
Love comes rising, a slow unfolder
The paper thins as it grows older
Oh how simply the ties were bound
Oh how swiftly it sank beneath the ground
There were days we were all we had
Summer felt so long
And into the night a constant star
A channelling cannoning arrow in time
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Late Bloomer
04:08
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And in your eye a passer by
A little ray of stealth
A gold thread and it’s gone
A flit, a flash, a shard of glass
They say I’m not myself
The light tread of the dawn
The crow nesting, a piece of string
Comes just when you need it
The clouds content above
The wool that winds, the friends you find
A fire when you need it
The gentle bend of love
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Landscapes
04:15
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Tell me what you think is real
All the things you’re meant to do
Shells for colour, stones for feel
These are all good friends to you
The mild green of the dawn
Walk me on that boarded path
Lay me down a grassy bed
Weave a little reeded raft
Leave me now for I am dead
A fine evensong
Like a sapling’s bending truth
The seeds that blow like ladies’ hair
Like a wave that’s rendered smooth
Remember me when I am air
The wild wind leading on
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Greenhouse
03:44
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In the garden, winter’s crown
Summer sang us into the ground
Quiet company of the river
Let her come to me, let her carry me with her
All that is surplus falls to the side
Spring returns us into our stride
Flying, feeling free as the linnet
A rising reeling sea, the cold concealing me within it
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Stones
03:42
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You’re waiting on the phone without a sound
You know, words break me more than stones, hands down
I leave no shadow, leave no shadow, oh no
We float in outer space alone
Just so that we should know our place back home
I leave no shadow, leave no shadow, oh no
Things you love the most, things that you might save the time for, it’s all the same
See she learns, she grows, a woman of her age, but loves get lost, and times are strange
Lord knows what I have done at all to crow
High as the highest sun before the fall
I leave no shadow, leave no shadow, oh no
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Blinds
03:19
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Had a little, wanted more
Winter drew me to your door
Something blindsided me, came unbidden
Ever so quietly like a kitten
Everything light in me cried your name
Love defend me when I’m dead
Life suspend me in my bed
Neither too early be nor latecomer
Every so easily like the summer
When all that believes in me breathes your names
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Repose
03:38
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If I could sleep
Like the darkest wood is deep
Cat comes walking, following the shadows on the street
Let’s go stalking, talking to the other cats we meet
And gold, coming through a crack in the blind
Summer lies in state
Blackbird side-eyes a mate
Wake me gently, even if it means I will be late
Mother, make me the heaviest of dreams a feather’s weight
And gold, coming through a crack in the blind
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Fleet
03:56
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Tell the truth
I see them flying from the roof
The undercut before the wood
And rising and rising and rising
Hard-lining past the sun
Oh, that’s as good as it’s gonna be
Flipping on the fly-by, flash as one
Weaving the way ’til the summer is come
Tell no lie
Straight as that arrow in the sky
That hits the heart of it more than it should
Like kindness on kindness on kindness
Fair play, October light
Oh, that’s as good as it’s gonna be
More frickin’ gorgeous every night
Feeling your way until every ray is right
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Chrysanths Glasgow, UK
Chrysanths is the sad solo work of Emily Scott.
Scott is also front woman of the chamber pop band Modern Studies.