If you love blasting The Bricks out of your car stereo when you arrive at events, and if for some reason your car still has a CD player, this is the item for you! Comes in a jewel case and features unique moody/silly photos of the band in the booklet and on the CD. Only 100 copies, so get them while they last.
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You're Yggdrasil, the pillar of the world
To star-filled skies your canopy ascends
You tower over all, your leaves unfurled
The Norns themselves will nurture and attend
With beauty, you their services entice
(As) they rule upon the destinies of men
The All-Father chose his own sacrifice
To see your truths, much more than fools can know
Your secrets bared...
but at what awful price?
If you're the World Ash, I am Mistletoe
Nothing but a hungry parasite
Weighing down your limbs the more I grow
Usurping your great gifts to steal your light
I need you, I cannot exist apart
Your stature is how I gain my own height
I'm poison - desecration is my art
And after all the damage I have done
Will I burrow...
My way into your heart?
If I am Mistletoe, then who are you?
If I am Mistletoe, what should we do?
If I am Mistletoe, then who are you?
If I am Mistletoe, what should we do?
You are Baldr, joyous summer sun
With kindness and with courage, you enthrall
Your shining talent cannot be outdone
Surefooted, smart, so you can never fall
The whole world holds you in such high esteem
In fact it's true that you are loved by all
But lately you've been plagued by anxious dreams
Of violent rage designed to overthrow
Your life to end…
In some murderous scheme
If you are Baldr, I am Mistletoe
The product of an unintended slight
I never promised not to bring you woe
A weapon forged by jealousy and spite
By one who wants to tear this world apart
and wielded by a blind man without sight
Rushing now to you, this shameful dart
To end your song, to stop all of the clocks
I wonder - am I
doomed to pierce your heart?
If I am Mistletoe, then who are you?
If I am Mistletoe, what should we do?
If I am Mistletoe, then who are you?
If I am Mistletoe, what should we do?
You are the Wordsmith, never once outfoxed
Your rhymes precise, your verbiage refined
You are your muse's muse, you paradox
You are your art, your words and heart entwined
You leave your audience thirsty for more
Many here would like to "do your mind"
In life, your words have opened many doors
And there are many more through which you'll go
But there is one…
man you are waiting for
If you're the Wordsmith, I am Mistletoe
Transformed by Frigg to harbinger of love
I hang like Odin as you wait below
You show your cards as I watch from above
You hope that I am soon to play my part
Wishing for a fit like a... Foxglove
The question that you posed right from the start
Not daring to believe it could be true
Will I one day…
Come to win your heart?
If I am Mistletoe, then who are you?
If I am Mistletoe, what should we do?
If I am Mistletoe, then who are you?
If I am Mistletoe, what should we do?
credits
from Difficult Second Album,
released August 1, 2022
By Lester Starcraft (Stephen McGreal, with help from Jez Lawrence)
Stephen McGreal: Vocals, guitar, fire seed pod
Juliette McAlroy: Vocals
Jak Perks: Bodhran
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