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The Red Thread

from Fisher King's Collection by The Orchards

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The rainy season in California - holy cow, I wasn't prepared for it. Days upon days where we couldn't work outside, and long afternoons playing guitar gave rise to some long damn songs. I wrote the guitar riff with the intention of giving it to a friend in Pennsylvania to use, but then this story started to form around it. I didn't understand it at first but it started to make sense when I was living in a small town in Maine, playing it again and again.

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The mission is empty, it's starting to rain
There are holes in his jacket but he don't complain
On the stone steps of silence is where he learned repose
He walks up to her place, changes into dry clothes

He was impressed
She had it bad
And that was the only thing they had

Rings on her fingers, tears on her cheek
Her voice is like water but she doesn't speak
Nothing but the truth falls from his mouth
He wouldn't lie because he don't know how
A bottle between them, down to the dregs
The scars on his forehead match those on her legs
She claims she has red thread instead of blue veins
She says "My heart is an anchor and you are the waves"

She was impressed
He had it bad
And that was the only thing they had
Shake off the day
Embrace the night
It gets so heavy in the light

Fishers and singers meet at the gates
Both of them early with nothing to say
They call Hallelujah but it sounds like a curse
And those who are last now will later be first
She's stronger than poison when you drink her down
She runs through these streets like they're the veins of this town
He claims he has lightning where he used to have wings
He appears framed in blue light each time that she sings

Shake off the day
Embrace the night
It gets so heavy in the light
Shake off the day
Turn out the light
We don't weigh nothing in the night
Made out of steel
It's made out of mist
They're made out of thin air when they kiss
Raise up your eyes
Don't be afraid
You're mine, I have called you by your name

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from Fisher King's Collection, released May 16, 2016
Eric - guitar and voice
Dave - organ and trombone
Catalina - voice

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The Orchards were the songwriting project of Pennsylvania native Eric Schwan, based in Portland, ME and featuring a revolving cast of musicians adding orchestral and ambient textures and harmonies to his simple, folk-based songs. They released their LP, "Sing Birds, In Your Shrinking Woods" on Apohadion/Burst & Bloom Records with a final show on September 15, 2019. ... more

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