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Altarwise

by Twin Headed Wolf

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1.
Darling you have made a broken man of me God would not forgive me for the things I'd do for thee I am but a world worn man, my story is for the birds You would not kiss the beggars hand or hang on to his words I would drag my knees across the desert sands for thee And grind my bones to silver dust to scatter on the breeze I would take the mountains on my back to see A sliver of your smile I would take my little knife and cut my hand away And hook it on a fishing line to feed you for a day Darling you have made a broken man of me God would not forgive me for the things I'd do for thee
2.
Take a Hammer There's something in the air here Still spinning in your head There's something lost and unclear And something not quite dead It's that old love you used to have when you were nineteen years young Something unresolved, mad That wounds you like the bullet of a gun Take a hammer to the old love Break it down There's something in their voices A way of speaking passed And some unyeilding noises like shattering of glass It's that old song you used to sing When I would wake at night Those funny words go wandering Like fears in candlelight Take a hammer to the old love Break it down There's something when you're sleeping Your eyes they shut like dolls And silently go weeping To draw on crooked walls It's that old hold you used to have Upon my thoughts and ways Chains from your eyes go spiralling To wrap me suffocating in your gaze Take a Hammer to the old love Break it down There's something in the water That's turning men to thieves And some unholy daughter That's fallen to her knees It's those old words we used to sing Of what is wrong and right The costly price we now must pay Reliving one sweet hour, Turning sour in the night Take a Hammer to the old love Break it down There's something we've forgotten Those old obsessions gone Replaced with faces rotten To build this broken song It's that old love you used to have And lost with words unsaid And slowly I have gone mad He lives inside my head Take a Hammer to the old love Break it down
3.
The Rain 05:14
You locked us up in here and threw the key to chance You knew we'd wind up here and now it's even hands Oh now it's tangled word and tangled limb This sea is dark at heart and no I cannot swim And though you knew it would hurt you did it all the same There is no instant cure to save you from your pain And the rain will wash us both away You stare at me from there your body like a grave My mind is parched my heart is what your body craves And in your eyes survives the flotsam from the storm When will you realise you love is like a swarm of bees And I was not for you and you were not for me You like my disease and I was like your queen The thoughts pile up where my dreams lay down to die In voice in vice you were the web and I was the fly
4.
Martha 03:20
Martha Martha had an old gold tooth Made from her wedding ring She liked to hear her voice around it When she'd laugh or sing Look for me in the grass in the morning I am dew, I'm the stars a falling I am the sun coming over the hill I'll be the day if it be your will Billy wore his fathers boots Holes in both the toes Story for each broken sole and mile shared Penny for your thoughts on the road When it's time to follow the black horse Head bowed and cap in hand Remember it's only my body that's left me I'm there in the lay of the land
5.
A Leper to Remember There are faces in my window When I try to sleep There are places you go Where you crawl too deep There's a dead bird in my house But he got there first I light candles all around But like you this hell gets worse This feels like pulling teeth The last pull of a cigarette You're wound so tightly weaved In the threads of my head and I want to I want to, I want to forget you Embedded in my wounds like a rusted screw You're gangrene, you're dry rot, you're syphillous too It's too late, I'm a state, I can't hate you. Have you seen her tea-stained eyes That old lace that her grandmother wore Or her childrens ragged cries Or the gaze that her lover tore You have swallowed up my mind Can't evict you from my head Bloody obsession walking blind In the threads of my head and I want to This feels like pulling teeth The last pull of a cigarette You're wound so tightly weaved In the threads of my head and I want to
6.
Liar 04:21
I was born to a husky hag And I grew up in a rusted shack And down in the valley was a dirty old town And oh how the rain, how the rain poured down And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done And she said maybe, you’re a liar I’ve always tried to keep my tongue in check And oh how she cried when I broke her neck I was always striving to be so good Mama’s little angel misunderstood And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done And she said maybe, you’re a liar What did I find up in the woods A jagged old dagger underneath my foot And after midnight I’d go hunting down All the dirty old beggars in that dirty old town And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done And she said maybe, you’re a liar Oh how I moaned when the blood poured down And oh how I howled when they shot her down She should have been buried way up high That was no way for my love to die And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done And she said maybe, you’re a liar I think maybe I’m going to hell When they bring my coffin they won’t bring no bell I’m going to burn for my sins in a fire Why, cos my sister says that I’m a liar And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done And I said wo ho sister tell me what have I done And she said maybe, you’re a liar
7.
Don't come looking for me In these rainy skies If you're hunting me down Well I'll be in disguise I can't undo the web of your lies I can't unstick all of these droning flies On your piano I am the black keys I am your fever I am your disease And when you exhale I am the wheeze I am your vice and you'll never be free I hear the click clack of your shoes on the stones Pulled by a thread you just can't be alone No matter how much you scrape scratch and moan The one that you want will never be home You tear the skin until it bleeds You'll find your ego among the weeds This old sin you seem to need Will rot and starve you Just like a bad seed
8.
Poison Arrow 04:54
Poison Arrow You are the teeth of my saw You are the jagged edge You are the crows wild hoarse caw You are the thorns in the hedge You are the wild grass growing You are the air You are the dark blood flowing Blood of the hare You are the rope I follow You lead me blind You are the lies I swallow You are unkind I am the fool who loves you I am unwise I am afraid to lose you You who I despise You are the poisoned arrow Shot through my chest You are the old wheelbarrow My fears infest
9.
Howl 02:48
Howl I howl cause I'm hollow I scowl with the pain I growl I won't grovel While you prowl again
10.
Blackbird 02:29
Like a blackbird Calling softly As the minutes crow I'm on tiptoe Creeping slowly Bury my head in snow
11.
Take Me Away 00:51
Take me away on a long summers day And we'll sit on a mountain side Take me away on a long summers day And we'll watch the world go by
12.

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This album was record, mixed and mastered over a period of years between 2013 and 2017. This has been resurrected from the archives and has been send on a time travelling voyage to this moment.

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released February 29, 2024

Musicians:


Branwen Kavanagh: Vocals, Guitar, Wheelbarrow, Chains, Spoonophone, Banjo. Bones.


Julie Kavanagh: Vocals, Harmonium, Bike, Jug, Radiator, Piano, Kalimba


Martin Brunsden: Double Bass, Stroh Violin, Saw, Udu


Nicholas Cooper: Violin


Dylan Gully: Low whistle, Clarinet


Simon O Reilly: Ronrocco, Guitar


Gavin Glass: Glockenspiel, Organ, Banjo


Sam Comerford: Saxophone, Bass Clarinet


David Flowerkraut: Hurdy Gurdy.


Peter Ashmore: Drums


All songs written by Branwen Kavanagh except "Howl" and "Ghost of the Circus" written by Julie Kavanagh.


Album produced by Julie and Branwen, co-produced by Simon O'Reilly.


Recorded and mixed by Simon O Reilly and Gavin Glass


Mastered by Lurssen Mastering and Peter Montgomery with additional work by Aidan Foley.

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Lyrical, twin-edged, harmony-ridden, experimental, scrap-yard folk... with a saw.

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