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Take a Hammer to the Old Love

from Altarwise by Twin Headed Wolf

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about

This song was originally written for one of Branwen's first gigs so that they could fulfil a vision they had of smashing a clay statue that they made of their own head in Limerick City when they were 19. They did this on stage with a hammer and it was enormously satisfying!

Julie's instantaneous and unique harmonies brought the song to life again for Twin Headed Wolf. This was the first song they recorded in studio in the summer of 2013 with Simon O Reilly who was taken by surprise as the twins rummaged around his tool shed looking for the right sounding objects on day one of the recording sessions. They started out by recording wheelbarrows and chains and later in Autumn of 2014 they recorded bike wheels and radiators with Gavin Glass who was equally surprised!

lyrics

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

credits

from Altarwise, track released February 29, 2024
Written by Branwen Kavanagh

Julie Kavanagh: Vocal/ Harmonium /Bike Wheel/ Radiator
Branwen Kavanagh: Vocals/ Wheel Barrow/ Chains
Gavin Glass: Big metal door.

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

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