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"Heartwood" by @halfwaif from the album 'See You At The Maypole', out now
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Written by Nandi Rose
Produced and recorded by Nandi Rose and Zubin Hensler
Mixed by Zubin Hensler
Vocals and synths: Nandi Rose
Percussion and piano: Zubin Hensler
Lyrics
“I always thought you were made of trees,”
He said to me.
To be so seen
Is a green kind of sadness.
It feels so new—tiny shoot,
Proof of life.
Does that mean I was invisible before?
Ok but let me be oak,
My branches curved back down to earth.
The reaching and bowing a perpetual arc:
Rainbow on the horizon.
I embrace in all directions.
I live one hundred years.
I remember everything in the
Language of my heartwood.
And when I dream, it’s not of trees
But of placing quartz
In the cold end of the stream
Where the moonlight catches
The crystal flakes,
Showing the fish where to go—
A checkerboard of crooked arrows
Point...