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To The Hollow Night

by mallory

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1.
Dance, Fall 05:33
Left our old strange homes a little bit late when we took off on the interstates unknown the porch is quiet now there's still soap in the sink and all of the flittering songs grow loud maybe we will meet again in some distant places and see our own faces and then you are here and so we all despite our fear we love we love the dance so we love the fall we take the cup and drink it all
2.
oh, when the lights when the lights have left where will you find your breath? in all the times you thought you weren't worth it in all the times that yr lungs were hurting and longed to put words to a prayer but found only air. we live in a world that is always giving in a body that is always spilling out and over into the howl into the howling wind this world needs you living
3.
Hollow night four weeks for this drought we wrought moon is a frayed open hole stayed up all night we are waiting here for him to come oh light on the hill i thought you were a star or at least a flame from a needy heart as if only i could ever find firewood. how do we keep warm? what has burned for this? this singing born from a cage of ribs as if only birds could know the thrill of flight. wrap me in wings throw me out into the light where i'll get stuck in a branch and woven into the night where the lace of the trees is a thread at the seam of sight.
4.
Woven 02:13
give it time give it lots of good sunlight give it a name and a proper burial invite everyone to the funeral dance like a drunk little kid give safe harbor in the cove of your ribs watch over the sleeping ships for tomorrow they go back out to sea and who knows the next cove where they will be in what bed they will sleep up to the roof or the rise of the hill or the battlements give it sky give it hope on high collapse in the dirt and the dew we never know what the dawn is gonna do what the day will turn into keep on the prowl keep in good touch we may touch too much or sometimes not enough may we all speak up.
5.
Thought I saw it rise and curl up in your spine Thought I heard the bells ring as you hung the wash to dry Softly in the moonlight I saddled the horse to ride Brother let me go. I have built a ship The spirit of the rose is rising with it Queen of stones I ask will you keep my fire i've been ferried from my past on the waves of desire I've taken all I need. It is all I ogt. Bring me to the sea, for it has what I have not. Queen of stones I ask will you keep my fire For all my wood is wet and it's not getting any drier Queen Of stones, I have flown. I've made my way I've come into your maze, Queen of Stones.
6.
in that old summer the sun picked us off one by one we were burning up and out but when the cool night would rise from the clover to the skies we would cry this drought will drown at times you are a torrent. you would sweep my shelter off and i would be left with limbs and a will to live i would be left without a purpose other than knowing how to swim oh to enter into a humbling flood of a friend oh to get to witness the thunderous drought's end.
7.
Goat Song 03:44
mother don't be so sad hunger lover full moon cover bleeding with you laughter streaking all the color frightened creatures cackling crazy nights dark blue when the day breaks following the night song illuminates but not for long ???? a little thing silvery and splintering light hits the lens and shatters in picking pieces pluck the string now left shuddering there are sometimes that i would hide but you have found your way inside all me secrets filling lamplit willing fingers spindley kindling all lost finding
8.
Nettles 02:50
i dreamt you had a pair of black wings unfurling like fiddlehead ferns in the spring. you hung suspended in the air you were buyouant brimming and bare. a hundred years couldn't wash us clean so we wring our hands in the dried up stream the stones rose slow like ghosts from the frost heaves and the grey earth gives over to green. we catch our breath and trap the wind it's cold, but we let it in--all we know is that the nettles sting and what the summer brings is that the water comes, that the water comes out rising like morning. break the glass and sharpen prayer hang the mirror o'er the chair. hang the sun over the hill as the dry stream slowly fills. hang the hunger from the boughs. burn the seeds and blunt the plows. the hill the chair, the mirror the sun all our stories come undone.
9.
hallelujah hardly knew you i will let you go. your streets and my spine once entwined now unwind uncoiling in the snow i will find my breath below where the sun becomes shadow limped away from here like a wounded deer i was trailing all your ghosts. wish me speed from these streets of defeat, of bone and cobblestone. leaving paths in the snow weaving the past with the falling ash and burning the road i will find my breath below where the sun becomes shadow. hallelujah, hardly knew you i will let you go. i will find my breath below where the sun becomes shadow.
10.
Circling 03:03
11.
Break Bread, Break Bread for the hungry. We all survive just the same If we make it through the morning we will make it through the day And our lives are all so confused and tired. sometimes we feel we've lost the fire We remember the orchard and the ladders we wrapped in the cloth we cut from our backs It was jus ttoo much to handle for us all we stood naked and cold in the squall When the harvest came we forgot and the apples returned to rot We Rise. But we knew what the trees could provide when we lay in that dappled light We never knew hunger there and now the orchard lies bare Of course we all yearn to return but some bridges don't get unburned Our pockets are still full of seeds they tremble with hope In the evening They Rise. Who in the light in the harbour in your eyes, who would survive? Who in the night on these paths came before us and filled the wine? Who made this home so gently in the forrest with no goodbye?
12.
Dear virginia, you have been kind to me here's me thanking you honestly i've only got it in me to say it this one time thank you do not worry i am going to be fine i will leave you just as quickly as i came i stayed long enough to learn your name. some nights i wanna burn this whole country down tonight i am grateful for this lonely patch of ground treat me with some tenderness and some empathy i'm a stranger in town. I'm sorry we're not together but the stars shine all the same and if they're not so brightly now i know that i'm to blame dear Virginia--I have learned your name.

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released June 1, 2014

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Appearing on this record:

Justin Fallon:
Bass, Electric Guitar, Piano, Vocals

Nicholas Francis:
Banjo, Bass, Electric Guitar, MicroKorg, sp555, Vocals

Noel'le Longhaul:
Banjo, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Bass, Drums, Percussion

Martha:
Violin, Vocals

Sampling by Mallory in the graveyard in Berlin

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All songs written by Mallory in april, 2014.

Recorded by Leonard Kaage at three different locations in Berlin, Germany.
Mixed, egg, and produced by Leonard Kaage.

Album Artwork (& derivatives) is by the inimitable Chelsea Granger.
chelseairisgranger.tumblr.com

Thanks and prayers and holy humblings:
Josie, Faith, Miroslav, Leo, Fabian, Harley, Jes, Ricki, Laura, Chelsea, Lucrezia, Seb, Brauni, Cea, Olana, each other, Heiner's, Mom, everyone that came to the 2012 Brooklyn show or wanted to be there and inspired us to do this.

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mallory Montague, Massachusetts

Mallory is a dispersed collective of musicians that found itself coagulated momentarily in the hills of Western Massachussetts. Mallory first found its voice in the summer thunderstorms, the porch lights, the moths, the hazy negotiation of tired cities. Long bike rides, walls of green, the orchard, the quarry. A ribbon of dirt road, blood on the grass. Windows open. ... more

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