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Queen Bee

from These Golden Threads by Gun Mother

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I'll lay down in the garden
Under the maples
For the rest of my day

If you must live in the twilight
Between the joy and the sadness
Between the stars and the stain

Oh queen bee
Dark is the place where you left me
Dust are the days when you're lovely
Lost are the ways and the means

Oh queen bee
I long for the days where you'll hold me
‘tween demons and gods you is only
The distance between your wings

This world it is a broke world
But between faults in the rubbish
Gardens are groomed

It's a hive for the queen bee
The day commences with weeping
And ends in a tomb

Oh queen bee
Dark is the place where you left me
Dust are the days when you're lovely
Lost are the ways and the means

Oh queen bee
I long for the days where you'll hold me
‘tween demons and gods you is only
The distance between your wings

But He of the Bee
clings to your body so weakly
But the burden is heavy to bear

Heavy to Bear
But to Bear is to Birth

Give to me these sallow wings
This worthless crown and everything
kept in the husk and fallen down
along the shore along the sea
and rise to meet me wandering
disrobed in a profanity
as a mantis who flew to the sun
but lost his home into the sea

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from These Golden Threads, released September 11, 2017

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Gun Mother Providence, Rhode Island

A dead-of-winter psych folk outfit who write orchestral and somber songs about circles, mystic rabbits, the resting position of urban birds and other such rituals.

From Boston MA, featuring members of Reverend Glasseye, Brian Carpenter and the Confessions and Ho-Ag

"This is music of considerable substance and depth, played at its best"
The Noise Magazine
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