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Cokaigne

by Heed the Thunder

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    in gatefold recycled card packaging, with lyric insert, and additional artwork by Kate, and a montage by Neil Tetley

    Includes unlimited streaming of Cokaigne via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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1.
Arm in arm with the blackest night When I'm weak there'll be no fight Her icy fingers grip me tight When I'm arm in arm with the blackest night She's my lover and my friend Her role to hold me and defend my place in life with all the lost Never grow just count the cost When rage is gone and darkness follows Bleakest moors and icy hollows My soul in deepest torture wallows Night welcomes weary travellers home Darkness loves the slowest songs She forgives me all my wrongs She sees me come it won't be long Before we're falling and we're one
2.
I’m interested in people The sounds that they make The changes they go through And the steps that they take I go for the broken The outside and worn And those who bear the silence And live through the storm Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lay My interests are changing Adapting every day Since I’ve been getting older And you’ve been away My future is much shorter I pray that yours will last Look into the sky lad The cosmos is so dark Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lay There’s a list of things to do To do before you die Some of them outlive you If you really try When I go out these mornings The seasons changed from green To low-lights of the autumn skies And colours rarely seen Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lay
3.
Basilisk 05:02
The snake that I love I took to with skill I savoured the poison Administered at will Fangs deep inside me They darkened my hide A new mark is tattooed “I’m only here for the ride” Foreseeable future I will be in the grip of the ride And you, my love, will find me In the land of the deaf the dumb, the blind or hugging my pillow using words that you warned me about fangs deep inside me you can hear it when I shout I’m a basilisk rider I’ll soon be leaving town Desperation, we’re headed Low country, but we still go down
4.
Street Life 04:51
Far away from life’s illusion Stand up straight don’t take the cure It’s a forty stop solution Might make you feel unsure This is a street life Anything you want to see Anything you wish to know See a ruby as it glistens in the snow Pick it up, a little blood you will know Don’t shoot the messenger He’s come so far, he’s hurting, he’s in pain He’s fleet of foot, he’s good at begging Living well beyond his means Carries a knife inside his jeans A rocking boat, a feather boa Of itching teeth and shaking hand I feel my ageing knees will buckle As the violence flows From my unprotected hand
5.
No, go away I won’t be having you back to play I tried for long But you and I will never ever be as one It’s just the truth Now go your way make the mistakes of youth My eyes will stare While the wind lifts the leaves and gently whips your hair The forces between us are horses That lead us Down on different roads The dice keep on landing On our lack of understanding Let’s drink up and go I wish you well But further than that I’d be afraid to tell Can you see the trees The gathering shadows Between you and me I hope and I pray That a woman will find and marry you one day For the furies that I unleashed Will make it hard for you to kill that beast
6.
You gave me the will to succeed x2 You gave me the will Now I’m paying the bills To succeed there’s a price To success I don’t have the time to lose x2 I don’t have the time For the lace in my shoes I’d be losing too much valuable time You gave me a structure to hang off To hang off and to make productive It’s a time of great growth And I swear on my oath I’ll be hanging only good things and not darkness But where there’s a will there’s a way What happens tomorrow who will say But here today there’s a will there’s a way There’s a way and there’s a light And there’s a rock that I can use to grind the good corn into flour
7.
what don’t kill you makes you strong that which get’s you, that lasts long if I get close to the meaning of life I know my day’s are done So I spend my time hitting fingers and nails And evenings drinking gin I pick up my guitar, I can’t play a note From the horrible condition I’m in Well this road is dark and long And on it come fragments of song There’s not a thing I can do with them With my hands upon the wheel So I curse this pain running through my brain Like a train of iron and steel Flowing through the land to another man Until the music is revealed
8.
Lucky Man 04:37
I’ve trod this lonely earth I tilled it and I sowed You live a lonely life When you die, you’re on your own Standing close beside me I ain’t been loving like I should You have the right to live your life When I’m gone there will be you But that’s alright, cos I’m a lucky man I’m a little rabbit’s foot Keep me close to your fragile heart You need someone you can rely upon When the shit all blows apart Got to end this dependence Get past my disability And if I’m burning slowly Will I slowly start to see Is that alright? Am I a lucky man?

about

The second album.

Recorded over a weekend at the Bakehouse in Glandford by Heironymous Melchers, assisted by Edward Raison.

Mixed at the Bakehouse by Heironymous Melchers (DC)

Mastered at Philosopher's Barn by Eric James

credits

released January 12, 2015

All songs written and performed by Heed the Thunder:
Alex Gordon - vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, trumpet, flugelhorn
Mark Waters - double bass, vocals
Kate Gathercole - vocals, banjo, accordion

with

Heironymous Melchers - eBow guitar, distortion and bass drum on Blackest Night
Jeron Gunderson - drums on Basilisk, Street Life and Lucky Man

also

hanclaps on Basilisk: Jeron, Ed, Simon, Ally
bells and claps on Horrible Condition: Alex, Kate and Mark
shaker/woodblock/twinkles on Lucky Man: Edward Raison

Album artwork by Kate

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Heed the Thunder Hereford, UK

Alex Gordon: lead vocals, guitar, trumpet
Mark Waters: double bass, vocals
Kate Gathercole:vocals, banjo, accordion, guitar and melodica.

(Sometimes) Nick Acons: violin

And on the recordings:

Crum Hall: drums
Matt Dowse: trombone

"Heed the Thunder's musical trail weaves them through punk, folk and Americana to a place they call ruralcore." (Umbrella Factory)
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