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Blood of the Hunt

from Mapping an Absence by The Warp/The Weft

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BLOOD OF THE HUNT

With this lever down, son, this rabbit's yours
Never so hard-won--all bruised and sore
The skin and the bones aren't the meat; the meat
not the blood of the hunt: victory and defeat

Life in a fog, and the dogs are bound
tonight to an engine dead and unloved in the yard

With this simple downspout, we save the rain
to irrigate the greens, the fruit, the grains
With this lever down, son, the farm is yours
and the sluggish land will bear more than ever before

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from Mapping an Absence, released July 28, 2017

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The Warp/The Weft Poughkeepsie, New York

Blending traditional and avant-garde styles, the warmth of a good wool sweater and the sometimes-bleak cold of an upstate winter, the progressive folk and psychedelia that the band brings to bear is propelled by poetic lyrics and a "spirit-conjuring" lilting tenor that prompted psych-folk legend Tom Rapp (of Pearls Before Swine) to ask, "Can I have your voice when you're through with it?" ... more

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