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Swaddled in Gloaming

by Lewis Mullen

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Swaddled in gloaming Kissed by the fairies My enchanted lover Skips from one stone to the next one Dropping sticks in the burn Gathers up brambles for me Bathed in the pale light Darling of witches My enchanted lover Looks out for dreams in the Heather Stops by the crows for a blether Brings home a new song for me Ahh... When the smoke from the chimney Embraces the mist Home come a-tripping Steeped in the bliss Stranger than fiction Familiar as shadows My enchanted lover Swaddled in gloaming Kissed by the fairies My enchanted lover loves the world
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This weather is mental It’s entirely in my mind But it’s not any less real For taking place inside Ah Ah Ah Soles on the soil Spirit uncoil I kiss the ground that we tread Negative ions Like faerie lights flying All to calm the storm in my head Static discharged Colours bled Moved and changed and mantra said All to calm the storm in my head All to calm the storm in my head All to calm the storm in my head All to calm the storm in my head All to calm the storm in my head All to calm the storm in my head All to calm the storm in my head All to calm the storm in my head Free the wild Quiet the child I kiss the ground that we tread Out in the pines Wandering wynds All to calm the storm in my head Static discharged Colours bled Moved and changed and mantra said All to calm the storm in my head All to calm the storm in my head This weather is mental It’s entirely in my mind But it’s not any less real For taking place inside Ah Ah Ah
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Here’s to the witch on the seventh floor The silver moon hangs above their door You’ll find your centre find your core In shades of petrichor On the seventh floor On the seventh floor In the allotment tending the marrows On their shoulder settles a sparrow And sings as love is reaped and heaped in the barrow So Here’s to the witch on the seventh floor The silver moon hangs above their door You’ll find your centre find your core In shades of petrichor On the seventh floor On the seventh floor It’s wyrd what you can find When you’re looking for yourself Oh mirror in the sky Please send a friend to help One evening in their apartment From a chest they drew a compartment And read my cards as five familiars purred in contentment So Here’s to the witch on the seventh floor The silver moon hangs above their door You’ll find your centre find your core In shades of petrichor On the seventh floor On the seventh floor
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Vernal Spell 03:15
Everything is going to plan The world is catching light Budding writers wake And fledglings take flight I’m starting a new book Ink upon the skin Fertile is the soil Let my life begin I am rabbit I am lamb I am living I am real I am otter I am fox I’m the turning of the wheel
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I do not wish to be perceived And so I step out in the gloaming Among the rust and amber leaves And the mellow wind a-moaning Out on the edge of thought it's quieter as you go Here at the edge of night no one knows When the morning breaks startling is the glow Bringing fools and their concerns in tow I do not wish to be perceived So I shall wear my cloak of midnight Speaking only to the bees And the bats abroad in twilight Strangers hassle and deceive And so I do not wish to be perceived
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Chrysalis 03:02
Facets of a sunbeam Thought I’d seen them all Until my re-emergence When many more would call And when a million fireflies Danced around the blaze Right then I knew my nature Had never been a phase I climbed out of my chrysalis And suddenly everyone was beautiful The sun beamed down The shadow on the dial was spinning round I met the dancing foxes The otters and the bears The wildcats and domestic And the singers of the air I braved an oak in rapture With squirrel friend and owl Decked out all in dewdrops Sidesaddle on a bow I climbed out of my chrysalis And suddenly everyone was beautiful The sun beamed down The shadow on the dial was spinning round The frogs bop in The pink of the sunset By blue pond serene And the bonnie purple heather in between Being seen I climbed out of my chrysalis And suddenly everyone was beautiful The sun beamed down The shadow on the dial would spin I climbed out of my chrysalis And suddenly everyone was beautiful The sun beamed down The shadow on the dial was spinning round
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Bundles 01:14
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I’ve been a ranger for some years The forest had ceased to hold any fears Til one dusky evening there it stood Freestanding staircase deep in the woods It was a void that I could have avoided At the top of that staircase in the woods Should have known it’d do no good And stayed away from that staircase in the woods At the top my mind turned inside out I tumbled down like I had taken a clout Since then my thick skin has turned to bark And no one wants to meet me in the dark It was a void that I would have avoided At the top of that staircase in the woods Should have known it’d do no good And stayed away from that staircase in the woods So if you go out searching for the truth Wrap up warm or you’ll catch your death of wolf And if when wand’ring wildly through the pines You see a staircase just don’t pay it any mind It was a void that I should have avoided At the top of that staircase in the woods Should have known it’d do no good And stayed away from that staircase in the woods Stay away from that staircase in the woods
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Long Shadow 03:39
From my corpse there grew a pine Fast of trunk and strong of spine Looking out along the line But this tall and mighty tree Still no match for you was he Let your branches cover me When you’re around I know You cast a long shadow You keep me guessing Such a long shadow But it’s a blessing You keep me sheltered from the sun You keep me safe so I don’t burn Now reborn I head to town Clad all in your hand me down Mosscap, bracket, coral crown Righting all your favourite wrongs Playing all your favourite songs Feed the bugs and sing along When you’re around I know You cast a long shadow You keep me guessing Such a long shadow But it’s a blessing You keep me sheltered from the sun You keep me safe so I don’t burn Let sparkles dance From branch to branch Like all of my tears still to flow Cause when you’re around I know You cast a long shadow You keep me guessing Such a long shadow But it’s a blessing You keep me sheltered from the sun You keep me safe so I don’t burn Such a long shadow But it’s a blessing You keep me sheltered from the sun You keep me safe so I don’t burn
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In the beating heart between now and next Birds hang in mid flight Until the broken is all fixed I’ll have to hold them all tight From one breath to one blink Leaves float in the air I’ve got to try to more than think Got to weave the air I got stuck in a liminal space In between this time and place Like a sinking ship on the river Styx Birds drown in mid flight Until the broken is all fixed Repeat repeat until right I am become a pillar of faults Here beneath this verdant vault In the breaking heart between now and next Birds hang in mid flight Until the broken is all fixed I’ll have to keep them all right I got stuck in a liminal space In between this time and place I am become a pillar of faults Here beneath this verdant vault Yes, I am become a pillar of faults Here beneath this verdant vault
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Terror begone In your embrace Out of the dark Glows your face Leaves for a beard Wreath of a mane Firefly smile Sweet smell of rain You led me out Led me out of Out of the woods Warped in the bark Trapped for all time That was my fate Also my crime Out of the dark You reached a hand You led me out of the woods You led me out Led me out of Out of the woods Out of the woods Out of the woods
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I sit back and listen to the air It’s fun though everyone says there’s nothing there So seductive it just lays you bare The air Tentatively entering its chorus Intensely as it turns dark to light It’s my wake up call each morning glorious It’s my lullaby into the night I sit back and listen to the air It’s fun though everyone says there’s nothing there So seductive it just lays you bare The air Travels light in feathers like a gypsy Its siren call comes always out the blue Follows its own footsteps through whirling winds Won’t utter a word unless it’s true I sit back and listen to the air Its secret thread weaves through my head eager to share Open up, it’s everywhere The air Don’t make any sudden movements Just keep still til you can hear it clear Chill out and relax or you will lose it The lovely sound of air will disappear I sit back and listen to the air It’s fun though everyone says there’s nothing there So seductive it just lays you bare The air The air The air The air

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Swaddled in Gloaming is a fuzzy, distorted, warm hug of an album in a time when a hug has become a scary thing. It draws on themes of mental health and the natural world, and it is possibly my most (Tarot) cards on the table honest album yet. It is pagan, wild and weird, gentle as a stag, but strong as a doe. I’m delighted to let you all hear it

Best of all, some tracks feature guest vocals from my friends Laura MacFarlane and Becka Gauld, who make my songs sound beautiful

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released January 3, 2023

Songs written by Lewis Mullen
Except Listen To The Air: written by Jill Hepburn; arranged by Lewis Mullen

All vocals and instruments by Lewis Mullen
Except for backing vocals on some tracks by Laura Macfarlane and Becka Gauld

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Lewis Mullen Glasgow, UK

I write the kind of music I'd like to listen to, and I hope you enjoy listening to it to. It's a window into a slightly different world that's a more honest mirror of our own

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