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Staircase in the Woods

from Swaddled in Gloaming by Lewis Mullen

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Who built it? Why? Was it part of a bigger structure that crumbled away against the implacable march of entropy? Why do people flinch when I walk in a room?

Inspiration for this song:
www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/3iex1h/im_a_search_and_rescue_officer_for_the_us_forest/

Thread through the woods I/IV

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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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from Swaddled in Gloaming, released January 3, 2023

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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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