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O Ye Flowers

from The Imperfect EP by Dogwood

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A song for Orpheus & Eurydice.

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O YE FLOWERS
by Dogwood

So you see me
For the thousandth-and-first time
But all that I see
Is the dark, the wine, the death and the light
In so perfect a world
There would be no mist, there would be no tears
But so lies the burden
Of a mind wearied by the traveling years

So bloom, O Ye Flowers
Spread wide the seeds of the old oak tree
Till death do us part, love
Will I search through the leaves for thee
The leaves for thee

I know the dark calls you
Its wine so divine to ignore
Your eyes frozen open
Replaying the pain to a different score
Though your soul hardly knows you,
Such a deep instinct to betray
Just know that I love you
Though with each passing day it gets harder to say

So bloom, O Ye Flowers
Spread wide the seeds of the old oak tree
Till death do us part, love
Will I search through the leaves for thee
The leaves for thee

The truth holds me fast, that my words go unspoken
The gold of my armour is cast,
Though it lies now shattered and broken before thee
Broken before thee

So bloom, O Ye Flowers
Spread wide the seeds of the old oak tree
Till death do us part, love
Will I search through the leaves for thee

O my sweet nymph of the grove, do you remember
How you and I would lay beneath the branches green?
Your eyes are the wilds that my heart clings to
When my courage fails me….

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from The Imperfect EP, released February 5, 2021
Lyrics and Music by DOGWOOD
Mixing and Mastering by Aaron J. Shay

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Dogwood Seattle, Washington

Hailing from the hedge and loam of Seattle's undergrowth, this chimerical songbird aims to weave historical and wax hysterical in the old-new traditions of mountain men, shantymen, and their fellow men as they tromp and twirl acro'st both ancient myth and accidental malady. This mighty troubadour delights in bringing life to the voices of the past, so come and share a pomegranate seed or two! ... more

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