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Roll Back My Tomb Door

from The Imperfect EP by Dogwood

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A song for hope, and rising from the grave.

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ROLL BACK MY TOMB DOOR
by Dogwood

In this underground, this cavern
4 eons I have rested
The soil above my head a stifling dark
Too heavy to grown and too weak to let go
Huddled to the root, a grave, a hollow

Inconstant and weary, enshrined in coiling ivy
The eucalyptus hanging, cold comfort for the damned
Pressing in, sediment, keeping covenant with shadow
The cavern, the citadel is singing

Obfuscated to the bell
They laid their curses well
Blow the lanterns out, grave-cloth laid across my brow
So the right words free me now
Farewell, you shades of madness
Stretch your fine muscles in the sunlight

Roll back my tomb door
Sing joy to the blood in the pine
What winds that blow there be yours
What secrets mine

Blessed are the dead at my side, you offered sweet cakes and wine
Now the lights of the River Lethe are fading
Such a rally cockerel cry, oh it took a long time
Now the Devil weeps to lose me

Limbo is a Bordertown, a chronic callous user
When the gods decide to linger, which light do they leave on?
Electric, an explosion, it’s time to wake up now
I dig no shallow graves, there’s much to climb

Roll back my tomb door
Sing joy to the blood in the pine
What winds that blow there be yours
What secrets mine

Like porcelain, like acid, turn another season
Summer’s been in slumber, and I’ve outgrown this bed of soil
With a temperance, with a reverence (irreverence?) - a balm, a bloody riot
When the heavy rains a-lifted and the hallowed voices cried -

Roll back my tomb door
Sing joy to the blood in the pine
What winds that blow there be yours
What secrets mine

Take the shroud from ‘round my arms
Cry Havoc and Halleluyah
My coffin’s cracked and so I rise
Blood in my roots now

In Hades’ tomb, there grows a rose
A seed reaching up to the stars
Writing ink scrolls in the gloom
And there’s no silencing this blooming heart now

There’s only hunger now, crying “Lover, come back down”
Then calamity wanes, and it awakes me
Farewell you shades in my grave, with your pyrite veins
Whistling epithets, whisper you miss 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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