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FEATHERSTITCH

by Eyreton Hall

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1.
Bellbird 05:06
BELLBIRD T Randle As I went walking out one day I left my true love by the way side And I heard the bellbird sing The mountains told me secrets to keep But I walked on with bound and broken feet And I heard the bellbird sing The orchard full of misspent years The grass is long but seldom are the branches bare Heavy with a harvest of misspent years The olive trees swing in the breeze, But gold and silver were stolen by frosty thieves And I heard the bellbird sing But do you remember how we wed, underneath the branches green? Do you remember what you said, underneath the branches green? I wore a dress a shade of red, underneath the branches green The old man works his years away She waits at home, for the day that he’ll say, “I’m coming home to stay” She works her fingers to the bone For this is her kingdom and her throne For they heard the bellbird sing My babies sleep with porcelain skin With cheeks that glow like crab apple trees in July And I heard the bellbird sing And do you remember how we wed, underneath the branches green? Do you remember what you said, underneath the branches green? I wore a dress a shade of red, underneath the branches green And I was lost, now I’m found, for I heard the bellbird, Sing
2.
FEATHERSTITCH T Randle You look at your babies, you look, you look Look deeper love, look deeper love Your finger tips tremble with all that they’ve known Touch longer love, not long enough And how, How do you do it love? And how, How do you face it love? And how, How do you walk with aching feet? With everything so incomplete? When everything is broken The sun and your shadow still follow the light But now it’s betrothed to another And the clay makes an imprint wherever you lie But the rain’s just a jealous lover And how, How do you do it love? And how, How do you face it love? And how, How do you walk with aching feet? With everything so incomplete? When everything is broken
3.
Lovelessly 03:59
LOVELESSLY A Keegan Daybreak, Our sunrise It’s cold, No surprise We sit, side by side Our sins come to light So don’t go, stay with me We’ll talk breathlessly We’ll walk through the day Restless come what may We gathered up the words we never said Rearranged them in our heads We had enough of things that made no sense So we’re at the start again We made a vow to never, never ever lie Cause the truth is like a song So won’t you sing to me? Sing to me of change Of the reasons, you do remain It’s night Blind as love Your breath comes in clouds One spark is all we need
4.
The Marriage 04:11
THE MARRIAGE T Randle You and I, we disagree Except on that one thing which we agree You and I see things differently Except on that one thing which we see similarly Except for that And that’s okay with me You’re always stubborn when I’m always right And sometimes I’m stubborn when maybe you’re always right too You see the grass as much greener elsewhere And I look at elsewhere and feel tired just thinking of the mowing Except for that And that’s okay with me And that’s okay with me And sometimes you plug in my phone without me even asking And sometimes I let you sleep in even though I’m plain exhausted And sometimes you hold my hand when my doubt is crushing explicit And sometimes you close all the doors but I wait it out, as I calmly put back the scissors And that’s okay with me And that’s okay with me Sometimes I just look at you and I know That you know, and knowing that you do Well that’s okay With me THE MARRIAGE T Randle You and I, we disagree Except on that one thing which we agree You and I see things differently
5.
Ladders 04:52
LADDERS T Randle As the morning bludgeons the evening and the darkness is all but a scent And your footprints shatter the slivers of stars into tiny shards where you went And the howls ring out through the frozen air for the wolves have not yet been released And they’ll greet you with a loyalty reserved for lovers, but you can never trust the beast And the kowhai tree could never bare the burden of snow And the knowing winter would bring and how your discontentment would grow And the skyline’s beauty bruised, set behind poplar trees Makes her heart hang its heavy head, the weight set to buckle her knees She’s down on her knees And she’ll sit in her refuge of silver and she’ll write till her fingers are numb Some she’ll keep but most she will discard in the hope that others will come And the wood smoke swift and inviting tells of days much different from these She’s surrounded by boxes that lie open mouthed, unassuming and willing to please And the kowhai tree could never bare the burden of snow And she’ll clap her hands and destroy him and the sound will hollow resound But she’ll gravely underestimate how she will wound him and the ladders that he’ll place around
6.
JUST IN CASE ALLELUJAH T Randle Sun on my back in the morning Yes I am afraid of dying Leaving behind all my treasures Yes I am afraid of dying Would not the birds stop their chorus? Would not the trees in the forest – stop bow their heads to acknowledge a life, A life well spent, a life with intent? No they would not For all the years that I’ve wasted Yearning for more than I’ve tasted Failing to be in the moment Yes I am afraid of dying Would not the birds stop their chorus? Would not the trees in the forest – stop bow their heads to acknowledge a life, A life well spent, a life with intent? No they would not Would not the rain’s salty sorrows Fall from forlorn faded skies? All in a bid to acknowledge a life, A life well spent, a life with intent No they would not Faultless, Faceless Feathered, Flightless Gleamed, Glistening Allelujah, Allelujah Tread without trace, Walk with grace Allelujah, Allelujah Scarlet, splendour Allelujah, Allelujah
7.
Crippling 04:02
CRIPPLING T Randle I’m not as supple as I used to be This fruit has been used and abused My resilient nature so eager to please And it’s crippling dear, isn’t it? And if this is an upper, then what of the downers? Endorphins set to explode And I thank god you tolerate me like you do And it’s crippling dear, isn’t it? It’s so crippling dear, isn’t it? And it was always you It was always you It was always you
8.
SALT AND SIXPENCE T Randle Salt and sixpence for your thoughts Never endings of sorts Flat as the ocean I will rock you gently And I’ll try to sway in time Until you change key And all of the ladies in their gilded frames Their painted mouths barely concealing their disdain Your false bravado makes for interesting reading And nothing will ever grow, if you don’t stop the bleeding And if you’ll be my boat, then I’ll be the blue And I’ll try not to float, too close to you So flicker and dance little light in the inky black sea of me, and I’ll sail out to greet you, To greet me And for every note that is perfect and true, your imperfections have a much brighter hue For every look that’s directed at me, reflects in a mirror for all to see
9.
DAVID AND GOLIATH T Randle For I know your face so well, and the lines with tales to tell For I know you are not strong, but I’ll try to help you carry on And for Joy we know he sings Songs of innocence, memories of springs And Pat-a-cake will wear his ring, Queen of his heart But to his maker now he clings David weep for Goliath For he was good, brave and strong Raise your hands in surrender He is safe He is where he belongs There’s a faint breeze in the air I will help her wash you bare As the decorations dance One last look, One final glance
10.
Parachutes 02:20
PARACHUTE T Randle I’m leaving home again I’m leaving home again With the stars I’ve collected in an old gumboot With the scent of you in my parachute I’m leaving home again I’m leaving home again I’m leaving home again With a stain burnt orange on my tongue of you With a burgeoning pain in my left eye tooth I’m leaving home again And I’ll stand on the porch by the door once more And I’ll bid you farewell like I did before Cause I’m leaving home again I’m leaving home again
11.
SOFT HEARTED ANNE T Randle Little Anne is so soft hearted and her hands are only small But her Mumma will not see it Her biggest regret of all And her Daddy’s shoulders slumber - far too shamed to try at all He’ll concern himself with numbers - they won’t ask him to grow tall And through this life soft she wanders, spreading all her laughter and light Can’t they see she’s the lyric of a gypsy? Little Anne is beauty’s sight And although she’ll one day marry, find a love that’s pure and still And her darlings will adore her But now life’s a bitter pill Darkened arrows quick to find flesh Quick to throw but hard to catch And still she will walk on magic Softhearted but still intact Round and round it goes
12.
AND SO IT GOES T Randle I will love you till my eyes don’t shine And so it goes And I will want you till the last of the summer wine And so it goes And so it goes But darling I’ll surely hurt you with some silly thing I said And so it goes But darling you make, you make my sun set a brighter red And so it goes And so it goes

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"Something of golden, summery innocence; Randle's vocals reach and caress, tender and haunting. The album fingers the sense of yearning that is easily buried beneath the hum-drum and demands of busy lives;

Feeling the way through the gamut of the human experience –
channeling the joy of being alive in “Bellbird” as open-heartedly as when reaching for raw places that few of us dare linger over, such as in “Crippling”.

The humanity of this album is one of its strengths, drawing as it does on the ordinary, extraordinary experiences of a man and a woman; babies are born; there are the Christchurch earthquakes and a community simultaneously ripped apart and fused together; a friend dies; there is the brief tasting of an unspeakable and transcendent beauty.

Keegan is such an emotive drummer and there is a tangible strength in the creative interplay of Eyreton Hall’s many talented collaborators with complex melodies playing against bare spaces and easily traversed interludes, so that the album strikes a yin-yang, Bic Runga-esque piquancy; melancholic enough to matter, playful and light enough to make the journey a sweet one."

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released November 21, 2014

Toni Randle and Andrew Keegan

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Eyreton Hall Auckland, New Zealand

Andrew Keegan and Toni Randle are the alt folk duo, Eyreton Hall.
From different parts of the antipodes, Toni, born in Christchurch and Andy in Sydney. Toni had a misspent youth filled with dancing, singing and piano lessons. Andy played big band drums and busked every weekend.
Their worlds collided at the Sydney Conservatorium where both were studying that lesser-known folk sub genre – jazz.
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