Bowerbirds – Ghost Life

Today’s song comes in from the Raleigh, North Carolina indie-folk (sometimes described as nu-folk) band Bowerbirds.  Consisting of members Beth Tacular, Phil Moore, and Matt Damron, Bowerbirds have released 2 full-length LPs since their debut EP “Danger at Sea” in 2006.  Ghost Life can be found on the band’s most recent album Upper Air, released on July 7th of this year.  The band is currently in the throws of a US tour that is scheduled to wrap up in Atlanta, Georgia on February 12th of next year; a full tour schedule can be found on the band’s website here.  For more from the Upper Air album, as well as the previous full-length release Hymns for a Dark Horse, the band is streaming a number of songs on their MySpace here.

At the margins of the land i get to know your skin
Where the sand dunes slope into a wild ocean
Where the great plain heaps into a jagged mountain
Oh I feel your heart swell with the ghost life here
So magnificent

And yet some days we are stones cold and stuck
Whether in time or place or head or heart
But dear we’ll never feel the years with the wind at our backs
And we can live our days in a ghost life here
So magnificent

Oh blood
Ocean blood
Salty blood
Flows like torrents through our hearts
And knows just what it wants

Love
Shapeless love
Wild, tireless love
Fast in the free ether
Ghostly white
And seething hot

Sky
Ocean sigh
Dark mirror shine
Swift to the backs of our eyes
Deep wanting eyes

Related posts:

• Think About Life – Sweet Sixteen
• The Ghost Is Dancing – Battles On
• The Ghost is Dancing – This Thunder
• Wintersleep – Weighty Ghost
• Think About Life – Havin’ My Baby

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