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Northern Thorns

by Northern Thorns

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1.
Who Fell 04:30
Who fell into the light now? Who failed here? Who failed over and over? Who’d have had a chance at all? Maybe there could be no other Got you coming and going, got no towel to throw in Got no real way of knowing Who quelled their angry thought and said nothing? 'Cause what's the use in chiding one who's already suffering? When your sorrow and hatred and your fear become sacred Your thin heart will be weighted It won't always feel bad You don't need to fear that You don't need to be sorry I'm not angry with you You don't need to fear that You don't need to be sorry
2.
Confusion 04:05
Why do we adhere to our sorrow and suffering? Why do we appear to reject every other thing? What do we attain turning in on our solitude? Why do we disdain learning truth of our longitude? Why do we adhere to emotional idleness? Why do we adhere to the notions that stifle us? Why do we have fear when tomorrow’s another thing? Why do we adhere to our sorrow and suffering? Help me on my way Oh god, don't let me die in confusion Oh god, give me a moment of certainty My thoughts were thorns and my thin heart was fluttering Although I was born with my bread and my buttering Run out of the woods for my sorrow and suffering Run out of the woods for my father and mothering Help me on my way Oh god, don't let me die in confusion Oh god, give me a moment of certainty
3.
You never know, til you do How a comforting thought could be cruel to you My heart was a cork and the whole world was a poem Your words in my ears, they will never leave What is your life worth? What did we assume? How safe is your life? How deep is your love? You never know
4.
I got comfortable inside misery Never asking that thought what it did for me Over time it grew opaque for you It's why I can't stay with you Don't you scorn me, fucker, you have it too Here's your new pattern, my gift to you Binding me to you If you can't feel it surrounding you, Kill me again and this time I die for you Again and again If you lose your vision when your pain fades, reverse it If your best ambitions slip through your days, reverse it When you fear, you're following thought to nowhere Again and again, over and over, again and again
5.
Weight 03:20
All the time we're weighed How much weight can you lift? How do you get through at all? Or know your weight at all?
6.
Idiohead 07:35
Strange It moves without coaxing, grows without days A purpose is potion, fear is your shade I circle back on myself in my brain What do you call life or losing? What do you want, flight or movement? The hue of your eyes was blue then Make up your mind and I can promise you then You will be alright, Idiohead Although youth turns to dust in older heads There's a fault in our minds that wets our beds Why do they thrash against impermanence? Every choice that you have is your best friend
7.
Lanterns 05:53
You will never be what you attain, or can endure You are what you love Dear friends, don’t you cheat yourself When somebody come unbidden to you to show their self When they go deeper than you’re at, don’t start freakin’ out Don’t punish them who say hard things, no Seek them out Why do we bore each other with our small shit? Squint to glimpse our pattern, but still follow it? If knowing love is water then we’re all thirsty At what price come peace within your family? Holding a lantern to your life Wondering who you were Why’d you lie to me? Every pain undescribed, every word unheard Why’d you lie to me? If we go with no knowing, will we know where we’re going? You will never be what you attain, or can endure You are what you love If you’re working on blindness, I’m working on seeing I am you, and like you, I never dream Knowing love is water and we’re all thirsty At what price come peace within your family? You will never be what you attain, or can endure You are what you love
8.
Bonfire 04:46
Oh brother, I see you suffering See you losing all your lies Holding tight, keeping your blood inside Keeping color in your eyes Oh brother, I know the night is dark Build your love into a bonfire Still alive within my teeth at night Stuck in thin ruts in my mind Patterned on using our knowledge wrong You disarmed me when you died Oh brother, I know the night is dark Build your love into a bonfire A fog on all memory The same youth as the one you had Show them what you're fighting for Show them what the fire is for Show them what's there
9.
You will never be what you attain, or can endure You are what you love Dear friends, don’t you cheat yourself When somebody come unbidden to you to show their self When they go deeper than you’re at, don’t start freakin’ out Don’t punish them who say hard things, no Seek them out Why do we bore each other with our small shit? Squint to glimpse our pattern, but still follow it? If knowing love is water then we’re all thirsty At what price come peace within your family? Holding a lantern to your life Wondering who you were Why’d you lie to me? Every pain undescribed, every word unheard Why’d you lie to me? If we go with no knowing, will we know where we’re going? You will never be what you attain, or can endure You are what you love If you’re working on blindness, I’m working on seeing I am you, and like you, I never dream Knowing love is water and we’re all thirsty At what price come peace within your family? You will never be what you attain, or can endure You are what you love

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The first full length release from Northern Thorns

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released October 5, 2018

Music and words by Adam Kozie
Performed by Adam Kozie, Lalo Bello, Jared Borkowski, Tristan Gianola, Scott Teske and Ian Williams
Recorded by Adam Kozie and Robert Cheek
Mixed by Robert Cheek
Mastered by Blake Bickel

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