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Northern Arms

by Northern Arms

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1.
Thirty-one thousand feet Between the water and me The steel the sand the sea The steel the sand the sea Was it the dream that drew him out Or the air above the South Over Warm Springs Georgia The night your plane went down There are ways and there are means Who are you gonna leave Cause the ghost's in the ravine So fall to me over Warm Springs Georgia Over Warm Springs Georgia Where the moss is overgrown Lies a bird who never flown And it’s gathering the groans Of a man that lost his own Was it the dream that drew him out Or the air above the South Over Warm Springs Georgia The night your plane went down There are ways and there are means Who are you gonna leave Cause the ghost's in the ravine So fall to me over Warm Springs Georgia Over Warm Springs Georgia
2.
Your son could keep us from falling to pieces Hollow of the hand Host is light a lamb The ninety and nine that lay The ninety and nine that lay Your son couldn't keep us From falling to pieces Callow gentlemen Strike you where you stand The ninety and nine that lay The ninety and nine that lay Your son… The autumn the omen the ninety and nine This is what they bring They slaughtered the showmen the ninety and nine One thousand tongues to sing All that run will pass With a sounding brass The ninety and nine that lay The ninety and nine that lay Your son couldn't keep us From falling to pieces Fed on living bread Tilted straight on end The ninety and nine that lay The ninety and nine that lay Your son… The autumn the omen the ninety and nine Is this what they bring They slaughtered the showmen the ninety and nine One thousand tongues to sing And I’ll do the same thing again Break the fall again Over and over again I’ll break the fall
3.
What You’ve Got On We’re wasting more than time You know me and me oh me oh my What you've got on It's taking more this time Give the me leaving the me behind What you've got on The graces that you send Part of me to break if you don't bend What you've got on The long way that you say Takes the me the me and you away What you've got on It's late what you do want what have you got to say to me is that all you are is that all you want is that all you got to say We’re wasting more than time You know me and me oh me oh my What you've got on Taking northern time From the underused of the undermined What you've got on The part of you that shows Blood of days fading from you're clothes what you've got on
4.
Hold my right hand above Hold me right hold me up nets cast wide without wind send my light bright or dim Falling below the pines No sound of any kind We were not alone We are all alone Emma lee Joy the time it's yours and its mine we don't own the ghost we don't owe the ghost lives we lived deaths we've died weathered shut side by side Hold my right hand above Hold me right hold me up Falling below the pines No sound of any kind We were not alone We are all alone Emma lee Joy the time it's yours and its mine we don't own the ghost we don't owe the ghost
5.
All day on the black road A hooded head to hide All that’s owned is borrowed Until the man hitched a ride They found his hands in Shiloh Dredged the lake in Lee Closed the book in ‘78 Rain erodes the deed On the upward way Suns on sinners rise Upon the low and high Upon the low and high Shores of shackled men Sons of mothers blind Upon the low and high Upon the low and high A million mercies told Of a father’s house of light In the shelter of the fold Sleeps the ninety and nine On the upward way Suns on sinners rise Upon the low and high Upon the low and high Shores of shackled men Sons of mothers blind Upon the low and high Upon the low and high Let the water come down Let the water come down Let the water come down Let the water come down My legs are dead / My legs are dead But my arms won’t tire / My arms won’t tire
6.
For the light left in the room For the blood left in the eye For the ones arrived in twos They will build my gallows high They will build my gallows high For the need I bring to you! To the feet I now confide !For the burning mouth of June They will build my gallows high They will build my gallows high And when I swing Give Thanks and sing For the Joy it brings They will build my gallows high Build my gallows higher than the hills that my God hear me calling when I go
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Last Horse 04:41
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THERE’S NOWHERE TO GO TONIGHT THE NORTHERN ARMS HAVE HELD ME TO THE LIGHT TO THE LIGHT TO THE LIGHT UP FROM BELOW THE MAST THE ARMS THAT PULL THE OAR TOWARD THEE AT LAST THEE AT LAST THEE AT LAST THESE LEGS HERE THEY WILL BEND AND GHOSTS LONG LAID WILL RAISE HEADS AGAIN WITH HAND ON HAND IF NORTHERN ARMS WON’T HOLD YOU I DON’’T NEED ARMS TO HOLD YOU ONLY EYES NO MEMORIES DEVOUR THE BRIER AND THORNS AND EVERY MAN THE FLESH OF HIS OWN ARM THE FLESH OF ARMS DAUGHTERS OF THE FIELD SING FOR ME NO MORE TILL WATERS YIELD WILL WATERS YIELD THOSE WHO RETURN WILL STAND AND GHOSTS LONG LAID WILL RAISE HEADS AGAIN WITH HAND ON HAND IF NORTHERN ARMS WON’T HOLD YOU I DON’’T NEED ARMS TO HOLD YOU ONLY EYES NO MEMORIES WE STEAL A FENCE TO MAKE OUR TENTS TO SETTLE HERE AND HIDE WHEN YOU BURIED US DID YOU BUILD A TRUSS HAVE YOU DRAINED THE RIVER DRY BODIES HAVE DISAPPEARED – WHAT DID THEY HEAR ARE THEY FALLEN IN THE FIRE ONLY EYES ONLY EYES WE SEE WHERE THE WATER ENDS AND THE WATER BENDS AND THE SWAMP IS SET TO RISE IF THE RIFLE WINS AND DESTROYS MY LIMBS YOU REMEMBER I’M ALRIGHT ONLY EYES, ONLY EYES

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Northern Arms music videos:

"Below the Pines" music video
youtu.be/Vl5CEOJXSqA

"What You've Got On" music video
youtu.be/b-T40O_neT8

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released June 17, 2014

Northern Arms is:
Keith Richard Peirce Vocals/Guitar
PJ Brown/Vocals
Eric Bandel/Piano/Vocals
Heather Brann Vocals/Percussion
Michael Tramontana Baritone Sax
Kenneth Brune Clarinet/Vibes
David Kain Trumpet/Synth/Vocals
Angel Ocana/Drums
Jeff White/Bass
Travis Weissman/Lead Guitar

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Northern Arms Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Northern Arms are masters of haunting moods and striking storytelling. Helmed by singer and songwriter Keith Richard Peirce, the ten-piece band incorporates dark imagery with a musical mystique that hits on jazz, folk, and gospel, and blends it with gothic Americana in the vein of 16th Horsepower, Tom Waits and legendary Austin cult faves Lift to Experience.
- John Vettese, WXPN The Key
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