But you have and now there's a bad situation a bad situation
I'm gonna put a hex on your head a hex on your head I'm gonna put a hex on your head a hex on your head
They always say never fuck with a witch
You should have kept your claws in your hands your claws in your hands
You should have kept your tongue in your mouth your tongue in your mouth
You should have kept your words in your throat your words in your throat
They always say never fuck with a witch
Black Dog
Can you see the black dog over there can you see the black dog over there can you see the black dog over there it follows me it follows me
Can you see the blood in its eyes can you see the blood in its eyes can you see the blood in its eyes that blood is mine that blood is mine
Can you see the heart on its tongue can you see the heart on its tongue can you see the heart on its tongue that heart is mine that heart is mine
Can you see the black dog over there can you see the black dog over there can you see the black dog over there it follows me it follows me
Cave Mouth
I'm in a cave and it's dark here oh it's dark here
I'm in a cave and it's dark here oh it's dark here
So I take out my heart and I hold it up
I take out my heart and I hold it up
It shows me a way but it's gonna take a while to get there it's gonna take a while to get there
Will you be there at the cave mouth at the cave mouth
Oh will you be there at the cave mouth at the cave mouth
I'm in a cave and it's dark here oh it's dark here
Cry
It's ok to cry It's ok to cry you tried you tried
It's ok to cry It's ok to cry you tried you tried
It's ok to hide It's ok to hide you tried you tried
It's ok to hide It's ok to hide you tried you tried
You have my hands in yours You have my hands in yours it's ok it's ok
It's ok to cry It's ok to cry you tried you tried
Emotead
Ghost Heart
Look at it my ghost heart my ghost heart Look at it my ghost heart my ghost heart
I put a knife to my chest I make a thin incision in the skin and pull it back slowly and with care
I use my fingers to hollow through the flesh and scoop out my sick organ
Move it around on your palm notice how quiet it is not even a hum and pale pale as the candles I'm burning from sun up to sun down
Now give it back I must care for it until it is soft again until it sings
Howl
Suckling the skulls of children heartsick for the wolf who left her for the moon
She howls the way he taught her hoping to bring him back though nothing can bring him down from the sky
Suckling the skulls of children heartsick for the wolf who left her for the moon
I Woke Up Wolf
This morning I woke up wolf
not woman but wolf not woman but wolf I woke up wolf canis lupus vuk vik ulv susi varg
I woke up I woke up wolf
I woke up mottled grey fur I woke up dirty
I woke up sharp teeth I woke up heavy head
I woke up moon inside my heart
I woke howling
I woke up I woke up wolf
Run With Us
The wolf he spoke to me and he said what are you waiting for run run with us run with us
The wolf he spoke to me and he said what are you waiting for run what are you waiting for run with us
The wolf he spoke to me and he said what are you waiting for run what are you waiting for run with us
Outside the wolves are singing and I must go there is much to hunt before I sleep before I sleep
The wolf he spoke to me and he said what are you waiting for run run with us what are you waiting for run run with us
So I I ran with the wolves and I sang in their chorus and I knew life again again
The wolf he spoke to me and he said what are you waiting for run run with us what are you waiting for run run with us
The Pale Fox
I told him not to go to the forest that day not to take the pale fox's life away he came back that night with her over his shoulder fur and eyes white as elderflowers
My Mother said your Father will go mad the forest will see to that the forest will see to that.
My Mother said your Father will go mad the pale fox will see to that the pale fox will see to that
I follow the path back to a silent den I find the cubs there, tiny and white I move them down, deep into the earth I fill the den in
locking them deep within locking them deep within locking them deep within
My Mother said your Father will go mad the forest will see to that the forest will see to that
My Mother said your Father will go mad the pale fox will see to that the pale fox will see to that
The fever starts, oh quite suddenly Father goes to bed, to bed for days
He talks of nothing nothing but the foxes that come every day, that come every day
I bury her one night, just inside the woods and that night he dies, my Father dies
My Mother said your Father will go mad the forest will see to that the forest will see to that
My Mother said your Father will go mad the pale fox will see to that the pale fox will see to that
Woman Of The Way
Hands weathered like the ancient cliffs bloodlines painted bright onto her skin outstretched in the rain she brings forward all the memories of forgotten myths
Tracing the knowing on her face maps of times long ago she’s travelled beside many silent footsteps towards paths foretold
She is the oak rain and sun mother to all mother to none from antler to tooth wing and bone she is felt near she is our home
(Lyrics by Meghan)
Wendigo
My Father is late returning home
The sun is soon to set the windows have gathered fresh frost
My Grandfather scrapes the panes clear with the side of his axe
He stands at the window as night falls fast
My Mother she wishes we lived closer to town
She's afraid of the wolves and what they may have done
Grandfather says I told him not to go for I heard the song of the Wendigo
He will come home Wendigo or never or never or never
He will come home Wendigo or never or never
The night is all storms when Father comes home
His face is nothing I know
Through the window we watch him stalking the house
For hours the door rattles before he learns how to get in
Witch Of The Northern Forest
The witch in the northern forest flies with no broom beneath her
You know you're entering her territory when the air turns bitter in your mouth and you find a circle of animals rotting which all look as though they're smiling
There's a witch in the forest there's a witch in the forest there's a witch there's a witch there's a witch
There's a witch in the forest there's a witch in the forest there's a witch there's a witch there's a witch
There's little time before she arrives the one whose ancestors laughed at the stake while flames licked away their flesh
The witch gathers up the small children in her arms like wild flowers
There's a witch in the forest there's a witch in the forest there's a witch there's a witch there's a witch
There's a witch in the forest there's a witch in the forest there's a witch there's a witch there's a witch
Never a trace is discovered of these lost ones except crying heard from between the trees
Black Moon
They say her heart is of the dark with a mouth of a lioness and devious tongue an astral habit gone awry as she guards pylons lit with flame some call her the whore of the universe swallowing man whole but it is she who reigns in freedom hearing the dead and sending them home treacherous one Lady of the Flame transformation a collective unconscious as souls pass after death to lunar rebirth she remains at her gate shadows at her feet
(Lyrics by Meghan)
Pesta
It's 1349 and in Askøy Norway on a boat the plague arrives
one man sees her leave carrying a rake and a broom
before the boat is set alight and pushed back into the sea
Pesta Pesta will she take your life or spare it for now
Pesta Pesta will she take your life or spare it for now
Word it spreads like wildfire folk lock their windows and doors
but Pesta goes from farm to farm it's impossible to keep her away
If she carries her rake there's chance of escape if she carries her broom you're doomed
You'll be swept you'll be swept you'll be swept away you'll be swept away by her broom
Pesta Pesta will she take your life or spare it for now Pesta Pesta will she take your life or spare it for now
Wolf In The House
Granddaughter come down from your bedroom there's a wolf in the house Granddaughter come down from your bedroom there's a wolf in the house
He says that he knows you he knows you he knows you he says that he knows you he knows you
Granddaughter come down from your bedroom there's a wolf in the house
He says that he met you one cold winter night when the moon was full and the snow was bright
He says that he met you one cold winter night when the moon was full and the snow was bright
Granddaughter come down from your bedroom there's a wolf in the house
He says you're to go you're to go with with him now he says you're to go with him now
Granddaughter come down from your bedroom there's a wolf in the house
The wolf he's growling he's snarling at me I fear I fear I'm to die
The wolf he's growling he's snarling at me I fear I fear I'm to die
Granddaughter come down from your bedroom there's a wolf in the house
Black Annis
One day two brothers set out to find the oak where Black Annis is said to hide and wait for children to walk on by to walk on by
As they go they recite a verse well know, well known, well known since they were small each eager to impress the other
Don't go to the Dane Hills Black Annis haunts them Black Annis she kills
Don't go to the Dane Hills Black Annis haunts them Black Annis she kills
There's the oak the elder says to the younger
There's the oak where Black Annis hides
The young lad feels the air it change
His throat becomes dry it no longer feels like a game he knows she flays children alive
The lads run fast they don't look back they look back
Once home the elder boy smiles he laughs and slaps the back of his brother
Don't go to the Dane Hills Black Annis Haunts them Black Annis she kills
Don't go to the Dane Hills Black Annis Haunts them Black Annis she kills
One by one the family fall fast asleep but the youngest lad is wide awake as the coals in the fire grow cold
Then he hears at the window a soft, soft, tapping
So peeks from under his blanket he peeks from under his blanket to see, to see the face of Black Annis to see the face of Black Annis
Don't go to the Dane Hills Black Annis Haunts them Black Annis she kills
Banshee
In a small, stone cottage on an lonely moor a child is born
But from outside awful cries rise and rise they rise and rise
When the banshee beckons you must go you must go when the banshee beckons you must go you must go
At the window drifts a woman eyes red from weeping she beckons through the window pane the window pane
When the banshee beckons you must go, you must go when the banshee beckons you must go you must go
The mother staggers out her child in arms her child cries then gone are they gone are they gone are they
Lycanthrope
When the maiden sipped from the mountain stream she didn't know the waters were infused with dark magic of another time
Lycanthrope lycanthrope lycanthrope
And when the moon was next at the full A lust for killing claimed her heart it claimed her heart
And she rose in the form of a wolf she rose in the form of a wolf
Lycanthrope lycanthrope lycanthrope
Children began to vanish the townsfolk hunted far they hunted wide for the beast with four clawed toes
Nothing was suspected of the beautiful maiden she spoke not a word for she knew the stake would be the price she would pay
Lycanthrope lycanthrope lycanthrope
Only Night Now
My stories take longer to tell I'm cold I think I'm almost gone
Night it's only night now no more blinking in the sun night it's only night now time's a wound a painful one night it's only night now night it's only night now
I thought my soul would scale the mountain I thought I'd find the path again
Night it's only night now no more blinking in the sun night it's only night now time's a wound a painful one night it's only night now night it's only night now
Barghest
A sickle moon hangs in the sky and a young man travels a narrow country lane he knows home isn't far away
But blazing eyes watch him oh blazing eyes watch him
Barghest Barghest hear its howl and you'll lose your life Barghest Barghest hear its howl and you'll lose your life
As a child his mother told him of a black beast with burning red eyes which if appears before you you're sure to die but he laughed at the tale oh he laughed at the tale
Barghest Barghest hear its howl and you'll lose your life Barghest Barghest hear its howl and you'll lose your life
It's when the moon slips behind cloud that he hears the howl of the Barghest and he wishes he'd stayed home by the hearth home by the heart with his mother
Barghest Barghest hear its howl and you'll lose your life Barghest Barghest hear its howl and you'll lose your life
When She Walks
When she walks the pines they moan and whisper crows hide their heads in their feathers wild beasts dare not breathe
He shouldn't have come to the forest alone he shouldn't have come here at all
The blacks of her eyes the blacks of her eyes reflect nothing
He shouldn't have come to the forest alone he shouldn't have come here at all
His final breath is a scream that's heard for the best part of a mile his final breath is a scream that's heard for the best part of a mile
He shouldn't have come to the forest alone he shouldn't have come here at all
Beyond Us
Beyond us there's a ghost your hands are almost cold in mine in mine
You recognize its shape and whisper to me it's her she's here
And I know I've lost you and now you'll go to the other side and only I'll know why only I'll know why only I'll know why
Beyond us there's a ghost your hands are almost cold in mine in mine
Hecate
Mother of witches Queen of ghosts Keeper of Hell's keys Bringer of storms
I Follow The Wolves
I follow the wolves I run in their tracks I open my throat I'm not coming back
