Song For A Seed

from Thanksgiving by The Whale & The Warbler

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As the light in you begins to glow, as we push your seed into the soil, know that I would die a thousand times before I let you die alone. Your mother, she's got wings like doves. They shine as they both lift her up. But her heart was sick with lack of love for garden's left beneath the snow.

She called me on the telephone that night. She cursed your sleeping body and she cried. I swear I'll stop the shaking soon as I can get her calm.

I used to write your mother songs, filled with sinking ships and loss of love, but each word I wrote upon the page was never how I felt at all.

But I sat with her until you started to show through her pale white sin and layered winter clothes. Each time she'd cry I'd tell her how a garden's meant to grow.

She left upon your death that May, from your browning leaves and new born face, and although your leaves may never green I swear I'll water you until the Spring.

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from Thanksgiving, released September 19, 2013

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The Whale & The Warbler Rochester, New York

The Whale & The Warbler is an evergrowing swing-folk family based out of Rochester, NY. A combination of folk, swing, and thunder claps - the Whale's music is a tribute to the art of story telling and the sheer fun of jumping around to cymbal crashes.

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