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Subtle Cruelties

by Barren Harvest

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1.
The Bleeding 05:15
2.
Memoriam I 00:56
3.
Memoriam II 04:59
Beneath this flame you disappear your light a prayer on deafened ear Fly my flame, the stars they run a web is wove across the sky I fail my blood These thine like orbs of light and shade thy maddest life, thy maddest death your foot upon the skull your foot upon the skull which you have made
4.
Memoriam III 00:10
5.
Heavens Age 06:35
Where you falter beyond my reach where you fell beyond, unseen Here lie broken All these roses that you and I slip beneath pages of our word, of our sin all these songbirds that you and I place within cages to still a voice, to stop a fear What caused heavens to age what caused this sword to snap All light stops beneath our hands in your skull this glass is sand here lie broken and die in mid-bloom here lie broken sigh, shudder, and lie within thought
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Memoriam IV 00:09
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Coil Uncoil 05:14
Cold and tired in the twilight to reflect on what's lost trapped in time, bent and withered so much beauty is lost I surround myself in the darkness without light I see clear and I can't escape from the echos coil uncoil, coil uncoil now I see what is lost Shadows veil the dim valley so much beauty is lost golden bough in my hands no more strength in these arms coil uncoil, coil uncoil As the rust takes the iron, coil uncoil through these halls shattered ivory, coil uncoil as the ash coats the orchard, coil uncoil in this my bitter autumn, coil uncoil in this my bitter autumn, coil uncoil
8.
Memoriam V 01:27
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So pale so pale this heart has worn pale and pale these hollowed bones claw and feather now become she wants to be flowers Claw and feather my beautiful flower You are mourning skin cold to touch darkened skies cold and lost in our skin we have love hollowed shell cold to the touch in our skin chaos reigns have no fear beautiful
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Memoriam VI 06:52
Old trees grasp at stones they name the underlying dead their fibers net the dreamless head roots will wrap around bone roots will wrap around bones Gazing on this sullen tree I have failed sickened by its stubborn strength I have failed I grow incorporate into this ancient vein I have failed sorrow's cruel fellowship worshiped in the vault of death I have failed my own blood I have failed my own blood Gazing on this sullen tree sickened by its stubborn strength sorrows create fellowship worshiped in the vault of death
11.
Reveal 10:03
Through realms of sleep, here truth lies formless joy and grief, hollow she walks in arbors of night Then in days warm and blue as hope and heart form in you but she wasn't there with thee oh how the light obscures her beauty Free me from this light free me from this grave These dying suns, these dying stars they pull no longer reveal, reveal To bend to tear in this gale and be no longer reveal, reveal The dreamer, the believer, has opened up his veins these dying moons spin out of view, then pull to you reveal, reveal These dying suns these dying stars reveal to end the day to end the night reveal, reveal The dreamer has opened up his veins reveal, reveal the believer has opened up his veins reveal, reveal
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Released 2014 on Handmade Birds

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released March 15, 2014

Barren Harvest is
Lenny Smith: vocals/synth
Jessica Way: vocals/guitar/autoharp/synth/bulbul tarang

All songs by Barren Harvest. lyrics for the Memoriam series adapted in part from the poem "In Memoriam" by Alfred Lord Tennyson. Lyrics for The Bleeding/Subtle Cruelty adapted in part from the poem "The Silent Articulation of a Face" by Rumi

cover and tree photography: Jessica Way, all other photography: Veleda Thorsson
Design, logo and layout by Kevin Gan Yuen

Recorded by Jessica Way, Mixed by Greg Wilkinson @ Earhammer Studios, Mastered by James Plotkin

Very special thanks to the following individuals made this album possible: Rich Loren, Kevin Gan Yuen, Andrew S Way, Javon Smith, Veleda Thorsson, Greg Wilkinson, James Plotkin
Thank you to the following for your love and support: The Smith/Noel Family, The Way Family, Atriarch, Worm Ouroboros. Agalloch, Sutekh Hexen, Alaric, Ash Borer, Aaron Jones, Matthew Waldron, Garek Jon Druss, Chiyo Nukaga, Blake Green, Patricia Cram, Ryan Jencks, James Livingston, Mike Meacham, Jake Rothlisberger, Zack Allen

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Barren Harvest Portland, Oregon

Barren Harvest is the collaboration between Lenny Smith (Atriarch/Trees) and Jessica Way (Worm Ouroboros/Kinit Her/Lachrymarum)

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