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The Magical Flying Rowan Tree

from The Highway Moves the World by The Pinkerton Raid

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"The Magical Flying Rowan Tree" is for those people in our lives who protect us with their joy and an earthen prayer for when they lose it. (Dedicated to C.R.E.G, defender of the good).

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They named that child for a tree that flies
with the fairies of the woods
Long fingers waltz like magic batons,
tiptoes tappin’, roots in dirt old as earth

Rowan flies above the door. Rowan, child, you guard our joy
Rowan flies above the door. Rowan, child, you guard … us

We’re lost out here, child. We wander the miles.
Wicked riddles bewitch us.
Your sister the rose lays her thorns in the road,
but the sun laughs, bright, when you light up the sky

The roots are strong in this holy-rollin’ grove,
down in the soil where they cling to one another
The rowan tree fell, blood rain from the sky;
mountain kings, winter deities keep hold

credits

from The Highway Moves the World, track released December 3, 2021
Jesse James DeConto: vocals, guitar
Jon DePue: bass
Scott McFarlane: drums
David Wimbish: audio production, guitar, organ
Adam Gonsalves/Telegraph: mastering

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