SOLSTICE SONGS, by Without History

SOLSTICE SONGS

by Without History

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SOLSTICE SONGS
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Home produced cassette single featuring The Knife and the Axe an the Strangling Cord and new song The Tree and the Snow and the Sinking Pool. A dyad of songs celebrating summer and winter solstice released for winter solstice 2022. Inlay features a short essay and lyrics. Each cassette is hand labelled. First run limited to 20 copies. Can be hand signed and dedicated on request.

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1.	The Knife and the Axe and the Strangling Cord 03:25	lyrics
The knife and the axe and the rope that holds them A threefold embrace, a threefold death Our hair interwoven makes a strangling cord The still pond a doorway to another world The old gods are worshipped on this day not others The old gods embraced by Christ's cast out Her arm in her arm and his hand in his hand Our love finds in the water such fertile ground And her arm in her arm and his hand in his hand The iron in my hand weighs like a stone Wet with the dew of a long past midsummer dawn The pool claims our sacrifice Killing tools sinking from sight I remember the sight of her vulnerable balls Hairless and naked in midsummer dawn The stone crashes down with full force of my body A scream full of pain, a scream of release. The knife and the axe and the strangling cord And today of all days she can be who she needs to be Today of all days no pretence no more lies Hair brushed and shining, skirts full and dancing Face wide and open the rarest sight. Offerings made, our clothes shrugged off Bodies oft hidden shown without shame Her smooth soft breasts, her small soft prick Her smooth skin against mine, her smooth skin against mine. And the bodies in the bog are watching us The bodies in the bog watch over us The bodies in the bog bless our love As we all move together we all move together
2.	The Tree and the Snow and the Sinking Pool 03:35	lyrics
Four tracks in the snow Driven deep as our sorrow Her body lies limp on our shoulders Neck livid red Hands and fingernails shredded To a mess of tatters and rags On a tree twisted and bare She hung like a pear Grown fat with the juice of their hatred And we cut her down With her suicide's crown Disowned by a God who never loved her And the bog calls to us Through the frost they call to us Sun borne Night called Midsummer long past Her smiles long faded A moment was never enough A half man to family A eunuch with no temple No place for her in this small stupid world And I should have saved her a second time Wed her with the violence of a stone crashing down Crushed down the shame as I once crushed her balls And loved as the women we knew ourselves to be Wet cheeks and cold hands and quavering screams We'll soon make her clean. Weigh down the body Place her face down Watch her sink slowly Till the peat claims her crown Her smooth soft breasts, her small soft prick The body in the bog loved me once The body in the bog loved me once.

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This is the digital version of the physical release of Without History's summer and winter solstice singles (available on here separately). Download free at your leisure (put zero for price and click through). For digital only pay what you feel purchases please go to the single listings for The Knife and the Axe and the Strangling Cord and The Tree and the Snow and the Sinking Pool.

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released December 21, 2022

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Without History Wales, UK

Without History is one trans girl, her bass guitars and her looper. Exploring trans history through neofolk and post punk inspired music these songs try to imagine the lives of our trans ancestors in all their messy queer detail.

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