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The Knife and the Axe and the Strangling Cord

by Without History

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Special release for Summer Solstice 2022. Inspired by the Source de la Douix in France, (pictured on the cover and the site of ritual water sacrifice for thousands of years well into the Christian period) and Lindow Man from England (bog body and probable sacrificial victim), this song imagines the rituals queer people alienated from medieval Christianity might have practiced at this limpid pool.

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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 pretense 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

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released June 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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