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The Tree and the Snow and the Sinking Pool

by Without History

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This is the digital only version of this song. If you have already purchased the tape release SOLSTICE SONGS, you already have this song and my profound gratitude.

The Tree and the Snow and the Sinking Pool is a special release for winter solstice 2022. Featuring the same characters as The Knife and the Axe and the Strangling Cord this rounds out a story of queer pagan water sacrifice in medieval Europe.

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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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released December 14, 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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