O Gatherer

from Many Things at Once by Birch & Brine

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Gatherer, I'm weary when you're standing far away
Joy's a brightly feathered bird with little now to say
There's writing on all the walls. Is this fire falling down today?
We are growing lonesome at the look of empty rooms
Cutting stones to help remember, cutting stones for tombs
Walk me through these wild woods; give me respite from the fray

Carry me, O, Gatherer
You have put my sorrows in a bottle of your own
Most of them I've brought to bear
Following the wind with feet that ever try to roam
But you are home, you are home
Carry me

Hope is lying stirless on a dried out river bed
Praying with a saline lip to waken from the dead
I need something lovely soon, even beauty's wound to clear my head

Carry me, O, Gatherer
You have put my sorrows in a bottle of your own
Most of them I've brought to bear
Following the wind with feet that ever try to roam
But you are home, you are home
Carry me

Gatherer, both war and peace have played their given scene
Even so, this world was never quite enough for me

Carry me, O, Gatherer
You have put my sorrows in a bottle of your own
Most of them I've brought to bear
Following the wind with feet that ever try to roam
But you are home, you are home
Carry me

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from Many Things at Once, released June 3, 2022

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Birch & Brine Knoxville, Tennessee

ETHAN NORMAN and ADAM WHIPPLE, with a high-energy blitzkrieg of harmonies and steel-string solos, happening somewhere in the woods or on a beach.

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