THE AXE

from FRANK' S LAMENT (EP) by BABAL

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Entirely different territory for “The Axe”, a plangent folk fable of almost medieval brutality. Karen lulls us into a mysteriously dark description of violence in the forest; who has the axe? What was the crime? Slow, rhythmic drums and music build as the voice progresses, coming right down again to a menacing whispered warning at the end of the song; “Talk quietly, but carry a big stick....” An entrancing oddity pulsing with a dark underbelly.

lyrics

An axe is for cutting and chopping you'll find,
Do not look for things to grind, like gossip at the garden gate, all curdled into liquid HATE.
Take no axe to your neighbours neck, when he clings to opinion like a twisting vine;
Let the blade chop, heavy and keen.
Listen, while he vents his spleen,
He sees the weapon, in the dirt; and bloodied stains upon your shirt....
He will choose to live or die, by his own words of truth or lie!
You need do nothing as the vine creeps up
His throat and head and covers all;
Lost in a forest of his own making; step back into sunlit clearing as choking leaves surround him
Your eyes are STILL, your ears still hearing,
Silence falls upon the LAND,
You take your axe up in your hand
Talk quietly but carry a big stick
Talk quietly but carry a BIG STICK......

credits

from FRANK' S LAMENT (EP), released January 16, 2020
WRITTEN AND PRODUCED BY KAREN LANGLEY AND ROB WILLIAMS
KAREN LANGLEY - VOCALS
GUEST ARTIST :
ZOIE GREEN - SYNTH

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One speaks and a thousand misunderstand
where millions are silent and a thunderous applause erupts
where chatter overwhelms humility and gossip destroys worlds
the tongues wag, the ears flap and the mind creates a wall
everything has been said but no one has understood
talking with conviction and concluding that knowledge is easy and effects a multitude of expanding smokescreens around truth ... more

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