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The Mystic

by Dear Woodland Creatures

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At dusk, we gather round the stones... I tell a tale of Shadow The Anima within One Persona, one with Self Let the liturgy commence I am a veil of Shadow The Animus alive Persona and the Self, I am The Mystic saturnine
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Commencement 03:59
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She sings She is silent Waiting for the fools Her words drip like honey And draw them to their doom I know moonrise I know starlight Lay your body down I know moonrise I walk in starlight Lay your body down The glamour The cruelty of a dream A thousand wayward souls And he, swift and steady, Goes rushing into the gloom
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In the town where she lived Wrapped in forest, dressed in white Tomorrow looms and open lies a grave They want to burn her body For the crime of making no mistakes And answer to the devil on the way But lo! She knows The will to run or just get even It takes a hold and demands she go "Get out while you can!" Search and find the spectral hound Blood runs cold at the sight It was nearly morning when she found him Eyes of silver, black as night And reckoning was written on his face He had a hunger that she needed And she approached him unafraid When evening falls, they'll make them all pay And so, she goes To rend their flesh and break their bodies A woman scorned and infernal woe They're one in the same They're one in the same
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Revelator 05:01
Who's that writing? Wrote the book of the seven seals
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Strega 07:58
It's time to come into mine A nascent life Plucked from the main vine The sacred vein Dim eyes don't open dull minds To ancient light I resurrect I Ecstatic strain Tonight Prepare the black knife The cryptic rite I fill my mouth with lies In hallowed pain One wish, one desire Adapt and convolute Context, the frame of life, I distort the absolute No thought to wilting power Maintain the cracked façade Constructing veils and armor To bind the words to truth Regress, progress Sucking marrow from old bones Repress grievance Hollow shells make easy homes With feigning fragility I wear my wounds Comply Confirm the mirage The cup of life Is made to confine and fill with want I worship the new might The old religions died Obscure to define the denouement It's time to come into mine A nascent life Plucked from the main vine The sacred vein
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The Mystic 07:32
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The Mystic is an eight-part concept album that uses folklore traditions and Jungian Archetypes to tell an allegorical tale of the path of individuation

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released April 15, 2023

All music written and performed by Josh Washburn except where noted. Recorded and mixed by Connor Ray at Sobek Sound Studios.
Mastered by Greg Hendler at GMH Audio.
Album art and song illustrations by A. Watson.

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Dear Woodland Creatures Atlanta, Georgia

Dear Woodland Creatures is the brainchild of Atlanta-based multi instrumentalist and composer Joshua Washburn. Combining heavy, atmospheric doom metal with elements of American folk traditions and a host of global influences, it is a psychedelic exercise in the evocative, meditative, and cathartic power of music. ... more

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