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Crowquill
60
Rock
Crowquill was released on January 6, 2004 by Circle Takes the Square as a part of the album As the Roots Undo
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Release DateJanuary 6, 2004
LabelCircle Takes the Square
LanguageEnglish
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM139

Music Video

Music Video

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Circle Takes the Square
Circle Takes the Square
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Andrew William Speziale
Andrew William Speziale
Songwriter
Kathleen Elizabeth Coppola
Kathleen Elizabeth Coppola
Songwriter
Jason Robert Wynne
Jason Robert Wynne
Songwriter

Lyrics

Nothing's so lucid as the promise of dreams
But these pills we found just make me sleep
There's nothing quite so pure
As the written word, my dear, so let's have ourselves a little poem
Until the will to speak loses urgency
Our animal indecency
Until the will to speak loses urgency
In print is so blase
It's about the bell tower, at the golden hour
Angel of the spires climbs her steel cage staircase spine
Angle of desire
Ascend the wrought iron
One by one, wrung by wrung
Is it the rising roof line that makes me feel so swallowed whole?
Or the way my body barely pricks the sky?
The same
As a century's worth of virgin's blood
That's passed through my longing veins, scheming
To convince my aching mind
That pleasure's got nothing on the miracle of need
Nothing's so purile as meter and rhyme
When you can't see the ground from that ledge
This perch is so far, far from the nest
Gravity doesn't grant me the privilege of failure
My bough never breaks, I don't stumble into anything
So I climb and I carve my initials in the bark
With that feather I found, but it's all so contrived
And my genes didn't bless me with the foresight of a sage
But I know how this will end, in apologies and ink on the page
A slowly constructed crow quilled confession
Of my spirit to all of you, black waterproof ink scars the board
Black waterproof ink scars the board
So hot-pressed, pristine and pure
A slowly constructed manifestation of to tremble
As base as a bridge in a song
And less like the poem that I promised you
Nothing's so lurid as haiku-d'etat
On sidewalks in white outlined chalk
All I've got is this ink-smeared line
With our voices in harmony
The offering of a crow quilled threnody
Written by: Andrew William Speziale, Jason Robert Wynne, Kathleen Elizabeth Coppola
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