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PREY

by Predator/Prey

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1.
I worked through the summer in my sunburnt fields trying to put a piece, trying to put a piece together Then you came into my life in the middle of July, in the form of bad weather Now I’m working even harder to try to fill my larder although I’m so sure I’ll starve Fall’s dark skies, over fields, a third the size and my stores aren’t looking much better When the forest shuts down, when the first frost falls it closes for all, closes for the season And I am not alone, each beast is skin and bones and together we’re sown, we’re all poor eating Although we hope our bodies will cope we know they won’t and we’re so sure we will starve Still I check my traps, they’re as empty as my sack and when I head back I dine only on the reason And now I’m waiting to die I’m thinner each day I rise When I think back to winters ago when my stores were low, I still found sleep easy Then you came into my life as the grouse took wing and the meat came freely I hate to think about it these days were all those kills in vain if then this year I just starve Where are they, are they wasting away or keeping hunger at bay, I think about it constantly I woke to the sun, under the folds of snow covered cold, ice forming thick on my bed Tucked under skins of the animal kins I once took in, on which my body once fed Ensnared in fate we struggle with hope succumb or we cope, although mostly we just starve Shuttered in dens, as the warm life ends under hides of friends, that we made hunting last winter And now I’m waiting to die I’m thinner each day I rise
2.
I never settle down I built a lifetime I never settle down settle down I built a lifetime All I do is keep running to stay in one place I see some fall behind, some disappear over this lifetime Do you ever realize why we’re running from nothing This world is such a size we don’t see when pain is coming Until you conceptualize it behind you and its running You could dematerialize from something into nothing I never settle down I built a lifetime I never settle down settle down I built a lifetime Let’s keep on keep on running Until our feet blur And when they disappear when they disappear We’ll be floating This world will be all ours All ours
3.
Though they do not show When the sun is at hand They’ll be lying low Making their plans I’ve been waiting here For their armies They know I know they’re near And day and night I worry Cause they’ll be back, they’ll be back And when they come back, they’ll attack No good We’re in collusion with the beast One and one push under So much that we compete And drive each one asunder When you accept defeat they’ll come to plunder And now that you’ve lost your seat You’ll see their power in numbers Because this mischief kills yeah And I don’t want to wait Until this mischief fills, yeah And the fragile balance breaks Cause it’s the poor man still, yeah Who leaves this up to fate And when they come they will, yeah Just take and take and take No good This mischief occurs in darkness This mischief occurs in darkness
4.
Every night I come here by the moon And every night I come out you’re here too I would come out later When it would be much safer If there was something to consume Oh Oh Oh and you Oh Oh Oh and you Oh Oh Oh and you Oh Oh Oh and you I made it my purpose to watch you Though it made me nervous I learned some truth I could see you were scared And I could see what lurked there I saw you couldn’t wait to leave here too Oh Oh Oh and you Oh Oh Oh and you Oh Oh Oh and you Oh Oh Oh and you And I, well I, come here to feed And you, well you, you make me flee But I, know you are hunted too And that’s why this will never change Oh Oh Oh and you Oh Oh Oh and you Oh Oh Oh and you Oh Oh Oh and you
5.
Gang of Elk 03:44
You can have my heart just not my soul Try to get away trapped in this foliage Keep me under target with one eye A scoured look as thoughts run through your mind Of how I taste so good You'd pull the trigger if you could Standing with the others in the brush, we were browsing on the branches and the fresh new leaves They would keep an eye out or an ear poised for anything strange, and we all copied what she they did Now I know why they kept us hid Oh papa no Karma leave me here just run just please go Oh mama no You don’t need to see what I will be Just go just go just go just go When we run, one is bound to fall, lost from us all Out behind us, you can hear 'em call, lost from us all Some of us will be killed and shared And for a while the rest of us are spared Oh papa no Karma leave me here just run just please go Oh mama no You don’t need to see what I will be Just go just go just go just go
6.
Once I was wilder than moonlight stranger than twilight darker than true night but I'm tamer now, tamer still Encased in an old tomb At home in a new womb My old self is cocooned cause I'm tamer now, tamer still What we gave up was powerful enough to defeat the hawks while remaining doves What we gave up was powerful enough to thrive amongst hawks and doves Once I understood you I could see through you I could predict what you'd do but i'm tamer now, tamer still Since the day you pretended that we were befriended Our spines have been bended cause we're tamer now, tamer still What we gave up was powerful enough to defeat the hawks while remaining doves What we gave up was powerful enough to thrive amongst hawks and doves What we gave up, tamer now, tamer still
7.
Sing a song as one Make the song your own Life is forward shared Death is yours alone The soil invites a home For roots to grow within And feed a hungry mouth To grow and start again Wake up and start the climb Ascend towards the sun Break off your hardened shell A new life has begun

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Prey is the second concept album in a double-album written about North American wild animals. This album explores the living experience through the perspectives of different prey species.

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released February 8, 2014

Produced by .................... PREDATOR/PREY
Recorded by .................... PREDATOR/PREY
Instruments/Vox .................ADAM PHIPPS
Instruments/Vox ................ DAK DeKERCKHOVE
Vox ............................ CARE PHIPPS
Drums .......................... SCOTT EVERINGHAM
Trumpet ........................ BRIAN MOYER
Mixed by........................ MATHIEU PARISIEN
Mastered by...................GREYMARKET MASTERING

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Predator/Prey is a concept double-album about the living experience. Each song is written from the perspective of a different North American wild animal.

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