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Channel the Animal

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1.
The Tyger 03:44
Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the night; What immortal hand or eye, Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire? And what shoulder, & what art, Could twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? & what dread feet? What the hammer? what the chain, In what furnace was thy brain? What the anvil? what dread grasp, Dare its deadly terrors clasp? When the stars threw down their spears And water'd heaven with their tears; Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee? Tyger, Tyger burning bright, In the forests of the night: What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
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Bones of ancestors are mine Roam the world knowing no time Cold air flows sweet on my tongue And pushes behind my back as I run Fire burns the back of my brain Blood flows black in my veins I make my own way through this world that is mine I am a part of the world that man fears to see Untamed, I go forth and I know The Privilege of Being On this clear night I ascend to my place in the order of things Sister Earth speaks to me daily and my mother the Moon said in a dream To be one with the world as I know it And to be all that the past and the future expect me to be Swim streams of silver Learn as I grow Stars turn above me And earth turns below A lone cry asserts itself A single shadow flies across the snow It is my howl that freezes the sky and the hearts of men For I have struck out on my own Renegade and rebel, I cannot be tamed For nature has elected me its king Mine is the privilege of being tonight And a Lone Wolf will I be
3.
They call me the wandering one Sailor of the floes The whale’s bane, the seal’s dread The iceberg-rider The master of helping spirits The white sea deer Some refuse to speak my name Out of respect and fear I rule the ice and the frigid sea But there’s less and less space for me Pulling under, pulling in Treading water to be Moving slowly, walking sleep Waiting for them to breathe I rule the ice and the frigid sea But I can’t make you believe The thaw, the freeze, the ice recedes I am the largest land predator on the planet The top of the arctic food chain My body is perfectly molded to the cold I wait in silence for days for my prey to surface The ice breaks away! Never will the lonely roamer be subdued The old man in the furred cloak will not bow to the earth’s new masters The northern lights will preserve my old spirit And I will watch over from the wind, the sky, and the sea I rule the ice and the frigid sea And now nothing else can contain me Watching over, looking out All the answers to see “Almost a man”, always a beast Bodily captives, our spirits are free!

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released June 9, 2015

All music composed and performed by Todd Seibert except:
Cymbal roll in track 1 performed by Matas Olsauskas with a hairbrush and a remote control
Drums performed by Matas’ laptop
Lyrics track 1: William Blake, 1794
Lyrics tracks 2-3: Todd Seibert

Instruments produced/engineered/recorded by Matas Olsauskas
Vocals produced/engineered/recorded by Derek Johnson @ Johnsongs Studio
Mixed/mastered by Matas Olsauskas
(www.matasolsauskas.com)

Album art concept by Todd Seibert and Matthew Janney
Album art assembled by Matthew Janney

Untold, overwhelming amounts of thankery to thee:
Matas (sounds even better this time. Can you turn that snare hit up? No, down. More than that. Ehhhhhh louder. Just delete it actually. Can it be like the loudest thing ever though? Okay that’s good, let’s go to the next note); Derek (without whom this would be another unintentionally instrumental release, and also without whom I would have quit writing music years ago); Matt (no drone guitars yet…sorry you’ve heard these songs 200 times before they’ve even been released); Anyone who came back for more Channeling and especially who pays for it and helps feed me and maybe a tiger or two. Also HUGE thanks to anyone who’s ever told me to stop or change what I was doing…you’re giving me GREAT material for future lyrics, keep it up. \m/

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