And Your Blood Shall Nourish This Oak (Autumn 2014 single, NEW MIX)

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1.	And Your Blood Shall Nourish This Oak (Remixed & Remastered) 05:16	lyrics	buy track
Son of mine Charm around my neck A bottle of perfume poured out in the desert Sending waves up to the eastern sun Those fumes writhed around limbs Limbs to which you were clinging by a silken strain Limbs which opened you wide to being Pierced alive O my son, the roots run deep And your blood drips to the ground The sand congeals under your life Which waters the thirsting trees A monument to your own doom Erected in your arrogance Your revenge unfulfilled by the bridges you burned Did it flash before the whites of your eyes? What went through your mind as the javelin ran you through? O my son, the roots run deep And your blood drips to the ground The sand congeals under your life Which waters the thirsting trees These messengers speak tragedy and deceit One tells me all is well Another pays no tribute, the proverbial disowning There is a disturbance in my spirit Your name unmentioned, you did not return from battle My tears stain the gate of bronze and stone, my son Our line has ended and I am forsaken by the fruits of my choices I shake the dust off my trembling hands and feet Would I had died instead of you, O Absalom My grief is as the juice of the vine grown bitter You fade, o warrior, and I cannot lift up my countenance to the noon sky
2.	And Your Blood Shall Nourish This Oak (Original Mix) 05:12		buy track

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First track to be recorded following Slings & Arrows. There are two mixes included here, since the original mixing/mastering engineer was unhappy with the original.

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released November 18, 2014

Engineering, mixing, and mastering by Spencer Still
All music and lyrics by Dustin Grooms
Art by Karlie Stewart

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Old Thunder Kentucky

Solo studio project based in northeastern KY. Old Thunder explores themes of suffering, loss, and redemption, inspired by life and literature alike.

Defunct as of early 2018. Thanks for the support.

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