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Manito​̀​k

by Archery Guild

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1.
Savage Youth 05:13
Quiet minds and quiet thoughts  have fallen under the feet of hunger Take my daughter, steal her face Put a monster in her place Marching forward while we sleep Decapitate us oh so secretly Burn us with no ceremony Send off to eternal glory Savage Youth is for no other Marks of glory have no honour Victory is not as she was Does she wish to be forgot? There are markings in the tree I often see them in my dreams I wake up, they've punished me Seven years of horrid silence
2.
You can't stand up to the beat unless you want some Like the days of our youth beside the drum I saw her there on the hill above the river But they cannot trust the ice that rests below her Our tongues are relative territories spoken Although the seer says soon we will be broken And the red from my stomach started turning Because I doubted her wisdom, now I'm certain I have been descending into mythology And the future has masked you and me Upon return to the night of my birth There was a moon that pulled away from the earth
3.
Underground 02:01
She filled my mind with her words And told me that long, long ago The difference between forgiveness and understanding this intrusion is meaning to give up what you know I remember planting the seed But where is uncertain as of now It could have not been me But no one else was waiting So I went underground My hands broke through to the air Small stones fell out of my eyes Although I had crawled under the river To the hill I stood surprised This hill is an island so bare She spoke, and yet she was not there My guidance was left to the same moon So I follow with my back to what I'd known
4.
Where did she go, out of my hands Broken windows, feet covered in glass Dream as I sleep, feeling her near Blood comforts me now though my bones shake in fear Cleansed and purified, or was it a lie The mother of all creations behind me The village is gone, our island has sunk The courage of all my men walk beside me I broke down in tears when I opened her gift A letter from home, our last visit Now baby's in chains and needs to stay lit To walk on is now the only way she will live She will live It was told when first I see this flight The heartbeat of the night Will pulse inside the water And where the bird may rest Is where I then must go The seer told me so As the ice begins to melt I must jump upon her back Her beak has pierced the stone And took me to her home A place above the wolves That wonder if the sun Will give them one more day To help me on my way And find my stolen daughter She will live
5.
Invisible 05:07
Off in the distance  A village still standing There are no graves No sullen bodies around here Everyone laughing, singing and drinking The attack of their tribe was overpassed by the god of new language The invisible, teach me to be invisible He asked me if I had been with a man before I told him I'd thought about it, but no sir He answered my question before I finished in time They key to surviving invulnerable invasion is acting on your mind Invisible, then you'll be invisible
6.
Meadow 04:55
His arm was still around me When I had seen the vision A darkened meadow burning And thieves live under her skin  Her helpless soul is only A whirl of leaves in the wind Her tongue has been cut out and  Replaced with lies of demons Unsure if truth had been told The only way to find out Is accept the creator And let her speak through my mouth And lead us into sorrow So we may find our joy Directed to the meadow I saw the sacrifice Mother Creator do not allow this god to turn her He feeds upon her youth as The wolves upon a hunter Without her own defences How will she learn to run Mother he lies yet again And she believes his love for her The guiding light did not know as wolf and osprey followed I was left with no leader Between the stars and blue sky She wrapped me in possession My body lifted oh so high The lies began to cut me and yet i did not cry I spoke to her so gently of when I held her as a child and asked if she remembered, if I could see her smile My body fell to the ground Unseen to her commander, though I felt her sigh and tremble "The sacrifice has failed!" Mother Creator do not allow this god to turn her He feeds upon her youth as The wolves upon a hunter Without her own defences How will she learn to run Mother he lies yet again And she believes his love for her is strange but pure and complex as if we can't comprehend Mother Creator
7.
Flying down as we begin to shed the mystery And the island surfaced through the antipode Darkness threw itself in hiding Once again I was alone Waiting in a place that had begun to change its form There was something that I knew from long ago It was the shadow of the wind that only we could see Guided to the trees there was a whisper in my ear And uncertainty had settled yet again I understood the wisdom of the seer when she held my hand My body as I know it is dead To complete me, you must defeat me My body as I know it is dead I was a young boy and now I'm neither woman nor man Once I gave up all my pride I tired to bring her back  into my life but how will she ever know? The people that we are today are not the same as seven years ago The country of our tribe has been hidden and this time the spirits of my men are terrified So I cut two stripes around my leg for fear and love combined The violet blood ran one direction to my home I knew and the other way a home I'd never been Every step taken then was in honour of the new flesh
8.
Antipode 05:12
It is hard to admit to myself I may see her again She will never know or recognize The form I am in Dear God of New Language, Do you know us well enough to admit I will never let you live and the wolves will eat your skin As the ghosts licked my wounds They grew a physical form Unlike one I had known The path transformed And she was near The antipode
9.
Cold Trail 04:48
Walking on a cold trail listening for anybody's heart beat I want to scream, but I speak with the dead I used to feel your breath on my neck Now the wind's so solemn How is it going to end? Though you feel near, my words have been wasted The shadows here can see my fate ahead Our light is spent, a new day coming in Though you feel near, my words have been wasted Every night I dream I see you but I don't know where you've been Every day I wake some more new language sinks in Oh no, how could I feel an empathy so dark? But is she where we all belong after all?

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Recorded in "The Oven" at CJLO Studios
Engineered by Miguel Marcil-Pitre, Marshall Vaillancourt and Michael Cota
Mixed by Archery Guild and Miguel Marcil-Pitre
Mastered by Marshall Vaillancourt

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released January 7, 2014

Archery Guild is:

Michael Cota - vocals, guitar
Marshall Vaillancourt - drums
Tristan Giardini - bass, MPC
Casimir Kaplan - guitar
Ian Gibbons - cello
Mariah Andrews - trumpet, synthesizer, vibraphone, vocals
Huei Lin - saxophone, synthesizer


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Michelle Bensimon - vocals
Kevin Kozo - piano

Cover art by David Kleiser

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The current lineup consists of Michael Cota, Marshall Vaillancourt, Mariah Andrews and James Player.

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