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Sweet Gum Tree & Isobel Campbell - Bird Of Passage

from The Snakes You Charm & The Wolves You Tame by Sweet Gum Tree

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"Isobel Campbell's gossamer soft cooing lights up the delicate, yearning acoustica of Bird Of Passage." - *** MOJO
"The selling point is Bird Of Passage, a dreamy, waltzing duet with Isobel Campbell" - 7/10 UNCUT
"A thing of delicate beauty... Sweeping cinematic strings, classical structure and wonderfully textured acoustics provide the perfect backbone to the vocals" - THE LINE OF BEST FIT

lyrics

Grass-green
And your hair’s golden sheen
In the meadow you preen
Yourself, greeting the dawn

Goodbyes
Like escapes you devise
Witness life in full size
Mean you’re nobody’s pawn

No-one tells you where to go
And no-one needs to know
Or try to wrest your secrets
No-one tells you where to go
And no-one needs to know

Birds of passage travel light
Here now, then out of sight

Truant heart
Not too pure to act smart
Turn your life into art
Blaze in the wake of freedom’s call

The slipstream
Of a new self-esteem
Catches you and your dream
Now rid of the chain and the ball

No-one tells you where to go
And no-one needs to know
Or try to wrest your secrets
No-one tells you where to go
And no-one needs to know

Birds of passage travel light
Here now, then out of sight

Moonrise
Comes up as a poor disguise
For the loneliest eyes
That I’ll ever recall

credits

from The Snakes You Charm & The Wolves You Tame, released February 3, 2014
Lyrics by Arno Sojo / Music by Arno Sojo & Eric Voegelin
Guest vocals by Isobel Campbell and Romy

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Sweet Gum Tree Angers, France

Sweet Gum Tree is musician Arno Sojo's psych-pop / art-rock project. He's played a hundred shows in eight countries and collaborated with such luminaries as Isobel Campbell, Heather Nova, Earl Harvin (Tindersticks) or Marty Willson-Piper (The Church). Embodying a distinctive kind of elegance, he cultivates his own aesthetic in a beautiful collision of the intimate sphere and the wide open space. ... more

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