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The First Wall of Water

by Solid Folk

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1.
Phoenix 04:29
You burn your skin You hope you’ll be taken away Chained to the cycle Maybe this time This time you’ll make sure The desert sky glows You waited for five hundred years And no one found you You are the Arabian bird Alive to be born again Golden fire consumes you You are the Arabian bird Alive to be born again Golden fire consumes you New blood flows from your heart You tell yourself This time it will be different And no one found you
2.
What did the city see When you, enveloped in a cold, Gentle light, Left your key behind For the final time? One good word Among a hundred that hurt Vines move their hungry limbs Slowly under the fallen Pale, crumbling leaves To tie you to this soil Asleep, unmoving (Asleep, unmoving) Asleep, unmoving (Unmoving) Asleep, unmoving (Asleep, unmoving) Unmoving One good word Among a hundred that hurt One good word A hollow hand from the past Restless soul, Given time, Your wounds might bind you To the ethereal ground To the ethereal ground To the ethereal ground To the ethereal ground
3.
The ashes spiral in the dark Above the branches you burnt I hold on to your words The ones you gave me in the fire I’ve done what I can You break my knees You kick my face in With the silence on your lips All I wanted was your love Give me your love Give me your love, please Give me your love
4.
Overhaul 04:19
Now sneaking tiger-like To where you crouch in the dark Is the weight of all that is It rolls against these walls Like the first wall of water From across the sea Begin the overhaul Pull apart Reassemble Component by component It takes time And time is Time’s too heavy To move to the rhythm Of the pounding in your brain It drags its feet When you know what you need And runs off when you don’t And runs off when you don’t The hairs on your arms unfurl Like children of the jungle When lights expose you Or sink in like teeth The danger’s closing in Or passed you by It’s still too soon to say Begin the overhaul Pull apart Reassemble Component by component It takes time And time is Time is heavy Time is heavy Time is heavy
5.
Arrow 04:51
One day I’ll be Just like they are In a house full of laughing lights I will never be alone again They will have my back I can see them watching Through the impatient distance Where endless divisions Haunt the lost The halves steal your voice To use it against you But the earth opened beneath them And swallowed all but two One to irritate the nerves Like horses, eyes about to burst One to calm them down With soft, flowing water I’m shaking within The treble stirs the heavy air But no one else hears I’ve tied my tongue with yarn If they don’t hear it now They will never know And the less they know The more my body will shift To hide what I don’t want to explain And I’m closer to the house Where the warm lights laugh There, in the lifeful rooms, Than I’ve been so far
6.
Deluge 02:39
When the world is turned off Your walls light up And anyone can see you That’s when they pour in You’re whelmed Within your room is another Quiet, save for the flood It’s where you forget to thrive You wet your feet When it’s over Oh, for the flood to be silent Oh, to have only one room Oh, for you to be braver Oh, for it to happen soon
7.
Forever 04:19
When the spirit moved within you And brought on all your pain It stood among your nightmares Your nightmares by its side Shards of its nature Lodged in their hearts Them gathered in a line, moving about Shaking from all the life Newly born, red with blood Newly born as they were Before the sun rose Before the sun I could forgive you But I’ve kept pushing my line for you Across the fields Across the woods and the hills And soon I’ll fall off this Earth And soon I’ll fall off this Earth And soon You hid from me Until all the world Withered in this room Time moves so slowly here That it feels like forever And forever is too much to bear When you bring all this dirt Into this house Into our home I could forgive you But I’ve kept pushing my line for you Across the fields and mountains The sunken cities in the sea And soon I’ll fall off this Earth And soon I’ll fall off this Earth And soon I will fall off

about

The First Wall of Water was recorded in a small cabin in Hailuoto, Oulu, Finland.

credits

released December 31, 2014

All songs written by Jussi Tolonen, except Deluge by Emilia Hautamäki
All songs arranged by Solid Folk

Jussi Tolonen - vocals, guitar
Emilia Hautamäki - vocals, keyboard
Mikko Kuivala - drums, synthesizers
Pekka Leviäkangas - bass

Recorded and mixed by Ilkka Harjula
Mastered by Jarno Juntunen

Cover art by Pekka Leviäkangas
Cover art photography by Emilia Hautamäki, Saara Vanhanen

Promotional picture by Valtteri Hentilä

Special thanks to Lauri and Paula Kuivala, Jarmo Hatunen, Samuli Kauppinen and Karoline Schaum.

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Solid Folk started off as a duo in 2011, expanding into a five-piece explorer of soundscapes two years later. We're working on our first LP.

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