Fault Lines, by Quiet Arrows

Fault Lines

by Quiet Arrows

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1.	Love and Misery 03:11	lyrics	buy track
LYRICS V1 Honey in my hand I’d hold your heart if it weren’t for the sting Honey in my hand So it will be Feel the wishbone bend All the hidden marrow suddenly breaks Feel the wishbone bend So much it aches CH Had we known How love and misery grow Blood and bone We’re made of both V2 So who tied these knots Bound up like thieves in the back of my mind Who tied these knots Around you and I CH Had we known How love and misery grow Blood and bone We’re made of both (2x) V3 And as the days turn dust On all the fallen leaves all shining like gold As the days turn dust Will we grow old This love is such Sometimes I miss you more in my arms This love is such We fall apart CH Had we known How love and misery grow Blood and bone We’re made of both (x2)
2.	Dust and Ashes 03:31	lyrics	buy track
LYRICS V1 So I burned all the old days down On a funeral pyre And I stood with my arms stretched out Like a pillar of fire of fire - of fire In the coals of a wordless sound I am here to inquire I need to know tonight (tonight tonight tonight) CH What the dust and the ashes Have fashioned inside (Ooh ooh) What the dust and the ashes Have fashioned inside - inside V2 Well I carried it down to the sea And I held it up higher Yeah I fell on my bended knees And I beckoned the tide - the tide Oh take this away from me On your fathoms of brine ‘Cause I need to know tonight (tonight tonight tonight) CH What the dust and the ashes Have fashioned inside (Ooh ooh) What the dust and the ashes Have fashioned inside - inside REFRAIN Ooh ooh Ooh ooh V3 And when I looked in the depths of my hands I could see I was blind As the glow of the day now was wrapped In a cloak of the night - the night Now it seems all the answers I had Are the hardest to find And I need to know tonight (tonight tonight tonight) I need to know tonight (tonight tonight) CH What the dust and the ashes Have fashioned inside (Ooh ooh) What the dust and the ashes Have fashioned inside - inside (2x) REFRAIN Ooh ooh Ooh ooh
3.	Drop Your Guard 03:03	lyrics	buy track
LYRICS V1 I hear what you are saying I’m just a little wary Of how the words are carried Behind your teeth Malice in your translation Replay the accusations Until the final phrases Cut like defeat - cut like defeat CH Drop your guard now Put down your arms Won’t you let your heart breathe (2x) V2 So often reenacted Shadows of darkened habit Tongue like a hidden dagger Quick to release Time now to pause and wonder How we’ve been torn asunder Long are the years and moments Lost in between - lost in between CH Drop your guard now Put down your arms Won’t you let your heart breathe (2x) V3 Fury the fire that crumbles All else reduced to rubble Gather the poison plunder Dead at our feet One flame can flicker forth Until it ignites a chorus Destroy the spark that bore it Ashes to dreams - ashes to dreams CH Drop your guard now Put down your arms Won’t you let your heart breathe (4x)
4.	Dust and Ashes - Acoustic 04:00	lyrics	buy track
LYRICS INTRO Ooh ooh Ooh ooh V1 So I burned all the old days down On a funeral pyre And I stood with my arms stretched out Like a pillar of fire of fire - of fire In the coals of a wordless sound I am here to inquire I need to know tonight (tonight tonight tonight) CH What the dust and the ashes Have fashioned inside (Ooh ooh) What the dust and the ashes Have fashioned inside - inside V2 Well I carried it down to the sea And I held it up higher Yeah I fell on my bended knees And I beckoned the tide - the tide Oh take this away from me On your fathoms of brine ‘Cause I need to know tonight (tonight tonight tonight) CH What the dust and the ashes Have fashioned inside (Ooh ooh) What the dust and the ashes Have fashioned inside - inside REFRAIN Ooh ooh Ooh ooh V3 And when I looked in the depths of my hands I could see I was blind As the glow of the day now was wrapped In a cloak of the night - the night Now it seems all the answers I had Are the hardest to find And I need to know tonight (tonight tonight tonight) I need to know tonight (tonight tonight) CH What the dust and the ashes Have fashioned inside (Ooh ooh) What the dust and the ashes Have fashioned inside - inside (2x) OUTRO Ooh ooh Ashes inside Ooh ooh Ashes to ashes inside (2x)
5.	Drop Your Guard - Acoustic 03:47	lyrics	buy track
LYRICS INTRO Ooh Oh breathe Just breathe V1 I hear what you are saying I’m just a little wary Of how the words are carried Behind your teeth Malice in your translation Replay the accusations Until the final phrases Cut like defeat - cut like defeat CH Drop your guard now Put down your arms Won’t you let your heart breathe (2x) V2 So often reenacted Shadows of darkened habit Tongue like a hidden dagger Quick to release Time now to pause and wonder How we’ve been torn asunder Long are the years and moments Lost in between - lost in between CH Drop your guard now Put down your arms Won’t you let your heart breathe (2x) REFRAIN Ooh ooh Ooh ooh Oh breathe Just breathe Breathe (2x) V3 Fury the fire that crumbles All else reduced to rubble Gather the poison plunder Dead at our feet One flame can flicker forth Until it ignites a chorus Destroy the spark that bore it Ashes to dreams - ashes to dreams Won’t you let your heart breathe Ashes to dreams CH Drop your guard now Put down your arms Won’t you let your heart breathe (3x)

about

Fault lines are unstable seams of unpredictable outcomes - lines of fracture, friction and force. Where tectonic plates converge, immense force leads to either destruction or growth. The lines of convergence will inevitably crumble and corrode, or they will build and rise upwards.

The stories in these songs tell of similar potential outcomes in the human context. Friction in a relationship can cause it to either falter or grow stronger, conflict between societies and philosophies can cause either violent tension or reshaping growth, inward personal struggle can cause either debilitating despair or renewed vision. These songs are essentially about struggle - both inward and outward. And like fault lines, these struggles can create or destroy.

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released September 10, 2021

Written, performed, recorded and produced by Samuel Robertson

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Indie folk songs that fly quietly and pierce deeply.

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