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Oisin, My Bastard Brother

from Moon Country by The High Dials

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Out hunting on the beach at dawn

Your arrow struck a magic fawn

Wonder and surprise

When it changed before your eyes

Oh, my!

Words transformed your skin and bones

As she described her secret throne

This daughter of the sea

Oh, but you went willingly

Yes, it’s true
Her shipwreck eyes, her deep-sea gaze

Stirred up desire, churned up the waves
White horses, foaming steeds

Brought you down through the deep

Oisin, my bastard brother

Stay awhile, let’s have another
Years go by, your mother cries,

“Gone, he’s gone, my precious son!”

Your father thins into the air

Your friends keep watch but then they despair
In hallowed halls in darkest ocean

You lived perfection in slow motion

Centuries went by

Till one day you woke and cried,

“It’s been too long!”

She let you go, she brought you home

To discover you were now alone

In a place you could not recognize

‘Cause everyone had died

What a shame
The missing years came in to claim

Your stretched out soul, your human frame

You wandered old and mad

Then you withered on the sand

Oisin, my bastard brother

It’s not too late, let’s have another
Your story pains me as I dream

Of people I have known

Of places I have been

Please join me for a toast, a drink

We’re brothers you and I,
I think

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from Moon Country, released September 23, 2008
©Trevor Anderson (SOCAN/ASCAP), All rights reserved.

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The High Dials Montréal, Québec

The High Dials are an indie pop band from Montreal.
While their melodic sensibility, harmonies and jangling guitars owe an obvious debt to the 60s and power pop groups, they also draw upon shoegaze, new wave and folk sounds to create rich and varied albums. Their most recent album “Primitive Feelings” is a predatory summer mix of lo-fi grooves, acid rock guitars and razor-sharp humour. ... more

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