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The Paper Trees

by Silver Sircus

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THE PAPER TREES The paper trees are hitching up their foggy glassy petticoats Those girls are muddy to their waists Wet right up, wet right through Wet right up, wet right through Those pretty witches with birds pinned in their angled hair Dam that lake, dam those murky ways Dam that lake, dam those murky ways An illustration of a girl by twisted twins weeps willows far beneath her Dropping sympathy on dreams of Ophelia and all the other weeping girls Mister fish and all the paying johns The doctors, lawyers and their sons Who do they think they are? Who do they think they are? Yes burlesque waters turn to sludge Yes burlesque waters turn to sludge And who are you and I to judge
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INCARNADINE A time or two They quietly step Crawling sighing things She is a distant brook No one, no one knows As her toes tread and dance All the trees have string hair They fall and live on Once was bone With lychee touch With bitter sharp And burning hope A new place to be born Black beetles And red soft stars Make the world Once was bone With crystal shard And with a breath We exclaim “We are alive”
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Full length versions of The Paper Trees and Incarnadine can be found on the Silver Sircus double vinyl album Incarnadine.

Produced by Magoo & James Lees
Piano Recorded by Zander Hulme
Engineered & Mixed by Magoo
Assisted by Konstantine Kersting
Edit by James Lees
Mastered by Steve Smart, 301 Studios, Sydney

Recorded in Brisbane, Australia between December 2014 and February 2016 at Airlock Studios, Samford and The Mirror Shop, Fortitude Valley.

Lyrics by Lucinda Shaw
Music by Silver Sircus

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released September 12, 2016

Lucinda Shaw - vocals
James Lees – acoustic guitar, drums, piano, glockenspiel
Mark Angel – electric guitar
Salliana Campbell - violin, vocals
Terry Dixon - bass guitar
Fionn Ellwood - vocals
Wayne Jennings - cello, vocals
Parmis Rose - piano
Vanessa Tomlinson - percussion on Incarnadine

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Silver Sircus Brisbane, Australia

Silver SIrcus are led by vocalist/performer Lucinda Shaw and drummer/composer/producer James Lees. They are based in Brisbane, Australia and have been making music since 2008.

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