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What Is A Witch?

from To The Place Is Home by Silver Sircus

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The cook is in tonight they say, what a banquet there will be, there will be
He's on fire tonight...
Pumped high with arrogant lusting veins and happy cruelty
The chickens scurry, the lambs quiver in naivety
The axe the axe chops soundly down and the entire town… your town is still

What is for supper then?
When all the king’s whores and all the king's men
Lie in a drunken pool of their own decadence?
Tired with dancing girls and skirts and eager clutching
Or will it be pork tonight? I smell crackling
I hear the salted flesh's percussive pop and sizzle
Oh no! It is another...

Oh no, they've found another, yes yes, they've found another
Could it be? I heard she is a mother
They say she has the eyes of a storm, they say that she is diseased
They say she has the power, flowers turn their heads when she walks by
The men, they buckle at their knees, just to do her ease...

What is a witch?
How does she feel when the faggots pile high against her feet?
Her thighs tied to the stake
What is a witch?
How does she smell?
How can you tell?
She sings like a praying angel
She smells like crackling

credits

from To The Place Is Home, released October 8, 2012
Lucinda Shaw: vocals
James Lees: drums & percussion
Mark Angel: guitars
Sallie Campbell: violin
Terry Dixon: bass guitar
Wayne Jennings: cello
Parmis Rose: piano

Fionn Ellwood: percussion
Thomas Green: french horn
Shannon Marshall: trumpet

Recorded at Applewood Studios
Produced by James Lees & Magoo
Engineered & mixed by Magoo
Assisted by Sean Cook
Mastered by Matthew Gray

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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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