Hooves of Wrath

by The Muties

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News to our lord's door that would wither all the north The long hand of our enemy is ever-reaching forth So the desperate call now is heard by one and all But we will do the answering before the city's fall Some will gaze in wonder More will perish in the first attack All will hear the thunder black The hoofs of wrath Saddle up those steeds It's the hour of most need Cast aside your weariness and ride out with all speed We've mustered all our might, Now we gallop through the night And man and beast must reach the end still with the strength to fight The leagues go racing by Underneath a starry sky We come to the journey's end and let the banners fly Dawn The battlefield Sun on every spear and shield Fear in every foeman's face And now all doom is sealed
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Grinding Ice 07:53
Endless winter Endless darkness Endless ocean Endless night sky Don't talk Put your head on my shoulder Look away from the shivering sky It's a long walk Every step gets colder I see an icicle in your eye Endless wasteland Endless deathbed Endless exile Endless, endless dread
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Secret City 07:39
Moonlight on glass, a crystalline dome Wonder of wonders and the splendor of home Cascading down from the sparkling peak Awake and awash in the glittering deep A forest of voices, always singing The tinkling of bells that never stop ringing A sprinkling of wishes from fountains go springing Fast through the shady mountain moss clinging No heart conceives of a doom that can touch Our secret city we treasure so much While far away some danger rose high All our eyes were fixed on the stars in the sky I cupped my queen by the marble stair My lily of valor, my rose of despair I winged a wish by that raven candle I heard thunder clap like the slap of a sandal The open window and the empty street The distant rumble of hundreds of feet Gold lit on pearl, and the trumpets sounded Tidings came in that we were confounded It's no mere rumor that comes to our ears Trembling our towers, our tongues, and our tears Behold unforetold our doom drawing near us Our secret city stood fragile and fearless
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Wisdom of the ages Secrets of the sages Who can read what's written there Upon those yellow pages? But I heard the time is nigh To scale the tower so high And let the banners fly Spit into the evil eye From the fairy's fountain To the magic mountain I can feel that spirit clock Tick-tock down to nothin But it's dangerous to go alone Into the murder zone The blasted earth and stone A blanket for your bones Secrets of the sages Wisdom of the ages I saw my name written there Upon those hallowed pages And I know the time is now To speed along the bough And scale the tower so high I'll stab out that evil eye
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Blue Candle 02:55
There is a table made of earth and stone It's thirty fathoms wide as the butterfly's flown But you never get there unless you go alone A candle in the canopy, a star wind blown It's just a little bit further now... And then you behold With your own two eyes Majesty beneath the skies

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released August 20, 2021

Ashley Dove - electric cello
Matt Stewart - electric guitars, acoustic guitars, bass
Charlie Taylor - keyboards
Cole Taylor - spoken word
Jake Taylor - vocals, drums, guitars, bass, E-bow, tin whistle

Artwork by Chris Chambliss

Songs by the Muties
Recorded summer 2020-summer 2021

Spoken word on Grinding Ice
lovingly excerpted from J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion

Eternal gratitude to Tolkien and S. Miyamoto
for lyrical inspiration as well

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