We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Fortune Smiled Again

from Monody by Marker Starling

supported by
shankndank
shankndank thumbnail
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1 GBP  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Monody via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      £10 GBP

     

  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    Includes unlimited streaming of Monody via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 3 days
    Purchasable with gift card

      £15 GBP

     

lyrics

Through the air
Half-remembered
Burning softly
As the rain
From that sky
All the hopes
That you gave
Like a light
Climbing through the tide
Carried on the breath
Of that mountainside
We are fields
Empty to be filled
We are fields

All the trials and the triumphs
To let go or hold on to
Chances came then were gone
Never taken
But like a spree
Note by note, you ran through them
Like a spree
Tell yourself you outgrew them

Hurt is aching
Isolating
Try to face it
Brace against it
Vanished gestures
Hollow volleys
Bitter tributes
To your folly
Words you had to speak
Straws you had to grasp

Ways you thought you were
Ways you tried to be
Running deeper
Slipping steeper
In the marrow
Compass arrow
Blinded eyes again
Better medicine
Hopes and ashes
Intermingling
It was in you
Given into
Silent burning
Stony-turning

All the falls and the rises
Disappointments, surprises
The endeavours, travails of your lifetime
And now I see
Is it true - I have spent them?
Now I see
It is true - I have less left

Spun in golden thread
Fortune smiled again
From that sky
Ever beckoning
Turn now
Twist in the wind
Never pinned

credits

from Monody, released May 10, 2010

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Mantler image

Mantler Toronto, Ontario

contact / help

Contact Mantler

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Mantler, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Saxophonist Isaiah Collier chats about his new LP and the influence of Pharoah Sanders.
listen now