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What A Pretty Bird Am I

from The Night Country by Everson Poe

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She will devour her children
Blood red upon the white snow
She will devour her children
Power bestowed upon the old crone

Fire stoked by bones
Grey smoke turns to red
Cold earth turned by tills
Cold flesh turns to worms

She has devoured her children
No remorse for what she has done
She made a true devil’s bargain
Evil begotten in place of a son

She has devoured her children
She has devoured her children

Fire stoked by bones
Grey smoke turns to red
Cold earth turned by tills
Cold flesh turns to worms

A millstone hung around her neck
Her toes are lapped by water’s edge
A calling from the murky depths
By magic has the lake been dredged

The affectation of the heartless
Cold apathy in sharp relief
Blinded by what is perceived to be righteous
Radiance shielding deceit

Sorrow etched into my skin

The indignation of the righteous
Cold apathy in sharp relief
Blinded by what is perceived to be evil
Empathy poisoned by grief

Sorrow etched into my skin

O, what a pretty bird am I

My mother slew her little son
My father thought me lost and gone
My sister, my bones she kept
And laid me to rest beneath the juniper tree

O, what a pretty bird am I

O, what a pretty bird am I

My mother slew her little son
My father thought me lost and gone
My sister o’er my bones did weep
And laid me to rest beneath the juniper tree

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from The Night Country, released February 25, 2022

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Everson Poe Chicago, Illinois

Everson Poe is Mae Shults: a trans, queer, multi-instrumentalist from Chicago. Often in collaboration with various vocalists, she balances elements from many diverse genres while maintaining the goal of merging beauty with loudness. She has been releasing music as Everson Poe for over a decade.

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