Winged Words

6 weeks ago by @wondertruly

Winged Words

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Liner Notes

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Hail, 50/90ers! After a week of laying low and writing, I bring a humble bounty of a few songs to you on this fine Sunday.

This first one is a collaboration with one of my best friends, Emily Henry (https://emilyhenrymusic.com), who stopped by for a couple days in between tour stops. We wrote this live on stream on Twitch, which is why you hear me yell "Hi, Coz!" shortly into the recording, because another friend showed up in the Twitch chat.

We cobbled together the lyrics for this from 53 different phrases out of 12 fiction books, plus some ingenuity and paraphrasing on our part. Please enjoy!

Lyrics

I’m not a very good fairy
I have no marketable skills other than

Swinging a sword around
The game is personal now

I met you with winged words
In the canary light of oil lamps
You tell me that you’d die to win
But I just want to be here with you
Ooh

And I’m not ready to doubt again

We stare at each other silently
Eye contact chicken

Is that why you came here?
Just for the competition?

Fae against fae
We lose either way
My way, we lose with style

I met you with winged words
In the canary light of oil lamps
You tell me that you’d die to win
But I just want to be here with you
Ooh
Ooh

And I’m not ready to doubt again
You’ve played your games to your heart’s content
I don’t have any dreams like that
The one golden petal glinting through the ashes

And I’m not ready to doubt again
You’ve played your games to your heart’s content
I don’t have any dreams like that
The one golden petal glinting through the ashes

I met you with winged words
In the canary light of oil lamps
You tell me that you’d die to win
But I just want to be here with you
Ooh
Ooh

I met you with winged words
In the canary light of oil lamps
You tell me that you’d die to win
But I just want to be here with you
Ooh
Ooh

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