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Hammerstone Blues

from Horseplay EP by Garden Ruin

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(Dedicated to Mugurank and a family atop the valley)

This ancient glacier
Place of the Hammerstones
Lies shallow to the creek
and colonial bones
The car threw to the right
Then threw to the left
Tumbled through the bracken
Then came to a rest
Still in the night
Still the next day
Dew crystallising
Then melting away
I dug out the glass
and wiped off the mud
Tended to my bruises
and decided 'enough is enough'

Enough is enough

We've lived on this hill
Barely seeing each year through
Wearing the dead's clothes
Hosting parties where everything comes loose
Our friends tattered and lonesome
Drinking deep from the same barrel
Taking it too fast on the straights and the bends
Spinning out, breaking glass, crumpling metal
I'm feeling just as reckless
I want my blood in the earth
Connecting with something wise and old
Something that settled here first
I'm just wallowing over
Something greater than us
It won't make sense of our actions
Or make sense of our love

Make sense of our love

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from Horseplay EP, released January 11, 2013

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Garden Ruin Adelaide, Australia

(2011-2019)

Influenced by the psych-folk of The Byrds, indie doom of Jason Molina and fractured pop of Sparklehorse & Wilco, the songs of Tristan Louth-Robins are grounded in affecting melodies and compelling arrangements, with lyrics evoking the imagery of surging tides, haunted roads and lost nights. On stage Tristan is often joined by fellow Adeladian, Thomas Kalleske (Porchlight Parade). ... more

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