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Holy Omen

by Greta Ruth

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1.
Lingereth 02:52
I didn’t mind waiting for you I didn’t mind waiting for you I didn’t mind waiting for a heart so true some days were dark, some nights were cold some days were dark, some nights were cold some others tried to take my soul when all our days have come and gone when all our days have come and gone our love will linger in this song
2.
hearts that wait for spring aren’t wise, are they? they pull petals to tell them all of love a sure settle, soft for the patient heart I’m one of these if words catch in my mouth, kiss it if you want me close, listen love comes easy, goes hard I am a creature of pleasing, nothing too far give me all your looks, tend me gentle and kind I am a creature, so please me, keep me from harm if you love me like that if you love me like that if you love me like that if you love me like that
3.
Cuseo Hands 03:18
I could keep house, window view while you’re still and breathe quite freely tuck the waves under your eyelids the salt the same as I was I’ve a bird who waits for you with the words that run right through he is ever patient, he is not like me he is wide awake while I am dreaming all alone at the edge of earth a second birth I’d shed, I’d shed everything give my body to the sea the shell of it, still tidal shift this crescent kiss, this ooo
4.
Turn Salt 03:14
what love is calm? this is a ghost rings at the bell don’t answer, don’t answer when darkness falls and red haunts all of my dreams I wonder, I wonder have you found your tongue in all of this? what languages did you miss? I went to find out where heart had gone I sang the night out her weary song I won’t turn salt, ghost, I’ll marry yet my dreams of rose and red back to myself, ghost, I’ll mirror yet the grace that I would wed turn salt, I don’t think I’ll turn salt, I don’t think I’ll turn salt, I don’t think I’ll
5.
may the light be called on you and I, I went down told a river everything a rose so red it hurts sweetheart, won’t you learn it’s over now all the rabbit warrens vacant like a dream of horror’s gone beckon big heart beckon big heart send a message of love to all creatures blessed this bout is won and the sun comes out and the sun comes out
6.
Holy Omen 02:32
gentle man hawk is overhead for our love generous friend makes our bed and lays me down where is wonder? all around the awe I’m in for a lover sweet as strong as heaven’s grin I never knew I could feel calm and loved I never knew I could feel calm and loved I never knew I could feel calm and loved calm and loved
7.
blue edge of light holding my amber thoughts am I that creature caught? I twist in sheets I shift in stillness all of my language lost and bodied for my ghost I beg to thread it all out now to nudge every cop-out like I’m tied to skin and my love tell my honest love how he breaks and builds me and my heart that she’s free and my heart that she’s free
8.
Thrush Song 04:00
right at the edge of the roof there’s a nest day breaks and little voices awake to beg I wanted to mother, I wanted to help you wanted another, or maybe yourself I wanted a mother, I wanted help you wanted another, or maybe yourself I only know that the dawn brings back sight and there’s so many creatures in the daylight to say I’ve been sad is the saddest word like my heart is some little waiting bird when I wanted a lover, you wanted yourself you wanted a mother, I couldn’t help I only know that the dawn brings back sight but sometimes the night really takes her time right at the edge of the roof there’s a nest little wings that grow strong as they can I only know that the dawn brings back sight in the wonder of two weeks taking flight they’ll be alright they’ll be alright
9.
Hush 03:42
fable’s end you were my only friend in the mist and bloom wild then we as our only sense of what we knew have you forgot? set hush in our eyes and mouths your heart, your ire go dark for all the times I faded myself for you judge you’re a river in me, carving out the rough, the rough do you reckon me, too, love? do you reckon me, too? hey, I’m still here hey, I’m still here hey, I’m still here fall in the bed of how you’ve been holding your head high I’m not afraid not anymore I’m just a fire I’m just a fire
10.
only as dull as it cuts when you write I’ll tell you true love comes only once terrors that hide behind eyes in the darkest hours I’ve seen them more than twice bird song goes like bird song goes for life and it starts with two hearts in the thick of the night stayed by the wonder by starlight bird song goes like bird song goes like bird song goes for life

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Holy Omen, the second full-length release by folk singer/songwriter Greta Ruth, explores the sacred signs that we are on the path that's meant for us. A hawk overhead, a red rose, a cardinal kiss. On this path there can be healing, there can be wonder, there can be peace. On this path there is a love that sweetens and strengthens us while the chaos, mystery, and dissonance of life rage on.

These songs were written from 2013 to 2020 and recorded to reel-to-reel tape during the summer of 2021.

credits

released September 8, 2023

music & lyrics by greta ruth

strings arranged by andrew broder
saxophone performed by brandon wozniak
cello performed by cecelia swanson
piano performed by zach waldon
bass performed by joe svobodny

recorded & mixed by zach waldon
mastered by greg reierson at rare form mastering

album photo by jim melcher
album design by greta ruth
album layout by sarah dovolos

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Greta Ruth Minneapolis, Minnesota

poem & tone. guitar & voice. language & harmony.

song as a way to sit with, move through, & heal from experience.

softness & dissonance. reflection & dynamic stillness.

the tension of opposites & the alchemy of internal work.

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