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Apple Seed

from From the Fountain of Lethe by Panthea

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Apple Seed is a tribute to the little Iberian village where I was born. I remember this haunting song being sung by my aunt Chitas, who is now reknown as a sort of Bard from my own village. I never knew the words, so I have honoured the village and its icon through my own. The drum that is played throughout is a traditional one found only in that little pocket of the world, called an Adufe. It is a square frame drum, distinguished from other frame drums because it is completely covered, with shells suspended within on twine, and a handful of native soil thrown inside.

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Apple Seed

There's a castle silhouetted in an antic light.
Can you see it under the silver canopy of night?
Even though its walls are crumbled in arcana,
It's a seed within the apple of nostalgia.
within the apple

There's a castle atop the mountain where I was born.
From that vista you can see olive trees and distant storms.
There, the devils sit on the clouds, spinning the dust below,
And the angels shoot flaming apples, their trails aglow.
shoot flaming apples

There's a castle: ancestral footmen guarding well their posts.
Generations: six hundred years living amid their ghosts.
I am named Ricardo Manuel Ramos Costa.
Like the apple, I fell here from Penha Garcia.
eu venho da Penha Garcia

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from From the Fountain of Lethe, released August 28, 2010

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