The Raven

from How to Love this Woman by Therese FitzMaurice & Tim Lane

	/

Streaming + Download

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

Purchasable with gift card

$1 USD or more
Buy the Full Digital Album

lyrics

I know this Raven
no one can see her,
she comes and goes with the changing of the tides.
I don’t understand who sent her or her purpose
but her presence is undeniable.

She is wild and unpredictable,
she is perched on the inner recess of my breast bone
cawing waiting to see how I will respond.

I hinge open my chest and breathe
spread my arms to the warmth
of the winter sky stretching east
to the sound of the sun rising.

This is the inner landscape of the Woman I Keep to Myself:

She is wild and unpredictable.
She rises and falls from that which set her in motion.
The good glad holy fluid urges her on
she drives me to the edge of ocean cliffs
the entire ledge about to give.

I am trying to carve a space for her to live in home
where she is free to reveal the wisdom of her body

but I move to slowly
she flutters through my blood stream
stabbing thorns in my fingers
so that I have no choice
but to bleed across these pages.

She doesn’t want me to keep this woman a secret

credits

from How to Love this Woman, released February 6, 2016

license

about

Therese FitzMaurice California

contact / help

Contact Therese FitzMaurice

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Therese FitzMaurice, you may also like:

Bonjour Mon Amour
by Camille Bertault

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jun 6, 2023
go to album
Hope/Currency
by rPH and Kins of Spade

This album by Kenyan electronic producer rPH and poet Kins of Spade reflects on the impact of religion in their lives and society. Bandcamp New & Notable May 12, 2023
go to album
Playing with Esu / Where will Ogun Live
by Neo Griot & The Afrocentric Prince

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jan 25, 2022
go to album
Fodder
by Douglas Kearney & Val Jeanty

Poet Douglas Kearney and composer/producer/drummer Val Jeanty link up for a a compelling LP that feels like the written word come to life. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2021
go to album
Nekomata EP
by Mikado Koko * o g i v e

On her new EP, Japanese producer Mikado Koko deconstructs the traditional, mixing avant-garde vocals and glitch breaks with koto. Bandcamp New & Notable Dec 15, 2020
go to album
aint about me
by aint about me

In a lane all his own, aint about me lays moody spoken word over rippling soundscapes on songs that feel cinematic in scope. Bandcamp New & Notable Nov 23, 2020
go to album
This Is Madness
by The Last Poets

featured on Bandcamp Radio Jun 23, 2020
go to album