Ambition

from Ambition by Rose Thomas Bannister

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Come night, a needle
Scarf up the tender day
Strangle the twilight with crows
The bat and the beetle will join
Them in the woods
Their children grow stronger from blood

Star fires
Don’t look at my desires
Bright eye
Don’t look at my hand
Sharp knife
See not the wound it makes
Until I get what’s mine

What you don’t know hurts you
But you don’t know it yet
It swallows your heart while you sleep
You dream of a bear licking honey from her hands
The bear will not give up its prey

Mock the time with the fairest show
False face must hide what the false heart doth know
Whatever you do, don't let it show

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from Ambition, released September 10, 2018
written by Rose Thomas Bannister
Rose Thomas Bannister: vocals, acoustic guitar
Bob Bannister: electric guitar, backing vocals
Gary Foster: drums
Debby Schwartz: electric bass, backing vocals
Greg Talenfeld plays the electric guitar with his keys

recorded & mixed by Greg Talenfeld at OK Records, Nyack, NY
produced by Rose Thomas Bannister & Greg Talenfeld

Album art by Ian Pyper
Layout by Rose Thomas Bannister
Formatting by Mike Susol

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Rose Thomas Bannister New York

Rose Thomas Bannister (FKA Ember Schrag) is a singer and guitarist originally from western Nebraska. Hailed as "distinctive and free of affect or artifice" by the A.V. Club, her Great-Plains-gothic style "lands somewhere between Scout Niblett and Karen Dalton, writing about land and space and hope and despair" (Nightlight). ... more

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