Bere Ferrers

from A Century Ago by Darth Nater

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Featuring Alec Miller on flute

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Captain please
We’ve had nothing to eat since 6 this morning
The boys won’t admit it
But their stomachs are rumbling fiercer than an Albatross engine
Bone thin with fish skeleton ribs
Singing submerged hymns to Poseidon
Hiding train track tridents

I survey the brittle troops
One paws through a pocket sized bible
Another stares at his shoes
The former is holy but the latter is too
I make a note get him a new pair soon
A third boy scribbles nervously in a notebook making sure no one looks
No one does
We’re all gripping our guns
We’re all stuck in our own heads
All we see are blurry trees
And all we dream of is our beds
The weddings that we’ll miss
And the funerals we wish we did
Innumerable grievances
Shove them in the deepest trench pit of your stomach
This is the first of many hundred
You are one in a million
Shed your civilian skin

I was sick of home now I'm homesick
I was chomping at the bit now I just wanna sit on a Grovetown porch
Gorging myself on homemade biscuits and local gossip
But I am trapped in a cage filled with whitebait
When I was their age I would have swam far away
Afraid of the nets that lie in wait
Afraid of ending up on a plate garnished with parsley and sage
Look before you jump, before you leap
Before you cross the street
When weaving steel tracks cleave these the foreign grasslands

Hit like a heart attack
No chance to react
Slammed shut in a bear trap
The lightning and the thunderclap
Like the staccato snap of a dance troupe’s taps
Or the snares drums in a marching band
Ever so slightly offbeat
Too slight to perceive or adjust your feet
You are only a human being
You are only a human being

Shorter than the time between the pitch and the hit
When the gas is poured and the match is lit
In the time it takes to catch a bullet in your teeth
Shorter than the reign of King Louis the 19th

Shorter than the time between the pitch and the hit
When the gas is poured and the match is lit
In the time it takes to catch a bullet in your teeth
Shorter than the reign of King Louis the 19th

I do not believe in fate
I am he of little faith
By the time the train made it to Exeter’s gates
They were 12 men short and two hours late

Give me something to blame
Give me something to hate
Give my pain a form and shape and let me swing away

Give me someone to blame
Give me someone to hate
Give my pain a face and name and let me swing away

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from A Century Ago, released March 31, 2018

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Darth Nater Buffalo, New York

Funny songs. Sad songs. Funny, sad songs.

Darth Nater is the solo project of Buffalo-based musician Nate Noworyta.

Lyrically dense story-songs filled with detailed imagery and characters. Musically rooted in folk and indie rock.
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