Name: The Veil Before My Eyes
Duration: P00H03M22S
Description: This will be my first track ever posted on BandCamp! Recorded this one on my phone and messed around with it in GarageBand a bit. I'm thinking of putting it on the upcoming album but I thought I would put it out elsewhere for now.

The Veil Before My Eyes

by Quinn Pilgrim

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This will be my first track ever posted on BandCamp! Recorded this one on my phone and messed around with it in GarageBand a bit. I'm thinking of putting it on the upcoming album but I thought I would put it out elsewhere for now.

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As I lay in my bed slowly dyin
As I lay in my bed slowly dyin
Do not make gaudy plans
For my coffin or my land
Leave me be when the life leaves my hands

Throw away your oak and your birch
Throw away your oak and your birch
Your hammers and your nails
You’ll leave without fail
Leave your labor at bay as I’m dyin

I can feel the bad blood in my veins
I can feel the bad blood in my veins
Without this anchor on my chest
I could surely take my rest
Come swiftly, sweet angel, to my side

Cover me in the fresh earth and soil
Cover me in the fresh earth and soil
I pray you bury me
Beneath my mother’s willow tree
So I may sleep eternally in the shade

Wrap me up in a white linen sheet
Wrap me up in a white linen sheet
When my spirit leaves my bones
And my mortal earthly home
Leave me be beneath a few feet of dirt

It ain’t the dyin bothers me
It ain’t the dyin bothers me
Ain’t the dyin bothers me
But my kin left alone all three
See to it that they all be daily fed

Play the fiddle slow and sweet o’er my bones
Play the fiddle slow and sweet o’er my bones
Sing a hymn to keep me flyin
On my journey past the sky
And nearer to my home I will be

The veil before my eyes is comin down
The veil before my eyes is comin down
When I meet the prince of peace
And the heavenly gates I see
I’ll look down upon my body in the grave

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released September 28, 2020

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