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Bookshelf Battlecircle

from Places We've Broken Into EP by Fingers Lift

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It was 1984
And Tender was the night for Betty Zane
A Light In August she was
Shaking off the Trail Dust
Of her Noble House
And with her friend The Rocketeer
A Companion to Shakespeare Studies
They were On The Trail Of The Ragged Fox
The Ragged Fox he was a Warlock
The Devil In The White City
The Spirit Of The Border
They felt The Return Of The King
Was really in order
But The View From The Bridge
And The Omen over the ridge
Could easily have told her
Clearer than Hornblower
That the sun always rises on the Battle Circle
The Sun Also Rises on the Battle Circle

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from Places We've Broken Into EP, released February 2, 2012

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Fingers Lift De Kalb, Illinois

Fingers Lift is a band of scarecrows with jack o' lantern heads staked in a plot of dark midwestern soil in a town where it's always night. when the wind is just right their corn-husk fingers lightly brush and tap against the stringed instruments that some unknown soul thought to hang on them as a perverse joke. wind sighs in and out through their eyes and mouths and with the wind comes words ... more

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