Name: Thylacine, Thylacine (live)
Duration: P00H02M46S
Description: An original song about an extinct marsupial. Recorded live in 2015.

Thylacine, Thylacine (live)

from "B-Sides" & "Rarities" by Sarah Shay

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An original song about an extinct marsupial. Recorded live in 2015.

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Thylacine, burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Could steal thy fearful life

Not the thief that you were called
Not the fearful hunter
They thought you would eat their livelihood
So they dragged you under

They caught you on their land
Whose land?
You were running through the jungles
Before Van Diemen ever found his man

Thylacine, burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Dare steal thy fearful life

Not the tiger, the wolf or the fox
My ungentle protege
What the hand dare seize your fire?
Raise your heels and run far away

In what distant deeps or skies
Hid the fire of thine eyes
Though the plains called to your heart
Terrors ran you into the dark

Thylacine, burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Dare steal thy fearful life

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Thylacine, burning bright
In the forests of the night
What immortal hand or eye
Dare steal thy fearful life

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from "B-Sides" & "Rarities", released March 21, 2014

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