Sacred Ibis from Swaggerland by Bronwyn Eather

Sacred Ibis

She’ll take you to the darkened air
Where love will burn the brighter
She’ll ask your body, lost and rising
Are you a lover or a fighter?
She’ll take you to the edge of her
So high, so sweet the yearning
She’ll take you, she will break you down
What chance of your returning?

Caught in a spell that she’s weaving
One fatal kiss as you’re leaving

And all you hear is the clarion call
The lover’s song of warning
That you might fall, you might fall
So you hold on till the morning
And if you dream, you dream of her
She whispers your new lie
It makes no sense, no it can’t be true
But you hold it as your alibi

She’s the ibis, you are the snake
And you keep making the same mistake
Sacred ibis, flying snake
You keep making the same mistake

She will find another way
You know she will take you soon
A ribbon of blue falls from the sun
To the mountains of the moon

She’s the ibis, you are the snake
And you keep making the same mistake
Sacred ibis, flying snake
You keep making the same mistake

• Alternative
• Australian rock
• alternative
• antipodean soundscape
• art rock
• blues roots
• female lead
• female lead singer
• folk rock
• independent
• Sydney