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by David Cale and Carol Lipnik

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THE POACHER Lyrics by David Cale, Music and Carol Lipnik

I climbed over a fence
Into a private property
In a clearing in the woodland
He was bending on one knee
I asked, “What are you doing?’
And he stared me in the eye
He was laying traps for rabbits
And a gun was by his side

He looked so rough and ragged
His shirt collar was all torn
I’d never felt such longing
For a boy before
We walked a ways together
To a broke down house he knew
In a deep part of the woods
Where no one ever ventured to

I never told a soul
I never told a soul
I never told a soul about
The poacher
I never told a soul
I never told a soul
I never told a soul about
The poacher

I was barely sixteen
He had just turned twenty-one
He was rough and he was tender
And I thought he was the one
I’d meet him after midnight
I would slip out of my room
I’d see him in the undergrowth
We’d kiss beneath the moon

I never told a soul
I never told a soul
I never told a soul about
The poacher
I never told a soul
I never told a soul

I never told a soul about
The poacher

One day he didn’t show up
I was broken and bereft
Wouldn’t leave my room for days
I thought that I’d been left
I read it in the papers
He’d been shot by accident
At Least that’s what the owner of the woodlands said

I had no-one to tell
I had no-one to tell
I had no-one to tell about
The poacher

I never told a soul
I never told a soul
I never told a soul about
The poacher

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from Goddess of Imperfection, released March 11, 2022

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Carol Lipnik New York, New York

Carol Lipnik’s voice is a thing of wonder, soaring across four octaves with remarkable fluidity, gently cradling listeners in its sublimely sustained tone. A poet of beauty, decay and desolation, Carol sets her lyrics in spare, harmonically rich soundscapes. Mythical imagery—the moon, crows, wolves, boats and journeys—evoke the eternal world of nature and hint at some past or future devastation. ... more

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