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Layla Jean Fibbins finished this song specifically for this Maggie Darlings collaboration. It best represents the spirit of the album, because it was finished and arranged in a short space of time and reflects the mood of the songs the women put together. It is recorded simply, and the simple, raw harmonies in the chorus channel a timeless, charming sound that could come from any group of women gathering to sing together.

It features harmony from Mandy Connell and Alysia Manceau, sits nicely in the common theme of dark songs from the feminine perspective.
The song is interesting in that it's narrator is a fey woman, someone we would think of as a witch, drawing daggers and casting spells with raven feathers and sycamore leaves. Ordinarily, even in folk songs, we tend to tell stories about witches in the third person, and this tale is told in first person narrative. In the end, as in the Cruel Mother, Wishing Well and other tracks on the album, this song leaves our protagonist/antagonist narrator lying injured or dead at the bottom of the river.

You can find other work from Layla Jean Fibbins in an outfit with her sister Rhianna Fibbins, under the name "The Sideshow Brides" www.thesideshowbrides.com

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The Spell - Layla Fibbins

Deep dark water, Deep dark water
Deep dark water, Deep dark water

to the waters edge I followed him down
still summer evenin' not a soul around
I hid in the willows and i watched him dive in
the water glistenin' on his moonlit skin

Deep dark water, Deep dark water
Deep dark water, Deep dark water

for no rhyme or reason I swore me a plan
by the turn of this season I would make him my man
while he lay sleeping through his window I'll creep
a lock of his long dark hair i'll keep

Deep dark water, Deep dark water
Deep dark water, Deep dark water

wearing raven feathers and a wildflower wreath
my dagger as sharp as a wolf hound's teeth
carve me a figure from a waiting sheath
and circled it round with a sycamore leaf

Deep dark water, Deep dark water
Deep dark water, Deep dark water

then one night he came to my side
we swam in the water our bodies entwined
many an evening by the river we lay
until the day when he came to say
my wild-haired raven, my wayward lover
my heart belongs to another
no longer shall we meet this way
the willow trees howled as he walked away

Deep dark water, Deep dark water

i lunged towards him with my blade in hand
if i can't have him then no one else can
beneath my feet the earth gave away
now at the bottom of the river i lay

Deep dark water, Deep dark water
Deep dark water, Deep dark water

credits

from The Wishing Well, released August 9, 2017
Layla Jean Fibbins- Author, Lead Vocals, Guitar
Mandy Connell, Backing Vocals
Alysia Manceau- Backing Vocals

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered at Thirty Mill Studios
Album Artwork by Tracey Roberts at Pangaea Productions

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