Name: Red Maggies Lantern
Duration: P00H06M50S
Description: A dreadful tale of woe. Getting everything you ever wanted may not be enough to make you happy. It may also come at a terrible price.

Red Maggies Lantern

by Hesper Payne

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A dreadful tale of woe. Getting everything you ever wanted may not be enough to make you happy. It may also come at a terrible price.

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Red Maggies Lantern

Red Maggies Lantern
Was a thing of
intricate beauty
A complex mesh
Woven from brass
It shone with a light
Not of this world

It was said
She pulled the Lantern
From the boulder clay
Low tide
On Skinningrove beach
Where wind and the waves
Whisper terrible secrets

Red Maggies Lantern
Was a thing of
Untold misery
Many souls
Sought it's visions
One by one
The lantern swalloed
Them all

Red Maggies Lantern
Was a thing
With a mind of its own
It served
Unseen masters
Things that hunger
In the darkness outside

Maggie fled
And buried the lantern
In the mines
Under Eston hills
But the lantern is eternal
Patiently waiting
To shine again

Ugh!

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released April 28, 2021
Recorded by the Hesper Paynes during the ill fated months of February and March 2021. The song was originally written in 2010, but we dared not commit it to silicon until now.

Drums - Glenn Wellman
Keyboards - Alexandra Durning
Vocals - Roberta Wilkinson
Guitars and vocals - Brooke Johnson

Recorded in various cursed locations that will remain unamed lest the foolhardy attempt to find them.

Mixed by Brooke Johnson at Alchemillia Hospital (W13)

Mastered by Saulius Beilskis

'Art' and layout by Brooke Johnson

Roberta Wilkinson appears courtesy of Geologise Theatre

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Hesper Payne Liège, Belgium

Doomed Heavy Metal inspired by the myths and landscape of North East England. Formed in 2004 and not dead yet.

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