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The Arcadian Wild Lyrics

There's a beast that can't be tamed, with its dark and evil ways, making its home inside each one of us.
The beast's attack is heard, not seen. It lies right behind my teeth. It can't create, it only deconstructs.
Have you heard the word?
We all whisper against our enemies. And we whisper against our friends.
We murmur, breathing out murderous talk, whispering wounds we cannot mend.

I'll say behind your back what I won't tell you to your face. I'm a double sided man, and you're the same.
With the same mouth we bless and curse, little Pharisees from our birth, happy as long as there's someone else to blame.
Have you heard the word?
In reality, our duality is our tragic flaw. With our lips we commit the greatest sins of all.

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Led by songwriters Isaac Horn and Lincoln Mick and with Bailey Warren on fiddle, The Arcadian Wild confidently inhabits and explores an intersection of genre, blending the traditional with the contemporary in order to create a unique acoustic sound that is simultaneously unified and diverse. With roots in formal vocal music and influences from progressive bluegrass and folk, The Arcadian Wild offer up songs of invitation; calls to come and see, to find refuge and rest, or to journey and wonder. Read Full BioLed by songwriters Isaac Horn and Lincoln Mick and with Bailey Warren on fiddle, The Arcadian Wild confidently inhabits and explores an intersection of genre, blending the traditional with the contemporary in order to create a unique acoustic sound that is simultaneously unified and diverse. With roots in formal vocal music and influences from progressive bluegrass and folk, The Arcadian Wild offer up songs of invitation; calls to come and see, to find refuge and rest, or to journey and wonder. Over the course of 2020, The Arcadian Wild released Principium, a four-movement song-cycle that explores human relationship, flourishing, degradation, and redemption, culminating in the release Principium EP in February 2021, which debuted at #3 on the Billboard Bluegrass Chart. Resumed touring found the band playing to increasingly large and enthusiastic audiences in 2021 and 2022, with shows often morphing into impromptu sing-alongs, a true collaboration and connection between artist and audience. The release of two new singles in Fall 2022 gave their followers just a taste of a newfound well of creativity, with more to come in 2023!

Stay tuned and come along to journey and wander.