We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

The Red Coats

from The Red Coats by Brillig

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Click the link below for your download of this track from Brillig's LP 'The Red Coats', which forges our own way in the new realm of 'gothic folk'.

    You can download the track in your choice of 320k mp3, FLAC, or plenty of other digital formats.

    If you like the song, why not spread the news by clicking on 'SHARE' below? We'd love it if you did.

    www.brillig.com.au
    Purchasable with gift card

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • Buy Digipack Disc

about

ABOUT THIS TRACK: Title track to the 2010 LP.

Think: winter snow, Colorado USA 1813. Two boys ‘Raven Hair’ & ‘Snowy White’ grow up as best friends - until Raven Hair’s growing jealousy leads to an ongoing family feud with dire consequences...

lyrics

LYRICS:
The Red Coats, the Blue Coats
The Blood Reds and the Cut-Throats
Took the field, in the snow
To settle scores from long ago

The end begins at the start
With Raven Hair and Snowy White
Two families’ favourite sons
Perfect, smile, now young men they’ve become
The end begins at the start
With Raven Hair, comes a Raven Heart
Ice will break before it bends
To all they seemed the best of friends

Jealousy like shadow grew
In Raven’s coat of Midnight Blue
As closest friend now closest foe
Paraded a garment white as snow
The best laid plans are played at night
Raven Hair strode to Snowy White
Whose back was turned, and from his coat
He took his knife and he cut his throat

People gathered where he fell
And watched his White coat turn to Red
His father rose as he died on the path
Of melting snow from steaming blood He said,
“So this day you will always remember
We’ll meet here every bleak December
We’ll bring our blades and wear Blood Red coats And take you down, you who are the Cut-Throats”

The Red Coats, the Blue Coats
The Blood Reds and the Cut-Throats
Took the field, in the snow
To settle scores from long ago

credits

from The Red Coats, released February 21, 2010
Copyright M.Swayne / E.Reid / D. Meredith

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Brillig image

Brillig SA, Australia

"If you know what Cohen, Cash & Cave have in common, it's right here” - Periplaneta, Germany

For those who like folk tales deliciously dark yet strangely uplifting, look no further than acclaimed trio Brillig, who share their penchant for sea shanties, murder ballads & beautifully tragic gothic folk tales with festival crowds across Europe, Australia + New Zealand and airwaves around the globe. ... more

contact / help

Contact Brillig

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Brillig, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Fabiana Palladino stops by to talk about her mesmeric debut LP.
listen now