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Happily Ever After

from La B​ê​te Blanche by Storm the Palace

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A forest conceals a castle
a place beyond conventional history
Prescribed wisdom
Received morality
A place beyond science – physics, chemistry

You might not notice
The exact point you transition from this world to that

And in this castle lives a beast
Whose power lies in absence
The less we see, the stronger he grows

This isn't a story of a medieval age
It's early modern
Industry and imperialism glimmer in its eyes
A hint of individualism, freedom
Boundaries disintegrating but bodies still encrusted
With baroque, convoluted carvings
And the swirling curvature of Catholicism and counter-reformation

Perhaps to convince themselves
That people could be animals
They had to argue
That a beast could be a man.

No mindless minotaur
But a creature burdened with lust, regret
Rage, repentance, despair

She was a merchant's daughter
Brimming with New World wealth
And the possibility that a woman
Might claim her own destiny
Write her own chapter

Her punishment: imprisonment
A lifetime of household management
She may know the world now
Only through words
The library of babel at her disposal

They make a terrible couple
And by terrible, I mean "terrifying"

He finds that beauty is more of a fortress
Than rough hands could ever build
Shackled and shorn,
He runs his tongue over the gap
Where his fangs used to throb
He is haunted by his phantom claws

They make a terrible couple
But together they're magnificent
Manicures and dirty paws
A perfect congregation of flaws

Are they still there, in that castle
On that accidentally uncharted hill
Concealed by larch and pine,
Living out their age-old incompatibility
In bliss, or ignorance, or grinding boredom
Happily ever after?

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from La B​ê​te Blanche, released November 18, 2022

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Storm the Palace Edinburgh, UK

Radge folk pop from Edinburgh


"Taking their cues from modern classical, left field folk, and stubborn indie songcraft, Storm The Palace vault over genre barriers without looking back."
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