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* SciFiWritersHave/NoSenseOfTime: Averting this trope is the whole point of "Terminal Star". Sadly, though it's a good attempt, she doesn't quite get it right: the song is about a star 100 million light years away, which is orders of magnitude too far away to be visible to the naked eye.
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* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Averting this trope is the whole point of "Terminal Star". Sadly, though it's a good attempt, she doesn't quite get it right: the song is about a star 100 million light years away, which is orders of magnitude too far away to be visible to the naked eye.
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* RefrainFromAssuming: "Daisy" gets called by some portion of its refrain "There are people in this world who don't think like you do" enough that the sheet music lists the refrain in brackets on the front page below the actual title.
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* NotChristianRock: Although Bible stories go into the lyrical melting pot with all the other myths and folklore. The most obvious Bible inspired song being ''Tears For Lot's Wife''.
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* SofterAndSlowerCover: Essentially the contents of ''Scottish Songbook'', a cover album comprised solely of songs by Scottish artists.
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* BlasphemousBoast: A mild one in ''Cover your Eyes'', with the line "Not even God Himself could stop the northerlies from blowing"
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Scottish singer-songwriter, generally associated with the folk scene. After singing with Malinky and Battlefield Band, her debut album ''Faultlines'' won an armful of awards, and has been followed up with ''Scribbled in Chalk'', ''Fairest Floo'er'' (an album of traditional songs performed with minimal instrumentation), ''This Earthly Spell'' and 2012's ''Traces''.
!Tropes in use:
* AlbumTitleDrop: Her prefered method of album titling; only ''Faultlines'' has an actual TitleTrack.
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* AlbumTitleDrop: Her prefered method of album titling; only ''Faultlines'' has an actual TitleTrack.
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Karine Polwart (born 23 December 1970) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, generally associated with the folk scene. After singing with Malinky and Battlefield Band, her debut album ''Faultlines'' won an armful of awards, and has been followed up with ''Scribbled in Chalk'', ''Fairest Floo'er'' (an album of traditional songs performed with minimal instrumentation), ''This Earthly Spell'' and 2012's ''Traces''. \n\n!Tropes
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* BrotherSisterTeam: sometimes writes with her brother Steven, who also plays guitar in her backing band. Most of ''Fairest Floo'er'' was performed by just the two of them.
* CannotTellALie: "Tongue That Cannot Lie"
* CessationOfExistence: "Light On The Shore"
* CharityMotivationSong: "A Well for Zoe"
* CannotTellALie: "Tongue That Cannot Lie"
* CessationOfExistence: "Light On The Shore"
* CharityMotivationSong: "A Well for Zoe"
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* BrotherSisterTeam: sometimes Sometimes writes with her brother Steven, who also plays guitar in her backing band. Most of ''Fairest Floo'er'' was performed by just the two of them.
* CannotTellALie: "Tongue That CannotLie"
Lie".
* CessationOfExistence: "Light On TheShore"
Shore".
* CharityMotivationSong: "A Well forZoe"Zoe".
* CannotTellALie: "Tongue That Cannot
* CessationOfExistence: "Light On The
* CharityMotivationSong: "A Well for
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* NotChristianRock: Although Bible stories go into the lyrical melting pot with all the other myths and folklore.
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* PosthumousNarration:
** ''Maybe There's a Road'' heavily implies that that the narrator has been DeadAllAlong.
** ''Azalea Flower'' features the narrator apparently telling the story of her own murder, and then switches to a third person POV.
** ''Maybe There's a Road'' heavily implies that that the narrator has been DeadAllAlong.
** ''Azalea Flower'' features the narrator apparently telling the story of her own murder, and then switches to a third person POV.
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* SwitchingPOV: ''Azalea Flower'' swaps from a first person to a third person narration after the first verse, with the implication that the original narrator has been murdered.
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* DisposableSexWorker: The implied fate of the narrator of ''Maybe There's a Road''.
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* FadingIntoTheNextSong: The transition from "Firethief" into "Behind Our Eyes" on ''This Earthly Spell'', considered by some fans to be the album's CrowningMomentOfAwesome.
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* FadingIntoTheNextSong: The transition from "Firethief" into "Behind Our Eyes" on ''This Earthly Spell'', considered by some fans to be the album's CrowningMomentOfAwesome.Spell''.
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* HappilyFailedSuicide: the widowed narrator of "The Sun's Comin' Over The Hill" tries to replicate the circumstances of her husband's death, with this result.
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* DeathByIrony: First invoked, then inverted in "The Sun's Comin' Over The Hill" with the protagonist's death "full of whiskey and irony" followed by the narrator's failure to emulate it.
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* OutOfGenreExperience: In among a run of very dark songs on ''This Earthly Spell'', "The News" is [[MoodWhiplash rather jarring]] not only for being suddenly LighterAndSofter, but also being performed in a jazz/doo-wop style never heard in her catalogue before or since.
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* OutOfGenreExperience: In among a run of very dark songs on ''This Earthly Spell'', "The News" is [[MoodWhiplash rather jarring]] a spectacular bit of MoodWhiplash not only for being suddenly LighterAndSofter, but also being performed in a jazz/doo-wop style never heard in her catalogue before or since.
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* OutOfGenreExperience: In among a run of very dark songs on ''This Earthly Spell'', "The News" is rather jarring not only for being suddenly LighterAndSofter, but also being performed in a jazz/doo-wop style never heard in her catalogue before or since.
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* OutOfGenreExperience: In among a run of very dark songs on ''This Earthly Spell'', "The News" is [[MoodWhiplash rather jarring jarring]] not only for being suddenly LighterAndSofter, but also being performed in a jazz/doo-wop style never heard in her catalogue before or since.
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* BreakthroughHit: Polwart acknowledges "The Sun's Comin' Over The Hill" as fulfilling this role for her.
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* BreakthroughHit: She's never actually had a mainstream hit, but in terms of getting noticed as a folk artist, Polwart acknowledges "The Sun's Comin' Over The Hill" as fulfilling this role for her.
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* GreatestHitsAlbum: The Canadian release ''Threshold'', though it oddly omits "The Sun's Comin' Over The Hill" (see Breakthrough Hit above).
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* OutOfGenreExperience: In among a run of very dark songs on ''This Earthly Spell'', "The News" is rather jarring not only for being suddenly LighterAndSofter, but also being performed in a jazz/doo-wop style never heard in her catalogue before or since.
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* EarlyBirdCameo: A poem appears without title or explanation on the last page of the ''Scribbled In Chalk'' CD booklet. It's actually part of "Behind Our Eyes", which would appear on her next album, two years later.
