#Kid and Leveret

[yaelokre]

🐦📖🌾 𓆱 One who hid to be heard, and another who ran to be remembered. I present to you "Kid & Leveret" Listen to the song on Spotify and many other streaming platforms! :~)

[sharkieshark]

Gay people real holy shit

[ktayms]

Kid and Leveret

[notsofwindi]

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[lewiswis]

☆Very excited for the release!🩷🌸🌾🌟

[ann1e-on-earth]

[shirpowbra]

wanted to practice some action poses and I've been in a yaelokre kick lately sooo... have more my meadowlark sona heh

Also they're coming to the show

[kordeliiius]

Special delivery!

[iiinkos]

BAM BAM BAM DOWN THE DOOR AND HERE I AM BEYOND THE CRANNY COME HITHER SAYS THE FEATHERED LADY FARE THEE WELL TO THE HOUND THAT HELD YOUR HOME FOREBODING FARTHER OFF WE’LL GO ‼️‼️‼️

[itsawildsaltychip]

Kid and leveret || @yaelokre

Are you Kidding? Now? But We haven't even started? And he haven't pulled the lever yet! Wait... Say that again 😈

[luciddreams-art]

My take on Kid & Leveret by Yaelokre!

so, I’m just gonna talk about what’s been released and not the full song (I’ve heard the full song but I won’t mention it TOO much)

I saw someone talk about how it sounded like Clementine lived with a Baron and Baroness; while, that could be true, I personally think that it was talking about the Baroness’s father, since there is a line…

“her father was a dollmaker; he taught her how to weave ones movement the marionette who took the thread”

it’s talking ABOUT the Baroness’s father instead of Clementine’s father, it sounds like the Baroness was a bit of a control freak if you will, it sounds like she controlled how clementine acted as well.

since in Bird Cage Blue and Yellow, Clementine says that she won’t be puppeted. Andddd I have maybe a bit more proof for this.

On a comment I saw on the Harkers demo, someone said something along the lines of “What if Clemmie and Cole aren’t used to actually being able to talk? Since Hark means to listen, they are listening to each other”

and I’m thinking, and remember this is just a theory… What if Clementine is sort of a… Trophy Child? Something that the Baroness can sorta flaunt off and make people feel sympathetic towards her?

Another line in Kid & Leveret, Clementine says “believe her, she’s a mother” so, what if people saw the Baroness’s neglectful behavior towards Clemmie but rather then believing clementine they believed The baroness because she is the mother of the child?

basically Clementine couldn’t speak their mind or talk freely to others, hence the I Can’t Be Puppeted line from Clementine.

what do you guys think?

[imracconboy]

Yayyyy it’s been time since I don’t draw Neera but here they are once again! If u like this I encourage u to follow me on my ig since I post a little more often :b @js_arrt

@yaelokre

[midonamiqui]

Okay, here's my analysis of Harpy Hare by Yaelokre (presented to us by the Lark) !

🪧Facts we (as Yaelokre’s public) know until now:

The Lark are children, theater kids, singers, each one representing a deity.

The “main” one, from whomst we hear the most, is Cole/the Storyteller, who -as is Yaelokre themselves do- tells stories.

Harpy Hare is the first song of the album Hayfields.

There are many recurrent motives in the songs - the Baron/baroness, the Harpy, the hare, the hound, cages and birds- as well as illustrations and drawings.

The children see themselves as a “family” and the only “parental” figure we know is Yaelokre themselves.

Yaelokre stays very secretive about a meaning for their song, but we know the songs in lore *are* the children telling stories, or theirs, for example Songs of Origins.

A hare is a wild animal with longer ears than the rabbit, between others things. The leverets are born “without odor”, and with fur and functional audition and sight. They are left in a very small hole in the ground amongst the grass.

A Harpy could hint at (beside the Harpy Eagle) the harpies from Greek mythology, Alecto, Tisiphone and Mégère, Underworld deities in charge of guarding the souls prisoners of Tartarus. They are nicknamed the Eumenides (the Kind Ones) at the end of Euripide’s eponymous tragedy since they take place as Athens ‘s tribunal. In current expression, designes a stingy woman.

We know Yaelokre likes to represent themselves as such

with a rabbit/hare hat

Analysis and main thesis under cut :

(Note : Y = Yaelokre in the analysis, don't judge me I did that on my phone)

My guess is that the Harpy Hare in the song is Yaelokre themselves, and the Larkers the leverets ; “prisoners” of their existence in Yaelokre ‘s mind until they decide to make songs about them, where the Larkers are revealed to the world - existing “outside”.

NOW IT'S ANALYSIS TIME (rushed, because English isn't my first language and I am doing this on my phone but it's here)

During all the song, a direct adress from Cole (Personification of the Storyteller) is made to the “Harpy Hare”.

-Verses-

“All the arrows that you've stolen /Split in half, now bum and broken/Like your heart that was so eager to be hid”

Arrows as a direction, and a hunting tool -now broken, split in half. Directions stolen, as an inspiration for example (intertextuality) to write or draw or create. A heart eager to be hid can be a hint to the want for an author, artist, ect…that no one else would see what they do, or their little worlds in their head (as like, shyness, shame… whatever it is) AND/OR feelings to hide the same way. There’s a possible hint at a “split of the heart”, wanting and not wanting this at the same time.

“You can't keep them all caged / They will fight and run away”

“Them” refers as the leverets, so in this perspective the Larkers. Them being “caged” would be being caged into a mind; they would exist only here and nowhere else. The “fight and run away” would hint at the desire to take creations out of one’s mind and put it on a support - thus creating.

"Mother, tell me, so I say”

Another direct adress from Cole to the Harpy Hare - it could directly hint to Y as a mother (since the Lark are their children in a way) , and since they’re the “incarnation “ of the Storyteller they could ask Y to tell them their secrets, what is in her head, to tell the public -us, fulfilling their role as storyteller. (Which Cole does following the songs Y releases.)

Note : in the animation, Perrine shakes her head in a negative movement, meaning that the Harpy Hare doesn't fulfill Cole’s ask.

“Forest walls and starry ceilings/ Barren curtains that you're weaving / Like the stories that you keep inside your head”

THIS (aside from being my favorite stanza)

THIS IS THE ONE THING VERY IMPORTANT WHERE IT COULD DESCRIBE WHERE THE CHILDREN ARE

First we have a direct hint at the place where Y keep her Lark, reminiscent of the forest : we have a double image of a room (we could link to a cage with the following verses) with a closure (ceiling and walls) and an opening at the same time with open places of nature (a reccuring theme in Y ‘s songs), the forest and the starry sky.

The barren curtains hint at the theater imagery (we can see in the two albums illustrations), while keeping this “hidden” impression; furthermore, the weaving is commonly associated with the act of creation, often literary ; weaving elements to create a story, intricating strings (tapestry).

“Like the stories that you keep inside your head” finishes linking the Lark and their environment to Y’s mind, taking their roots and existing inside. We have then a mise en abîme of the Meadowlark telling their own story by addressing directly to their creator. The keeping bit indicates that their existence is not shared and contribute to this feeling of a “cage” of the mind.

“She can't keep them all safe / They will die and be afraid”

Keeping the children totally safe would be keeping them in Y’s mind and nowhere else (not create about them), where it's sure that none will harm them. It's impossible to do so without exposing them to the threat of death -oversight. At a point, the Lark would be forgotten, by Y as life continues OR when they die. Although, being afraid to share one’s creation with someone else -the whole world in that case- is completely normal and the threat of critics or harm to the creation is a risk to run. Either way, “she can't keep them all safe.”

“Mother, tell me, so I say”

Once again the same recurring sentence in the refrains and the verses.

“She can't keep them all caged / They'll be far and fly away”

Once again the “cage” imagery ; the cage of the mind where the Lark would be trapped if it wasn't for the act of creation Y put themselves to, and of sharing their creation. As such, the children (the Lark) are far (they’re shared with all) and fly away, in a way, from Y ; people adopt the concept, the characters, and now make things out of it.

“Mother, tell me you will stay / We'll be far and fly away”

And then a last adress from Cole to the Harpy Hare - as a mother- and putting *himself* amongst the children, the leverets she’s guarding ; hinting at a confirmation (for me at least) that the leverets are the Larkers and their mother, the Harpy Hare, Y. It could also be an ask to Yaelokre to “stay”, as in continuing creating and sharing their lore on the Meadowlark.

As for the refrain :

Harpy Hare presented as a mother with children.

“Harpy Hare, where have you buried all your children?”

Buried could hint at a funeral lexicon, as the Lark could die if forgotten and not shared, but also only the simple fact that those children are hidden under something - so Y’s mind.

So to sum up ?

A direct ask to *where* are those children, by Cole, implicating that this is a rather important question.

In the perspective that the Larkers are the leverets and Y the Harpy Hare, the song could be a mise en abîme about Cole, incarnation of the Storyteller, asking their own Storyteller (Yaelokre) to share their stories they have of the Lark so that Cole can be the vector, the one bringing this knowledge to us, the public. Furthermore, Cole has a hare mask, which could strengthen this implication. It could also remind the audience that if Yaelokre hadn't shared their songs and Meadowlark universe through her compositions and drawings, the characters and songs and world could have died in their head, forgotten at a point.

Plus, with the recent addition to the Meadowlark corpus of “Kid and Leveret”, the strings linking the leverets of the Harpy Hare to the Lark could possibly be explicitly stated : they'd be both kids and leverets.

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Idk if that was very understandable since English isn't my first language and that I am just wording my impressions and interpretation as I go but yeah I explained, ask me if you want more details or to clarify, bc it's a little messed up

Here, hope you enjoyed ! 🐇

[garliicgun]

kid & leveret 🌾🐇

[kals-kool-blog]

OH MY GOD.

i'm probably the last person to realize but you guys know the line in birdcage blue + yellow "garden evergreen was what i thought that i would see" ?

yeah that one?

what if cleménte was so sheltered, so shielded from the harshness of the real world, that they genuinely believed that the forest would be like a garden? because they had never known anything outside of elite society?

or something idk don't mind my crazed rambling ❤️ (i originally interpreted the line as them being in the garden and making a last-minute decision to run away but with kid and leveret it seems like the bellringer took them?)

[lightning-jay]

Found and Forgotten / Kid among Beast of Metal and Malice