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bedsheets let breathe masonry, for plates have left their crumbs / let pass surfaced children from fall’s mosaic earth // ankle sting, the ivy cling and let go // sanctuary pioneer / no one ever comes out here // wake up, swallow hollowed bones / hundred green canals / capillary salty pore / rushing darkness out to the silhouettes // ruffled hair and paper crown / lay my ghost on the ground
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The Dogwood Tree
05:02
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are you coming to the tree / mother waits to let me down / soldiers took away my clothes / she will save away the crown // are you coming to the tree when ground shakes as a leaf / when the clouds are churning black and the curtain cracks / are you coming anyway // are you coming to the woods / where my little brothers grow / and my sisters push themselves through the thorny undergrowth // why’s your soil gone so dry / is my water not enough / why’s your branches missing leaves / why’s your skin become so tough // la la la la la la la // are you coming to the cave / oh where you going on your walk / if i’m silent are you brave / if i’m frightened will you talk // were you there when they nailed’m to the tree / oh sometimes it causes me to tremble
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the wake from a trip / i was the stubborn passenger / the coming waves would surely strip my face // i was the sound of the alarm / the spinning heads and grey realities / banished like a king or a captain / a will before life / not a mutiny // spines will be corrected / the garden left neglected by a withered fool / i will go home to see what the rain has left for me when the garden is overgrown
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Little Pine
03:24
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oh sunlight is spreading / smoke creeping out of the cracks and rachel is laughing as i talk, talk, talk / as i act, act, act as a fool // where you going so quick / mom and dad keeping track of the water / why you running so fast / rachel’s got legs like her mother and i can see little pine // i can see little pine as i run, run, run
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Bend
03:58
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mountainside / poppies blooming in the summertime and just last week she said i never wanna leave here / but the doctor called her over and in all his wisdom said your seeds have all been sown / the garden is overgrown / the geese have all flown past the clouds // crippled stare / ah but everything i know is here and i haven’t known a map in years / oh i’m bound to get lost // but will you go for me / let your hair grow for me / i’ll keep this all safe should time be gentle // when the strings ring out and the fallboard closes / the steps on the floor disappear / you’re spinning just fine with me here
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Salt & Vinegar
03:51
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bite marks on the bread / tongue too dry to chew, spit the cud of a leather shoe / and boy what a bargain, darling / a rustic man rusted and seasick // papa’s farm’s not what it was / growing men out of sons / where’s the writer (in her field) / pulling skirt up from her heels // floorboard ticket in the dark / rolling out to sea on iron / oh st. bridget, guard your captives / misted fires, huddled masses // while wine crests immaturely though silently amid the chatter of the homebodies / whistling like thieves, i can’t hear anything / i can’t see anymore
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No Life
03:18
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i cut my hair off so you couldn’t pull it / and i cut the jungle down so you couldn’t burn it / i lit the village with a tin bird / and i taught a child to kill with a word / this is no life
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03:12
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Cool Me Down
02:55
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ice that shakes in your glass loud as my breath / only sounds put down your tea, set your hands on me // cool me down // rusty light shadows move keep me here / feel your breeze on my neck in my hair // cool me down
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