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Blood Song
05:13
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Things look far away and you haven’t felt awake
For days and days and days and days and days
Who can say what’s really real
When there’s a veil between
What you kinda see and what you kinda feel
How much do these summers cost?
Do you need a little break, a couple weeks away
Somebody there to take your vitals
Conveniently while you’re on the phone with me
That’s what I call fucking timing
You’ll hang up when you’re good and you’re ready
Leaves me driving through a wild Northwest storm
That feels put on for me and my girl
We gotta get to Portland
We’re gonna do real good for ‘em, gonna do real good for ‘em
But for now we see the forest weep instead of me
The forest weep instead of me
And I can’t explain a sudden need
For the passenger seat and sleep
And then I heard about the blood
I heard about the blood
I can’t be enough when we are not in love
But I’m picturing your mother
I’m picturing your mother
I’m picturing your mother
But for now we see the forest weep instead of me
The forest weep instead of me
How much do these summers cost?
Do you need a little break, a couple weeks away
You and me we got a bell to ring
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2. |
Native State
04:14
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I thought I saw something real in Barcelona, in Brooklyn
But I’ve learned the power now of manic delusions
I remember Leonard Cohen
And your tears and how you used to cry
And you’d thank me, you’d thank me
For not asking you why
My darling, my baby, we have a bond that will not break
It will not change, it will not fade
No matter how many times I am replaced
Stay with her, and stay away
Stay with her, and stay away
Did you wanna ask your little lady
Why she’s crying and changing her sheets
Why she’s lighting the sage as you’re biking away
Well I can promise you she’s gonna sleep all day
Feel the weight
Your native state
Feel the weight
Your native state
I remember all the chiller names you had for disrespect
Your cruelty and cavalier way with regret
Was proved by the news of how you moved inside my long-haired ladyfriend
My darling my baby
I hope you’re more than just a pretty face
I wish you well, I wish you peace
I wish you real love someday
You’re beautiful and you’ll always meet someone
But when you’re gone
You’ll be tattooed under mountains on my arm
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Medicine Wheel
04:18
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Been draped over dozens of faces
Been cut, dried, bleached and braided
One part dead, one part haunted
Get up close and you see the ghosts
A little squint, now skeletons
Shamans drink the salt water
State your case,
All stand,
Rotate
Ain’t it just like me to talk so ugly
Wash my mouth or just watch me now
It bubbles up, gargles down, to a stomach pit
And my words, my words they drown
And go on and out
Can’t count the pretty little ghosts in you
Or all the color I put you through
Grow longer longer, longer, long
Lash my back, spur me on
Longer, longer, longer, long
Weighs my neck
Keeps me young
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Spin the Wheel
04:16
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My pride was a mountain
And yours a little bird
I’d stand long and strong beside you
You’d sing anywhere you’re heard
You gotta spin the wheel every morning
And if madness or artifice come as a warning
Forget what they told ya, it gets cold in California
But the women there with the flowers in their hair
Will wrap you in white towels
So you’ll never even feel it
You’ll never have to try or cry
Be warm in their bath water
And they’ll line your diamond eyes
Time beat pride and I saw all I’d lost
Laying with you so many nights
See my ladies moon-bathing at the riverside
Long hair, bare hearts, bare hides
My ladies moon-bathing at the riverside
Now they’re singing all morning
They’re singing all night
They’re singing all morning: set free, reunite
Now they’re singing all morning
They’re singing all night
They’re singing all morning: spin the wheel
And guard your pride
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5. |
Field
02:25
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Beyond forgiveness and beyond un-forgiveness
There is a field amber with healing
Whose gonna meet you there?
Who will be waist high in lilies for you?
Who?
Will you stand calm and unlocked
In the face of such graciousness?
Where beyond words like fate or faith
There is a place for us
My wise-eyed and long-haired lady
I’m with you
And we will sit with your sadness
Til the deep-dark don’t get to you
Til the deep-dark don’t even come close
And your hair all up in braids now
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The leaves must know and the water sees
A speckle light dance across her porcelain cheek
Shouldn’t be,
Shouldn’t be reserved for me
Just look at those eyes of hers
As she cocks her head to watch the birds
The word: nobility
Isn’t she?
Isn’t she true to me?
Saved a green rock from the river
Do what I can to remember a day like this
Tie a scrap of moss around our wrists
Try as we must to touch what surrounds us
All of us thinking what we can’t photograph
We can sing
And we witness
We witness a splendid thing
To be happily known
Happily if only known by you
Don’t turn away, don’t turn away
As I bow to you
Look at my face
I bow to you
And you can have heaven on earth
You can have heaven on earth
Did it feel like for the first time being seen?
It was more like being heard without speaking
Don’t turn away, don’t turn away
As I bow to you
Look at my face
I bow to you
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7. |
Seventh Song
02:51
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Many of my friends now are ending their twenties
They see Saturn’s return and the changes he brings
I got a good idea, I just can’t find my pen
We’re all waiting for life to begin
But ain’t we always more or less heading West?
And I got a good man, he don’t sleep Sundays
He’s got the work week weighing on his brain
But I love him for his plans, and I love him for his sanity
And I loved him when he said
Will I be proud of all the money?
Like any desirable woman I use words like free
My choices are light and easy, easy
Here I am at 25 and I can’t sign a lease
Mostly I survived off people being nice to me
But I hope home can be home
And I’m hoping I don’t have to leave
And I hope he knows it’s all on me
And I’m so, so sorry
I got honey for the hungry
And everybody gets a little piece
But do you know how holy it is
Just to quietly sit with someone?
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