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Fire Country
04:17
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FIRE COUNTRY
Pink moon over the Palisades
Chasing mailbox money up the 1 highway
Smoke in the canyon reflected in your face
I got five bucks and the East Coast to my name
Fire country
I took a vow
To put this out
Does everyone live in different worlds?
On my knees I press my hands
against the TV screen
I’m talking to you
Are you talking to me?
Tell me what’s between us
What’s between
Fire country
I see you now
Who’ll put this out?
I tune my guitar to the names of old lovers
Plastered on posters on the wall, well
This one’s dedicated to anyone
who’s ever been in love
To the wildflowers raging in the bluffs
And the inmates on the interstate
In orange jumpsuits and a dollar pay
This is for the wind
That’s snatching what we’re saying away
This one’s for earthquakes
This one’s for hurricanes
This one’s for
Fire country
I’m in you now
What if this all burns down?
I think and I pray
I think and I pray
To all that came before
To everything that may remain
To all that crosses over
This interstate
Fire country
You’re on fire country
Welcome to fire country
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Mother's Daughter
04:01
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MOTHER’S DAUGHTER
Colt legs swaying in a cotton dress
Barefoot on the road where
they misspelled independence
We’re doing what the sign says “Dance”
Dreaming ‘bout that future big romance
I’m my mother’s daughter
Wild child of the summer
I’m my mother’s daughter
Old soul shittalker
We tattoo on her sage advice like
“You can have it all just not at the same time”
And “absence makes the heart grow, yes,
fonder of someone else”
And “Sing while you work”
La la la la
Sing while you work
La la la la la (Come strawberry season)
I’m my mother’s daughter
Wild child of the summer
I’m my mother’s daughter
Fire drawn to the water
Throw a little salt over your shoulder
Love is a gift, love is spell you cast
Love can spoil, but love can last
Even when you walk away
Love when you walk away
And sing while you work
La la la la
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Watercolor
03:58
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WATERCOLOR
The queen of wands again picks me
I don’t want your hand, just coffee
Taking up your pen and planned to tell you true
Taking up your pen with the bourgeoisie, everybody
Watercolor, watercolor
Why are we
Oil and water, oil and water, everybody
Here’s your still life, here’s your portrait
Your topography, everybody
I am water, I am color
The moon’s burning again
Is this my room, the curtains on fire?
Well I don’t wanna die, I want you to chase me
I don’t want to die here with the bourgeoisie
Watercolor, watercolor
Why are we
Oil and water, oil and water, everybody
Here’s your still life, here’s your portrait
Your topography, everybody
I am water, I am color
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Atoll
06:00
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ATOLL
Men in uniforms came
Men in uniforms saying all the right lines
Do you wanna do something good for mankind?
Palm trees swaying
Canoes wait in the wings
Of the theatre of war
Choreography
Triangle sails on the sea
White flag, hands in the air
White flag, hands in the air
White flag, hands in the air
White flag, hands in the air
Put your hands together now
Bravo
Bravo
This mise en scène is bomb
This mise en scène is bomb
This mise en scène is
Colony of a colony
This mise en scène is
Warships in the lagoon
Forty meters down, tourists
Can get a ticket now
Inside the officer’s mess
Two guns on the deck still
Pointing at the sky
Fish swimming by
Coral’s coming back
Scientists say
Coral’s coming back
Scientists say
Coral’s coming back
But when can you go home?
Exile on the ocean
Men in uniforms sow
Palms in uniform rows
One for each they blew away
Straight lines in your name
Palm trees swaying
Canoes waiting
Their sails like wings
This is not theatre
War is a funeral
White flag, hands in the air
White flag, hands in the air
White flag, hands in the air
Put your hands together now
Bravo
Bravo
This mise en scène is bomb
This mise en scène is bomb
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5. |
Outlaw
04:12
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OUTLAW
Ever since I met you you’ve been running
Outrunning the devils and the guns
Doe eyes in the shadows
You bend ‘em, you break ‘em
The rules ain’t the same for everyone
Baby, oh, this country’s trying to kill you
The dark is everywhere
Too hard for just one heart to hold
Hold on, outlaw
(Ever since I met you, you’ve been runnin’)
(Ever since I met you, you’ve been runnin’)
Summer of some of us in our prime
Summer of some of us fighting for our lives
Summer of resistance
Setting it all on fire
Take me to the river, midnight rider
Swim with me naked ‘neath the stars
Shooting through the perseids up in the sky
I swear I saw NEOWISE
I dreamed I had new eyes
And baby, oh, this country’s trying to kill you
The dark is everywhere
Too hard for just one heart to hold
Hold on, outlaw
Baby, oh, this country’s trying to kill you
The dark is everywhere
Too hard for just one heart to hold
Hold on, outlaw
(Ever since I met you, you’ve been runnin’)
(Ever since I met you, you’ve been runnin’)
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Truck
03:57
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TRUCK
Sometimes it’s Lucinda
Sometimes it’s Emmylou
Sometimes it’s Rosetta
And sometimes it’s June
But lately it’s July
Between the heat and my luck
I’ve been switching out the stations
In my mama’s truck
What you looking for out there, girl?
Wild as anything
I believe in everything
What you looking for out there, girl?
Wild as anything
I believe in everything
Sunshine in the rearview
Are you singing along
With the sisters of the road and their siren song?
Heartbreak to heartbreak
Devour them coast to coast
Did you kill the ladykillers
And go riding with the ghost?
What you looking for out there, girl?
Wild as anything
I believe in everything
What you looking for out there, girl?
Wild as anything
I believe in everything
In the crossroads, in the crystals
That you gaze into
Lies the world you stand
Waiting to step your life into
Take it away, take it away, take it away
You’re what you’re looking for out there, girl
Wild as anything
I believe
You’re what you’re looking for out there, girl
Wild as anything
I believe in everything
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LOVESTORYPASTLIFE
Who are you bringing your flowers to now?
You don't come around
Who are you bringing your flowers to now?
Along the cavalcade of days
Seasons play across your face
Is our love story just a past life now?
I recall fields of aster rays
Where you could not meet my gaze
But when I walked away
Your eyes would not let me go
Is it our second century of electricity?
Our love story a past life now
In white satin heat
You knelt in roses at my feet
Your hand upon your heart
Like some kind of prayer
What do we do with all this swearing
This humming, buzzing in the air
With our love story from a past life now?
Reincarnate rosary
Your life, my life in mystery
Both reaching out to gather the golden flower
Along my cavalcade of days
Seasons play across your face
Is our love story just a past life now?
Is our love story a past life now?
Is our love story just a past life now?
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8. |
Australia
06:42
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AUSTRALIA
What are all the ways people can
Know each other?
What are all the ways
People can know each other
Know each other?
Did I know you that way
Almost good man?
Twice my age
You taught me to sail
You took me to your villa
You took me ‘round the country
Pouring out your wine
Impressing my friends
Til the talk turned to politics
Your million dollar mansion by the sea
And everyone at the mercy of your hospitality
Australia is burning
Australia is burning
Your borrowed country
After the concert
You commended the performance
And then you said that
I was not good enough yet
Never could you spare a compliment
Without saying something insulting
Remember the day
You took me to the airport
Against the car
You took my picture
You told me about the novel
You were writing
The one where the man is
Cheating on his wife
Back home in America
I receive letters
I speak on the telephone
I feel intensity
What is it that you wanted from me?
I didn’t ask for a teacher
What is it that you wanted from me?
We don’t always get to choose our teachers
Australia is burning
Australia is burning
Your borrowed country
I know that it’s confusing
These strange screens
We watch each other on
I know that it’s confusing
These strange screens
We talk to each other on
I still think of you sometimes
Standing by the sea
Shoulders in the sun
(Water’s rising, the horizon)
I think of you sometimes
Staring at the sea, every man a Ulysses
(Water’s rising, the horizon)
I think of you sometimes
Standing by the sea
Burning white hot
What made you so angry
That you were so lucky?
What made you so angry
Did you have to be the hero?
You the object of my eye
And I the ungrateful guest
Power is something you want
Or have or you don’t want
Power is something you want
Or have or you don’t want
Power is something you want
Or have or you don’t want
“Who prays for the bosses?”
You said to me
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9. |
No Body
05:29
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NO BODY
It’s true I am no soldier
But whenever I dream
I am always sailing
Home is the shoreline
The question this ship
Seems to be ever evading
I am not the wife
I will not be waiting
I am not the woman
Confined to the island
What do I know of weaving?
I have been with the witches
I have given my name
To the monster to say
No, no body, no, no body, no man
No, no body, no, no body, no man
No man can say he has no body
Earthbound we came from the earth
And the earth shall claim our return
But I am wondering about the hero
The heron calls the hero
But is the hero a hero?
Or is the hero a trickster
Tied to the mast?
Hero, here, hearing, the past
No, no body, no, no body, no man
No, no body, no, no body, no man
It’s true I am
No, no body, no, no body, no man
No, no body no, no body no man
It’s true I am
No soldier
But when I dream I am
Always sailing
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Skylar Gudasz Durham, North Carolina
daydreamer with the nightly blues