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Important
03:11
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Chorus:
I could stand not being important
I could stand not being important at all
Just so long as you call me baby
Just so long as you pick up that phone and call.
Does the flower care for the mountain
What cares the wind when it's time to blow on?
These bells aren't ringing so maybe
I should pick myself up and get myself gone
Chorus
Things move in the heavens so quickly
Stars blink and all of our days are spent
Catch a glimpse of a life in motion
Look back and there by golly it went!
Chorus
No time for feeling so lonely
No time in the present, no time at all
I went out to watch a movie
Caught a glimpse of the sky as it started to fall
Chorus
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2. |
I Wish I Was the Girl
03:11
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I wish I was the girl I once saw in the mirror
With eyes like a diamond with hands that were calloused and warm
I've worn out this body still nothing has made itself clearer
My hands and my heart bear the prayers I found in the storm
What will you say to the spirit that's broken?
What will you say to the body undone?
I don't remember the words that I spoke then
But I will pass away with the sun
I spend everyday knowing that I will live my life hoping
That I will wake in the morning to be the girl I was meant to be
My voice will ring and with a thunder the floodgates will open
The looking glass brightly will break and I will be free
And what will you say when it is over?
Will the licorice still taste as sweet?
Smiling I will sit in the clover
Smiling I will wash the mud off of my feet
Smiling I will wash the mud off of my feet
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3. |
Teacher Says
03:22
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I don't care what the teacher says
I'm gonna bang my spoons on Susie's head
And I don't, (various dehs)
And I don't care what the mechanic says
I'm gonna drive my car till that engines dead
(Various dehs)
Well I know the way that I'm living is losing me time
And I know the way that I'm living is putting me out of mind
I'm out of my mind
Well I don't care where the doctor starts
I'm gonna drink my chocolate milk even though it's bad for my heart
(Various das)
And I don't care where the preacher starts
I'm gonna keep on sinning until I depart
(various pahs)
Because I know the way that I'm living is gonna be alright
And I know the way that I'm living makes me want to dance all night
Will you dance all night?
I don't know when the good times start
But I'm gonna keep on loving you with all of my heart
(Various dahs)
Cause I know the way the way that I'm living is losing me all of my time
But I know that I'm living is gonna be all fine, I'm gonna be fine
And I know the way that I'm loving you is putting me out of my mind
And I know the way that I'm loving you is gonna send me into
My last decli-ine
(Various ohs)
I'm in my last decli-ine
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4. |
Low and Lonesome
04:20
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Well the thing I most fear and the thing I most dread
Is to keep waking up with you stuck in my head
And it's low, low on the ocean, I'll make my bed
I'll make my bed
And the sea, she keeps what she's been given
On the low and that lonesome sea I've been drifting
Too long, oh far too long
Well I can't say for sure for where I am bound
But you got to be lost before you can get found
And I know, I know that I'm hopin' I don't wind up drowned
Well don't let me drown
And the sea, she keeps her secrets well hidden
Oh that low and that lonesome tide I've been sailing
It's too strong, oh far too strong
One day I know I'll return to the shore
And I'll burn all the rigging and I'll sail out no more
I'll go, I'll go lay my burdens on some strangers door
On a strangers door
And the sea she will not be forgotten
Oh that low and that lonesome sea is still callin'
And the sea she remembers her children
But we low and we lonesome few never listen
To her song, oh to her song.
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5. |
Jericho (EP Version)
04:20
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Joshua came through that hard driving rain
Pushing his friends and his foes all before
For love he has brought all his hatred to bear
Sounded the horn for his enemies to hear
High upon that greenback mountain
I asked you if you loved me too
But that high and lonesome trumpet
Split the sky clean in two
Chorus:
And who did you who did you who did you know?
Who was your lover in the City of Jericho?
I remember his lips on the back of my neck
The scratch of his beard as it trailed slowly down
His hot holy breath as it wraps through your hair
Is the love of the lord is too hard to bear
Well I hope that you hurt as bad as you have
Ever felt a hurt before
So that from all the shattered mug pieces
You can pick yourself up and off of the floor
Chorus
Bleary eyed cursing he marched round those walls
And seven times seven he sounded that horn
No reason could answer the wrath that he had
The lightning came crashing but sparing Rahab
In the hollow between your neck and your shoulders
I found some safety just for a while
Oh why did you leave the house of your mother?
What is the worth of a last parting smile?
Oh who did you who did you who did you know
Whose body did you hold in the rubble of Jericho?
Oh who did you who did you who did you know?
Whose body did you hold and who could you not bear to let go?
Oh who did you who did you who did you know?
Who was your lover in the City of Jericho?
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6. |
Magpie Lament
03:50
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There is the blooming rosemary, the ever sounding birds
Evening light through an open window carries the magpie's words
In the warm of February a shadow cast will fall
We found a Violet dead today and raised her body tall
We found a Violet dead today and laid her body down
The mountains hold their storied dead
We keep ours in the ground
The passing rain has moved along, the sun has kissed the sky
Rose cheeked walls keep silent watch while mournful magpies cry
In the warm of February a shadow cast will fall
We found a Violet dead today and raised her body tall
We found a Violet dead and laid her body low
The mountains hold their storied dead
We keep ours safe from the snow
The magpies fold their weary wings, the streetlamps flick to life
They make a shroud of knotted string and sing in the fading light
In the warmth of February a shadow cast will fall
We found a Violet dead today and laid her body tall
We found a Violet dead today and laid her in the shade
The mountains hold their storied dead, we let ours pass away
The mountains hold their storied dead among their roots and bones
We lay our flowers in the earth so none of them sleep all alone.
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The Reverent Marigold Tucson, Arizona
Non-binary trans folk music for non-binary trans folk.
(they/them)
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