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Indian Blanket
01:52
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The Indian blanket is cursed, I know
But we sold it on the side of the road
And the DEA Fires sing a song of dread
All across the vacant homestead.
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Solar Hits
01:38
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The rainbow arcs into a ditch of nettle
As the van burns in the fern lined meadow
And the solar hits
Make the world shift
Like those girls in peasant dresses
as the smoke lifts
And the earth brings us these new gifts
As you ask, will she swallow, will she spit?
orah orahay
Oh lady of the changing shapes
Help me remember how to dance in place
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Ominous Sounds
06:56
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In a place that smells like mildew where the bud
will get you high
Unfocused and rattled until the sun comes back
in July
When he starts thinking about quitting or
enrolling at DeVry
Been sleeping with a sorceress who's also a lesbian
sometimes
And every bout of laughter
is also filled with lies
And the dogs all wander aimless beyond the tripwire
And now magic can't dispel the rumors
that a raid is coming down
And dawn is bowing out behind
the mist and the cloud
The bus is parked out in the dark beyond the
ominous sounds
The fire dims but the joint still makes its way
around
There's a cloverleaf pinned up to the tent that
someone had found
But even so the ground begins to shudder with those
ominous Sounds
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Poncho And Moonlight
02:18
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The moonlight was cast across the poncho
As he stood on the ridge to hear the sirens echo
With the figure he cut
I kept my mouth shut
And let the short lived beauty sink in
All the best laid plans
Where you hide your camp
They'll always find you in the end
She thought of harbor light
And barroom fights
And the silence deep within the grow
Then she thought about how the handcuffs felt cold
Midnight firelight
Midnight firelight
I'm gonna watch it burn
I'm gonna feel the light
inside
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Budding Fruit
02:02
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D.E.A. Fires
03:27
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She spent some time hand in hand with the covens of the damned
Adrift on the coast like a splintered tree limb
And the DEA fires they burn bright all across the startled midnight
She ducked beneath the mesh when the helicopters threshes
The leaves and whipped her dreads across her neck
And her neck it smells like poplar stands
And the dirt that's smeared across her hands
We watched the fog climb like hands or a vine
Across the mountain up into her eyes
She says I can't quite seem to clear my head
Since the sun's been gone, since the hear has fled
And the trash by the side of the road
Looks like someone I know
The trash by the side of the road
It looks like a man I know
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Informers
05:20
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Hemp jewelry chafes the skin
But not to wear it is a sin
Windham Hill Records and the mushrooms I took
Leave my body in the room
Space echoes past lives and who we are
George Winston piano chords
Blue water
Blue water
Blue water
Prairie hues
Frozen in some solemn movie mood
The informers laughed
Beyond the eyes of flame
Out where the darkness will not
Speak their names
At the high school reunion between cocktails
They asked what became of you
She went behind the waterfall
Where nothing troubles you at all
The streetlamps through the evening smog
Or the ribbon of light behind the soundwall
They're gone
The informers laughed
Beyond the eyes of flame
Out where the darkness will not
Speak their names
And we warmed our hands on the DEA fires
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8. |
The Grow
02:59
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How the mountains glow
At the foot of the grow
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9. |
Pilgrims
04:28
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Cream stucco and the gilt frames
Like a choking hand
A new name and trust fund check
Peeling out from the drive
With a baja and a rusted bus
Headed up the five
When dawn breaks across the redwood stump
His hand shields him from the light
A sleeping bag and a flashlight
When they ring the bells at harvest time
Mother earth nurture nature child
Holds him through the night
The pruning shears and the translucent deer
Graze in the meadow light
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Weeds
04:38
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Cashew drives in with a warning
Says he's seen men following him
Disguised as ravens on wing
Karen too
brings ominous tidings
Of tumult and the great cycles end
And whispers and words
Of the cartels in the woods
Willing to quietly
bury all
enemies
And their are other deals yet to pay down
And if I break or cry they'll say
It's come due
The boss' dreads
Will lash like angry whips
Strike down excuses from your lips
Tied up in the back of the truck
I find myself sick
With love
For the pine dotted hills
And the dryland scrub
The weeds the grow in the gullies
Or down the fenceline
Oh and we know that
The secret of success lies
Well off the main road
Where you stray over the ridgeline
The gravestones where
the brambles overgrow
In a vale that feels
forgotten
In silence with
Guns held held like scepters
High
They call me pussy push me
Into the weeds
The only sound is the quiet warm country
And the bird's full and gentle tone
The weeds grow on
With the generators song
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