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Fourteen
03:15
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I found a young girl in the forest
Not one day past fourteen years old
Looks like she gave into the mountains
Been gone for days
I try to call her but she shys away from me
But her eyes lock with mine and stay
They telling me “Follow now and try to keep up
Because I’m gonna run”
She knows the country like the back of her hand
Rain, grass, and dirt have stained her skin
She only lingers at the top of the hills
To catch the wind
I know your skin is calloused right to your bone
And there are scars that mark your route
But are we running from or running to face?
Or we run through?
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2. |
Virginia
03:36
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Oh Virginia
Eyes of fire
Take me with you
Into town
Oh Virginia
Sweet as water
I can climb in
With the dogs
Oh Virginia
Your strands of hair
Are filled with air
I don’t mind your muddy truck
Just take me with you
Take me with you
Into town
They don’t get me
Or my stories
I’m better fit for
The city
It’s there, they’ll find me
There, they’ll love me
There, they’ll see me
Oh Virginia
I’ll clear the wood chips
So I can sit
And I don’t mind the longer route
Just take me with you
Take me with you
Into town
Oh Virginia
Straight like metal
I got no money
But I know these hills
I can tell you
Where to pull off
And I can show you
the shapes in the stars
We can camp out
By the river
And I’ll build a fire
I’ve got good eye to catch a fish
But take me with you
Cuz I can’t stand it
Oh Virginia
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3. |
Aurora
04:30
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You recorded a song into the rocks
Left in layers of stripes on the seafloor
It reverses in intervals, a push come to pull
After hundreds of thousands of years
The melody is rising from the Earth’s inner core
Up high until it’s hit by a solar flare
A glowing storm like fuegal horns, it wakes up the night
But approaching reverse, the shield of sound becomes weaker
When you play it from me
I become confused
I have forgotten my location and route
When you play it for me
I am unaligned
Like under high voltage power lines
When you play it for me
Will I radiate?
And shorten my lifespan by a couple decades
When you play it for me
Will I emanate?
And sitting beside me gives you a headache
When you play it for me
Will I become extinct?
And the land will surrender, and the oceans will sink
When you play it for me
And it reaches its end
Will it vanish completely
Or in many places ascend?
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4. |
Bury Me Into the Mtn
03:06
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Don’t know if I ever told you
But once a wind came to rattle the windows
And I wasn’t ready, Oh no, I’m never
And something in me slipped away
Oh bury me into the mountain
Yes under a mountain’s peak
So they can know where I’ve gone hiding
And perhaps one will rest with me
The something in me that slipped away
I don’t know its name
Or if it traveled to find me as a baby
But I can tell you I knew when it left
Oh bury me into the mountain
Yes under a mountain’s peak
So they can know where I’ve gone sleeping
And perhaps I’ll have company
Well ever since it came back home
Its face I cannot see
Anyway hey, maybe you’d call it
The strength behind one’s knees
Oh bury me under the rainfall
To show them where I’ve gone
I tell you this because I consider
Our friendship to be true
Oh bury me into the mountain
Yes under a willing mountain’s peak
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5. |
Support
03:51
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Lyla, where did you learn to talk like that?
Leave this table, go apologize to your poor, baby sister
Lyla, why don’t you take a breather?
See if you can go and find support for your own baby sister
Honestly, do you give the same treatment for your brothers?
Now you’re hoarding love like there’s a limit on its resource
Its resource
Its resource
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6. |
Rebel/Summer
04:27
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It’s always on a full moon
It’s always kinda rowdy
The bands have got me beside myself
And the people here are crazy
Everyone I talk to could be
Someone I fall in love with
We’ve lost it all, we’ve lost it all
And I cannot keep from lifting
And I don’t quite get how much of my time
I’m convinced that this cannot happen
For me to feel socially capable of anything
That I could ever let go
Without the constant feeling
That I belong at home
Or that I could be here flirting with
Someone pretty
Well it’s always on a full moon
And it’s always in the summer
It fits together perfectly
Unfolding synchronicities
Without any kind of logic
Or any of our daily shit
And it feels we’re making history
We have power and we have magic
The words I feel are spoken
And I’m not afraid to own them
Or belong within my body
Belong within the crowd
Forget about our bodies
Become one giant sound
Let go of what we’re supposed to do
Just hear all the hearts pound
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7. |
Great Carving
03:26
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***
"Knowing man, staying woman
Be a riverbed to the world
Being the world’s riverbed
Of eternal, unfailing power
Is to go back again
To boundlessness
Knowing light, staying dark
Be a pattern to the world
Being the world’s pattern
Of eternal, inexhaustible power
Is to go back again
To be new-born
Just so, a great carving
Is done without cutting"
***
(Lyrics are selected phrases from Ursula K. Le Guin's translation of Chapter 28 of the Tao Te Ching)
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8. |
Louise
04:23
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I don’t know why, but I like
To see her in the morning
I know she’s fine on her own
I’m just seeing if I’ll catch her in the sun
I wake her up for no reason
Only to say her name out loud
And for a moment, I hope she knows
That I’m here, girl I’m here, girl I’m here
I don’t know why, but the day begins
When I see her in the morning
There’s relief in my gut
When I find she didn’t take off in the night
She doesn’t need me, well that’s for sure
And I wouldn’t curse her name is she -
Hell, I’ve dreamt it too
Just beyond the ridge, another life
When another day is made
And even when I find her in the shade
I desire first in the morning
To call her cuz I can’t without a smile
And I love it when she doesn’t hear me
Then I get to say it one more time
And her sleeping still
She doesn’t know that I’m here, girl I’m here
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9. |
Come Closer
06:02
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Come closer
I have got an idea
But I need you
Oh I need you here
I will press us in a book
So we’re paper thin
I will color us like light
So the time will lose us
When we dress in gold just like the light
Time has lost us, time can’t find us
When we dress in gold just like the light
Time has lost us, time can’t find us
Come closer
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eleanor murray Olympia, Washington
Songwriter, producer, and artist Eleanor Murray has spent the past twelve years creating and recording music out of the Pacific Northwest. Informed by folk tradition while adhering to no rules, Eleanor Murray’s music exists in a genre all its own. Her songs are often structurally complicated, while also sparse and open, full of warmth and light. Each album’s sonic landscape is completely its own. ... more
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