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snake
00:21
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walk up to the snake--
get bit
die.
walk up to the same snake--
get bit
die.
walk up to the same snake--
get bit
die.
walk up to the same snake--
get bit
die.
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2. |
beatless wonder
02:40
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3. |
real good time
02:35
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and it was like a sigh
just a dream fading out upon waking
you grasp--let it go, let it go...
it's a place up ahead, but not yet--
yet you know it's around, so alright
let it fade with a sigh
and now all of the grass and the greens that you witnessed...
the old covered bridges...
rainwater barrels and lost herds of cattle that wander your mind...
hey...
that was one real good time...
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4. |
countless times
00:50
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down on me
countless times
countless times
countless times
down on me
countless times
countless times
countless times
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5. |
countless times
00:33
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down on me
countless times
countless times
countless times
down on me
countless times
countless times
countless times
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6. |
lucifer
01:11
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lucifer told me that i should go easy
that i should lay back and let slackwater take me
i said ‘leave me, lucy--your stories are juicy
for some dried-out mind—but that mind is not mine
i used to be uprooted
but now i am fruited with free-flowing nectar--
it’s suiting me better’
so lucifer left me alone for the day
to continue my duties of love and of play
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7. |
ribbon-cutting ceremony
01:17
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there’s a ribbon-cutting ceremony today
they’ll coronate me and send me away
champagne bottles smash on each hip
and run down my sides—i’m a newborn ship !
( and run down the sides of the newborn ship... )
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diamonds
01:30
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[ oh i do not care for diamonds
to lose them or to keep them
no, i don’t trouble my man
to complicate my left hand
obey the road and follow
you’re made / your mate into tomorrow
your pairing won’t be hollow
though ringless it’s a ring ] x 2
and i do not care for diamonds
to lose them or to keep them
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9. |
gardenovena
01:10
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10. |
leave me alone
02:14
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11. |
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and great, bloody hunks fell off of me
and great big chunks fell into the sea
my timber is going, i can hardly sail
no longer the boat, i’m out of jail
there’s hardly anything left of me
no longer the boat, i’m only the sea
and look ! my virtue’s being swept away
look ! look ! my virtue’s being swept away
it’s that big, bloody piece, just out of reach
vultures pick it apart on the beach
the last part of me is swallowed up whole
no longer the fruit, i’m only the bowl
i hold it all, i hold & hold
( i have no use for pirates’ gold )
i hold it all, i hold & hold
( i have no use for jewelers’ gold )
i once had hands to wring for joy / sorrow
( tho all my virtue has been sold )
wrung out till there was everything / nothing left
( the sea poured in and i was told
it ate my final piece, today
my virtue’s gone—hooray ! hooray !
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12. |
reverly
03:24
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13. |
dilapidalliace
03:18
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when the woman struggles over the man
when she sweats & struggles over him
dilapidance
dilapidated dance
dilapidalliance
[ my neck is sore, i danced last night—
you have a parallel pain
we rest simply in this domain
simply and in the woods again
you are my altar of bone in the greenery
smoking with meat on the rack in the fire
smoking & offering up what remains
we rest simply in this domain
smoke spirals up from the char
unnoticed from afar
aspiring ash scatters
till i can’t tell what you / we are ] x 2
when the woman struggles over the man
when she sweats & struggles over him
dilapidance
dilapidated dance
dilapidalliance
dilapidance
dilapidated dance
dilapidalliance
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reveller
02:16
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i ain’t sure that i ain’t been a reveller before
cuz when i sway, i sway like i know how
i danced myself into the middle of the road
but somethin’ else is movin’ me now
somethin’ else been up in my head
somethin’ else directin’ my feet
somethin’ else been dressin’ me up
takin’ me out and actin’ so sweet...
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15. |
( untitled )
01:31
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16. |
modern day
03:36
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kids outside are throwing rocks
modern day stonings
modern day cruelty
modern day torture
this is what fuels me
and this day’s a scorcher
how do you love me, love me, love me ?
let me count the ways
why do you shove me, shove me, shove me
underneath the waves ?
your hands in my hair,
you pull me down
is this a joke until we drown ?
modern day drownings
modern day cruelty
modern day dealings always unspool me
things arise to compliment each other
the skin, when burned, weeps its own water
the woman, now grown, gives birth to a daughter
who carries a torch of hot, white light
everything is right
the dull reflects the bright
and the bright shows off the dull
cuz the window needs the wall
we spent our time on an untamed beach
where rocks thrust up from sand
we spent our money on sun-warmed fruits
that broke open & wept in our hands
modern day,
m o d e r n d a y,
modern day
this day’s a scorcher !
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parlor trick
02:56
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today i long for nothing
but the deep, ambrosial kisses
that spring only to existence
in the instances your lips come into knowing mine
shine like a parlor trick on a sunday afternoon
i cannot believe i have become bad for you
and i said, ‘oh, you beauty—
no i cannot bear you
i half wish to tend to you
i half want to tear you
no no no no no no no no no
i don’t mean i want to hurt you
i just want to love you all the way
all the way
ohhh...
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18. |
( untitled )
02:07
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19. |
pray headaches away
02:31
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when i was a kid
i used to pray headaches away
laid awhile on the bed, i did
and prayed headaches away
sunny afternoon in the springtime, summer
light curtains fill the room
lifted by the breathing window
lie awhile on the bed again
and pray headaches away
oh, when someone pops a lid & knocks ‘em back
it don’t distract me, oh, i say,
‘no, nothin’ ever did take pain away the same
i remember, as a kid, i prayed headaches away
and nothin’ ever did take pain away the same
i remember, as a kid, i prayed headaches away’
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20. |
honed. hemmed in.
06:17
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21. |
nothing but god
01:55
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[ we are, lord, nothing but god
nothing but god in the way of itself ] x 5
we are lord, nothing but god—
try to get out of the way of yourself
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22. |
( untitled )
01:21
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23. |
if you see sunlight
01:30
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Diane Cluck
Singer-songwriter in Charlottesville, VA
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