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This Cut Down Tree Sings A Pretty Little Song For Me

from Fractures by Dérive

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In the morning I leave my curtains drawn because I don't want to see their streetlights or their twisted electric sun.
It's been too long since I felt the grass beneath my feet.
Since I felt the natural soil and not their crooked streets.

Goodbye trash.
Goodbye lust.
They pick it up and then they start again.

While she was staring at the ocean, she said, "I feel so much smaller than before!"

On a wilted blade of grass she was a ladybug, tired and sure.
While she was reaching for the clouds, she was a falcon. Circling high above our tired heads, she held us and she sang.
Her tired lullabies all coming down like summer rain.

Angel hair draping her face:
Sing me out of the forest again.

Oh my god. Now I get it:
Ask the forest. Ask the sun. This bleeding wood sings we're all one.
Ask the beaches. Ask the sky. We all sing songs before we die.
Ask the hills. Ask the clouds. Ask the widows in funeral shrouds.
Ask the mountains before you go. We're part of this river having melted with the snow.

And I feel so much smaller than before.

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from Fractures, released April 24, 2012
Featuring Taylor Myers (voice), Lucy Hollier (trombone), and Trey Jones (upright bass).

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