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Pray for Surf
04:20
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We stand navel-deep in the never-tired sea
In the old sea , the so-old sea - volcano-bellied, bird-headed sea!
We see her quiet bones, the bones of the sea
Sink till they're dark and starless
From the sunroom-sized whale skull to the urchin's brailed bowl
They all will sink until they are dark and starless
And when they reach and return to us they are the beach that burns beneath us
Pushing onto shore like cement being poured
We waited and we prayed it, we pray for surf
Don't forget you're made of earth, son
And earth is water, three parts to one - deep-dark water
You are dark, dark, deep, dark three parts to one
Don't forget to pray for surf, son
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2. |
Unsurfed Waves
03:38
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Do you carry your bullet or did it pass through?
Do we do we do we do we have some news?
Then come to California girl and convalesce
In the lee of the sun and all the trees he keeps as pets
Where’re my hills at?
I want my hill legs back
The rod and the frightenin’ lightnin’ both were He
Sent the chandeliers swinging fro and free
He could turn and turn, a cyclone man was he
Do we do we have some news, do, do we?
Where’re my hills at?
I want my hill legs back
When can we look at what the glacier brought
What it dragged it near a thousand miles and then forgot
Spring is a bed
Thaw is the word
Where’re my hills at?
I want my hill legs back
A look appeared upon His face
Clear as unsurfed waves
A look appeared on His face
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3. |
Best Loved Spot
07:07
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Winter roars her bully yell 'till her sky fills up dark as a whale.
Where wolf had walked as did men, the tracks their foot and paw did pen now just looks like a road again.
Winter froze her favorite well then boarded up with timber felled.
Her favorite well, her best-loved spot that milked what most had quick forgot.
What once was bright as sun's lapel and woke us every night to tell us what befalls our sleeping selves now arrives like the year's first snow - apologetic under toe, falls down dumb then melts right off.
Gone gone gone gone and forgot, gone gone and forgot, gone her best-loved spot.
Winter hoards her little birds in shivering, unspeaking herds.
Their bones so petite and polite form fists 'round fig-sized hearts like warm cinders tumbling upwards.
Oh winter rang her bully bell and full moon's face fell quiet and pale as a doubloon buried in backyard with the bones and the rain while the smokestacks raised their half-mile flags at half-mast 'till all the ice cracked then all the well-wishing coins flew up in a bright copper-nickel geyser to remind her what was in a bright copper-nickel geyser the well-wishing coins rang her bully bell and woke us every night to tell us how our sleeping selves arrive at our favorite well our best-loved spot now gone and forgot.
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4. |
Black & White Mountains
02:53
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Orca colored mountains; zebra colored mountains; panda mountains
Yes serious mountains sit seriously
In the dry end-of-day-light your eyes let go their green
Like a cloud of shining birds decided on a different tree
Though they newly knit their nests,
When they go, they can’t carry
O’ oh geodes for lungs
Intone your bouldersong
Oh you killer-whale mountain!
Buried to your neck in sea and shell
When your fiery fist forged itself
A bandanna of ash over your face
You gallop gun-glad all through the place
And scatter the stones you expire
Until your mighty monologue tires
Orca, Zebra, Panda Mountain
Looka, she's a serious mountain
Oh yeah, black and white, lava-drinkin', hard-workin' mountain
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5. |
Safety Stories
03:49
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Can’t put my print in anything
Try and write it in snow - soon it’s smooth smooth as a tusk
Try and write it in dust - soon it’s smooth as bone
Can’t rain my cloud on anything
Try and block the sun - soon, like arrows, gone, gone, gone
Try and wet the wilds - soon old dry woodpile
Careful, careful; we’ll get everything we want!
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6. |
Mini-Mississippi
04:00
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Hot has a feel and old has a feel
And will-you-won’t-you hold me has a feel
Grand prix has a feel, and in-the-sea has a feel
And will you marry me has a feel oh oh
O'oh I told you once, twice, i’ll tell you my whole life
But before dreams doled out the deeps
Some for for for-good, some forgot, some for keeps
Never did I think I would die incomplete
That fine, oh so fine
Molasses of awareness
Ran in me
Like an inner-mini-missi-ssissi-ssippi
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7. |
Goodbye Eyes
02:35
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I've got my goodbye eyes on
Everything here's good as gone
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8. |
Bounty
03:07
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In a roomful of friends sleeping
I dream of ten rainbows around me
The whole sky bends with the bounty
O'oh isn’t our love just like an equator?
Hot in the spring and hot in the autumn
They say, “don’t ever end, dear!”
But danger always finds me
In friend or fauna - come find me
Lead me to some dark den where my kin could only pray i’d never go
In a roomful of friends sleeping
I dream that ten trees fall around me
And then grow up again
Yes what once was close as combteeth and
Candlelit our darks and deeps
What once was near as water is to sky
Now is gone
Still the gulls and the pellies and the plovers told me
If you lost it at sea, it can be retrieved
But it comes back changed
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9. |
Buttons
03:43
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Your twin hair of ash, of blonde, of dune
Your twin eyes of chrome, of peacoat blue
One eye twinned twice - oh you two of the same name
Red clay as far as you could see but treasures lay in trillions beneath
Try not to talk about it - oh you two!
Your treasure talks in drives, it talks tidal, so measure your true trove - it's wise-old
Let fly and unfasten what's been buttoned neck-high for your sweet life's rare nation
Your tongue's been all bell-shy
Well, you can't un-try the feast your appetite speaks of
Your twin hair, wheat blonde dune, oh you two
Your twin eyes of chrome of yonder blue
One eye twinned twice, of you two of the same name, oh now you two!
Up to your waists, yes, up to your faces in french clay, up to your necks, yes, up to high places in buttons
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Snowblink Toronto, Ontario
Snowblink is an indie pop band based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Snowblink is now a duo of singer/songwriter Daniela Gesundheit and multi-instrumentalist Dan Goldman. The band has opened for Feist, Jeff Tweedy, Owen Pallett, Timber Timbre, Ohbijou, Great Lake Swimmers and The Hidden Cameras. ... more
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