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Gentle
03:30
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That’s a big swing, Crusher / Hail Mary by design / howl off your helmet and roll / in the neon Cheyenne shine / the twist is for the more I wanted / but the tenderness is mine / I don’t feel gentle tonight / Unwatched, the waves ache / on a long-delay sine / hunger never kills / slice the marrow-sucked spine / paw on the bias / with a proto-heron knife / but I don’t feel gentle tonight / no, I don’t feel gentle tonight / No more force-feeding / just dense delight / no more blood-letting / make me forget to be polite / I don’t feel gentle tonight / No, I don’t feel gentle tonight / No, I don’t / feel gentle / tonight / Courtney says something / bigger than all of us / is helping to heal / I used to be the one / reminding / now I just / want to believe / it’s real
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Quickly
03:22
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I thought I was / airlocked and ugly / floating through Oort cloud / tumbling / cut-line, space trash / alien, outcast / But I was only / orbiting / And things are gonna change / things are gonna change / quickly / I thought I was / hypox-jettison / with a starfield for a death / bed but I was always / this side of the horizon / last light, impasse, mystery, terminal mass / But I was always / Gravity / I was all the / Gravity / And things are gonna change / quickly / things are gonna change / quickly, quickly / things are gonna change / quickly quickly quickly
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Present Sense
03:06
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Fold the years like a wing on a crane / bend the corners down again / I was different before / I want to be / that before / in the present sense / skip the string like a note after class / I find myself in some stranger’s past / I want a different future / I want / that one’s / future in the present sense/ I’m her / She’s me / are we only who we choose / to be / Flood the plain and repaint the map / the borders bleed, but do they trap / I had a different now / I am / different now in the present sense / Lead the line like a cat on a hook / jump the bank, freed to brook / maybe it’s that’s easy / I want it to be / that easy / tell me it’s that / easy / in the present sense / I’m her / She’s me / are we always, only / are we always, only who we / choose / to be
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Seasick
03:50
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Take this lonely heart / string the sinew into / seasick spirals in July / break it slow apart / leave the pieces lying cliffside / drying high / I didn’t need — / it was doing all of nothing / I’ll never need — / it was doing all but nothing / all but nothing / for me / Take this angry heart / melt the muscle into / meek omegas in the sky / Slake it from the start / weave the hunger / flying lemniscate / serenade / Don’t say I need — / it was doing all of nothing / Can’t I not need — / it was doing all but nothing / all / but nothing / for me / Take this lonely heart / string the sinew into / seasick spirals in July
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Fishhook
03:37
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I mistook the current / for a fell fishhook / no snap to shore / but a pull to sea / I got it all wrong / my Achilles / heel bends to strong / I’ve been taught to bleed it / but my longing’s leading / when I heed it / it hies me / home / We’re told: disbelieve it / it’s just the serpent speaking / but that hissing need / sings me home / I misread the one way / for unmapped dead end / no bitter road / but inevitability / I got it all wrong / the side-thorn rose grows / the sweetest song / I’ve been taught to bleed it / but my longing’s leading / when I heed it / it hies me / home / We’re told: disbelieve it / it’s just the serpent speaking/ but that hissing need / sings me home / Home / the sweetest sings / me home / I’ve been taught to bleed it / but my longing’s leading / when I heed it / it hies me / home / We’re told: disbelieve it / it’s just the serpent speaking/ but that hissing need / sings me home
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Shutter Blue
04:34
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Think I woke up from my mother’s dream last night / she gave me cottage keys / the door was painted white / never wanted thatched-roof / tales come true / never asked for / shutter blue / I’ve been blinding to that old projector shine / searching stories for an absence / like mine / did you cry when Igor / lit up two / she said I can hear / the hole in you / Outside, weird and other-planed / the glass unasked, the smudged plate / diffuse, obtuse and over-blamed / narrative arrest, poorly framed / sideways saint with an ankle sprain / coiled and curious / never named / the barb, the feint, the cockeyed aim / you’re a bad runner and that’s a good thing / keep the veils on and don’t explain / keep a foot in the broken scrape / the wound / the lack / the power / the pain / it’s all gravity / it’s all the same / never wanted thatched-roof / tales come true / never asked for / shutter blue
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Hope
03:37
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Well I frayed out the ends / of all that I’ve known / And dozened the rest of it / down to raw bone / they don’t tell you how heavy — / it’s a damn drowning stone / Can you hold it for me / I can’t hold it alone / You reversed all the rules / while tracking the score / you lost every list / on the way to the store / there’s no bright horizon / it’s a dark, dove-less shore / Let me hold it for you / when you can’t any more / I don’t know how any of us / get what we need / with time spilling sand / at that horrible speed / forget about feathers — / rip the scales, and it bleeds / But I’ll hold on with you / if you hold me / We borrowed against / the last of the wine / we bet all we had / on the faintest of signs / it’ll bankrupt us, baby / it’s an un-payable fine / But I’ll hold it for you / if you hold mine / I’ll hold it for you / if you hold mine
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Quiet Takes Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Songwriter Sarah Magill makes music as Quiet Takes. She makes joy as a DIY music community organizer and promoter in Eau Claire, WI. Come visit and see a show sometime.
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