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Frankincense and Myrrh

by Milly Raccoon

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1.
A diamond has been hiding, buried in the earth And under constant pressure since the moment of her birth Miners try to find her to behold her precious gleam But darkness overtakes them and she was but just a dream Time is passing like a freight train through some lonely country town We can watch from behind our windows, wondering where it might be bound Or you could lie beside me, darling, in the candle's dancing glow Where the secret's just a gentle touch and the fine art of takin it slow We all keep our list of reasons to extinguish a burning love Fire's wild and needs constant tending; nothing ever is enough And we cannot know the future until the moment's past Take me back to the night I met you, before the spell was cast
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There were two conversations that night Ours was flirtation, theirs was a fight You kissed me when I had to go, drove your car through the snow, did all I could hope, just to meet me We told you that I would be there, they said you were waiting downstairs Chorus 1 + 2: If I had just walked down the stairs If I wasn't so shy and embarrassed and I came down to meet you and you were still there If I had just walked down the stairs Too many years later, it's sure been a climb As you sail on the boat on the back of your dime If I had a chance I would hand you a branch from the back of mine (chorus 2) Ran outside calling your name, snow had covered your footprints Like I covered my shame If I hadn't waited, waited for fate I wouldn't be here...too little too late... It's lonely up there, walk down the stairs It's lonely up here, walk down the stairs If I had just walked down the stairs If I wasn't so shy and embarrassed and I don't know the point of these letters I send I know you have a lover, don't want to offend But I sure wish that I was your friend and that you would still care And that I had just walked down the stairs
3.
Je suis encore avec un autre homme Je suis encore l'autre femme Je pense a une chanson d'une femme rousse qui vole les hommes avec sa chanson douce Elle est la reine de la sous-terraine Elle se couche mais elle ne peut pas dormir C'est bien de sentir l'intrigue d'un étranger Il n'y a pas une chose qui va pas jamais changer C'est pas de sa faute il a menti des mensonges La vérité est un art pour les maitres Grandir et retrecir est un cycle infini L'espace et le temps ne sont pas linéaire Lyrics translated: “Persephone the Red-haired Girl” I am once again with another man I am once again “the other woman” I think of a song about a red-haired woman Who steals men with her sweet song She is the queen of the underworld She goes to bed but she cannot sleep It’s fine to feel a stranger’s intrigue There is not one thing that will never change It’s not his fault he lied lies The Truth is an art for the masters To grow and to shrink is an infinite cycle Space and time are not linear
4.
Now I recall this ancient love for you That I have always known An eternity in a day or two For we have ever been one You are the smartest little creature That I have ever seen You know how to fight Darkness with light We're a darkness fighting team And you want to be with me Our bright-eyed bright ideas Guide us through the blinding fog Where the past all bleeds together In our shipwrecked Captain's log Now I have caved throughout your caverns Dove into your darkest big You are scared of me, but I swear to you I'm as loyal as a dog And you want to be with me
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Finnegan is a brown dog Finnegan is a big goofy boy
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Greetings to the spirits of the living unseen Faeries and good folk and earth's merry team You speak to the wild and laugh with the trees You pray with the plants and work with the bees I offer you my thanks and my honor and praise Burn you sweet incense at the dawn of the day I sing to you love songs, I sing what I know Combining our powers, as above, so below
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Last night while I lay fast asleep Everybody I know Reflected on my shortcomings And switched from friend to foe What’ll I do, where should I go This test is multiple choice I penciled every bubble in And cannot find my voice Since I don’t smoke and I don’t drink All I do is long For one true love, a stable home In a world where I belong They used to beat me up for always Makin the highest grade Now they just pretend a smile and turn the other way I’ve gotten away with never gettin my shit together sooner Cuz they see me as a little girl Many years my junior Once a day I want to die But I’ll just decide to hide me And pray I magically find That girl I left behind me Oh who’s that girl, that pretty little girl That girl I left behind me With the rosy cheeks and the curly hair That girl I left behind me
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Dark forest, open field She doesn’t miss a beat She’ll smell your intentions A mile down the street I’ve got a girl Not two feet from the Earth I the light, and she creation Love shines through me straight on to her With the telltale crinkle of a snack bag She’ll dance upon two feet Hungry little baby, I’m gonna feed you Hungry little baby, I’m gonna feed you Ground me to the earth, love, I’m gonna need you Hungry little baby, I’m gonna feed you Protect me on my rocky road Of vulnerable seeking Keeper of the word I do all the speaking I defer to her, she sees the colors of truth Queen of incarnation Iditarod through Malkuth If you follow your nose, you will come to A person so simple to love Hungry little baby I’m gonna feed you…
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I’m Awkward, so fucking awkward I don’t know how to stand I can’t look up, I can’t look down I don’t know where to put my hands Please don’t notice I’m just floating I’m always in the way You try to talk to me, but you think I’m mocking thee I just don’t know what to say You like my songs, you tell me I’m pretty You find my social skills are shitty You don’t believe that I love you But I swear my heart is pure and true I’m eccentric, but also tantric I’d like to show you what I do Around all of these strangers all I feel is danger I just want to be alone with you (Tis a gift to be simple, tis a gift to be free Tis a gift to go down where you ought to be And when you’re in the place that seems just right You’ll be in the valley of love and delight Dance, dance wherever you may be For I am the lord of the dance said he Turn, turn will be your delight When you’re in the valley of love and delight)

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released August 18, 2022

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Milly Raccoon Nashville, Tennessee

Trained by campfires and tavern jams all over the world, Milly Raccoon’s eccentric and poignant lyrics mix with musical stylings that seem to have travelled out of the past, emulating classic country, early jazz, and other antiquated Americana. There is a connecting thread of spirituality, healing and liberation weaving through her work.
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