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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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Walk Down the Stairs
04:35
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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
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La Rousse Persephone
03:44
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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
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This Ancient Love
04:28
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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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Offering to the Fae
02:51
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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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Fiddler's Prayer
04:29
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I’m Gonna Feed You
03:09
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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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Complicated Gifts
03:56
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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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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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