1. |
as above so below
04:24
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[rain falling on flat leaves and puddles, water moving, birdsong, crickets, breath]
when i hang upon that
cross where we shall meet
there will be such dancing
more flapjacks than you can eat
when i hang upon that
cross where we shall meet
there will be such dancing
golden shoes upon my feet
golden shoes upon my feet
kiss me once for living
kiss me twice for death
kiss me in my shroud and
kiss me with your lying breath
kiss me once for living
kiss me twice for death
kiss me in my shroud and
kiss me with lips innocent
ooh come on baby
kiss me with lips innocent
body walking onward
body left me here
no i've got nobody
left to tell me what i fear
body walking onward
body left me here
no i've got nobody
but the river of my tears
ooh and it's running cold
but the river of my tears
oh beggar you've gone nowhere
oh you've gone nowhere good
when heaven's just a toll road
costs you way more than it should
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2. |
invocation
04:28
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[birdsong, crickets, wind in an open field, a body swinging an axe nearby]
a pain without yield
splitting my fingers, curling my spine
a fire that licks at my heels
am i losing my mind?
when i close my eyes
the same prayer sits on my tongue
how much longer can i keep it in my mouth
like a bell that has yet to be rung?
i can't say the words
can't seem to solve my own math
watch the light on the wall of my bedroom
move down the same path
and when you call my name
i cannot close my fist
from where i'm standing
all names are just proof you're on somebody's list
ring out, bells
i don't pray for beauty
i don't pray for grace
i don't pray for heaven to know my face
i don't pray for love, no mercy for me
i don't pray for a god to bring me to my knees
i don't pray for beauty
i don't pray for grace
i don't pray for heaven to know my face
i don't pray for love, no mercy for me
i don't pray for a god to bring me to my knees
to bring me to my knees
to bring me to my knees
to bring me to my knees
to bring me to my knees
to bring me, don't call me
to bring me, don't call me
to bring me, don't call me
to bring me, to bring me
can you see right through me?
o if you only knew what i pray for
o if you only knew what i pray for
o if you only knew what i pray for
then finally i could lay down my body and rest
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3. |
miracle
03:03
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[crickets and cicadas in an open field at night]
i got a holy face now
i got a holy face
you knew me before like a heavy wooden door
now i got a holy face
behold my holy face!
whose hair growing from my cheeks so fine?
i got a holy face
i got a holy face
i got a holy face
o you knew me before like a heavy wooden door
now i got a holy face
behold me!
behold me!
i got a holy face now
i got a holy face
you knew me before like a heavy wooden door
now i got a holy face
[crickets and cicadas, moving water from a sacred spring]
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4. |
his great burning eye
06:44
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[crickets and cicadas and other insects, a brook flowing from a sacred spring]
was there ever a time when he saw me as i was
or have i always been a windowpane?
the maples weep their petals, arms open wide
am i that season to him? or just an endless spring?
his love languishes, a scream in a canyon
my terror turns me virgin again
my hands empty, then fill
and fill
they fill
i gather myself out of reach
i extinguish his great burning eye
i'll kill you, my god
i'll kill you, or i'll die
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5. |
crux
07:12
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[a river rushing downstream through the mountains, crickets chirp, small spiders weave webs in the thickets, rain falls on a tin roof, a construction crew cutting down a tree]
too late, i put my ear to the ground and listen close
the serpents they are moving and they're loosening their skins
while men whisper to god beside a bottle and a glass
for he never makes them pay for any one of their everlasting sins
here they come with wine-stained breath and shotguns loaded up
they're burning like a flame that catches quick upon the pines
i know that when they reach for me they'll cut my body down
and time will pass in grief without a word as my earthly body dies
the lightning cracks upon the hill and cuts a tree in half
soon their hands will nail me to a cross at hand and feet
when others like me suffered o my coward mouth stayed shut
o why didn't i sing out before? i see the devil in me
i've had seven visions, darling, i've had seven dreams
in every single one of them a serpent sings our fate
tin can telephone through every vein that's just like mine
i'm callin at ya, callin at ya, callin at ya, but i'm a little too late
o i'm a little too late
i see the devil comin up
i see the devil in me on the rise
i pace like a dog around memories of you
o i wish i could stop pacing just like a dog around these memories of you
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6. |
ave
03:52
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7. |
paraclete
03:54
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[crickets and insects at night in the mountains, a brook somewhere in the distance, swallows swooping through the air]
why is your hair so white?
is it only the passing of time, or just a trick of the moonlight?
why is that tree so red?
what does its color shed? and why does it trickle from your forehead?
why won't you say a word while all around
a chorus of crickets and mockingbirds?
why do you hang from that cross? who put you there?
and who cut off all your hair?
all of these questions are just a kind of running away
all of these questions with answers i already know how to say
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8. |
ouroboros
05:01
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[a brook babbling through a forest, insects humming in the sun]
up go the weeds and down comes the pollen
i know how it goes
i know how it goes
i've sown those seeds before
up goes my hope and down drops your dagger
i know how it goes
i know how it goes
i've dreamed this dream before
up goes the dew and down comes the rain
i know how it goes
i know how it goes
i've cried these tears before
i know what this is, you're one and the same
tricks of the light, two shadows which both share a name
let's fight in a meadow and this time you'll hear what i say
i've looked at your face till your eyes turn to silver and gold
silver and gold
silver and gold and two coins that i cannot trade
up go the weeds
up goes my hope
up goes the dew
and down comes everything else
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9. |
canticle
03:36
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[crickets, insects chirping, water in a pool splashing as small fish swim in and out of beams of sun]
o pretty baby
won't you kick off your golden shoes
i wanna prove
how much i love you
o pretty baby
come on and take my hand
can't be held down
by no earthly law man
o pretty baby
don't leave me out in the snow
because your love is the only home
i wanna know
o pretty baby
let me know if you're free
and if you wanna spend some time
haunting me
kick off your golden shoes
o let me know
come and take my hand
lead me out from the snow
lead me out from the snow
lead me out from the snow
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10. |
good st riddance
07:30
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[crickets in a meadow nestled in a mountain valley]
-instrumental-
bluebird sittin on the old store sign
law man drove me out to the county line
no shoes on my feet, but in my pocket some dimes
and you don't have to stay behind if you don't wanna
all these houses with their yards full of signs
and all their mouths all sayin the party lines
anybody says anything for a couple of dimes
and you don't have to stay behind if you don't wanna
all i can say is hail to our love
well you could haunt the whole damn place and scare them with signs
rattle round that old piano, sing a couple of lines
and you could watch him sell your death for a couple of dimes
but you don't have to stay behind if you don't wanna
yeah you don't have to stay behind if you don't wanna
all i can say is hail to our love
and good st riddance to all of the above
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11. |
as below so above
04:14
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[crickets and birds faintly in the background, a refrigerator running at 1am in a small cabin]
we couldn't sleep for jitters, tho the sun set hours ago
so we sat beside the freeway watchin how the trucks all go
when i touched you on your thigh and you sighed just so
i knew there wasn't nothin i wouldn't do for you now
yeah i knew there wasn't nothin i wouldn't do
you took me to the river to your secret swimming place
a rainbow up above us and rain soft upon your face
we heard the herons barking as they gave their love a chase
and i knew there wasn't nothin i wouldn't do for you now
yeah i knew there wasn't nothin i wouldn't do
and in the dark bar drinkin as the hours slipped on by
and the elder lovers dancin in the boxcar two-step slide
you caught me grinnin madly like a coyote on the sly
because i knew there wasn't nothin i wouldn't do for you now
yeah i knew there wasn't nothin i wouldn't do
now you lay beside me, your curls alight with moon
and you're kickin me in your sleep, i gotta wake up soon
when i touch your cheek, you murmur, and my heart begins to bloom
because i know there ain't a damn thing i wouldn't do for you now
yeah i know there ain't a damn thing i wouldn't do for you now
i know there ain't a damn thing that i wouldn't do
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Creekbed Carter Hogan Austin, Texas
folk 4 folks who mean it
trans folksinger workin hard in austin, tx
"fingerpicked introspection and bittersweet confessionals" - austin chronicle
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