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Row ever softly
Currents of uncertainty
Fires dot the distant shore
Sorrow never far from me
The moon calls out to me
Starlight waves glistening
They had come, burning everything
Ashes, no more seafaring
Save for me!
Save for me!
I come to you, Moon, you
Come to me!
I lifted that veil
I soared through the night
I flew above tides
And I sailed thru the sky
On my lonely canoe
It came from the womb
It came from a wound
On the loneliest, loneliest Moon
(I saved it for you)
(It's the loneliest only canoe)
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Premonition
04:58
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I had a premonition, you had a working vision
of the way that pieces come then fall away
I had a stupid mission, you had a superstition
of the way that changes come then dissipate
I had gone down that turn a long time ago
that old back road
There were no homes along that beaten path
of old asphalt
I drove so long... I thought I was gone
I drove so long... I thought I was gone
I gathered my coins to pay that toll
for the long road home
There was no one around to accept
my deep regret
I drove so long... I thought it was gone
I drove so long... I thought it was gone
My rumination wreaks havoc and devastation
and consequences
I don't get older as much as I get colder to
our pretenses
We live our sentences
No proclamation
No hope of changing it
Those wheels... they roll on by
Those wheels... they roll me by
I had a premonition
You had a working vision
I had a stupid mission
You had a superstition
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Infinite Twee
05:28
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Wake and bake and fake and make it
You're ragged and you're running out
of all the reasons you deserve it,
your only form of relief
I can teach you all the angles
But not the one you need to know
Wind yourself up and push harder
Out of breath on a dead-end road
The day you decide that your life
is a ball-and-chain
Is the day you find
that there is no shelf life
to your pain
I couldn't make it up even if I tried
The clearest truth is in the smallest lie
Oh the clearest truth is in the heavy sigh
Hate and rage and flagellation
Before you greet the morning dew
Ball of shame, two cups of coffee
Cream and sugar too
I bore myself with my angst and disaster
Take up so much space that
Time is elastic!
And with so much weight,
my moods are spastic
And you don't know what to do
with your white lies - you paint with them
You carry them with you
and call them out of the blue
You toss them into the drawer
of your renovated kitchen
Caress them in your lonely bedroom
"Oh hello, how do you do?"
"I would love to" (2x)
"Oh hello, how does it feel?"
"I would love to" (2x)
Oh hello, how do you do?
I would love to fight you...
Oh hello, how do you do?
I would love to destroy you...
Oh hello, how does it feel?
I would love to ignore you
Oh hello, how does it feel?
I would love to ignite you
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Silent Siren
05:36
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I had taken it into my own two hands
Dug into it, fist-by-fist
Nothing can ever reach you when you have no hope
You're just the loneliest coal mine bird
So strung out and so out-of-tune
And the grip of death
It is so tight
And snug
And comforting
And so tempting
For the equilibrium you think it brings
Some people see the glow, you see the shadow
Some people see the light, you see the flame
Some people see the flame, you see the burning
And the oxygen it takes to keep it roaring
And the breath it takes to keep the miners digging
I wish I was like the soil
I wish I was like the dirt, so fertile
I wish I was like the soil
I wish I was like the ground
Eternal and profound
The strobing light without the siren
The warning flag without the breeze
The battering ram without the army
The clarion without the call
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Rosa Bordallo New York, New York
Rosa Bordallo f/k/a Manett is a singer-songwriter and musician based in Brooklyn. She is a CHamoru from the island of Guam
in the Marianas, an archipelago in Micronesia. She came to New York at the age of 19. She was a member of the band cholo.
contact: manettmusic@gmail.com
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I played in cholo for many years. Here's our last album. Check it out!
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