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songladder march 2019

by various artists

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A Song for this Gutteral Age lyric by Bill White In this guttural age, Who would think of making Sonnets from a woman’s gait? Or songs from psalms Broken under the cover of devotional Ruin. In this guttural age Of therapeutic art magic, Where is the song Sung in yoga breath, The song to part the seas As it sings to isle-flung lovers. Who would think of building Stanzas instead of towers In this guttural age Where every brick Is a brick flung into somebody’s back. I can hear the voices singing, The guttural voices singing, Their songs for a guttural age.
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Oh, Peter, go ring dem bells Peter, go ring dem bells Peter, go ring dem bells I heard it from Heaven today I wonder where my mother’s gone I wonder where my father’s gone I wonder where my brother’s gone I heard it from Heaven today Oh Peter, go ring dem bells Oh Peter, ah, go ring dem bells Peter, go ring dem bells I heard it from Heaven today, oh, on it’s way I wonder where brother Moses is gone I wonder where brother Daniel's gone Gone where Elijah's gone I heard from Heaven today I heard it…, from Heaven today 2x I heard it from Heaven today oh thank God I thank God, 2x and I thank you too I heard..., from Heaven today 3x Yes..., it-was-today (c) 2019 ustaknow (alias)
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I say whoa A chill ran up my sleeve I say hey Wanna get to know me You say cheers To the star-studded night You say wow The moon looks extra bright And it shines, shines, shines To warm up our hearts And it feels fine, fine, fine Like we’re superstars ( X 2 ) I say oooh I’m dancin’ in my seat I say dang Is it 100 degrees You say uh-huh I know what you mean You say uh-oh There’s music singin’ me And we shine, shine, shine Together tonight And it feels fine, fine, fine A romantic delight ( X 2 ) Your smile is wild and my heart is feelin’ sweet As we boogie together on every downbeat And we shine, shine, shine Together tonight And it feels fine, fine, fine A romantic delight ( X 2 ) Shine, shine, shine Shine, shine shine Fine, fine, fine oo-oo-oo-ooh! And we shine, shine, shine Together tonight And it feels fine, fine, fine A romantic delight ©2019 Kristi McKeever
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February falls into the slot we've made, a Roman II, a Chinese New Year And all the time is lost again, a vanishing pen writes resolutions Look out the window, wait for the moon to rise, wait for the falling snow The bands abandoned, the plans we stole, we're all going solo A photo of a rainbow against the wet gray sky above the house where I used to live The old year's dog jumping against the sleeping new year's pig I think my mother was crying, my sister's hiding the address of her new home So the envelopes have no words, they're just crimson red, with the edges all ringed in gold In gold Wait, the sleet strikes the pavement With the sound of far-off applause The train's at the station While the microphone falls The month pulls in its claws And sits in the window to wait So hold me, the snow is falling Our bodies will carve the cold like lightning Elliott sings Miss Misery like the winter descending into my ear Like the last thing that I'll ever hear Words in an aviary, learned by ear, learned by sensation Mysterious as kiwi birds, as deep sea beasts, as radio waves, and When I was a child I thought that happiness meant to fall so fast But now time tumbles and seesaws down out from my grasp And I want it to last Wait, the sleet strikes the pavement With the sound of far-off applause The train's at the station While the microphone falls The month pulls in its claws And sits in the window to wait So hold me, the snow is falling Our bodies will carve the cold like lightning Elliott sings Miss Misery like the winter descending into my ear Like the last thing that I'll ever hear I count it in three So hold me, the snow is falling Our bodies will carve the cold like lightning Elliott sings Miss Misery like the winter descending into my ear Like the last thing that I'll ever hear I count it in three Comments
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1, One paw at the fence My eyes no longer see My tail no longer wags Why did you do this to me? Hevay Rain on my nose I can will no longer bark But you sir shall know I miss All our long walks in our park Once I was loved Once I was adored But Now I am standing Alone 2, New people every week But I an not thei one All puppys that they chose Are cute, cuddly and fun But I have been so scared Still I try to do my best But all people passing by Looking for the next Once I was loved Once I was adored But Now I am standing Alone But Now I am standing Alone
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I know there's more than you're willing to tell Cause I've seen your secrets in the place they dwell But in the silence after the storm When I think of you petrichor Is there no where better than this? To make up for all the days we've missed But we've been down this road before Just driftwood washed up on the shore Like pieces of the people we once were Cause when a lover has come and gone Some of that love still carries on And I always thought I'd see you once more Petrichor Now are you feeling dragged down into the mire? While all around you flowers are reaching higher And all the hours spent chasing ghosts Losing sight of what matters most Is there no where better than this? To let go of all the days we've missed Cause we've been down this road before Just driftwood washed up on the shore Like pieces of the people we once were But when a lover has come and gone Some of that love must carry on Cause I always thought that I'd see you once more Petrichor
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if the stones were the beatles and the beatles were the stones and the ones who pick the harvest are just here to rob your homes then the time has come when nobody can tell the truth from lies if bernie sanders is not a democrat neither am i chorus neither am i neither am i of bernie aint no democrat then neither am i romeo asked juliet what is in a name if you were called brunhilda would i love you just the same the sky is the ocean the ocean is the sky and bernie sanders is not a democrat neither am i repeat chorus hes head to head with FDR that means hes standing tall and those who stand against him they dont count at all hes not out to split the ticket he is here to save your hides but if bernie sanders is not a democrat neither am i repeat chorus you call the moon the sun and call the sun the moon just keep up your slander and youll be out of here pretty soon we will win with a third party and i will tell you why if bernie sanders is not a democrat neither am i repeat chorus
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I'm here in my Gated Community In the place where I sit every day I smile at the faces that enter And wave to those going away. Here in my Gated Community I read Hemingway in paperback My radio's tuned to rancheras, In the cool of my gate-keeping shack. Olé, olé, América My parents came up from Honduras In the 80s before I was born, They worked in the meat-packing factory And sweated de-tasseling corn. Now I'm here in my Gated Community In a place that is mine but it's not, And I watch the old men go for breakfast And a ten o'clock teeing-off slot. Some are kind and they're mostly all friendly, And I don't really hate them at all, I just wish I could tell them politely They don't need to live behind a wall. Olé, olé, América It's not really a question of politics And I'm sure they don't think that it's race, It's a question of keeping their money And of other folks keeping their place. And they're sad that their country's divided But they're all Red and White against Blue They forget that the colors they're waving Are the colors of brown people too. So tonight they go out to a rally And will cheer for the Great Leader who Has promised to make the whole country A Gated Community too.
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Tonight no rain's going to come and take the heat from the sun and I walked with your words spilling into the street I was on Through the dryness felt the softest waves asking to be saved where the gate to the garden was locked was dark was wrong The non-believer stood still wrapped in weapons called truth that she fired without thought of her lives came alive And she wasted her time trying to win over the world she was shooting me down and for a while there was ground But there was love to be found where the river sings without sound and the path winding down was where we went, where we went There rain dances in the dark as the dry grasses that shade the linen like leaves of the dreams that we weaved and I can feel what you feel and the sky holds the stars and you're holding the world and you said you'd give it to me and for a while it seemed real as the rain dances down yeah the rain dances down Copyright Frances Smith 2019
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Clouds in the corners of my head Say things best left unsaid They gather together To form another Head Floating atop this head Like a trouble- filled thought bubble Head atop head Fizzling away again Head atop head Brewing something bad again It’s sometimes gray, sometimes purple And it’s filled with people Oh, the strangest people Falling to Earth from the highest steeples Of churches built of black mist And gloom amidst Landscapes never kissed By the sun Or anyone And from the corners of this head Sprouts another head And this one’s meaner than the rest It won’t let me think or rest Three heads stacked vertically Intent on tormenting me Three heads are three Heads too many So with some difficulty I remove all three
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released February 28, 2019

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