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Tick In The Mane
03:31
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First is delicious
Delicious expansion
Expansion that allows everything all at once
All at once includes being
And doing and already finished
And conceiving of what's not begun
No now or then
Always never ending
Never ending no one
Or as some say, all one
No now or then
Always never ending
Never ending no one
Or as some say, all one
After are opposites
Opposites divide us
Divisions allow us to have this or that
This or that like magnificence
Or like insignificance
Insignificant dots make up the Seurat
You question Earth
Earth sings to the Sky
Sky lies with the Sun
The Sun shines their reply
They say Time Immemorial
Is but a glint in the goldmine
It's but a tick in the mane, it's but a blink of an
I...
And you can be a lighthouse
And I can be a lanthorn
And we can be dark lumps that learn how to glow
And death lies in every moment
Even clear skies and rainbows
And lifetimes are but pinpricks in a voodoo doll's side
No now or then
Always never ending
Never ending no one
Or as some say, all one
No now or then
Always never ending
Never ending no one
All one, all one
You question Earth
Earth sings to the Sky
Sky lies with the Sun
The Sun shines their reply
They say Time Immemorial
Is but a glint in the goldmine
It's but a tick in the mane, it's but a blink of an I
They say, Time Immemorial
A grain of salt in the brine
It's a hairpin in the hay
It's a glimpse of the sublime
They say, Time Immemorial
Is but a glint in the goldmine
It's but a tick in the mane, it's but a blink of an...
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2. |
Yellow House
03:00
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Yellow house hides secret stairway
From the bedroom to the pantry
Blue room with the daisy paper
Old record player, brown bean bag chair
Gladiolas in the garden
Mulberries in the backyard
2500 Hartzell Street, that's where I learned
Life is hard
She tried to live here, she tried to live well
Let's say she did the best she could
She planted radishes and lettuce
She worked with flowers, she read books
She was small her voice was large and
She could be cruel with her words and
Sometimes slept more than she ought to
Tip toe 'round, best not be heard
Hiding, hidden, broken, bed-ridden
Threadbare, only half-way finished
Tired of fighting, moving toward forgiveness
I think I said we all make plans
Before we choose to take these lives
There was no way to take it back when I
Heard the fear in her reply. She said,
You don't know and I don't know and these are
Things that can't be known and
If you choose, if you decide, that means
I've spent my whole life in denial
Hiding, hidden, broken, bed-ridden
Threadbare, only half way finished
Tired of fighting moving toward forgiveness
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3. |
Bikini
03:49
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Bikini in the sun little one
Bikini in the sun you walk along
Walk along little one got your transistor radio on
You walk alone
You got your freedom in your bare feet on the concrete
Freedom in your bare feet you walk along
Walk along on sun-baked concrete
'Til the freedom stubs your toes
Little girl, no place to go
You walk alone
Bikini in the sun little one
Bikini in the sun you walk along
Walk along little one got your transistor radio and your two piece on
You walk alone
Now step outside your yard little one
Venture from your yard sing your song
Walk along and sing your song your radio gives you bravado
Brave little girl you walk alone
Bikini in the sun little one
Bikini in the sun you walk along
Walk along little one got your transistor radio
Little girl with your radio
Little girl aint got no place to go
Little girl brave little one
You walk alone
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4. |
Good Time Mary
02:59
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The spheres resonate like church bells when she laughs
I can see her epiglottis when she laughs
Opalescent beads of moisture spray and she says,
"All your painful limitations are self made
What you need is to go out and play."
Mary, good time Mary
Mary, good time Mary
So we wrapped rainbows right around the sun
We dared to love ourselves and everyone
We ran like wolves, hair all a-brambled
Bared our ankles and caused scandals
And we laughed and held our aching sides
We laughed until the tears fell from our eyes
Mary, good time Mary
Mary, good time Mary
Now I learned back in CCD
when the pitchers held just water
And all the guests wanted to leave
even though they'd all just got there
That's when Mary turned to young JC and said, "If you wouldn't mind,
Let's jump start this party. Won't you do that thing you do
With the wine?"
She's like the Northern Lights on her way to the morning train
She leaves iridescent tracers in her wake
She blesses mammals, reptiles, microbes,
Arachnids, even assholes
And they drop their burdens and their fears
She says, "You can drag them further or leave them here."
Mary, good time Mary
Mary, good time Mary
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5. |
Love Like A Stone
02:24
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There is a stone
It sits all alone
Beneath the waves where manatees play and barnacles grow
Upon the stone
And to love is abandon a sinking ship
Let loose your grip
As your world shifts
There is a tree
For centuries
It grows near a stone that calls the roots home and accompanies
All change in the tree
And to love is abandon a sinking ship
Let loose your grip
As your world shifts
And to love is to sit
With yourself or another
The shadows will lengthen, the eternal flame flutters
There is a boat
No longer can float
One plank at a time, it sinks in the brine, a stone plugs the hole
To grow means let go
And to love is abandon a sinking ship
Let loose your grip
As your world shifts
And to love is to sit
With yourself or another
The shadows will lengthen, the eternal flame flutters
To love is to be, is to see, bearing witness
Drop the detritus, enjoy what unites us
Love like a stone
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6. |
Two Fridas
07:01
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I am sky vast blue-black
I am thick cloud cover
If I, my clouds, are swept away, I know vast I remain
And with or without my partner, my lover
I tell you I remain
I tell you that I remain
And I am Earth, flat, and brown
I am so dark on the horizon
I am bare, I'm void of rain, I'm so bright on the foreplane
When you see me you see division
What do you have your eyes on?
I tell you it's all the same
I tell you its all the same
They say there are two loves one sacred one profane
I say they can't reconcile their pleasure and their pain
Yeah, I say they would hide their pain
One heart is whole one heart is scarred
The wedding dress is torn and blood stained
But my peasant clothes remain unmarred and
I tell you they're just the same
I tell you they're just the same
I hold an image of him I love that man
I hold the snips that cut the vein
And cool smooth dry skin-I hold my own hand yeah
I tell you the love remains
I tell you the love remains
Here is my heart, it's on display
Cross section exposed, but I'm not afraid
You ask is love unrequited? From myself, I say,
I'm undivided yeah
I tell you I'm undivided
You sense an air so heavy, you seem so serious
You see wounds, I won't deny it
But do you see what I show? Is it so mysterious
When I tell you
I am united
Yeah I tell you I am united
I sit erect upon this bench
I sit with myself reflecting
What's come to pass
What will be
My commitment's to love
And to all of me
My commitment is to love all of me
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7. |
Dream Girl
02:01
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There's a girl, she's got a white nightgown
She ascends a growing green vine
And whenever there is no hand hold
That's alright she just uses star shine
To boost her luminescent body
To the next phase of the climb
She arrives at a glittering city
A silvery blue feast for the eyes
She comes to know her power here
She undoes knots, she unmasks disguise
And would you believe she's got unfolding wings
That help her to fly
Oh fly
Softly she lands slowly she wakes
To garden smells and garden shapes
She imagines her day, it's all presents and play
The flower heads sway, they toss dapple across
Last Autumn's leaves and springtime's new
Moss
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8. |
Changes
02:44
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There's a train it takes me to a glass enclosed place
It's like a greenhouse where souls choose to grow
There are paths stairs and escalators
I knew enough to get here, but now where do I go?
Stages of embracing changes, life rearranges
There's a town, it's like a normal town in no way
Not in any way any kind of home
I run around: person, shop, or place, one to the next
But in no way, no, not in any way can I connect
Stages of embracing changes, life rearranges
Stages of embracing changes, life rearranges
I'm tucked in safe I'm in the home where I was raised
Won't self defenestrate though there's a tsunami at my gate
Waves reverberate at the window I don't want to escape, no
I shall honor their power and I'll stay
Old way doesn't work for you
Now the only thing to do is
Pick a path that allows you to change
Old way doesn't work for you
Now the only thing to do is
Pick a path that allows you to change
Life rearranges
Stages of embracing changes, life rearranges
Stages of embracing changes, life rearranges
Stages of embracing changes, life rearranges
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Tisa Batchelder Chicago, Illinois
Called “absolutely original” and “truly unique", Tisa Batchelder's songs are haunting, cool, and lush; layered with winks and nods. Her vocal delivery meanders then soars: light and airy sing-song; gutsy, witchy mystery; searing, soul-baring emotional expression.Tisa's songwriting is informed by study of literature and filmmaking as well as a life-long fascination with healing. ... more
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