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Yella Bird (Live)
04:41
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You’re a yella bird, in a yellow light
In the golden hour you burn wild and bright
But in the dawn I watched you wain
I felt your hot love turn to cold blue pain
Then you were gone
Yea you were gone
As soon as I said your name
You were gone
You were gone
Fast like hummingbird’s wings
Now tell me how you walked away
When you left your bones in my bedframe
Or maybe I left mine with you
It’s hard telling whose is whose
I hope you can balance, balance, balance
But if you panic, panic, panic
You can regenerate
I hope you can balance, balance, balance
But if you panic, panic, panic
You can regenerate (stop)….Into a
Yella bird in the yellow light
In the golden hour you burn wild and bright
You’re a yella bird in the yellow light
In the golden hour you burn wild and bright
You’re a yella bird in the yellow light
In the golden hour you burn wild and bright
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2. |
Intro
02:21
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3. |
Fray (Live)
04:47
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I got me a map to cut out my home
Stateline islands to patch and sew
Highway threads and the rivers weave
No matter how you sew it comes apart at the seams
But I know we're cut
From the same cloth
Wear our heart on our sleeves
Then take everything off
And when the pieces of you
Don't match the pieces of me
We can line up the edges
Fold you on top of me
Don't let this get in our way
Let's not get lost in the fray
In the fray
Signs of struggle and torn up clothes
There's the shape we were born with
And the shape we make whole
Quilted memories like a patchwork coat
No matter how it changes or how much we outgrow
But I know we're cut
From the same cloth
Wear our heart on our sleeves
Then take everything off
And when the pieces of you
Don't match the pieces of me
We can line up the edges
Fold you on top of me
Don't let this get in our way
Let's not get lost in the fray
In the fray
And when the pieces of you
Don't match the pieces of me
We can line up the edges
Fold you on top of me
Don't let this get in our way
Let's not get lost in the fray In the fray
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4. |
Countries (Live)
04:49
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We’re all countries with our allegiances
I can’t make any sense with them,
You wanted me here, Now that you got me
Right where you want me, redraw the boundaries
It’s not breaking a truce if you break it again
I should’ve expected to be in this mess
So go back to your life, back to that comfort
I’m glad could help wake you and inspire
Yea you’re welcome
Honey you’re welcome
Yea you’re welcome
It takes time to heal betrayal
And while you repair your I rot in this jail
Its not breaking a heart if its already broken
I should be stronger have learned to resist
But weak is the spirit caged for too long
I’m glad I could help you get in touch with yours
Yea you’re welcome
Honey you’re welcome
Yea you’re welcome
Yea you’re welcome
Hey don’t mention it
It’s my pleasure to give you these gifts
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5. |
Stellar Jay (Live)
04:06
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The moment that I met you
I knew my life was changed
I loved you with pieces of myself
I never had to name
Oh my quiet it love
My wild love
We are the same
Come on now lay down with me
Lay down in the Shade
Life takes the shape...
Of what you care for everyday
My home was built inside your bones
And you kept me save
Til’ those wildfires
That rose higher were uncontained
Now I’m just ashes with you
Ashes in the Grave
You left behind a fabric
That covered all my pain
Woven in the nests of the
Stellar Jay
Was it a mistake…
Well it haunts me everyday
When you hold a life inside your hands
All they do is shake
Oh my July son
Your wild eyes were untamed
And now my grief grows with you
Even in the Shade
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6. |
Ohio Shaped Heart (Live)
04:44
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I don’t know where you came from
Conjured you right out of my dreams at night
I don’t know where we’re going
I just hope that I’ll be holding
Your hand as we fight the good fight
Fell in love with you on a full moon night
In the silver light we were a black and white
Movie that I can’t stop watching
I just hope they never stop us
Making out getaway across state lines
In the morning hours
I’ll try and let you sleep
So you can greet the world
As quiet and gently
As your Ohio heart needs
There’s magic in your green eyes
When you look at me, I see the northern lights
And high up above all this sadness
I can hear the coyote’s howling
They don’t keep their joy inside
And on those sleepless nights
When you have bad dreams
I will be your shell
You hide from your loss and your grief
And your Ohio heartache
Life can swarm around you
Four seasons everyday
Bodies made of water
Make weather in our veins
So if you need some time
I will carve out the space
We can take our love
To the edges my bones will not break
I’ll be Ohio heart shaped
Ohio heart shaped
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7. |
Winged Refugee (Live)
04:25
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I spent years inside a thick blue fog
With no horizons or landmarks
To tell east from west
Or kitchen from bed
My eyes and lips
Were my compass
So tell me where am I now
Inside this house
When there is no line
Between the earth and sky
Sunsets behind a muffled cloud
I watch the colours all bleed down
Into a beautiful mess
Across the train tracks
Where there’s no trespassing
Or going back
So tell me where am I now
Inside this town
When there is no line
Between the earth and sky
In this city of crows
That sit like black leaves on branches
Of trees that are bare-boned
Like a cloak of dark feathers
City of gulls
Han gliding and landing
On chimneys and rooftops
After scavenging breadcrumbs
They come home
We’re all winged refugees
Abandoned talons for clenched teeth
But when we open our mouths
Birdsongs still come out
The trilling cadence
That we carried south
Well here I am now
Inside new skin
I am not tied
To this cage I’m in
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8. |
Warm Blooded (Live)
03:57
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All you left me was an empty container
I kept it tightly closed
One day I opened it for answers
I won’t let em weigh me down
They won’t be my savior
I just need a little hope
That I can tie to an anchor
And let it sink into the ocean
Balloon floating on the surface
I wrote you letters but never addressed them
Paper I just folded into sails, hoping
My words had their way of staying buoyant
And make their way back inside of your mouth
To hear them roll off your tongue
I like the way the sound comes out
Truth is salty like the ocean
And down under the waves
The world’s so soft, I feel no pain
But that bright sun, I lures me up
I feel the cold leave my warm blood
Caught up in the tide
I fill up my lungs
I tie them to knot on the raft I came here on
I gotta hold on
Until the moon
Becomes a hot air balloon
Soon, we’ll be high above what’s bothering you
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9. |
Bloom (Live)
05:43
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You won’t recognize me
I’m an absence of color
I take up space
I erase others
Tools I learned to use and hide
In old wounds
When there was nothing left to find
I found truth
So you won’t recognize me
No, you won’t recognize me
When I bloom....
All the light inside of me
Are refractions of color
I change like waves
I sing like the warbler
All my burdens built from lies
And redlines
Used as promises of white
Sand shorelines
But you can’t colonize a dream
So, you can’t colonize me
When I bloom...
We are made of estuaries
Our delta mouths turned riverine
We set our hearts to sail downstream
Filled up with salt and then with seed
But on my hands there will always be blood
Mixed up with shame
Mixed up with mud
It’s all held under my skin
I can’t wash away
Its where the remedy lives
I’m not as fragile as I seem
I won’t take cover
I am the other
There's no hate left in me when I
When I bloom
We are made of estuaries
Our delta mouths become riverine
We sent our hearts to sail the seas
Filled up with salt and then with seed
But on my hands there will always be blood
Mixed in with pain
Mixed in with love
It’s all trapped under my skin
I can’t wash it away
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10. |
Reptilian (Live)
05:39
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Quick to put me down with, double meaning
Chartreuse, split tongue, sharp tooth, reptilian
Argue, half smile, hard to tell when the truth
Comes slithering out
Of dry mouth salt wounds, double meaning
Secrets living in sand dunes, reptilian
Water makes it hard to move
Quick sand and shortness of breath
Tempted lava taproot, double meaning
I’m trying not to hang onto, reptilian
Sap that hardens into an amber wound
You wear around your neck
But I won’t ask you, double meaning
To make promises your not spose’ to, reptilian
Limbs you drop when forced to choose
Between what’s right and what’s left
We got ourselves into this
And now we need help out
Don’t try and wrestle with it
You’ll just run it in the ground…
I will keep this secret, double meaning
Buried in a shallow grave, reptilian
Go ahead and start your digging
You won’t find the slightest trace
It’s ok just to be honest, double meaning
Everything’s gonna be ok, reptilian
As long as you keep your mouth shut
This won’t see the light of day
We got ourselves into this
And now we need help out
Don’t try and wrestle with it
You’ll just run it in the ground…
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11. |
Chaparral (Live)
05:32
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Circling
Birdseye view looking down over the serpentine prairie
Like wind through leaves…
Rattling brush and creaking hinges of the redwood trees
I'm here with you
Burying
Burrowed deep under the ground where there is no sunlight to reach
I am laurel seeds
Waiting for heat to sprout from the ashes the wildfires leave
I burn bright blue
I'm here with you
Weathering
Eroding away the mistakes that we carved in mahogany
Endanger me
Save me from destroying the beauty from inside this desert dream
I split in two
I burn bright blue
I'm here with you
In this arid sun
I am an empty well
But underneath the ground
I am chaparral
Circling, circling, circling, circling
Yea I am in bloom, I split in two
Now I burn bright blue, I'm here with you.
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12. |
Weatherman (Live)
04:16
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I’m as sure as a rain storm
I wagered all my money
There’s no telling what I’d lose
Without you there to warn me
I looked outside
The wind has died
And now the clouds are parting
I am a weatherman
predicting weather and
it’s always changing on me
Overcast comes up on the map
But the sun’s shining thru the curtains
There’s a reason that you’re always
Opening the windows
I can feel
There’s a rise in temperatures
Yea I guess it’s warmer than expected
I’m just a weatherman
predicting weather and
The winds changes its direction
Hot and cold
there’s so much in between
Our hands can hold
The beauty in broken things
I know there is more
Than these two extremes
But sure as I’m born
There’s a thunderstorm
The pressures always mounting
I’m not good at keeping
Letting go of my expectations
Roll the dice
And let it fall were it falls
Your guess is as good as mine is
I am a weatherman
predicting weather and
It’s always changing its direction
I am a weatherman
predicting weather and
it’s always changing….. on me
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Dillbilly Columbus, Ohio
Dillbilly (pronouns: they/them) is a genre-queer songmaker living in southeast Ohio.
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