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Welcome to Washington

by Mary Water

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Tom Dyer I ran into this while looking Guidon Bear stuff, pretty fine material. Favorite track: From Olympia to Москва.
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Scablands 04:57
So named for their resemblance to partly healed wounds cut deep into the epidermis of the earth a satellite image now confirms Father of Neo-Catastrophism Father of Neo-Catastrophism birth What you can see that you can’t explain What you can be that you can’t explain Inside of me flooding inundate And your cellular memory just accepts its fate What you can be that you can’t explain 570 miles above me can you feel this pain? Our landscape irrevocable changed And your cellular memory just accepts its fate 500 cubic miles burst through the remnants of the ice barrier with almost unfathomable force massive boulders granite with no source What you can see that you can’t explain What you can be that you can’t explain Inside of me flooding inundate And your cellular memory just accepts its fate What you can be that you can’t explain 570 miles above me can you feel this pain? Our landscape irrevocable changed And your cellular memory just accepts its fate Its fate Let the observer take the wings of the morning to the uttermost parts of the earth, he will nowhere find its likeness.
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Anax Junius 03:42
What do u call me? I know you’ve got a name for this What do u cost me? I know you’ve got a pain for it And where you’re paper thin You move so fast you dart alight And where you're solid You hide the spirit of a fight I’ve got a place I’ve got a place Where you can think all that you are I’ve got a name that you can say I heard you whisper in the dark Erase it I saw you crawling 300 million years ignite Atmosphere calling The warmth evokes our ancient flight From Grass Lake slip away Abandon everything you know Survival in our eyes We'll become predators not prey I’ve got a place I’ve got a place That's better than our words I’ve got a name that you can say It's one I think that you have heard Erase it
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Ships in the water Charting the coastline Seeking a clue, a passage-way Shoals reefs and sand bars Thick Fog obscures stars Pictures of places that you could take me Hope -myth –cartography Storms, pirates, gold, ice, Thieves scurvy, silk, spice What makes it so hard to see 3000 miles of impassible geography What makes it so hard to feel The crush of the glacier before you see its real I’m Juan de Fuca from Valeriano In my Caravela I will see Shoals reefs and sand bars Thick Fog obscures stars I’m captain James cook Charting the coastline Markets of Asia Tempting me Storms, pirates, gold, ice, Thieves scurvy, silk, spice Where did you go what did you seek there? Did you hesitate? Does something tell you there is a purpose for both time and place? Does the elusive highway call to you through time and space? Could you return the way you came or have you lost your way?
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In the dream I'm in the battle of new Orleans from beneath the cotton and the dead bodies Black Hawk looks up and laughs Isabelle Missouri’s starting to look like hell With steady rain & seldom death knells Boys can bloom & breathe And you can take it But the red white blue can you shake it? Break it you can break it North by NW And you'll find the place you saw inside your mind Clay County We'll leave behind with all her death & greed The silver stowed we're off to new valleys Where her destiny meets ours Who's to say What will come to pass another day Wagons roll on to emerald & jade Beyond the grip of "liberty" And you can take it But the red white blue can you shake it? Break it you can break it North by NW And you'll build the place you saw inside your mind
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Where are we now, and who are we that we should be thus blessed of the Lord? We arrived from Walla Walla to a house with a good fireplace, and floor No windows or door except blankets still my heart truly leaped for joy At the comfort of the fire Though we had neither table, bedstead or straw, Our boards are sawed by hand Ground's high where our house stands We're here as God’s right hand In our ways we gift this man It is a lovely situation And how many are wanted from the east To come into the highways & hedges & compel sinners into the feast This rising tide upon our pathway creates a path that widens at our feet Our greatest wish to be His herald, doorkeeper, harbinger, we bespeak Our boards are sawed by hand Ground's high where our house stands We're here as God’s right hand In our ways we gift this man
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Company town Terminus of North Pacific Railroad A committee of 15 Alpha Opera House Resolution And the Newspaper war Finally broke into the street Delay is just weakness Unpardonable sin and the Governor nowhere A mob in raincoats ever in his heart Mow Lung, Sing Lee, Hop Lee, Goon Gau Yuen Nome, Jam Kee, Yon Fong, Wing Sing, Quong Chong Yuen, Mee Nome, Tai Wo Tong Delay is just weakness Unpardonable sin and the Governor nowhere a mob in raincoats ever in his heart Company town Terminus of American dream A committee, a machine Burning tenements on The wharf-ashen homes Pay the ticket to ride The Lake View Junction Tracks you lay The shrieking shop whistles Clubs threats & pistols And the governor nowhere A mob in raincoats ever in our hearts
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That cold & dark November day The sun fights to burn the rain away The boy scouts march & the band it plays 1919 Armistice parade Armistice Day Armistice Day Parade Children watch n the leaves they fall Soldiers march to the crowds applause But a warning issued late yesterday Sparked workers to seek Smith’s legal aid “Defend what’s yours-you have the right” Hill, house, Hotel, Wait for the fight Not thinking that this wreckless raid Would rain down hell as part of the Armistice day parade Armistice Day Armistice Day Parade The Skookumchuck ends Everest's run Belt roundhis neck His face a drum Dragged back to town when the lights go black the townsfolk know that he won’t b back Chehalis draw my spirit N Neuwakum skookumchuck black satson Come wishkah Hoquiam Join our cause an injury to one is the concern of all.
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You are a keystone I hear your voice when I am alone You call me to you near the window And oh the glory of God that’s inside you My senses don’t lie Your song it calls to me from on high Above the house Down from grey sky Soon I’ll be feeding on what is inside you In death you speak to me Your cells rise up and move my heartbeat Just a breath separates us What separates us now? You whispered once then Between the fern and rhododendron That I would be your only true friend But the ephemeral pond is behind me. My senses don’t lie Your song It calls me from on high Above the house Down from Grey sky Soon I’ll be feeding on what’s left inside you In death you speak to me Your cells rise up and move my heartbeat Just a breath separates us What separates us now?
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Sagebrush, steppe & talus slopes Riparian, black cottonwood hopes Basalt outcrops, bunch grass and forbs Whitefish sturgeon you absorb me And what is it what is it, What is it I want from you? Irrevocable answer: That our ways will continue And what is it what is it, That can make our dreams come true? Radionuclide I love you As long as I subdue you Is it loneliness or lust? I cling to parts of rust or dust Flee these sterile vats at last Through the air ethereal gas And what is it what is it, What is it I want from you? Irrevocable answer: That our ways will continue And what is it what is it, That can make our dreams come true? Radionuclide I love you As long as I subdue you I crave your cool touch to my heat Colombia pathway set me free My beauty transforms what I see 2-6 hours I’m released Fuel element failures reactor purge launch me into the universe Grasses sedges reeds and rush Routine operations Rabbit brush Cows and corn and milk and lungs Pulsing blood and cells and dust Soaring eagle in the sky nothing can stop me only time.
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I'm bad I'm bad And I don't know why I'm sad I'm sad And I don't know why I'm mad I'm mad but I know why They lure me to their bodies, then trap me inside The pickup rolls up Pacific Highway "Come on for a ride, I'll take you someplace." Her hair flies all around my face Coursing through my body God's wrath and God's hate Kimmie Kai, Mary, Delores my dear I saw you walking, the sky was so clear Shaunda Patricia & April don't fear Just meet me at the playground No one else is here Oh try as I may We'll go down to Green River She'll go down to stay Mothers & brothers & & sisters in tow Her body weighs heavy with their Worry & woe The winds push towering Douglas Fir Beyond the banks, green aquifers She'll sleep all night beneath skies so gray Rolling down Green River Man's wrath & man's hate Kimmie Kai, Mary, Delores my dear I saw you walking, the sky was so clear Shaunda Patricia & April don't fear Just meet me at the playground No one else is here Oh the words stuck in our head From the magazines, newspaper, tv & web Oh the bitch-whores they make We'll go down to Green River Wash our sins away
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We’re gonna drive through the Cascades tonight The pass is open Scintillate flashing shine Whispering absolution to obscured twilight You know it… And our escape is hushed by curling snow It’s lifting up the van and its cargo And when I open up the sliding door You know it Whatever I owe You know I ‘m good for it Years in the glow Sound a humming memory Up into the snow Animate this carapace Exhale where he stands Breath blanket man You own it You know it Mountains mark, survey my wrongs I sang a hollow shell a song With nothing there but skin and hair Inside no conscience buried there Crag and water falling fast I’ll stop the car so I can ask What I can do to right this wrong To treat this twisted broken song We’re gonna drive through the Cascades tonight The pass will close behind And blankets bright Will whisper absolution to obscured twilight You know it And your escape is hushed by curling snow It’s lifting up the van and its cargo And when I open up the sliding door You know it Whatever I owe You know I ‘m good for it Years in the glow Sound a humming memory Up into the snow Animate this carapace Exhale where he stands breath blanket man You own it You know it
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Slow cart, full heart, blank stares, no charge Car don’t take me to the Grocery Outlet Eggs, milk, weird juice, beans, rice, fears loose Car don’t take me to the Grocery Outlet Ground beef, drum sticks, lemonade mix Car don’t take me to the Grocery Outlet Come ride the conveyor belt to the check out girl My life is all piled here I can widen it with the vast array of stuff I get I’m plugged in but juice won’t flow, It’s not my outlet though it feel like it. I’m plugged in but juice wont flow… Chips, beer, ice cream, canned fruit, my dreams, Car don’t take me to the Grocery Outlet Bleach wipes, stain guard, pushing so hard Car don’t take me to the Grocery Outlet Come ride the conveyor belt to the check out girl My life is all piled here I can widen it with the vast array of stuff I get I’m plugged in but juice won’t flow, It’s not my outlet though it feel like it. I’m plugged in but juice won’t flow…
13.
Roll me out, with the pack I breathe Where mismatched worlds, they can't get to me I watch her break away then recede The faith I have helps me wait and see She's coming around again Rolling around the bend She's coming around again Rolling around the bend And in the morning you create anew This 3-D puzzle I've been dropped into They say it's old, but I feel it new The edge us taking me back to you She's coming around again Rolling around the bend She's coming around again Rolling around the bend I stepped outside, got a penalty But back-blocking, no you did not see Tonight everyone wants to crash into me Just keep me close, within 20 ft She's coming around again Rolling around the bend She's coming around again Rolling around the bend x2
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What’re you sprinkling in my ear? “For free friends, live chat and photos click here” And she’s all wrapped up in an American flag If you don’t click now, you know you’re gonna feel bad Kill steal , death cash, take want You know it’s coming coming Cut stab, pull wrack, doll face She’s got you running running Behind bar codes feel more You know their cunning cunning Sign for free more slave store You sleep their gunnin’ gunnin’ What are you pouring in my drink? When all is said and done I’ll need a quality shrink If I could just make the switch and use my promo code I could save enough to start again buy a new soul Kill steal , death cash, take want You know it’s coming coming Cut stab, pull wrack, doll face She’s got you running running Behind bar codes feel more You know their cunning cunning Sign for free more slave store You sleep their gunnin’ gunnin’
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When the blanket descends we all know it’s the end Of the fire and the shine Of the heat and the fine When the blanket descends When the blanket descends We all know how it ends When the blanket descends When the blanket descends its snowy grey blooms Grace the sky in the town And the light filters down When the blanket descends When the blanket descends We all know how it ends When the blanket descends Cover me cover me cover me Will you let me be what I want to be In your shelter in your doom In the sanctity of the tomb Cover me cover me cover me Will you let me be who I want to be In your shelter in your doom In the dull damp dark that looms When the blanket descends Pushing plumes of the past To your windowsill view So the old becomes new When the blanket descends When the blanket descends We all know how it ends When the blanket descends When the blanket descends Oh monotonous trend And you doubt all the stars Until night, when stone parts When the blanket descends When the blanket descends We all know how it ends When the blanket descends Cover me cover me cover me Will you let me be what I want to be In your shelter in your doom In the sanctity of the tomb Cover me cover me cover me Will you let me be who I want to be In your shelter in your doom In the dull damp dark that looms
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Now I lay me down to sleep I pray the lord my soul to keep Me from pretend democracy She goes hard she goes hard she goes hard And I’m hailing Mary full of grace Can you get me out of this fucked up place My name they’re trying to erase She goes hard she goes hard she goes hard Every monster has a heart & In the aortic valve, that’s where she is And the heart pumps secret message Oxygen to the hands legs, You can breathe now, you can see now, you can feel now In her blood we live Immaculate Heart Angel of God, my guardian dear To whom God’s love commits me here, The sacrosanct dollar still I fear But she goes hard,she goes hard she goes hard Yea, though I walk through the shadow of death, My sold, spirit bereft I will fear no man despite this theft Every monster has a heart & In the aortic valve, that’s where she is And the heart pumps secret message Oxygen to the hands legs, You can breathe now, you can see now, you can feel now In her blood we live Immaculate Heart

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Welcome to Washington is collection of songs about the history and environment of Washington State.

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released July 1, 2013

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