The Cascades Will Save Us (if nothing else)

from Welcome to Washington by Mary Water

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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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from Welcome to Washington, track released July 1, 2013

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