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Chamomile Crush

by Alicia Walter

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I’ve been a long time singin’ this song, singin’ this all way home and I been a long time singin’ this song, singin’ this our way an’ Dance! Dance! For no one but yourself Found out I’m finding, n’ feeling my own breathing time I stay back lately, lately I groan old man sighs Running like rabbits, they’re belly-side down, bat-like, I fly I suck down peaches, and twilight, it grates Old man, old man Old man, old man Skies! Seiks nam dlo setarg ti ,emit thgin dna sehcaep nwod kcus i ylf i ,ekil-tab nwod edis ylleb er'yeht ,stibbar ekil gninnur shgi-i-i-i-i-i-is nam dlo naom i yletal ,yletal kcab yats i emit gnihtaerb nwo ym gnileef 'n ,gnidnif m'i tuo dnuoF
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Baraboo 04:02
We may be falling like coconuts from a ripened tree along the salty breeze... or we may be falling like uranium! Drive real far to the lake in the crater Mattress flew the car, but it missed, I think we’ll make it -- was the wildest way to go, out in the wild where our eyes will glow Feed by the red hot fire that we made Smoke the kernels out, wash it down with ginger ale I think I feel somethin’ comin’ on, the move is small but it moves ‘til dawn Childish, we shake like flies, oh, how we shake, But babies we wake in hunger, oh, how we wake! Laughin at the camp, call “Heima!” You want me to talk, but I think I just forgot This is the wildest way to go, look at your eyes, they are big and slow Water, water, make for it fast! You stick on the pavement and I’ll stick with the grass This thirst is down in the ‘tom of me, my tongue can’t move when it’s so sticky Childish, we shake like flies, oh, how we shake but babies, we wake in hunger, oh, how we wake! Lay us down in bags for a little while I can see the light, and your hand is on my side This was the wildest way to go, our bodies twitching to and fro
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Tigers 02:00
Can’t say nothin’, nothin’, about somethin’, somethin’ Without wishin’ it had never been said And when the tigers come, they come with mouths open They’ll let their tongues roll right our their head Call me foolish, boil your blood! I’m still standing, you’re still stuck!
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Suburban pining, lying down We look to the stars -- how nice We try ever striving, telescopes line Our windows at night -- how nice
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Gumby 00:53
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Oh, unexpected and tremendous, we may be falling From the tree, we’re floating And you aren’t in the knowing, and as the sun’s approaching We are guardedly in arms All the trees alive, I’d cut them down to get to you Burn down all the chamomile and tend the fire to signal you I’d swim for miles and still the wind for you to ride I’d dim the lights As we involve ourselves in new complications, Try, an’ get back to a place we’ve never been before And I cannot bend you, I am consumed My words, I fear I may have lost All the starry skies! I’d tie them down to give to you Lasso all the asteroids and throw them out to miss you I’d risk the Nile, excite the atoms of different kinds I’d dim the lights
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Emily 02:48
Emily, we’ll never meet You’ll always be my Caroline 
Walking slowly, down an alley I think I might be paralyzed 
But what would the neighbors think? As they watch from their kitchen sinks, We might offend Would she want to hold my books And walk me down the boulevard?

And would she maybe, just maybe Want to stop beneath the streetlight?
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You are feeding me sunbeams While I sit on the sill Dripping flesh into My eyes, my eyes I am through you Both seen and alive, and alive, and alive Come and be, happiness Shuttered and blind Shivering, restless Come and be, wavering thought Walking in circles and hinting at... I am animated in Your stomach walls, alone Sitting in sentiment And suspiciously owned And alive, and alive And yeah, I would like to be Closer to the bones that are rotting in me
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Runnin 04:30
Would you take me away? And if I wanted to, would you stay, would you stay with me? Cause I been feelin’ pretty useless And I been growin’ pretty tired So I went out into the forest And I learned, I learned how cry Cause sometimes we forget why We don’t fly, but we run Yeah, sometimes we forget why We don’t fly, but we run How we run Oh lord, how we run So I’ll sit still and wait for you And when you feel it, too I’ll be right here for you And you’ll lay down, yeah, you’ll lay down with me Cause I been told I have an old soul And I been told never to lie So I’ll leave, I’ll leave you with a whistle And that way, you’ll know you are mine Cause sometimes we forget why We don’t fly, but we run Yeah, sometimes we forget why We don’t fly, but we run Oh lord, how we run Oh lord, how we run

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released August 8, 2013

All music by Oshwa

Recorded and mixed by Steve Marek and Oshwa
Mastered by Carl Saff

Alicia Walter - Composer, Arranger, Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Dulcimer
Michael Mac - Vocals, Guitar
Matthew Noonan - Bass
Jordan Tate - Drums

Additional instrumentalists:
Amanda Bailey - Violin, Viola
Marissa Deitz - Cello
Juan Hernandez - Clarinet
Morgan Krauss - Flute
Sophie Creutz - Alto Sax
Chris Dageforde - Bari sax
Kevin Gawthorp - Bari sax

Album artwork by Molly Costello

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