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To Keep It All Spinning

by Magpie Feast

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1.
I'm giving up on my senses Got to try to keep it disconnected Start singing one for another Forget myself and live for each other Think it's time to give... Think it's time to give... Some forgotten organ of perception Opens up a path to my redemption I know life is starting over Light and beauty shining on our shoulders Think it's time to give... Think it's time to give...it all away I wish to give only love Banish every evil from my tongue Open all my doors to the light Without weight I sleep through the night Really hope this feelings gonna last The knife cuts me clean from the past I hope the sun will be shining Two feet walking next to mine Think it's time to give... Think it's time to give...it all away
2.
My chest is full of drawers, and deep inside there's something moving back and forth Open up what do I see but a hundred tiny boxes under lock and key It's an ordinary shame I'm picking apart every little thing I say I know its wrong but I can't help I dig, I dig, I'm digging to find myself Opened a box I'll tell you what was found a little black bird, he made an awful sound Each of his calls it had a rhyme I raced for my pen to put em down in time He sang it's five for silver, six for gold You're looking for a secret, never to be told Seven for the sorrows and eight for mirth But in the darkness there will be a birth Searching for my lost spool of thread Lead me back to you, where I began The deeper I let myself dig in I started to feel I's wearing someone else's skin Mother O' mother look and see Your little baby boy what's become of me I kept to myself every thing I'd seen each tiny box, like a fever dream I drove the nails and packed them in Locked the drawers and never take them out again Searching for my lost spool of thread Lead me back to you, where I began
3.
Putting things back in their place Wondering how long it might take Wondering how long it might take Till I lose these things again It's the life I want to lead So close I can hardly see So close I can hardly see Don't let it get away from me I won't let you go Each thing in it's place Put it all on a string So when it gets away pull it right back to me The only poison is my own There's many stitches to be sewn Many stitches to be sewn I can't do it all alone You forgive my greatest sins Help me be made new again Let it be brand new again Every time the day begins I won't let you go Each thing in it's place Put it all on a string So when it gets away Pull it right back to me
4.
Mrs. Doss 03:03
I married young and the children did come One after one after one after one Like a rope that frays in the sun and rain I started smoking two packs a day Charley came home late one night from drinking He and I both knowing just what he's thinking But I was not willing my head ached Busy raising his children while he stayed away But he gets what he wants, he gets what he wants So he gets what he gets and he gets what I give him I found his liquor in the back of the cupboard So I topped it off for him He died in the night after hours of sweating I smiled in a chair as I thought of our wedding He gets what he wants, he gets what he wants So he gets what he gets and he gets what I give him
5.
All the things you'll suffer Oh it can't be helped All the little light you bring, might mean Everything to someone else You got to give yourself away How can I expect reprieve without a lot of hope that someone's listening I awoke this morning Didn't want one minute more I know somehow I'll put the keys in the car Start and I'll be off just like the day before Found a place where the streets are not marked street lights are on but the windows are dark A suitcase packed with suffering I don't dare stay out I don't dare go in You got to give yourself away How can I expect reprieve without a lot of hope that someone's listening Things can happen and they often do If you take one for me I'll take one for you I'm not asking for your devotion Just want someone to help keep me in motion All the things you'll suffer Oh it can't be helped All the little light you bring Might mean everything to someone else
6.
Seven are the wonders of your heartbeat next to mine Isn't that the only way to lose? Eyes like yours don't dance for everyone In the dark they take their time to choose Weary is the hand that guides you back to me again Weary is the one who always waits For you to lose your steam you're a wandering machine But oh how I love to see you run Oh to face the truth I was not enough for you And I have to agree You were far too much for me Seven are the things I wish I hadn't said But who holds a hand that they can change? Finally see a truth in the last days of my youth I only have myself to blame
7.
The hands the head the skin the bones That clothe the heart that warm the home Some strange hearth I've made myself A fire for one and no one else Lie awake and through my teeth I'm the one who doesn't see It's so lonely underneath You belong, you belong with me Open up this earthen shell Are you the one to break the spell Take the dampers off my strings So as one our hearts might sing
8.
A hatchet is a hell of a blade Takes a stone to make it shine Who's the one in the gingham dress What will it take to make her mine Took a trip to Michigan Camped along the Bissell Creek She was there with some friends Making it so hard to breathe Stole a glance through the pines What a lovely sight to see They catch my eye and I turn away I know they must be laughing at me Grandpa taught me everything Showed me how to make steel sharp How to track a wounded doe Showed me how to move in the dark I got the courage to introduce myself Asked if they'd like company Never even met my eyes But I'm the one who cannot see A hatchet is a hell of a blade Takes a stone to make it shine Who's the one in the gingham dress What will it take to make her mine
9.
I want to live in a fantasy without anyone there to forsake or to care for me I want to live in a fantasy without anyone there to forsake or to care for me I'll build a fence out of briar and blackberry to keep the wolf howl farther away from me I'll build a fence out of briar and blackberry to keep the wolves out I'll climb a tree that has grown to a thousand feet build me a home in the clouds in the canopy There I can live like a bird just below the sun Till my feathers turn grey and fall out and the stories done there I can live like a bird just below the sun till my feathers turn grey and fall out and the stories done
10.
Bloom 03:09
I think we're gonna do some waiting now So let's keep our hearts settled down Think we're gonna be waiting now So let's keep those feet right on the ground In the morning we can steal the light So let's put the weight down for tonight In the morning we'll steal the light By tomorrow I know we'll get it right...we'll bloom Dreamt myself back to the womb With all the world inside The worm that sleeps in his cocoon But soon he cannot hide...he'll bloom If you're not what you want to be Hold on girl it won't be long Till you're blooming like the poplar tree You're a wild and lovely one

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released August 26, 2016

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Magpie Feast Raleigh, North Carolina

New solo album out here: mattsouthern.bandcamp.com/releases

Magpie Feast began as the solo recording project of Matt Southern in 2009. With the addition of Jeff Moore, Chris Kyrouac, and Meredith Mitchell (Drums, Bass, Violin/Vocals, respectively) the band has blossomed in sound and scope. Songs range from tender acoustic hymnals and gothic folk rock to dirty garage-soul workouts. ... more

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