Posted by Sadie from D006052.N1.Vanderbilt.Edu (129.59.6.52) on Saturday, April 26, 2003 at 10:40PM :
Reminiscing about high school again...
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"Hammer and a Nail"
by Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls)
Clearing webs from the hovel
A blistered hand on the handle of a shovel
I've been digging too deep, I always do.
I see my face on the surface
I look a lot like Narcissus
A dark abyss of an emptiness
Standing on the edge of a drowning blue.
REFRAIN:
I look behind my ears for the green
Even my sweat smells clean
Glare off the white hurts my eyes.
Gotta get out of bed get a hammer and a nail
Learn how to use my hands, not just my head
I think myself into jail
Now I know a refuge never grows
From a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose
Gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.
I had a lot of good intentions
Sit around for fifty years and then collect a pension,
Started seeing the road to hell and just where it starts.
But my life is more than a vision
The sweetest part is acting after making a decision
I started seeing the whole as a sum of its parts.
My life is part of the global life
I'd found myself becoming more immobile
When I'd think a little girl in the world can't do anything.
A distant nation my community
A street person my responsibility
If I have a care in the world I have a gift to bring.
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"Welcome me"
by Amy Ray
Welcome me to the city of angels.
devil prophets still hold my hand.
I walked your stillborn streets for hours,
ethnic echoes spitting out their trials.
REFRAIN:
I'll be the first to praise the sun,
The first to praise the moon,
The first to hold the lone coyote,
The last to set it free.
Welcome me to a haven given,
it's well received into my open arms.
I ran in my sleep through shaking tremors,
I had the splitting earth echoing in my ears.
Welcome me to your city of angels,
there's a devil monkey laying on our backs.
Where's the heart, where's the bullet for breaking?
Who's gonna give me a weapon, a pacifying weapon?
-- Sadie
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