1. |
Almond Song
02:34
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Cm
Picking bones
Bare of sweet meat
Drilling down
In the parched heat
G#
Machines are thirsty
G Cm
We give them what they demand
G# G
The market has a green thumb
But an iron hand
Cm
Force a smile
Feel better
Show it off
To the hungry
G#
Crowds that are gathering
G Cm
with gleaming eyes and teeth
G# G
Begging for more
Stomping their feet
Cm G# A# gm Ab Fm G G7
C D
Sweet fruit grows on wilting vines
G Em
Aquifers bled dry
C D
Remember you have power
G Em
Limited to what you buy
C
So bow your heads
D
And get in line
G Em
At the checkout stand
C D
You buy your own freedom with
G Cm
Each dollar that you spend
Cm/Bb/G#/G x 2
Oil rigs (shut them off)
Drill for water
Almond groves (it’s too much)
In the valley
The last of the water
We can’t let them waste
Rally your neighbors
Come on make haste
In the fields (raise your arms)
Desert whispers
Time has come (ready, aim)
For the city
The prices are high
But the cost is much higher
We burned the estates
Now the hills are on fire
The last of the water
We can’t let them waste
Rally your neighbors
Come on make haste
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2. |
Keeping Secrets
03:42
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I sing this song to the ocean
To the waves that crash on the sand
A symphony of water
Hear it rushing, breaking now
Roaring loud to drown me out
These feelings swirling round
In my head
Bite my tongue to keep them in
I know its too soon
To tell you that I love you
So I sing it to the ocean
I sing this song to the forest
As pine needles fall from the sky
A silent bed for my secrets
If you can’t see me falling now
Maybe I won’t make a sound
But these feelings swirling round
In my head
Bite my tongue to keep them in
I know its too soon
To tell you that I love you
So I sing it to the forest
D# Bb
But i hope that one hundred years from now
F C
I've shouted these words and sent them soaring
D# Bb
Out over the woods and the deserts
F
And into your home by the sea
D# F
As the daylight grows longer
Bb F D#
As flowers spring up from their seeds
D#
I know I’m falling
are you falling for me?
I sing this song to the desert
Thirsty but teeming with life
Wildflowers blooming
Whisper softly to the ground
Here my secret can’t me found
D# / G x 3
But these feelings swirling round
These feelings swirling round
In my head
Bite my tongue to keep them in
I know its too soon (drop out)
To tell you that I love you
So I sing it to the desert
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3. |
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G
He sat beside my garden bed
B
Whispered year after year
C
Told me he’d protect me said
D
I had nothing to fear
G
When I awoke each morning
B
I would hear him say
C
You don’t need those spines now honey
D
I will keep you safe
G
These spines are ancient armor
B
Adornments of my past
C
I learned them in the jaws of snakes
D
They taught me to adapt
G
By the garden bed he coaxed
B
Though I tried to stay sharp
C
He gently pried each one away
D Dd C B
Then broke my cactus heart
Em B C B
In his false embraces
I dropped my final spine
A marvel of his science
My skin no longer mine
Some will sing his praises
But his heart was full of hate
Eugenist ideations
Em B C D
With science as your bait
The best thing I can say of men
Is years are never kind
Burbank he grew older and
he passed on in good time
I whispered to my branches
The memories I know
We’ll always need our spines
And now it’s time to grow
Those spines are ancient armor
Adornments of my past
I learned them in the jaws of snakes
They taught me to adapt
So don’t you get too close
Cuz baby I stay sharp
There’s no man in this world that I’d let
Touch my cactus heart
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4. |
Coming for Blood
02:48
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Am
The rains are coming
E
Can you hear the thunder roar
Dm F
The seeds and the saplings
C E Am
Are fed by this cold downpour
Am
But in the City
E
The people sleep outside
Dm F C
The first to get hit by the quickly
E Am
rising tides
F D
The time is now
G E
What are we waiting for
A F
The flood is rising
Bb E Am
And it’s just outside your door
Then in the summer
Fire will come with wind
Tearing through forests
So new life is born again
But to the City
Flee those whose homes are lost
It’s never the ones to blame
Who bare the costs
The time is now
What are we waiting for
The fire is burning
Bb E Dm
And it’s just outside your door
Dm
Forged in the fire
G
Fed by the flood
C
We know who you are and
F
We’re coming for blood
Dm
After the fire
G
After the flood
C
Let monuments crumble
F
There will be blood
F/D/G/E/A/F/Bb/E/Am
So now we’re coming
Can you hear us in the streets
Don’t think you can stop us
With borders or jails or police
We’ve learned our lessons
The Earth teaches us well
Unafraid of the water
Unafraid of hell
The time is now
We’re not waiting anymore
We know who you are
And we’re just outside your door
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5. |
The Fire
02:46
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In the dirt with the fawning lilies
When the ash settles
We will too
Hiccuping flames will turn to smoke
Settle like the sun on the far horizon
It’s not time to rise
It’s not time to rise
When the threat of flood is gone
In the dusty ground that we call home
When the heat cracks our bones
Spreading our seeds in hopes of sprouting
Is it finally time
Is it finally time
I think it’s time
Cast off your shriveled husks
Sink in your roots
And rise up
Ready your armor then
Prepare the medicine
At dawn we ride again
There’s no time to waste!
Come on friends it’s time to rise
It’s no longer time to hide
We’ve been waiting all our lives
They are strong but we are stronger
in the ashes we will thrive
We will fight back to survive
When the fire sets us free
Tend the garden pull the weeds
Don’t they know they buried seeds?
Will you come and fight with me?
What we sow will come to be
We are all we’ll ever need
I think it’s time
Cast off your shriveled husks
Sink in your roots
And rise up
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6. |
The Flood
04:17
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If the creek could speak
I’d ask what is in your dreams
When you’re buried in the dark
When you’re running under streets
Do you dream of your old friends?
Chinook and Coho salmon
At home in your headwaters
They’d spawn and lay to rest
When you wake up under bars
Terrorized by sounds of cars
How do you comfort yourself? x3
From the nightmares of your present
When the creek does sing
Do we listen to its song
Know that it will still be here
When we are dead and gone
When the creek does sing
Do we listen to its song
If we break down its cage
Can we still right our wrongs
When the ground does shake
The culverts will all crumble
The clouds will call a storm
And the surge will be a flood
Then the creek will rush
From the hills down to the bay
Taking concrete in its currents
Carrying all our fears away
When the creek is free
Reunited it will be
With the whispers of the willows
And the calls of black phoebes
Streaming water over stones
Your people returned to home
Feel the sun upon your shores
In the land where you are known
Crossing creek will be a ford
The shellmounds will be restored
This is the freedom we seek x3
Liberate Temescal Creek
When the creek does roar
Will we heed its call
It’s the lifeblood of this land
It cannot be held by walls
When the creek does roar
Will we heed its call
Know that daylight is its birthright
It will bring us to the fall
We sing this song for you
I bring all my gratitude
Let us sing to the future x3
Where the old gods will renew
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7. |
Sail Away Suzanah
04:37
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Verse
Gm Bb
Struck up a home
D# Gm
In the harbor she had
Gm F Gm
One foot on the land one at sea
Gm Bb
Not quite ready for
D# Gm
adventures she’d planned
Gm F Gm
But always just itching to leave
Chorus
D# Bb
Sail away Suzannah
Dm Gm
Cut the ropes and float away free
D# Bb
Sail away Suzannah
F
Follow the north star
Gm
Set your course to me
Verse
One hand on her ship
One hand on her heart
Suzannah pushed off from the shore
Leaving the dust of this dead world behind
To find something worth dying for
Chorus
D# Bb
Sail away Suzannah
Dm Gm
Cut the ropes and float away free
D# Bb
Sail away Suzannah
F
Follow the north star
G
Set your course to me
Pre-bridge
G/Cm/Bb/D
Bridge
G
Hold fast
Cm
Let the storm pass
Bb
When it’s gone
D
We’ll still be here
G
No turning
Cm
back now
Bb D
Suzannah there’s nothing to fear
Cm Bb
Oceans will rise
Cm G
Nations will fall
Cm Bb
Hold fast we’ll make it
D
Through it all
Verse
Let death come quickly
To landlords and cops
And peace unto beggars and thieves
As we hoist the black flag
And study the stars
The bastards all fall to their knees
Bridge
G/Cm/Bb/D
Chorus
Sail away Suzannah
Cut the ropes and float away free
Sail away Suzannah
Follow the north star
Set your course to me
Sail away Suzannah
Now you can finally be free
Sail away Suzannah
Follow the north star
To the bottom of the sea!
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8. |
Erigeron
03:38
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F#m D
Wind, stinging our faces
F#m E
Thirsty we clung to the bluffs
E D
Shooting down roots to find water
E F#m
But I couldn’t give you enough
D E F#m
No you couldn’t drink deep enough
Slipping, I held your hand tighter
But your eyes were already gone
Away from this parched shoreline
Where’d you go, erigeron?
Please don’t go, erigeron
F#m D
Please don’t leave me for Montana, I
E
I don’t think I can take it
D
And I don’t think I can lie
F#m D
Mountain shadow calling out for you
E
But I can’t stand the taste
D
Of that bittersweet bitter root
E D F#m
That bittersweet bitter root
Bass solo: A/F#m/E/D x 2
A F#m
Asters in the garden
A F#m
Daisies in the field
F#m
They’re so beautiful
D E G D
But never catch my eye
E G D E F#m
Couldn’t make me cry like you did dear
Eyes, stinging and salty
Hands, withered and rough
I loved you and you loved me
But love isn’t always enough
No love is not always enough
Please don’t leave me for Montana I,
I don’t think I can take it
And I don’t think I can lie
Mountain shadow calling out to you
But I can’t stand the taste
Of that bittersweet bitter root
That bittersweet bitter root
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9. |
Sabotage
04:52
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Going to the badlands
Looking for a bad time
Gone until they send me home
Going to the badlands
Looking for a bad time
Gone until they send me home
Our friends they had a vision
Took up arms and drew the lines
Following their angels
But the devil
Was close behind
Now the smoke is clearing
My friends did not come home
I’m going down to free them
Tracing steps to
the unknown
Going to the badlands
Looking for a bad time
Gone until they send me home
Going to the badlands
Looking for a bad time
Gone until they send me home
I’m here in the valley of the
Shadow of death
But evil—I do fear
No one above me for to welcome me home
But there’s nothing
For me here
Going to the badlands
Looking for a bad time
Gone until they send me home
Going to the badlands
Looking for a bad time
Gone until they send me home
Going to the badlands (SABOTAGE)
Looking for a bad time
First I shot the warden (shot him down!)
Wrangled with the guards (on the ground!)
Pulled the keyring from his belt
And ran right for the yard
The bullets fell like raindrops
Bloodstains bloom in Spring
I’m ready to leave the Badlands
I’m ready to be free
Going to the badlands (SABOTAGE)
Looking for a bad time
Gone until they send me home
Going to the badlands
Looking for a bad time
Gone until they send me home
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wayfairy Oakland, California
CONTACT US: wayfairywayfairy@gmail.com
Wayfairy started with a banjo on the turnpike and has grown
into a six piece music project that fills the sonic space between mournful folk and riotous punk. Wayfairy has grown into a collective project that blends accordion, banjo, violin, washboard and upright bass with soft vocal harmonies punctuated by raw wails.
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