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Notes from the back of an empty room
Tell me all I needed to know
About how to send a song to my baby back on home
I gaze upon with my eyes but not my mind
Smiles covering up domestic crimes
The crow may be ugly but he’s king of the goddamn pines

In between the smiles and the ugliness we find
I do believe we’ve met a couple times
Kiss me on unceded land
Show me love in the face of
A truth I could never understand

A truth I could never understand
A lie that will never be enough
There is someone inside us who is born with a knowledge of the blood
When they crack then we’re fucked
Cause it sure won’t be another
Twenty hundred years for the fires and the floods
Of a godly exhibition mowing us down in the rush

Show to me the colours of your skin
Tell me what they mean
Apply the words like fingers dipped in kerosene
Borrowed words, gestures in a tongue we ought to know
But honey tell me
Are those the same words you use when you’re praying in the fold

They took our heroes and chained them to a god we didn’t know
So to rob us with our good eye closed
Flat-sawn nightmares of the tall-topped trees now come to me with
Strange familiarity
I ain’t coming home till I’ve found the real thing

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from Hophorn Hornbeam, released August 28, 2020

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Hophorn Hornbeam Ottawa, Ontario

Country/rock/folk/music. The familiar and the unknown.

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