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Winter Sister Sally

by Iona Swift

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Jasmine Bailey This song is soft, supple and sweet. Just like a delicious pie. I feel starry eyed and in love just listening Favorite track: Opal Pie.
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1.
Opal Pie 04:39
Now here comes that mountain leaking from my lips: Minerals mumble tumble crumble down to a kiss. Awake with half-an-eye, blushing, begging to be pinched. Nothing quite like rolling boulders to try and resist. (CHORUS): You slice opal pie For my dinner plate eyes Sugar no lies, say I am safe and I am kind And I am fine, I'm even mine Supple supply Another day in paradise I am ever speechless, babe I am terrified But I won't buy no silence tonight And you ain't selling so I'll be telling it all true Like one, two, one, two, to the ever-loving blue yonder (CHORUS) That winter I lived smirking behind Buddha's back Getting goods good got and stuck in picture frames Breaking chains, slurring names Than those wings turned to shoulder blades And it's penniless, jingling In the cold, tingling Then you sliced me up some (CHORUS)
2.
Persephone 04:38
Persephone you and your ease are going on trial so listen up, child. Your remedies, your own season's tease is taking a while. All your come and go, your wax and wane Your flowers grow and die again In the snow, they'll go. Pawing rhythmic heel and toe, the frozen dreaming down below (CHORUS)Because the bees, they get to buzz and I can't quit my itching The trees, they get to bud and my hands just keep sivving My knees, they will not budge, and the world goes on spinning The seas, they get to flood, and I go on breathing. Miss Artemis, miss misery, it was not me who threw out the key. We agreed on enduring ourselves in our sleeves, until terminal 3. Moon-eyed, gloaming, guilty, loaning, lost Tongue-tied, knowing the casm was growing not crossed. (CHORUS) And I go on breathing, yes I go on breathing. You cannot turn off, all's not lost You have to catch the breath you cost in the frost Cellophane springtime, malarkey in my lung Unwrap every nightmare in the sun, it will come. It will come.
3.
Oh my dear, oh my dear, I'm seeing awful clear now you're here. Oh my love, oh my love, it runs, jumps to the deep when you're near. And darling please stop stealing my poor breath Because I haven't had enough today. And I know you won't try to steal my heart But it was yours, long gone away from the start. In the end, in the end I guess we can pretend that this mess didn't matter. But today, yes today, you've changed the way I play And now my toys are tattered. Though it's really just a couple facts, do you think I could come clean? Even if those walls all burned to ash Would you let me give you everything like I asked? Because on one holy howling Hollow's Eve And almost every other day I came so close, so close, so close, so far away From taking my own breath away Simply by settin' myself near you. Busy brains, paper cranes, cowboy coffee mornings And I will miss you dear, yes even the madness Stupid games, maybe electric trains you make me want to give you Every single thing you never even wanted. Tired eyes, lofty sights, you know I think I'm done with all my buying all that brave bullshit But for you, oh for you, You know I'd fight and fight and fight and fight Until my eyes were black and blue. My eyes are turning true for you. They're true And you're blue.
4.
La Legna 03:41
Awake to the shakes and that hallway Vague winter birds in the morning Ghosts and hosts, medusa throats, expired firecrackers float Hissing up the ends of the air Gaze, free the face, flee the chair Love like all end honey, sweet sweet drawl, forgiveness Precious martian, money paper doll and all Here take this You know that I did try and try To buy the lines that'd say the thing more saintly Now I'm floored, the lion's roar: Torn pages from our poisoned shore The truth, it don't cost a penny That dream to recall, the horse, the fall, the land: Liquid language cupped in my hand Unlike so many things so countable now Like rings in dead trees and heartaches to plough And the times that I turned and ran It's all a chance at a chance at a chance to understand That it is ever-always the last night of our lives That we were all born to bloom forever in each other's eyes, Born to briefly walk along the endless edge of brimming over light Encora adentro inverno freddo questa sogna è la legna Love like all end honey, sweet sweet drawl, forgiveness Precious martian, money paper doll and all Here take this You know that I did try and try To buy the lines that'd say the thing more saintly Now I'm floored, the lion's roar: Torn pages from our poisoned shore The truth, it don't cost a penny
5.
Doug's Waltz 03:11
A cigarette won't mean much Until you get one aching touch Like some smoke on fingertips In this town the birds won't eat the sunflower seeds The otherside of the fance is green And we all number our good deeds (CHORUS) Oh Douglas, Douglas my dear, I'm here Wiith those books and those walks And those fears and blue rocks from the beach And the trees Oh 'cuz you'd tell me bout the light then leave Yeah you'd grab my arm, you'd tug my sleeve Oh and now you're gone Now your son and I are fine We're waltzing through that old grape vine We're baffled, speechless in the face of time We've got that California kind of ease We're waltzing through the redwood trees We're talking slow, we're talking sweet. (CHORUS)
6.
Waterbird 03:25
The ache in our throats, know it ain't all our own: The homes thrones and combs we've all thrown out like bones Were you afraid to watch me go? The wordlessness shows and I'll still utter none Translations and truths come in screaming, undone Gold-eaters, sky-dancers, walkers of the sun Love is the law here I cannot unlearn Forget to remember, escape to return Do your time, you weary waterbird Build your shrine, when you find the words Coza fai, dove si trova?

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released June 19, 2016

Recorded and mastered by Jimmy Bagshaw at Right Choice studios in Sacramento, California. Thanks to Mike Spielman for the poem which inspired the lyrics for La Legna. Photography by Anna Schmidt, San Francisco.

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Iona Swift Nevada City, California

Iona hails from the hills and sings from the heart. A young songwriter, she's developed a unique sound she calls Folkadelic Soul. Solo and acoustic, Iona's performance emerges from a rich variety of musical influences. Iona's writing is thoughtful and rooted in her connection to the natural world. It gives lyrical nods to female power and conscious hip hop. ... more

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