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The Water Will Carry You Away (EP)

by Scott Ezell

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The Water Will Carry You Away 04:50
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where will you go when you’ve lost all your clothes where will you go when you’ve worn out your bones would you fall to the floor try to break down the door pound your heart and beg for more shovel sand from the shore of the river that flows out of here what will you say, when they cock their guns all the way where do the children play when the bullets come like rain would your heart become a stone could you call for help with your phone could you appeal to the throne would you provide a micro loan to save your mind who could you call if your heart was divided by a wall how far would you fall if you were locked up in a wire stall would you try to forge a key would you come complain to me ask the president to set you free sign petitions and decrees rhapsodize about the sea dream of another way to be go out and plant a tree to take root in something we can’t see to raise its flowers and its leaves up to the sky where would you go if soldiers burned down your home where would you go if they tore off your clothes would you flip a coin to choose your fate blame it on something that you ate drink chardonnay and watch tv till late close your eyes and say love trumps hate fundraise with 1000-dollar plates increase your lending rates go to California riding freights reel in your hook and change your bait refine your ideology and lose some weight or hold your breath and just wait cross your fingers and just wait call your accountant and just wait just cast your vote again and wait watch the oceans rise and wait wait and wait and wait and wait for the water to carry you away
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Rapunzel 03:04
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Rapunzel, let down your hair I’m waiting for you out in my underwear you sleep in your bed of gold but out here it’s getting cold I’ve got no money but what I owe but I’ll give you the sweetest tootsie roll… Rapunzel, you’d better wash your hair I don’t want to climb your dreadlocks, I’d rather take the stairs just throw on down the key Rumplestiltskin’s here with me he’s got a goat horn in his beard we want to try something that might seem a little weird… Rapunzel, I love your hair but the king’s men are coming for me, I can’t run anywhere Rapunzel, don’t cut your hair Rapunzel, don’t cut your hair Rapunzel, I love your hair
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Speak Me a Landscape 03:32
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Shape me a landscape from my darkened heart speak me a language with my silent tongue Throw me a river to hold on to Point to the ocean and I’ll go, go, go I’ll build you a language from my darkened heart I’ll speak you a landscape with my silent tongue You are a river, you enfold my bones Flow to the ocean and I’ll go, go, go Call me to you and I’ll go, go, go
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Oudomxay 03:28
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Sometimes you can’t go back home the world changes with every door your heart passes through Sometimes you can’t say what you know you try to speak, your teeth fall to the floor meanings break apart Someday you might lose your paper throne the ink and words that build your walls might burn and blur Someday you might remember me someday you might reach to me I’ll give you all my mind, all my bones, all my hair all my gasoline I’ll give you all my window dreams you can look through them to me Someday they’re going to draw lines across your skin to tell you where your body ends and theirs begins they’ll try to mine you, mine you, mine you peel back your skin and dig excavate your streams and stones twist your lips into a grin You have your better days when you fly but when the rain comes you’re going to flow flow all the way to heaven or the deep blue sea someday you might flow to me, flow to me flow on back to me
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All the Water Runs Away 04:20
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I left my home I left it behind like a pile of hollow bones but out in the world the earth was flat and hard as stone I thought I could roll away, but instead I sank down all alone All the water runs away from here all the water runs away from here no rain comes to wash the salt and years all the water runs away My father drifted out to sea waves and currents converged in me crustaceans filled his lungs till I could no longer breathe bubbles rose from my skin, my lips and tongue turned blue and green All the water runs away from here all the water runs away from here and there’s no rain to wash the salt and years all the water runs away I built myself a home I raised the walls with shards of broken stone but my heart still feels like a hollow bone wild birds fly through the sky, but down here on earth I’m still all alone All the water runs away from here all the water runs away from here no rain falls to wash the salt and years all the water runs away
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Blue 02:36
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Blue hills, blue sky, blue sea, blue you and me Mountain rain falls, streams flow, dreams, ocean waves Lips, toes, fingers, tongues, hearts intertwined Give me moments, I’ll give you years White clouds tumble silent far out at sea Give me moments, I’ll give you years Blue hills, blue sky, blue sea, blue you and me

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released March 2, 2020

Songs recorded at Dragonfly Studio in Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2019, except for Speak Me a Landscape, recorded in the garage.
Mixed and mastered by Scott Ezell.
Photo by Dom Lefebvre.

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Scott Ezell

Scott Ezell is a Pacific Rim writer and multi-genre artist with a background in Asia, border zones, and indigenous peoples. His music spans folk, ambient, and experimental styles.

www.scottezell.com

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