1. |
Black Snakes
05:51
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Our skin tied over the drum
An elder’s eyes into the woods did run
Children tied into the drum
A newborn’s tears with the river did run
Eagle cries over the drum
An ancient seed smiles into the light of the sun
While Medusa’s head of black snakes
Tears through the loss and what remains
Praying while dogs snap between labor pains
Empty words spoken again and again
The Sacred Hoop broken that we’re trying to mend
So we’ll split the light in two we’ll split the light in two
So we’ll split the light in two we’ll split the light in two
We’ll split the light in two we’ll spit the light in you
ya-na-we-na-he-ya-wa-na-he-ne
ya-na-we-na-he-ya-wa-na-he-ne-o-a
Our men within the drum
Spirit ladder starlight the rungs
Women feeding the drum
Planting kernels of corn awakening has begun
Wolf crying over the drum
Ancient seeds smile into the light of the sun
While Medusa’s head of black snakes
Tears through the loss and what remains
Praying while dogs snap between labor pains
Empty words spoken again and again
The Sacred Hoop broken that we’re trying to mend
So we’ll split the light in two we’ll split the light in two
So we’ll split the light in two we’ll split the light in two
We’ll split the light in two we’ll spit the light in you.
ya-na-we-na-he-ya-wa-na-he-ne
ya-na-we-na-he-ya-wa-na-he-ne-o-a
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2. |
Baby Wave
03:14
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Tried to carry a baby wave
To her cradle but she slipped away
Even boat arms could not save her
From a red coral grave
Silence silence an alien silence
Crept over the wildlife
When you took yours
Balance balance earthy balance
Fled from our lives
When you took yours
Violence violence ungodly violence
Tore through my mind
When you lost yours
Held on to all my eels
But I lost my feelings
To the fated scarabs wings
Where iridescent honor rings
Silence silence an alien silence
Crept over the wildlife
When you took yours
Balance balance earthly balance
Fled from our lives
When you took yours
Violence violence ungodly violence
Tore through my mind
When you lost yours
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3. |
Goose Song
02:27
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Where has my goose gone?
Down as soft as light of dawn
Where did my goose go?
Was he lost to blinding snow?
Where has my goose flown?
Finest gander I have known
In this mess again
I guess it’s supposed to be
A lesson in get lonely
And lay by your own side
Could you see me call tonight
I was pulsing and alive
Like beckoning starlight
I thought geese mate for life
But where has my goose gone?
Where did my goose go?
Where has my goose flown?
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4. |
Never Known
02:04
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Never known this kind of love
Like my heart found her den of cubs
Never known this kind of fear
The pheasant feels the hunter near
Never felt so awake
Painfully clear what is a stake
Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Ya
Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Ya
Phoenix in the temple of flames
Forgotten from where we came
Feathered ash where once were names
Become from where we became
So remember your honor to cry
Spirits can’t drink from dry eyes
Remember your honor to grieve
The well’s dryer than you’d believe
Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Ya
Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Ya
Hey Hey Hey Hey Hey Ya
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5. |
Grief in Exile
03:57
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On a hallowed wind
The song of a missing twin
I could have sworn that he’d be dead (laid to rest)
In a sweet grass and cedar bed (dressed in his best)
A child of God an ancient seed smile (all the while)
A Grief in exile
A Grief in exile
Grief in exile
Hold on tight and like a child
You won’t miss a beat you’ll just skip stones
A lioness and a coward
My power prowess and prayer
My truth feeding in the lair
Bloody paws mane of flowers
Our powers out magic theirs
Our truth feeding in the lair
So gather the necessities
For a ceremony, Oh life!
Only take what you need
And learn to give thanks for your time
Abalone shells sage and cedar
Tend to the coals that feed
Imaginations of ether
Beat with the arteries
That burn with a humble fever
Tend to the ones in need
Of an honorable griever
Bend with the corn and weed out
The creeping deceiver
All the while
Grief in exile
Hold on tight and like a child
You won’t miss a beat you’ll just skip stones
A lioness and a coward
My power prowess and prayer
My truth feeding in the lair
Bloody paws mane of flowers
Our powers out magic theirs
Our truth feeding in the lair
So gather the necessities
For a ceremony, Oh life!
Only take what you need
And learn to give thanks for your time
Abalone shells sage and cedar
Tend to the coals that feed
Imaginations of ether
Beat with the arteries
That burn with a humble fever
Tend to the ones in need
Of an honorable griever
Bend with the corn and weed out
The creeping deceiver
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6. |
Behind the Veil
02:22
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How to forgive
Being pushed from the edge of the cliff?
How to forget
When giving was all I had left?
All time is deaf
Loss we’ve all heard to expect
Blanketed in fig leaf and death
Oh, the fleeting caress
The end merely a guess
Don’t know how to love my way through the fall
Don’t know how to rise with the weight of the gall
Don’t want to spit out your own tail
The vine flowers around endless scales
And children were peaking from behind the veil
How to forgive
Being pushed from the edge of the cliff?
How to forget
When giving was all I had left?
All time is deaf
Loss we’ve all heard to expect
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7. |
Snow Knows White
05:30
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And when the spell breaks
It might break your fall
But when the fall stands
The heart’s still at fault
Fumble through the day
Can’t seep I just lie
Starving bleary eyed
Electric eels my spine
The sweetest birds
Just drop in mid flight
And I have known you
Like snow knows white
I have known you
Like the bull knows the fight
Like snow knows white
And all of the webs
We swallowed with pride
All of my spiders inside
Oh I will spin the sun and return with Saturn
And I have known you
Like fire knows the burn
And I will burn true
‘Till seasons lose their turn
'Till seasons lose their turn
I will burn through and through
So won’t you come along
Bring the countless wrongs
Promise won’t stay long
But stars caught in the web shine
Constellation of this life
I took myself as my own wife
Could no longer leave her behind
All my branches they're raven lined
All my smartest birds gone blind
Oh but the wing of love’s feathers light
Up my unborn song inside
All my planets they sing inside
With my unborn's song inside
da da da da da da da da da da da
da da da da da da da da da da da
da da dum
And when the spell breaks
It might break your fall
But when the fall stands
The heart’s still at fault
Fumble through the day
Can’t seep I just lie
Starving bleary eyed
Electric eels my spine
And the sweetest birds
Just drop in mid flight
And I have known you
Like snow knows white
I have known you
Like the bull knows the fight
Like snow knows white
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I’ve bathed in the yarrow and the rose
Remember it’s not just babies that grow
Though they might hold the miricale first breath
Air’s not the only beginning you’ll know
Trickster we slip into the old ways
And with your crooked ears we play
Coyote with the Flowering Heart
Can’t even tell my own selves apart
And the catalyst shows
As a belly with your own
Honest as an oak
As sudden as flash flooding
Obsessive as smoke
Remote as the Dead Sea
So embarassing
I’ll still be your coat
In colder than below zero
I’ll try and act normal
Waiting for her
Running off would be the cruelest herb
Forgot I knew just how to be heard
Coyote with the Flowering Heart
Bouquet your veins till death do you part
Happiness an Invisible horse
Someone please feed that strong beast before
All we have left are motherless foals
In soft bales of hay
Miracles unfold
And the catalyst shows
As a belly with your own
Honest as an oak
As sudden as flash flooding
Obsessive as smoke
Remote as the Dead Sea
So embarrassing
I’ll still be your coat
In colder than below zero
I’ll try and act normal
Waiting for her
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9. |
Love Like Water
02:53
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This love
Like water of life
Fell for the summer
Home in each other
We’ll finally be safe for winter
We nursed an infant stream
Headwaters crystalline
I knew you survived this time
Sucked stones dry for the divine
Might have rose a thousand lives
To meet this ocean wide
With this love
Like water
That might frost over anger
Like this childless night
Be born to remember
We nursed an infant stream
Headwaters crystalline
I knew you survived this time
Sucked stones dry for the divine
Might have rose a thousand lives
To meet this ocean wide
And in the vision
Black snakes
Headless and hollow
Hang from the soul’s gate
Twins shriek in unison
The language of the land does follow
And bison like mountains
Blooming with Foxglove
Circle around the calves of love
Hallowed dove
I found you
Not a moment too soon
This love
Like water of life
Fell for the summer
Home in each other
We’ll finally be safe for winter
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10. |
My Birds
05:36
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Empty
Where she once filled a void in my home
But It’s ok I’ll live while alone circles the womb
Afraid of the "we"
But I’m still standing while the rock in my hand turns to dust
I’m still breathing while the air in my lungs falls like sand
And I’m still needing the generous love of my man
And I’m still weaving this life with iridescent strands
And we’re all fucking nuts but the future still depends on us
Mourning birds they bring in the dawn, the dawn’s unfolding wings
My birds they bring in the dawn, the dawn's unfolding wings
My birds they sing for the dawn, the dawn's unfolding wings
But I’m still standing while the rock in my hand turns to dust
I’m still breathing while the air in my lungs falls like sand
And I’m still needing the generous love of my man
And I’m still weaving this life with iridescent strands
And we’re all fucking nuts but the future still depends on us
Mourning birds they bring in the dawn, the dawn’s unfolding wings
My birds they bring in the dawn, the dawn's unfolding wings
My birds they sing for the dawn, the dawn's unfolding wings
Alive, Alone, still got my bones
Alive, Alone, can still cast shadows
Alive, Alone, won’t my love come home?
Alive, Alone, still got my songs
Alive, Alone, I can still turn stones
Alive, Alone, a void in my home
Alive, Alone, avoiding my home
While my birds they bring in the dawn
My birds they bring in the dawn
My birds they sing for the dawn
my birds they sing for the dawn
The dawn’s unfolding wings
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Mariee Siou Sierra City, California
Mariee Siou (formerly Sioux) was raised in Northern California in the Sierra Foothills. She's been writing and sharing songs, in the nature of the healing arts, for over 15 years. Her riveting poetry mixed with her ethereal music has often been described as medicinal and visionary. ... more
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