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Two Tongues

from Faces in the Rocks by Mariee Sioux

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    This is a long awaited vinyl repressing of Mariee Sioux's 2007 debut studio album 'Faces in the Rocks'. It is a double album pressed on a new 'bone' color 180 gram vinyl, with a couple other new imagery additions.

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    FYI --These will not ship out till around JULY as they are being manufactured now and the plants are very backed up! We will give people a heads up when their pre-orders are being packed for shipping though :)

    This is all an independent labor of LOVE!
    Thank you all for your patience on this project! Deep gratitude to Tyler at Whale Watch Records for helping pull this together - he has a wonderful new album out under Assorted Orchids @assortedorchids that everyone should also check out!

    Thank you to Maria Pugnetti who painted this album art

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lyrics

Can you tell us the place where
the elders chew the sky soft?
And the place where love is like
a perfectly quelled arrow
flown from bows of pure willow
And under (and under)
The thundering roll of ghost buffalo
(the thundering roll of ghost buffalo)
Can't you hear
the world's heart breaking?

For it's a test of courage
to kiss the snake tongued people
The fork tongue'ed people
Yes, it's a test of courage
to kiss the snake tongued people
the fork tongue'ed people
cause' it's like two tongues at one time
like two tongues at one time
it's like two tongues at one time
like two tongues at one time
it's like two tongues at one time
like bitter spirits and sweet wine
like two tongues at one time
at one time

so pour all of your souls like magma into the caverns
pour all of your souls like magma into the caverns
and pour em' all for the haunting
the haunting, the haunting
and pour em' all for the haunting
the haunting, the haunting
and pour em' all for the haunting
and cool down for the haunting
and harden for the haunting

Now granite soul you're a haunter
a haunter hunting children of the wild plains
and now granite soul you're a haunter
a haunter hunting children of the wild plains
and if my greatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgrandma
could find them
she would put all of their poisoned
all of their poisoned, poised teeth in her medicine bag
in her medicine bag
She'd make a graph of our death-beat
pulse, murmur, quiet,
pulse, murmur, quiet
like hiding pheasants in the tall grass

Now there's faces in the rocks
and they're coming on strong
Faces in the rocks with medicine tongues
Faces in the rocks feels like a million to one
Woman and man in the moon
with a cradle born son
Braided round close til' all warmth is gone
goOoOoOoOoone

So here take these blankets
Here take these blankets
Here take these blankets
They're woven from the hair of the dead
The hair from your sisters
hair from your brothers
hair from your lovers
hair from the beavers
hair from the otters

The hair from your lovers
hair from your fathers
hair from your lovers
hair from the beavers
hair from the otters

And we, we saw through you
like a candle through a buffalo's eye
We, we stood by you
like a mama bear
shot with her cub's at her side
And we, we saw through you
like a candle through a buffalo's eye.

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from Faces in the Rocks, released January 1, 2007

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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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