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lyrics

Goodbye, god; I'm going to Bodie
to lie down in sage and hard, dry snow
It's bright, god, in Bodie:
those wide streets do not bask in your shadowv
Goodbye, god; I'll marry a miner
and lie down and bear him a miner's son
A child, god, of silver hills
high on thin air and pale bottled poppy

Black mouth, ready mountain
carry me home by the bad road
Half-grown, bitter water in the ground
carry me home, carry on

Goodbye, god; the parish has been emptied
and I cannot find its flock
They've all gone away, god
or they've gone beneath the rock

Goodbye, god; the wind has grown peckish here
It bites hard, chews your lips
and it chaps your ragged ears
I'll walk on, god, to the valley where your bones are bared
where the tall salt towers, and the water repairs

Black mouth, ready mountain
carry me home by the bad road
Half-grown, bitter water in the ground
carry me home, carry on

Don't bury me where the parish has been emptied
and I cannot find its flock
They've all gone away, god
or they've gone beneath the rock

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from A Mouth May Grow, released May 11, 2018

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red steppes is a project by Californian songwriter and visual artist Nika Aila States.

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