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Leonine

by red steppes

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from the forthcoming album Arcs by red steppes
Out May 2019 on Native Cat Recordings

copyright Nika Aila States/And Then After 2019

www.redsteppes.com

www.nativecatrecordings.com

lyrics

Leonine, take your sunbath;
when you wake up I’ll be here,
soft of spine, counting whitecaps.
When you wade into the afternoon, I’ll stir;
The summer is waning and I’m here to witness her.

Like the oak, long and haloed,
stake your shadow to my own.
Many-limbed, we may travel
and stray a little, east to west, but never long;
the summer is waning and I’m here to see you home

and it’s coming back slowly, but I know the way –
it’s coming back slowly, but I know the way
and if it takes all my life -
if it takes all my life -
never far, nor foreign,
there’s the arc and the origin
measured in light.

Fire may brood and bloom in canyons,
blow the glass, and bend the steel
but I’ll be true to you, my rude companion;
I’ve known the shape of smoke, and I am hopeful still.
The summer is waning and I’m here to get my fill

and it’s coming back slowly, but I know the way –
it’s coming back slowly, but I know the way
and if it takes all my life -
if it takes all my life -
never far, nor foreign,
there’s the arc and the origin
measured in light.

Some days when you wake before dawn
and I am still climbing through silence, building my body up
I feel you beside me, and I know that I’m waking to what I love.
Never far, nor foreign, there’s the arc and the origin and the beyond.

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released January 29, 2019
Written by Nika Aila States
Produced by Jamie Riotto and Nika Aila States
Engineered and Mixed by Jamie Riotto

Vocals: Nika Aila States
Guitars: Mateo Lugo
Piano, click programming: Jamie Riotto
Vibes: Andrew Maguire

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red steppes Oakland, California

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

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