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One for a Second Son

from A Mouth May Grow by red steppes

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lyrics

Son, tell your feet
tell your feet not to hurry
Let them be; let them season like pine
and blue columbine
Let them lie

Son, tell your hands
tell your hands they're too heavy
How they carry the air
as if air were a stone or a spear
Let them spare me my only heart

Fill your breast like a beaten hull or take the metal off:
silver, bronxe, or tin, or gold, or cold
cold copper to cover what you ought not

You'll have your turn
Have no thirst but your brother's
Pass the urn and the earthenware cup
when the first's had enough
you'll have some

But have no pride
have no pride but what's offered
How you rise form the wine
as if wine were his shield or his shrine
How you shy from him
you shy from my only heart

Fill your breast like a beaten hull or take the metal off:
silver, bronxe, or tin, or gold, or cold
cold copper to cover what you ought not

You'll have my ways
and the face of my father
and the trace of my hand in your hide
where he laid his own line down on me

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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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