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Rampages Eastward

by red steppes

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You weren't much
just dust swirling in your car
smoke on my mother's porch
and your flippant heart

I don't know you
I did not count your grey hairs
I cannot say you'll die before you hit sixty five
though you're likely to

Oh, I was caught in some long summer
gone black-eyed from borrowing your steam
So I lose myself sometimes
but I'm not unredeemed

I envy them:
your hands, and the space they span
the attention that they demand
and do not seem to mind

But you curse and fold just as autumn is crawling in
Still, what rampages eastward, wet and slickly red
won't make you bold

Oh, I was caught in some long summer
gone black-eyed from borrowing your steam
So I lose myself sometimes
but I'm not unredeemed

I pace low lately, in this box with its windows barred
a big cat in a circus cart, sleepless nextdoor for the gallery

But do your neighbours know
about the crowding of aborted scales
the vanished signal in the static space of interstates
and your loud, loud voice?

Oh, I was caught in some long summer
gone black-eyed from borrowing your steam
So I lose myself sometimes
but I'm not unredeemed

credits

released August 2, 2017
Recorded to tape at Tiny Telephone SF
Engineered and co-produced by James Riotto
Written and co-produced by Nika Aila States

Guitar and Vox: Nika Aila States
Clarinets: Ben Goldberg
Percussion: Andrew Maguire
Keys: Rob Shelton

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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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