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lyrics

Tinderbox
forgive me
I have no peace
'till I hear your breath
and your sweet
voice
The dog with eyes as big as coins
gave me a box with a little
broken key
and he said you'd be home
waiting for me

forgive me
I cannot sleep
'till I hold you in my mind
Then my bones dream
and I hear myself moan
I have seen you
lying naked as a stone
And the dog with the eyes as big as saucers
carried you here and I gazed in wonder
and I dropped my lamp
and I pricked my finger
Am I condemned
for the sight of your breast
for the love of a friend?

Are these the sweet, sullen fleurs de mal
I plucked without remorse and now
I'm lost at home
and I can't live here
I've broken the commandment
and murdered my fear
and I've sworn in vain
and erased my name
and bruised my feet in the river Lethe
and now my own shadow is looking for me

I opened the box
it was filled with sighs
and the gaze
and your face
and your eyes,
and the breath and the blood
and the bone
and the skin and the hair
and I opened it
Out came the dog with eyes like dinner plates
He told me to come here
He said you were awake.

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from Little Misery Birds, released January 1, 1996

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Kathleen Yearwood Ordeal

Guitarist and singer for over 30 years. Plays folk- concrete music. Structured inprovisations, random acts of bad dance and odd-ience participaction. Smashed glass and naked men. From Slovenia to iceland.

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