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Desert

by Lily Desmond

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Maria C
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Maria C a work of devastating beauty and resilience. picking a "favorite" song is a laughably difficult task, but "Goodbye" is the one you might carry with you the longest after listening.

pro tip: listen to "Glory" from her "Growing Flowers" EP for full context for "Glory Pt II". Favorite track: Goodbye.
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1.
Glory Pt II 05:58
You are Such a thing of the morning You are Such a sign of the dawn
2.
Landscape 05:44
Everything he says is a decoration A promise in the skyline A guilded grotesque Guiding your eyes away Where do you feel in control when you're not alone? Ash tray's been filling up too fast lately But where can you go? When you see him in your rearview mirror Why would you leave home? Where can you go when you're not alone? Where do you feel in control when you're not alone? It's hard to say so I'll leave it behind It hurts to say it so I'll leave him behind me I will drive away I will leave him in the landscape Just part of the landscape Just part of what was
3.
Goodbye 06:03
there's a blood spill kit on the wall of the store 99 uses in it still i'm with it in the corner and I'm really making myself ill cuz I think I did everything I could've done tried to talk it out to show you how i'm always in your corner but I can't make another sound even if you don't believe me I do I do even if I don't believe me I do I do I always will it feels like grinding rust under our feet feels like gauze wraps and electricity i was too used to not telling anyone i did not have your certainty so i'll hang out by the defibrilator and watch the door i'm always in your corner even if you don't believe me I do I do even if I don't believe me I do I do I always will it feels like the golden gate bridge and its rust red in the fog standing too tall to be swayed i wanna stay but the wind and water pull me both ways even if you don't believe me I do I do even if I don't believe me I do I do i always will even if you don't believe me I do I do even if I don't believe me I do I do you matter so much so I'll show up i always will
4.
No Rivers 05:42
Taxes taxes Painting a face with care Mugs and glasses Playing a game that is never fair On the soul Using the lightest touch Drink it whole Tilting the world too much This place is full of silt, no rivers come this way Keep holding on on until break of day Doing chores Just enough to convince When you lose it When your fingers slip How she shows After the sudden hand Fills the holes Porcelain to sand This place is full of silt, no rivers come this way Keep holding on on until break of day To you and yours I found you upstairs Crying for oars, hand on you wrist Standing there I took you into the kitchen And dressed you warm Told you of the snow And where it goes Dirt is all there is No Rivers come this way Go on Dirt is all there is, no rivers come this way Go on with your Wood And bring the waves
5.
Just one touch and all the bricks will break in place Pray for no wind as dust kicks this undeveloped land I found a flashlight in the middle of the tunnel It was on. Had it been left? Curses and blessings sweat through my dress Have I been left? I found that flashlight in the middle of the tunnel and It was on and I had been left Cause it was nothing or the sun I wanted him to go chest to chest with me and yet I was the one who kept going underground But the lord of darkness shows his kindness by pressing to your sternum what you thought you didn't need The lord of darkness shows his kindness By pressing through your chest The lord of darkness shows his kindness By pressing through your sternum saying More weight I give you strength for More weight I give you strength for More weight I give you strenght for More and more and more And more I give you strenght for More people I give you strenght for More children I give you what was Always Yours I give you Atmosphere I give you strength of thousands

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The last thing you have to do to get your burden off your back is to take an oar and go so far inland that the people living there don't recognize it for what it is. Then you must plant it in the ground and bring the ocean up.

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released January 11, 2020

Written and performed by Lily Desmond
Produced by Lily Desmond, Chris Desmond and Kris McCormick
Album Art by Helena La Rota Lopez

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