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Monastery
04:04
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Forgone, begun
Before all of my days are done
Hold fire, plead choir
Before all of the haze was sunned
I didn’t mean to be so monastery
I’ve been keening like a missionary
When every wild grown cherry
Could wind its way to true
I’ll write them, too
I’ll carry it through
Hard line, Inclined
Below the balconies left to climb
Charred pine, enshrine
All of the memories left are mine
(all mine, all mine, all mine)
I didn’t mean to be so ordinary
I’ve been weaning off the cometary
When every February
could find its faith withdrew
I write for you
I’ll carry it through
I didn’t mean to be so mercenary
I’ve been bleeding for a sanctuary
When every tributary
just bends me back to you
I’ll write it new
I’ll carry it through
I’ll carry it through
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San Fidel
04:40
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San Fidel
We couldn’t predict the weather
San Fidel
We couldn’t keep it together
San Fidel (Fidel Fidel Fidel Fidel)
San Fidel
When the tourists go home
we’ll plaster the bone
make do with what’s been forgotten
When the winter comes
we’ll be speaking in tongues
God only knows what we’re in for
Look down fresh-laid two lane
Tell me nothing will change
San Fidel
San Fidel
We never came out the wiser
San Fidel
The desert makes us all liars
San Fidel (Fidel Fidel Fidel Fidel)
San Fidel
When the map moves on
we’ll craft a new con
You can be the mark that I fall for
When the stars won’t come out
we’ll drown all the doubt
swimming in the acequia
Look down fresh-laid two lane
Tell me nothing will change
Call me by my real name
Tell me nothing will change
Stand up straight under the shame
Tell me nothing will change
Promise me
Promise me nothing
San Fidel
San Fidel
San Fidel
San Fidel
San Fidel
We never came out the wiser
San Fidel
The desert makes us all liars
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MBC
02:36
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You knew I’d be
Lonely, after it
Man, band, commune
You promised, you did
You laid my arm
Closed your eyes
Left it all behind
Left me all behind
Dark, deck, cotton-
Wood smoking alone
Melan-happy organ
A bottle, a drone
Behind the eyes
All the time
I gotta mind what’s mine
Mind what’s mine
I gotta mind what’s mine
Mind what’s mine
Man, band, commune
You promised, you did
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Wanted
03:29
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Letting go of that feeling
Collarbone hooked and dragged in
He said "Can I take something?”
I lied and said, “No, nothing”
But I know what I wanted was you
Yeah, I know what I wanted was you
Starting to buy colors again
Wearing cherries, drinking late gin
Don’t wait, just say I’m off track
I lied and pulled my hand back
There better be better days
There better be better days
'Cause I know what I wanted was you
Yeah, I know what I wanted was you
And I know what I wanted was you
Yeah, I know what I wanted was you
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Born
03:54
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I was born in this room
I don’t want to leave
I was born in this room
It’s getting hard to breathe
I was born in this room
I don’t want to leave
I was born in this room
It’s getting hard
It’s getting hard
Are you a thing who listens
Are you a thing who sees
Are you a thing who chooses
A body a body
Are you a thing who listens
Are you a thing who sees
Are you a thing who chooses
A body a body
I was born in this room
I don’t want to leave
I was born in this room
It’s getting hard to breathe
I was born in this room
I don’t want to leave
I was born in this room
It’s getting hard
It’s getting hard
Are you a thing who listens
Are you a thing who sees
Are you a thing who chooses
A body a body
Are you a thing who listens
Are you a thing who sees
Are you thing who chooses
A body a body
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Quiet Takes
Songwriter Sarah Magill makes music for feelers as Quiet Takes. A writer and wanderer, Magill has a nomadic creative practice and released her first full-length solo album (recorded in Eau Claire, WI, with producer Zach Hanson) February 2024.
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