1. |
Brittle Earth
03:01
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Tell me, should I want to live again
Grow and feed and carry weight again
You’re getting awful short on memory
Building a brittle life outside my canopy
Your heady way of knowing
Lacks a deeper sense of empathy
I could save you from the straight path
Going nowhere fast
Praying to dead gods at the last
And there is an answer
There is an answer
There is an answer
Somewhere down in the bitter earth
Somewhere down in the ragged earth
Somewhere down in the brittle earth
Somewhere down here
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2. |
Pretzel Bell
03:53
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Morning neared
The season appeared
When the young ones
Would soon be running around
Kinship found
Changing towns
Church bells
And no more running around
Days to nights
Turning into, into a life
Just two trees
Growing roots at the bar
Lunch hour neared
The Pretzel Bell peeled
Your dream of a boat
Or a pool, both afloat
In the prospects of a post-war boom
Pretty soon
Running and running
And running and running around
Printing books, making sales
Back at four for a few cocktails
Your feet planted firmly, deep in the
Days to nights
Turning into, into a life
Just two trees
Growing roots at the bar
On your way to the
Gate to the stars
Gloaming neared
Two volunteers
A knock at the gate
Memories left to fate
Aluminum hats
To detect screen doors
Photographs circled red
For folks lost in the war
A great-grandchild on your lap
You’re chairbound
And no more running
And running and running around
Days to nights
Turning into, into a life
Just two trees
Growing roots at the bar
On your way to the
Gate to the stars
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3. |
Salt
03:50
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Even oceans can recall
The smell of summer grass
Even arctic colds have known
This heat from sand to glass
Sunshine glows on rows of stone
Where spring has found its fall
Harbingers of life on seas
We all have never known
When firmament and sullen waters
Wash the womb away
Stars will we become anew and
Shed the light of day
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4. |
Wednesday
03:33
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Wednesday
We were both born on a Wednesday
We were both born, now we’re here
My dear
Wednesday
Earth doesn’t know about Wednesday
But she surely knows that we’re here
My dear
We are seeds without bees
Who believe post-beliefs
In the noose of the now
We are greed without heed
Who will bleed to write our deeds
On the tomb of the now
While the rich speak for us anyhow
Earth Day
Planet doesn’t know about Earth Day
Can’t be everyday while we’re here
We made it clear
Some say
We’re being true to form, yeah, some say
Tomorrow isn’t born while we’re here
And we’re here
’Cause we threw out the brakes
On the train, just in case
Their weight was too great
And someone might use them
We are seeds without bees
Who believe post-beliefs
In the noose of the now
We are greed without heed
Who will bleed to write our deeds
On the tomb of the now
While the rich speak for us anyhow
Someday
We can’t really wait until Someday
We can’t really wait while we’re here
My dear
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5. |
Loki
04:52
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One soul told another
I’m sorry to bother
You wouldn’t happen to have a light?
It’s funny that you’d ask, my friend
Why is it we both pretend
We like fumbling through the night?
So Loki grabbed his match
And the fire started to catch
Oh, the light began to divide
Every single one a little soul inside
One soul told another
I’m sorry to bother
But what now of those little souls we find?
They’re just like you and me
And it’s not hard to see
That without love they’d all go blind
So Loki grabbed his match
And the fire started to catch
Oh, the love began to spread wide
Every single one a little heart inside
Will they forget the sun
And go spending all their spark in a season?
Will they forget the light
And get caught up in the night of creation?
One soul told another
I’m sorry to bother
But if they love, then why do they need to fight?
It’s funny that you’d ask, my friend
Why is it they bother trying to pretend
That being kind is worse than being right?
So Loki grabbed his match
And the fire started to catch
Oh, the hearts where the love resides
Every single one a little healing inside
Will they forget the sun
And go spending all their spark in a season?
Will they forget the light
And get caught up in the night of creation?
One soul told another
I’m sorry to bother
You wouldn’t happen to have a light?
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6. |
Atoms of the Apartment
03:16
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The atoms of the apartment
Are from 1952
And 10 billion years before then
In some star we never knew
The atoms of the apartment
Linking arms and looking on
At one cat and two humans
Parachuting in, then they're gone
And the writing and the wall
And the author all recall
We all, all are one
We’re just having different kinds of fun
The atoms of the apartment
Giving us a wink on the sly
Like we’ll see each other
In another sun by and by
The atoms of the apartment
The heavens in the hall
Two sides of a teeter-totter
The listener and the call
And the writing and the wall
And the author all recall
The bond and the band unseen
The strings vibrating in between, we all say
We all, all are one
We’re just having different kinds of fun
Different kinds of fun
Dear atoms of the apartment
Would you like to take our place?
You could start a string band
Play some songs we'd appreciate
And the writing and the wall
And the author all recall
The bond and the band unseen
The strings vibrating in between, we all say
We all, all are one
We’re just having different kinds of fun
Different kinds of fun
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7. |
Renter's Ramble
03:31
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By the time the cranes unfold
The tale’s been sold
On cardboard panels
Be sure to stand on by
And nod at the guys
While the dozers gambol
Feel the horizon change
A private game
No renter’s ramble
Collect your helpless thoughts
’Cause you’ve been caught
In the big buck scramble
Brick by brick
Trick by trick
Brick by brick
It gets done
Another house for Faust
And then another one
Wontcha go ahead and doze
The little we own
Our little flirtation
Just go ahead and build
Stuffed to the gills
With your legislation
What’s a tent anyways
When you get paid
Seven hundred salvations?
To find a spot nowhere
And ease our cares
Emancipation
Brick by brick
Trick by trick
Brick by brick
It gets done
Another house for Faust
And then another one
Who’ll be good enough to share
The same hot air
We heard at twenty?
Who’ll chalk it up to fate
And lie in wait
With the buildings empty?
Who’s got a petty want
A heartless taunt
Or a tone-deaf ditty?
A vision
Where home is bought
Like a fish you caught
In a far-flung, far-off
Next door, next day
Land of plenty
Backroom deals
Mayoral appeals
Peel the veneer
And it gets done
Another house for Faust
And then another one
Brick by brick
Trick by trick
Brick by brick
It gets done
Another house for Faust
And then another one
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8. |
Ladder Song
03:50
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Who’s a climber?
Who’s a rung?
Up is up
Down is down
Or so the song gets sung
Who’s a smoker?
Who’s a lung?
In is in
Out is out
So wags the tired tongue
Who’s a builder?
Who is hung?
An oath’s an oath
The oath is growth
And growth becomes us
The future’s burning fast
The bottom line in our nature’s eyes
We just imagined in the past
Imagine what we’ll be
Without that snake and staff
Between you and me
You and me
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9. |
Time Past Time
05:26
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Generous days
Frightening days
In equal measure
In the blessed home
Terrible days
Killer days
Without an answer
Standing alone
And the birds still sing
Yes, they do
And the kids still bring that smile to our lips
The way they do
Please don’t go on spinning
Like a spinning plate
All the pretty speeches are made
In this time past time
Laugh it off all you like
Wring your hands a thousand times
Our new house guest
Dons a crown
And levels us all
With slippers and a gown
A messenger called
No surprise
You were around
And the coffee’s still sweet
Yes, it is
And we can walk in the middle of street
Between clenched fists
Please don’t go on spinning
Like a spinning plate
The moment is dying at the gate
In this time past time
And you’re spinning it into gold
You’re spinning it into gold
You’re spinning it into nothing to hold
In this time past time
Time
It takes time, it takes time, it takes time
First letting it go
It takes time, it takes time, it takes time
Then healing your soul
It takes time, it takes time, it takes time
Then watching it grow
Beyond the bounds of the mouth
That told yourself it won’t change me
Just everybody else
In this time past time
And you’re spinning it into gold
You’re spinning it into gold
You’re spinning it into nothing to hold
In this time past time
Time, it takes time, it takes
Not days or weeks or months
But a lifetime divine
Time can make you change your mind
Time might make you reconsider
What is really on the line
Time can make you plainly see
A force that’s so much greater
Than any you and me
So stop spinning it into gold
You’re spinning it into gold
You’re spinning it into nothing to hold
In this time past time
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10. |
Carousel
03:36
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All he wants to do is
Sing his own tune
All he wants to say is
Get out of the way
All he wants to ride is
His railroad into the night
Pretending that there’s no day
Oh, what will we say
To our children?
Can we explain?
All he wants to see is
The fuel beneath his feet
All he wants to know is
The world in his own glow
All he wants to sell is
That true falsehood he tells
Peddling the same old talk on his carousel
Parents buy the tickets for the ride
Never quite knowing
If that locomotive’s going to day or to night
One thing’s for sure
They won’t be travelling on past the dusk
But what will be left?
What will be left?
What will be left but a hollowed husk?
Oh, what will we say
To our children’s face?
Can we explain?
It’s not their game to play
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11. |
Seven Billion
03:30
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What’s just another couple degrees
Creeping up on the mercury?
What’s just another couple of towns
Running from the waters rising up all around?
It’s all for a handful of men
Who pick the public pocket
And wink like we’re friends
It’s all “roll up your sleeves and scratch for dimes”
So we can break the piggy bank
At bailout time
Oh, and then again
Oh, and then again
We’re seven billion people strong
What’s just another century
Bingeing boom and bust like it’s a soap on tv?
What’s just another couple clowns
Inheriting the working world like it was a crown?
It’s all for that handful of guys
Who live to play a game of chance
With other people’s lives
It’s all “pinch your pennies, put in your time”
But there’s never no money for nothing
And never you mind why
Oh, and then again
Oh, and then again
We’re seven billion people strong
We all do well when we all do well
We all do well when we all do well
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12. |
Moon Cradle
05:15
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Some nights Moon bends low
To keep me company
Swells as she reaches near
And I am filled with such a feeling
Such a sure feeling
That she’s seen me before
That her eyes and her hands and her heart
All know the medicine I came for
She eases all my fever dreams
With the nearness of her heart
As though its steady rhythm
My dreaming body knows
Gave me my earthly start
She’s young and old and all at once
She sheds the sun’s own glow
To span that magic waking time
When moonshine grows to light
In the dawning hour
When the ghosts come
I sing for
A moon cradle, a moon cradle
Her hands, they tremble
But they hold the lines
Constantly unfolding
Carry me safe knowing
She’s bent these knees before
She lives within my body still
Her wrinkles are mine
And I belong to that time before
I was a twinkle, in a twinkle, in her eye
Some nights Moon bends low
To keep me company
Swells as she reaches near
And I am filled with such a feeling
Such a sure feeling
That she’s seen me before
That her eyes and her hands and her heart
All know the medicine I came for
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Moonfruits Ottawa, Ontario
Moonfruits—Ottawa-based partners Alex Millaire and Kaitlin Milroy—craft contemporary folk in French and English that addresses our collective humanity with heart, wit, and wonder. Their sophomore album, Salt (Oct. 2022), explores raising a child amidst deepening inequality and the climate crisis, telling stories of their families and the kinds of communities they hope to help build. ... more
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