Maudlin Down the Mississippi

by Gretchen and Gilkrust

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A little Folk, a little rock, lots of didgeridoo (if you listen closely). What's not to love?
*Now with more harmonica

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Well fate was a field when we were young that quivered and churned as we'd run

Digging holes and divots with the tips of our toes watching through telescopes the dandelions grow across

Verdant hills where the white moon laid wondering how the sky was made

But now a seedling cement seems to scrape like a carpet mud-caked and inchoate

The river we fished coils like a snake/it folds petrified and frozen lame

And I know what we've done cannot be undone so the white hares hide away from the vulturous sun

We see now there's nothing that lies deep but the veins in our pockets and the tissue between

And our cardboard boats they founder clean with heavy iron locks and the only keys to be seen

weigh down our already weighty dreams that sink delicately to the floor beneath

So come now darling and hold my hand cover your face in sopping wet sand

Break open your ribs and drain the wine we drank come darling there's no need to think

for I know if we really really try we can cry all afternoon
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All afternoon darling *4

When the sun rays smell of misery*2

All afternoon darling*3

we can sob under the shaky trees
or we can sob under the shady leaves

all afternoon all afternoon all afternoon

It's like this pit, this SINEWY pit, like a gulf of maudlin, a prairie of it with forlorn groundhogs and ruts tilled into the ground by gazelles too depressed to lift their F-ing hooves when they trot HAHAHAHA

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released December 8, 2015

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