Hawk Medicine lyrics

baby true

show me an hour when I won't be doomed
I'll show you my hand than we can cut loose
I wash off the blood and put on my shoes
you put on your makeup you are looking damn good

I shake off those weeks I got something to do
what it is aint exactly clear path will show itself soon

baby true
your mind it got lost and your heart it turned blue
baby true
your dress looks so soft under the light of the moon
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sister

sister will you come
wake me from this sleep
my hands are tired and broken
my feet don't want no speak

put water to my lips
put breathe into my breathe

all hung up on this thought
all thought up with such ease
no bomb is going to take me
take me from the trees
the cancer it did bring her
to her knees

hey kid
a wind
is going to come
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hawks


hawks all circle my head
I am happy to see
the circles they make
when they are swimming
they are surely the free

plants are teaching me old ways
with their wisdom I do be
across fields that I walked
as a thirsty young thought
I was on my way

the hawks say

YOU LOVE
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someday

first I like to clear my head
next I like to take a walk
to a beautiful place
every hour every face

someday I will be
exactly what I want to be
till then I will sing
walk right up and kiss your cheek

first I like to clear my head
next I like to breathe
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story

story you've grown up to become a man
inside your spirit comes out through your hands
I see it in the way you walk down the streets
sirens follow at the path of your feet

Its been three days since you've spoken to me
been many more since you had something to eat
your silence is calming the weight off this hill
for answers come quiet to the fasting and still

here we go its started again
the ground opens up the hoop it begins
we lost our way from the language of kin
the wind it comes strong it teaches again

open me up put your hate in my face
I'll swallow it whole put love in its place
the old road is tired that much for sure
I've tasted a new one and its feeling was pure

story you come back from losing again
I trust you more knowing the places you've been
come take your place with the healers and bards
they're lighting the way as you walk from the dark
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the sky of the tall sun

bow down to the dollars in your pockets
they laugh toward the emptiness of things we are after
the kids all in black with disgust on their faces
throw fist in the air on their way through the mazes
its high school america the idea hysterical
we're lost on our way to consuming a miracle
the cheers are as loud as the number of costumes
poets they are lost to the words that they gather


throw this to the night its aching in my eyes
its coming to a head so choose your side
surrender to the heart surrender to the sky
take it to the streets and take it to their eyes

all night I been talking to the cancer
that seeps through the government straight to the houses
we slipped into ignorance cut off our conscience
to blood it is spilled in the name of a dollar
if this is america and thats what we're after
than lie on the telephone and wait for disaster
straight to the shopping mall pull out your wallet
what sane is what found in the prayers to commerce
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sewest

sew I'm in love with you I don't know why I dont know when it to
it sang like sonnets do and now I pick up all I thought what through
you came right up to me you said hello you said I'll be your tree
cause thats the way I do and do I way and how about some for free

cough on to let me know the place thats gold the place that I should go
if the bread wait here we'll break the share we'll shake the light till moon
its all the lve that lets me sleep its all the thorns that make me weep
sew we dance like we get born into the night unto the mourn

hey stranger how what we from where you come from where you run off to
this aint no stiff board game you roll the dice you amble on your way
their aint no first no second place their aint no genius come a save
we all got what we all got say we all be living the same way

we all got life
we got cable tv
we got shopping spree
we got love
we got more

cash out and laugh with me we'll dance all night we make a light so sweet
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forsaken


girl you forsaken me
everyday I give my life to thee
world just let me know
which way my wind should blow

run child let me go
I don't want to go
world don't let me be
just another long and lost history

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manic

this turning of locks
this losing of days
it hurts when we talk
it burns when we pray

so who gives a fuck
what's it mean to care at all
which ghost is in charge
which fence are we climbing

the land is taking sides
although you won't hear cries
just listen real good

the story goes:
a wounded bird
picks up his head
learns to fly again
the desert calls to me
sunsets and peace
so much , so much
but a few choices left
we fail another test
ground opens up
we return to sand
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ATP

nice photos from ATP thought I would share.

some shows coming up soon more on that later.

Good morning lovelies

drinking coffee while my dad vacuums the yard in a giant straw hat
here at the magical moment when the haze burns through leaving the sun-drenched desert laughing
just a morning time living room world
I am hoping for the smell of sage







currently listening to:

the washing machine, the weed wacker, the wind

ATP - waterslide's and wolves

did see a small red fox pointed straight tail at 5 am on sunday morn got up after 3rd night straight of 2-4 sleep was stirring in the kitchen nervous making instant coffee staring out the window leaving for home in an hour so many birds here squawking crows little dudes all going crazy then I see the cause the little red brother trickster perhaps crows dive on him every bird wants him gone.
rode the waterslide wavepool at Butlin's resort ATP liquor store slot machine vacation land and ate salad for breakfast

Was a wonderful friend filled festival

sold merch crammed between Wu Tang and Animal Collective.

what are airlines going to do? read an interesting article about putting sulphur in jet fuel as a global warming solution, a sun shield.

I am happy for the moment sitting in my plant filled living room home with a sleeping cat and some bare toes.
be heading back south, going to make some recordings , upcoming St Ives 12" record.

asleep

I have been gone for awhile
away from myself
I could not describe what it looks like here
lots of repetition
lots of sharp cornered walls
fours
textured drywalls
popcorn ceilings
waiting rooms
tubes machines freeways

been reading an interesting historical book called, 1491 ( more perhaps on that later )

I had to cancel a few performances, I am sorry , my mother has been very ill.

I've Been thinking about science, medicine
and where it meets soil
soul spirit
hospitals
they toss me and drain my life force
to me it seems we are at a great odds with ourselves and our society, we have embraced science and all its advances and accepted its poisons in full
I come out freezing and dulled
the sun always feels the first time

lots of confusion.

I had a great time on tour. thanks and love to Alex, Kelly, Rob, Victoria, and Jason



Happy birthday Willie ! ! !

been listening to:

Johnny Cash - live at san quentin

Omaha/priceline WTF?. . . WTF vs. FTW

Omaha, Big sky, Great Plains, The Ogallala Aquifer everywhere underfoot.
I had some success today speaking with a plant in the hotel pool area, It spoke unexpectedly into my quiet soaking mind, saying it did not like all of the chlorine fumes, and was doing it's best to clean the air in there.



" The forest person will scrutinize you closely. Maybe she will sniff you. Maybe not. But she will size you up, that's for sure. Sacha Huarmi wants to see if you are complete, if you have the fiber to see the training through to the end. "

-Dale Pendell


" The deepest evil in the totalitarian system is precisely that which makes it work: its programmed , single-minded monotonous efficiency; bureaucratic formalism , the dueling daily service, standard , boring, letter-perfect, generalities, uniform. No thought and no responsiveness. Eichmann. Form without anima becomes formalism . . . forms without luster , without the presence of body. "

- James Hillman


" It is perhaps why many who possess a top-down morality never want to look into the world and truly see what is there. For the reflections they receive would, indeed, be terrible to bear.
But the morality that comes from engaging with the world is not a top-down morality. It is something else again, a living thing that comes from the world itself.
You are shaped by this interaction with the world in the way you are meant to be shaped. In your nonlinear, unprogrammed walking through the world, you find things you need to find. The clients who come to you, the plants you meet, the particular wildness of the world that you eat, or that motivate you to eat any particular shadow from your bag, all shape you in particular ways. A certain kind of morality begins to emerge. you begin to take on the luminous quality present in healthy ecosystems, in old-growth forest, in mountains. "

-Stephen Harrod Buhner


" The proper way is to acquire a learning directly from nature that requires no formal studies. "

- Masanobu Fukuoka




Currently listening to:

Tiny Vipers - Hands across the void
Daniel Higgs - Atomic Yggdrassil Tarot

Land of the Moss people

" The Earth is an organically interwoven community of plants, animals, and microorganisms. . . Although this flux of matter and the cycles of the biosphere can be perceived only through intuition, our unswerving faith in the omnipotence of science has led us to study and analyze this phenomena, raining down destruction upon the world of the living things and throwing nature as we see it into disarray. "

- Masanobu Fukuoka



Driving through the northwest for the last five days. I am happy for the moss growing on everything, rooftops perhaps being my favorite. The moisture draws it from every crack and crevice in a great glowing Mass. We hit black ice in Oregon last night which took our legs for 10-20 seconds. Scary as fuck ! I was quietly calmed by the near full moon reflecting off of the snow creating an ominous contrast, exposing every blissful detail. Outlined giants. The wilderness kingdom truly showed its majesty last night under the great sister moon.

I found out yesterday that a friend had taken her own life over the weekend. It stings a deep chasm within my heart. I have surely walked this thin crevice myself many times teetering into the void of black. Wanting the silence.
I wish you well, your smile touched me with its blissful magic whenever I was near it.