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Childhood snapshot - cover for Last Day of Our Acquaintance

DON’T YOU SLEEP (Ana Egge, Adam Podd, Tyrone Davis Jr.)

Don’t you sleep through the revolution
Don’t you sleep change is gonna come
Don’t you sleep, don’t you sleep now
Don’t you sleep

Meet me here for the revolution
Meet me here change is gonna come
Meet me here, Meet me here now
Meet me here

Bring your love to the revolution
Bring your love change is gonna come
Bring your love bring your pain now
Bring your fear bring your rage now
Bring your love

Don’t you sleep through the revolution
Don’t you sleep change is gonna come
Meet me here, change is gonna come
When we bring our love, change is gonna come

DOOR WON’T CLOSE (Ana Egge)

All the things that went bad, all the things that you can’t see
All the reasons for, the door you can’t close behind me
The truth has been given, some oxygen by me
I needed to speak, for the ones that I love he’d been hurting

That door won’t close no more, I left it so
Your friends can see, what’s going on
That door won’t close, I left it so
That door won’t close no more

All the things that went bad, all the things that you can’t see
‘Bout the one you adore, and the door you can’t close behind me
Why do you keep lying, to yourself and anyone
Who comes to you, and tries to tell you what he’s done

I left never to return
Hoping that the bridge I burned
Would leave a line in the sand
That his fire won’t be crossing

SHARING IN THE SPIRIT (Ana Egge)

Asking I suggest request that I
Shadow him and ride
Up to the main house
We’re sharing in the spirit tonight

Daring we come down returning from
Salting the skins
We’re done tanning hides
We’re sharing in the spirit tonight

The open hand of the inside of an animal
The open hand of the inside of an animal

Up there’s where she thinks she makes a place
Where she can write
The bats and barn owls
Are sharing in the spirit tonight

IF IT WERE UP TO ME (Lorenzo Wolff, Ana Egge)

If it were up to me
you’d measure a man in the friends he leaves behind
How they smile when he comes to mind
Man I bet they stop you in the street

If it were up to me
The ones who’ve gone would meet him at the door
Two dogs sleeping on the floor
His favorite records playing on repeat

If it were up to me
He’d have a way to see who you’ve become
When you stand and when you run
How you make his footprints match your feet

But it’s just us
Just us keeping score now
We have to do a little more now
We have to do without his help

When we leave today
we leave with something in us burning
Cause it’s gonna be our turn
in that drivers seat

If it were up to me
He’d be sitting right there in the crowd
Laughing a little bit too loud
Clapping to his own peculiar beat

MISSION BELLS MOAN (Ana Egge)

I feel the death of sorrow
I’m yours wether you want me or not
My reputation for danger
And my body breaking apart

Drunk on the bowery
Fire at my feet
My body’s a temple
Your hammer is striking
Mission bells moan, mission bells moan
mission bells moanin’, inside me

My god your naked body
The side of your breast as you turn to me
For you my eyes are holy
For you forever my love will be

I see the saints all strung out
All in a line and around the block
For love for food for shelter
For you, forever my love will be

SORRY YOU’RE SICK (Ted Hawkins adapted by Ana Egge)

WHERE BERRIES GROW (Ana Egge)

Your name a drink divine
Your name calling in the wind
Your name a stand of trees
Your name the least of these

Your name on loyal ground
Your name where berries grow

Your name in the water
Your name built the ark
A child waiting for his father
Out standing in the road

Your name a house of bread
Your name a precious stone
Your name a dark angel
all your name alone

READY FOR THE DARKNESS (Ana Egge, Lorenzo Wolff)

It’s a game we’re playing
In the night where we’re staying
Where is star where is north
in the car spoken for

We are ready for the darkness
We are ready for the darkness

Magic like that
Is dangerous and fast
Passion fruit and wine
Lips on skin intertwined

In the quiet the plants
and field life dance
All your thoughts are one
All the trees up and run

ENDING WE NEED (Ana Egge, Mick Flannery)

Crucifix for a key chain pipe wrench for a thumb
Hammer for an answer and mercy for a gun
Mix up the medicine there’s no clown for the show
In the corner the boxer will lay a body low

Something was broken being born within you
Blowin’ through the world and the buttons of our coats
Something is broken and being born without you
Children of the sand seashells in our hands

We hold these crystal waters up to the sad eyed lady
Up to the palace of mirrors up to the ending we need

You’re winning the argument losing the fight
You know that darkness is drawn to the light
Suffer the struggle and welcome the night
you know the hallelujah is on the other side