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Swimming
02:21
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What if I started swimming twice a week
What if I started swimming twice week
What if I started flossing my teeth
What if I started eating every day at the same time
What if I started going to sleep
Without watching any tv
What if I started swimming every day would I be happy
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Community Center
02:32
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I talked to my therapist the other day about joining the community center
He said that’s all good and fine with me as long as you don’t forget my you did come here
I said - how could I forget - I’m always stuck inside my head
I said how could I forget I will remember what you said
I turned to the child in my heart and asked hello sir what do you want to do today
He said hey man lets just have a snack and go swimming I want to feel my body
I said baby that’s a fact - do you think we could take a nap
After we’re done and tuckered out, I’d love to have fun hanging out
I said I
I said I
I said I
I said I talked
I said I talked to my therapist the other day about joining the community center
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Dishes
03:05
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I don’t want to clean the kitchen I don’t want to touch your dirty dishes
I don’t want to clean the kitchen I don’t want to touch your dirty dishes
I don’t want the windows painted shut
I want to do whatever I want
I want you to be happy to
What are we to do, what are we to do,
what are we to do, what are we to do,
I want to be strong and beautiful, want to feel so alive alive and full
I want to be strong and beautifuI, want to feel so alive alive and full
I want to go play outside in the sun
I want to swim until I’m done
I don’t want you to feel so dull
Please can we go have fun, please can we go have fun
Please can we go have fun, Please can we go have fun
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Walking
04:21
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I went walking in the morning and I found I wasn’t grieving
I found something in my pocket and decided I could drop it
On the path that I am leaving for something sweet and relieving
What I thought was out of reach was waiting for the space to be
Something is bugging me a little bit
But I’m not tortured like I might’ve been last year
Something is bugging me a little bit
And I think it’s better if I think about what’s here
I was dreaming in my sleeping and I dreamt a rabid dog was
Enthusiastically eating one of my old boyfriends and I
Didn’t want him to be eaten but I didn’t want to save him
I don’t know about the meaning but I’m glad he was defeated
I could have started growing vegetables
In the time I spent as an oracle in tears
I could have started feeling beautiful
Instead of this nasty stuff I've held inside for years
We could start a garden at the quarry in the morning
I could take the yummy soil behind the trailer and transform it into
Food for all our fancy lunches in between the work and thoughts and
We could start a fire and sit in laughter under starry showers
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Matanah Birmingham, Alabama
I use my music to tell autobiographical stories about intimacy, heartbreak, damaging memories and hope. Many of my songs use fairy tales and allegory to transport us and activate our imaginations. Heavily influenced by shape note singing and the Appalachian mountain music I grew up with, I craft harmonies and rounds that are infectious and fun to sing for me and often stick in the heads of others. ... more
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