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Retreat to Space

by Sarah Noell

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1.
brother slept outside, said it was alright called him last night, said he was doin' fine love how you said it went, eyes closed, heart is bent over the chair again living inside my head, living inside my head don't you love to see a love so obscene? take it personally how people get what they need last time I heard from him went walking one cold morning heard the birds at sunrise sing 'love is a simple thing' but I'm hung up on gravity, on keeping things so steady that's how I know this is real, how can I trust what I feel? body lives in apartments, baby's brain is in a starship try to eat right, get over it but we're sleeping outside, heads full of shit but we're built to handle it, love on this cold planet take what you can't admit up all night, pray for starship pray for starship
2.
Friend 04:33
careful girl you're on to something, wanted in at least one state almost caught you rare bird baby but I woke up too late and now it's pouring rain never knew what you wanted except when it came to me and it was poisoning and it was dancing, and now I'm starving one day I'll be so thin that I'll slide under your door shifting like a slipstream you can't feel the pull anymore and everything will still be a mess and then I'll be like before we'll see through all the past lives and wonder what all the hype was for I've been laying low lately while she's out over oceans offering I'm hiding under rocks in cold streams searching for a safe-face and achievable dreams but one day I'll get so high and I'll think that it's the end flying over faces I can tell it's all pretend and I'll feel famous, jealous, wasted, love is mine to lend and you'll be there so unaware and you'll say I'm your best friend.
3.
Car Song 03:33
I am a ribbon I unfurl like the smoke of a cig on the interstate I am a river the saltwater one we passed way back in Connecticut and I'm a bright light baby vacant when you needed it bed turned down, surround sound, ten channels in a nameless town you could measure my love in miles, miles, miles got me feeling like a stowaway child we'll get where we're going in awhile Yellow headlights, yellow moon rise in a western sky tried to light it couldn't find it it was dark that night tried to hide me in the backseat speeding down lake street stopped at two trees to shoot the breeze, rest easy on a hillside you could measure my love in miles, miles, miles got me feeling like a stowaway child we'll get where we're going in awhile to find out it's up to you, it's up to you to get out, it's up to you, it's up to you there's nothing a long road won't show to you, show to you speeding, heart racing, kissing in a car-park, Walmart wasteland. you could measure my love in miles, miles, miles got me feeling like a stowaway child we'll get where we're going in awhile
4.
If I was a sick bird would you pick me up with your loving hands? take me back to your father's land, do everything that you can? or would you tie me up in a white sheet, fear of god coming over me, take me back where there's metal and weeds, and throw me down 'till you can't see? if neither is easy, well love isn't free. kill it with kindness, or bury the beauty. and all the fight, comes in at night when I'm too stoned to see it right and all the love I've ever known seems come and gone or on my phone and everything I wanna do seems overdone except for you.
5.
Desert Moon 04:20
tell me, tell me something you could say anything and I'd keep dreaming lover, loves me tender, it's been a bender I can't remember like sleepwalking on a train speeding down a long hill I see the roadkill It spells the gospel green new England, Cat Skill mountains holy winter, do you need her? maybe I just need a new mirror. cuz I wanna see a desert moon, a sunny year, pacific blue it's not my fault if it's lost on you I've said enough to fill this room for a lifetime our house is a very, very fine house with cats in the yard, life hasn't been too hard I'll sing to you nightly, you'll say that you love me then I'll light a fire and burn up beside her cuz I know I can always get higher cuz I wanna see a desert moon, a sunny year, pacific blue it's not my fault if it's lost on you I've said enough to fill this room for a lifetime and I'm buying flowers for the first time the snake is catching my eye, it's telling me a good lie that if I say goodbye I'll be fine, I'll be fine cuz I wanna see a desert moon, a sunny year, pacific blue if I want more will I lose you? the dream I'm in could be ending soon or last a lifetime.
6.
drove to the midwest, packed up the drums and my best dress to play in some basements with all the metal heads spent my summer in a car playing shows, friends are far no need to cry though, we'll listen to all the songs about Ohio. Seen a lot of lakes now, everywhere's the same somehow may as well buy some land near my mom and quit the band. but I'm held to the spot, by every place that I'm not pine tree screaming, desert dreaming so I'll tie up my lover's hair and we'll pick out what to wear throw all the clothes on the corner chair, we could be anywhere we could be anywhere as long as we have friends to share, love, and take care of the cat when I'm not there. I could be anywhere. When I imagine it, it's not a spaceship it's a witch in the attic pink moon in the backyard holy eclipse.

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released October 16, 2020

Mixing on Friend, Car Song: AJ Butler

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