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Strangeweather - Crystalline

from Collected Songs 2007​-​2013 by Bee Sahatji

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from Strangeweather's 2012 Like Shadows in Grey Rivers

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I don't have a crystal ball but if I did it wouldn't tell the future
but I'd have a fistful of sloppy notes from studying the past in the crystal
I'd see us in there trying not to break 'cause we believed the lore
that taught us we were fragile things, as if we didn't have a core
I'd see us in there, shattering, glass bark ground to powder
cold air hits the heartwood and the sap flows
wants to stick it back together
Then comes the sculptor of the past like a lumberjack
he's got a chainsaw to make you an ice swan
with a pretty, long neck and you'd be melting quick unless you substance resists the form
crystalline trees, songs fall like leaves and I never knew you until your roots were under my boots that bumpy bark reflecting my thousand eyes detecting that I never knew you until the heartwood and sap shown through but that took a break in that cloudy, crystal skin
and it takes us breaking until we see we do grow again
and this grove is quaking aspen shimmering and shaking with the music we're making hearts fluttering and breaking
faking a million smiles I tried shaking you awake
flaking a million times and making sad mistakes
hurting so casually you were flirting with the pain
learning nothing from it and so it is all in vain

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from Collected Songs 2007​-​2013, released October 1, 2015
Brenna Sahatjian on dulcimer and vocals, Joshum Hardy on bass and vocals, Sarah Ann Lachner on flute and vocals.

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Bee Sahatji Portland, Oregon

Bee Sahatji is a Portland, OR based songwriter and a member of Portland bands Strangeweather and Aradia. Former member of Riot-folk Collective.

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