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lyrics

I’m not coming home
And it shows in my stride
Overhead there’s a condor circling wide
And the world’s getting bright
Till it flash like a mirror
Signaling “I am here on this island I’m here”

Looking through a microscope
Looking down at the tightrope
It is good to have hope
Open your arms, and walk slow

I was stretched out like a cross in my dream
Drying off beside a stream
When something huge passed over me
And I noticed, this symmetry
‘Cause it was a California Condor
Gliding high
And a cross was the shadow it cast upon my body
And everything seemed to pause

It was like someone back from the dead
I mean, have you ever seen a thing like that?
A ward of the government agency--the one that deals with destiny
The last surviving one’s would be
Kept alive in captivity
So when the cage *clicked* and swung wide singing “free”
Did the bird just stare at you? Like it’s staring at me?
Oh of all the creatures to see
I think Fate’s form is weirdly warped around
This carrion bird’s own exquisite corpse.

Now I’m looking down the 53rd story
And my shadow falls before me
Pouring down into the street
All of this activity
And all our special hardships to meet
In the sound of running feet
At the swing of a cage opening, oh my heart,
Yes, my heart go beat, beat, beat, beat

Maybe I should start a garden,
Try living out of my yard
To twine and weave between the slats
And fill all the little cracks
I’ll write to Henderyx back in the hometown
Say--look what you done made me do

And I dreamed the future was one of Escher’s illusions
Precisely, indisputably possible

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from Exquisite Corpse, released July 22, 2020

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Eleanor Elektra Boston, Massachusetts

Eleanor Elektra is an interdisciplinary artist originally from the Pacific Northwest who fuses music and visual arts.
Her practice spans songwriting, printmaking and installation work. Her music combines elements of folk, jazz and classical music within the songwriter idiom to create unique cinematic songs. ... more

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