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We Are All Mice

from Red Sun by Helen America

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lyrics

We are all mice
We rise with broken teeth and broken eyes
To stretch our necks and fill our bellies with bright lies
That taste of future and of light
We are all mice
We crawl through labyrinths of ingenious device
Counting days of solitude in single grains of rice
We are alive we are alright
Hiding underneath the endless night
Inside the hive
With shallow breathing we stay quietly alive
We guard against the cold we guard against the
Predatory whispers yearning to infect our minds
Inside the minds
Of fragile innocents born terrified and blind
A tiny crack that lets the light of the divine
Flood uncomprehending through our night
The drifts of powder float down from a dizzying height
And blessed are the echoes down the corridors of stone my body bleeds on
And blessed is the refuge and the long parade of seekers that it leads on
And blessed is the silence of the dry and fallow earth we spread the seeds on
And blessed is the water of the little wasted lives that nothing feeds on
That nothing even feeds on
Hide your dark and fertile body
Do not make a sound
Lay the heart of poison in you
Deep beneath the ground
Weave your long white arms around me
Guide me through the birth
In the sky the red sun waiting
To reclaim the earth
We are all mice
Sensitive to the smell of ozone in the blood
We turn and run as the far tunnels fill with mud
And for a little longer we survive
We are all mice
And as the forests burn and all the oceans rise
We clutch our pink and tiny hands across our eyes
Not to see what’s underneath the melting ice
What rises to a new dawn from beneath the melting ice
And blessed are the echoes down the corridors of stone my body bleeds on
And blessed is the refuge and the long parade of seekers that it leads on
And blessed is the silence of the dry and fallow earth we spread the seeds on
And blessed is the water of the little wasted lives that nothing feeds on
That nothing even feeds on

credits

from Red Sun, released November 8, 2019
Helen America - Acoustic guitar, vocals
Mitchell Wayne Hysjulien - Percussion, piano, toy piano, log drum, hammered dulcimer
Christy Mooers - Bass, violin

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Helen America Seattle, Washington

Helen America is a singer/songwriter, cartoonist, and multimedia visual artist. Her music is deeply personal and passionate avant-garde indie-chamber-pop, with the dense lyricism of Joanna Newsom, the visionary weirdness of Jeff Mangum, and the raw emotional energy of Patti Smith. ... more

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