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Farewell to Green Mountain

by Cedar Teeth

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1.
Cancer 03:02
-- Cancer -- Skipping rocks on the water And your world is on fire Your mama told them they can't trust you Now they all call you a liar Yeah boy that's something to admire In how you're hard wired You'll walk another mile But everybody in my home town Seems for dying Their mothers and their fathers Their sister's baby brothers they are, fighting Cancer's in their water There's cancer in their blood There's something in the ground You walk above the Columbia To the Sandy water I swim a summer on the Molalla Then troll the Willamette River Maybe there they can find you And we'll wrap our arms around you Where ocean skies are blue There's Cancer in our water There's a cancer in our blood It happened when we missed the river And we're drowning in the flood Ah boy, there'll be mud No matter where we trudge Your heart: another wood
2.
-- Well I, Said I -- Well I, want to go home He said I, got to go home And he left under the night In a haze of frozen eyes Holes and toes Shoes and those strands of light A Chevy, a ditch, and the road A necklace, in a garden row And a tremble neath a window pane While the tear on the dash remained Half a mile from town when the sirens sang A whisperin' rain that would drive out the night Spinning fables, telling stories, and some signs There's hellfire end of days In the form of a bullet's stray That parked itself And rested right there where she lay If running was the only way home He's running to somewhere he don't know Because home's wrapped up in the arms Laying lifeless on Interstate 101 No gnashing teeth No wreath and no doorway Remember I'll always love you I'll be kissing your soul in all that I do But hours like sunlight play They're just shadows upon your day You got, memories Of moons and our crescent place Is that all we'd say Is that all we'd say Well I, said I Well I, said I
3.
-- Echoes Grounding -- Oh I run ridges fashioned for and split an awful sound And you seem like a ledger meant for adding, levelling ground Arms laying down lifting high above the round Lifting over all On the way, way back down But I burn bridges meant to connect land and ground And I burnt all your ledges meant to split higher sound Fields burning down lifting high above it all We seen it all We seen that there's a way back down But I'll give you the rest of me No not the best of me You want a part of me That's just the start of me I'll give you the rest of me No not the best of me You want a part of me That's just the start You'll never know I sat upon the ridges and I overseen your ground And you seem like a “walking tall” meant to shed the sounds of pounds Never around, overhead they're looking down This graded ground You climbed it still, they're never coming down I am all the bridges that connect the sky and ground And I talk to the other things meant to speak in tongues to clouds I'm up and down, in one place then another town Inside and out I'm up there and I'm never coming down But I'll give you the rest of me No not the best of me You want a part of me That's just the start of me I'll give you the rest of me No not the best of me You want a part of me That's just the start You'll never know
4.
-- Mama's Mourning -- Mama you ain't gotta worry no more I'm cleaning all the m and ms I set there on the bathroom floor And the carpet too has been vacuumed It's true to form But I don't like the way y'all hang around while you're looking at me Shadows hang upon our branches These are frozen trees They climb between All we willed is all we'll be The sunny side is our muddy side The muddy side is our sunny side The sunny side is our muddy side On my side of the morn I pocketed gravel these old marching stones Are stowed inside, under winter's time They set underneath your toes The river flowed, it ebbs and bows All is to be removed The sunny side is our muddy side The muddy side is our sunny side The sunny side is our muddy side On my side of the room When will something boom? But Mama, she must have told me all this before Maybe my dad was weeping, my brother's dream To set firmly in the door The wind it too Is pouring through our day once more Where the sunny side is our muddy side The muddy side is our sunny side The sunny side is our muddy side On my side of the morn I can't tell cob from corn Mama you ain't gotta worry, nor mourn I'm spilling all the beans and eggs that go in our recipes and lore There's nothing more A silent tune we played on knives and forks Sunny side is our muddy side The muddy side is our burning pride The sunny side is our muddy side On my side of the morn The sunny side is our muddy side The muddy side is our burning pride The sunny side is our muddy side On my side of the room Now could something boom!
5.
-- Insert Words, Hear -- Let's, dance tonight Leave your guns by the fireside And I will watch all night Setting traps and lending eyes And the record's turning a needle Striking down a blight Let's, for the night Let cellos wail, they scream that I Was never so inclined To see through another's eye And then the record's turning a needle Striking down in time Let's go down to the pier Sit there, and wait for waves that come They veer us away But only so much Only so much We can wait I want to dance with you Why won't I dance with you? Let's, for the night Lay down your hair, your sleepy eyes And I will watch for time See your tracks, they look like mine And then the moonlight tells you a needle Will strike us down in time Let's, for the night And JFK and Lincoln said It's all right this time To see through their own eyes And the moonlight's burning a needle Strike it down in time Let's go down to the pier Have you been over there There's waves to take you away But only so much Only so much Can we wait? I want to dance with you Why won't I dance with you? Let's go down to the pier Have you been over there There's waves to take you away But only so much Only so much I can't wait I want to dance with you Why won't I dance with you? I want to swim in the sea of your hands I want to walk the streets with no plans I want to go to war with your clan I want to play neath verdant stands Look at us now the palms of our hands I am the lion and you play the lamb We'll stand beside a boat with no plans Do you want to lead? cause I want to dance with you But why didn't I dance with you?
6.
Winter 05:29
-- Winter -- When we meet there won't be winter And when we meet there won't be winter Yeah and when we meet we'll be dancing Carelessly out in the streets And when we meet there won't be winter And when we meet there's only sunrise And when we meet there's only sunrise And those we see will be walking Endlessly out in the streets And when we meet there's only sunrise A lovely breeze this morning's surprise And from dead streets we'll never close our eyes Cause what we see is A tangled mess of garden leaves Beneath the tree they're locked in shadows Snow is gonna feed ya Rain will relieve you now And ohhh When I meet you Who else would warm you now A root base sprawled neath arms blown naked You'll see them talk in tones planning how to shake it And when we see we will turn our Heads away in misery Beneath the tree they won't remember We will walk all night to lose this winter We will rise from streets to lose this winter And when they see they will say you Cannot go so through the leaves But it rained all year They don't remember Snow is gonna feed ya Rain will relieve you now And ohhh When I meet you Who else would warm you now

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released June 9, 2018

All tracks produced by Larry Crane at Jackpot! Recording Studio
Except: Winter, produced by Billy Oskay at Big Red Studios

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Cedar Teeth Portland, Oregon

Cedar Teeth hails from the Cascade foothills, where the sound of saws cut through the Oregon woods and the lights of Portland set the western horizon aglow. Between the five members of the band emerges a fusion of guitars, banjo, keys and trombone, propelled by bass and drums, while vocal harmonies weave through the music. A vision of NW roots rock that is immersive and rustically melodic. ... more

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