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Tie Yourself to Me

by Katie Wood

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1.
Black Widow 04:40
Don't call me that name anymore. I don't feel like a bird, and I don't want to be yours. I want to be cold, to move fast on the road shimmering reflection, quiet and bold. Mother, daughter, sister, crone. Lover, departure, black widow. I spin my web in stone free in the woods to live alone. Pretty house in the dark woods moon reflected glimmering mud. Isis, sort my evils from my goods. I want more than nice girls should. Mother, daughter, sister, flood. Lover, departure, caught in the mud. I spin my web in blood. Black widow, she did what she could. NO MIRRORS IN THE PYRAMIDS I BUILD AROUND MYSELF. I'LL DIE IN HERE, MY SOUL IN A JAR ON THE SHELF. I'LL RAISE MY OWN HELL. now smash the china on the ground. now move your lips, don't make a sound. let rivers flow north from the south. let velvet tongue roll out your mouth.
2.
Blindfolded 02:27
There's no trail before us but we'll leave one behind Pack up, take off won't slow down for borderlines Empty handed, dust-lung this town is ours until the sun comes up. Let us ride off the map into the desert night stop at the oasis to fill our empty eyes Simmering bitter verdant lime cut-time, hips glide closer to mine TWO GOLD PIECES IN MY FIST WE'RE STANDING AT THE HIGHWAY BEND SPARKING ON UNEVEN EDGE WE'RE DANCING ON THE CLIFF LEDGE Before the storm, dark green sky infinite reckless, rivers run dry SAND MOUTH AND SUNBURNED SKIN YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE WE BEEN STICK NECK OUT AND OFF WITH HEAD OFF WITH YOUR BLINDFOLDED HEAD
3.
Jeong 04:27
note: One Korean-English dictionary defines it as “feeling, love, sentiment, passion, human nature, sympathy, heart.” Although it is complicated to introduce a clear definition of jeong, it seems to include all of the above as well as more basic feelings, such as attachment, bond, affection, or even bondage. Conviction in the kitchen deception in the bath. Collections of diction remembered from the path. Overheard your lips say everything you feared pushing away what’s near. Everything you love. Leave me awake disinterring railroad stakes. Caught halfway, under the bridge I didn’t know the paint was red I didn’t know the paint was. Modern dance about the spoken word putting syllables on the traffic and birds and the photographs that you took of the sky holding on to the time you said you lied, said it was alright standing there on the borderline alright, alright, alright, ALRIGHT ALL NIGHT TOSS AND TURN AND WEEP AND WEAVE FOUND SECRET DYING THINGS IN THE MUD UNDER THE LEAVES HOLDING ON PUSHING THROUGH THE SPACES THAT YOU BREATHED BREATHING ON MY NECK OUTSIDE IN THE STREET wind whistling through the cracks in the walls reach out to catch nothing at all I leave the window open.
4.
Tick Tick 02:51
I took your thin lips, bit them half expected you to let your trigger finger slip. I wouldn't do those things for you not when you treat me like a busted bottom lip. You make me dirty when you laugh. Terrorized and magnetized and polarized in halves I'll be a vine, tangle you up when you dance. I was right to rip your treasure map the way you tear me in two/into the pale green light of afternoon. There's not a map on this clean Earth will tell you where your treasure lies. Searching spots you thought were secret surreptitiously usurped, you realize it's not a secret until it gets told. Jolly Roger undercover, I can tell you're getting old. Traded kiss & tell to kill for gold you can dig and scrape and look but where it's at, you'll never know. In the half-shine glow gray & pink in the gory morning. Toxic morning ash. Stuck in me like a piece of mirror glass.

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released September 13, 2014

Katie Wood: vocals, guitar, and songwriting
Will Barnes: guitar, bass and production
Austin Ruhf: co-songwriting on Blindfolded & Tick Tick, guitar, bass

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