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Message From the Watery Machine

by Virginia Dare

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1.
Suddenly 02:35
It all came down suddenly The moon cracked and spilled its milk at our feet And I saw you and you saw me Now no one else can say my name nobody You'll have to kiss me with a bullet in your teeth For I've been lost and found and I have been asleep Take back the town and run the streets After all the moon is full and we are free
2.
Drenched 03:27
Standing on the corner At Mustapha's store, I watched you navigate that sea like a pirate With the chipped and painted Fingers of your hands Spread wide, wide, Around their hypothetical throats I watched you watch the boys come down Too stupid to see the carnival stretched out beside them Flying over the carousel Knocking over the liquor store and you, and you, watch it all like a video And you, and you, watch it all like a video You are an enemy ship in subject tropical seas the dream of gas station attendants Drenched in the blue eye shadow of the world Drenched in the blue eye shadow of the world and you, and you, watch it all like a video and you, and you, watch it all like a video
3.
Eden 03:42
children pretend that they are Indians again you see they shoot me with their flaming arrows the empty sky turns orange from the fire we'll burn the bank we'll burn the school we'll burn the prison the roadside bends at the place where night begins kicking up the dust along the way you told me something I didn't want to see you burned the trouble into me I'm eating all the dirt there is in paradise tell me how are things with you I won't stay long you see now it's all been burnt down and like the smoke I want to drift away
4.
Creature 05:07
the whole world is already on fire and I missed my chance to strike the match high and alone in my pretty prison that I built with my own two hands drunk and asleep drunk and asleep I walked and I crawled down Valencia Street Valencia Street and now there's no way back I saw your eyes see my eyes I saw your hands shackle my hands I tried to take what wasn't given you looked away you shook your head I was a thief I was a thief who sold what she stole in the shadows so deep shadows so deep they went from blue to black we're all gonna die anyway like a wolf in a trap who devours himself just to get away I felt my hand slide off the wheel I felt my foot push hard on the gas I heard myself say "this isn't real" just before I heard the crash I put up my hair I rose from the floor I was dressed in the skins of the creatures before the creatures before and I could hear them laugh watch out for old age it will cut your throat it will drink your blood it will ask for more it will ask for more and there's always more
5.
Pink Roses 03:07
It's a good day when I get the floor washed A bad day when I lose my head I'm fucked in a world of sensation It'll stop when I am dead bury me in the river of sorrow take me there on your motorbike dress me down in a gown from Thrift Town and pink roses from the underground If I loved you once i loved you more than twice but it wasn't enough to save me from my life I've lost my faith in having a good time so save your songs for when I'm gone faith cracks when it hits the pavement I've learned my lesson and I'm switching to gin bury me in the river of sorrow take me there on your motorbike dress me down in a gown from Thrift Town and pink roses from the underground If I loved you once i loved you more than twice but it wasn't enough to save me from my life no it wasn't enough to save me from my life
6.
Million Boys 02:10
I dream of smoke and gasoline my dresses burn, the wheat fields burn cut a switch from the cherry tree and come back come back to me a million boys float down the river all named Tom, they're all named Tom pushed in by their mothers and sisters It's what you want it's what you want no bridge where there once was a bridge sugar spills, into the river the baby plays with a fighter jet they're U.S. they're U.S. jets a million boys float down the river all named Tom, they're all named Tom pushed in by their mothers and sisters It's what you want its what you want
7.
it was you who took my hand and placed the apple on my head and fired away through the blindfold I could see every hole you put through me you fired away you were high, you were low you put on a real good show you were young, you were free you were everything to me rip out what you can't remember walking the plank was a pleasure you see on the way down it was just you and me tied to the mast heads held back to the sky nothing to say it was just you and I you and I I slurred my words and hung my head and tried to pass off what was said you fired away the rose has bloomed the birds flew south the trouble spilled out from our mouths you fired away
8.
baby bought a one way ticket suitcase in her hand she’s gonna break the vacuum seal on her brand new plan now she’s chopping up the garden destroyer of worlds she thinks she'll dig a handsome poet up out of the dirt any old day she’ll knock your house down and get you to pay crying, I’m not what you think I am it’s alright she’ll whisper In the end you’ll meet a girl and thrill to a brand new version of the same old pill now she’s chopping up the children divide them into two there’ll be a boy for me a girl for you any old day she’ll knock your house down and get you to pay crying, I’m not what you think I am and I've tortured you before and you always asked for more more than I can ever stand it's so automatic baby bought a one way ticket suitcase in her hand she’s gonna break the vacuum seal on her brand new plan
9.
Loved Once 04:37
the boy bows down to touch the ground scratching words into the dirt run through the fields run through the towns gone are the sun and the moon the thieves line up they want you run through the fields run through the towns my baby poor girl in a stained dress cheap black shoes and stockings the sky is a cradle dumps her on her head run through the fields run through the towns gone are the sun and the moon the thieves line up they want you the girl bent down to kiss him on the lips just so he'd know he was loved once The girl bent down to kiss him on the lips just so he'd know he was loved once
10.
Wished 03:29
I wished I was dead on such a beautiful morning that when the sun came up I was drowned in its glory but I couldn't hold those horses back and they dragged me down their path and they dragged me down their path it was stop and go on the 101 freeway and the men in the front they didn't know I was breathing and they rolled me into a room where they dropped me in the gloom where they dropped me in the gloom so I swallowed the words of the hospital chaplain who just happened to be extremely good looking just one tiny little cut was enough to open up the sea inside of me
11.
Helpless 02:12
Any old day you can have me and I won’t push you away Any old day you can call sad to say I’ll come running When I hear that bells are ringing And I’m always hearing bells And it’s not popular to tell That without you I am helpless Any old day I will meet you Name the time name the place Any old day I will wait Sad to say ‘cause it seems that it means I’m always waiting in my tear soaked bed in hell and my tears know all too well that without you I am helpless I am helpless If I could just glue us together Then we’d be that way forever But I’m sniffing glue instead Drugged and distracted I am helpless
12.
Rain 02:37
rain on the broken cherry tree the rain fills the house the rain fills me I drink and I drink but I can't drink away all the rain that falls today the house falls down at three o'clock the piano is saved but I am not so it's down I go to the down below mouths of fishes tell me so drink it all, drink it all I can't drink it all look no further father I'm the girl you seek with chopped off hands and chopped off feet a stranger to utility
13.
Teeth 02:07
there is no lie you can tell that would astound me you move your mouth just like machinery I've been grinding my teeth for a thousand years teenage metal loud and clear the factory radio stopped and stayed that way the New York Times declared the news today I've been grinding my teeth for a thousand years drones are droning in my ears Jesus Christ walked on the waves we know there was no place else for him to go there was no place else to fucking go
14.
Big Creek 04:43
pack up the truck and rev up yr' engine the talk of the town ain't my kind of religion I'm going to Big Creek where I'll be alright yes I'm going to Big Creek where the stars shoot satellites fighter jets fall absolved from destruction rusted and mute they point the direction I'm going to Big Creek, where I'll be alright Yes I'm going to Big Creek where the stars shoot satellites ponies still run where lovers lie sleeping out here in the dark you might forgive me I'm going to Big Creek, where I'll be alright Yes I'm going to Big Creek where the stars shoot satellites late in the day the wise man of the mountain will pour me a drink way out on the fault line I'm going to Big Creek, where I'll be all right Yes I'm going to Big Creek where the stars shoot satellites

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This is a collection of some old songs never recorded and some newer ones. Thanks to Kyle Statham for his recording of 'Rain' at Blind Pig, SF, about a million years ago. And thanks to those of you who continue to listen. VDSF loves you.

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released July 9, 2017

Mary O'Neil: songwriting, vocals, autoharp
Brad Johnson: guitar, drawing
Michelle Cernuto: drums, guitar, gig-getter
Greg Freeman: bass, recording, production

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