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Bloodroot

by Elisabeth Pixley-Fink

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1.
Tracks 05:26
Winter is the time for walking Soles quiet like cold night She hears what we can find The tracks our friends left so softly The tracks our friends left behind While the trees rest til the spring comes They send their sweetness rooting down down down Though the honey doesn’t belong to me I hold it on my tongue Winter is the time for stories While we store the sun underground The light comes peeking out Sun, will you fill our bellies? Fill us til the seeds begin to sprout? Coyote will you teach me Teach me the language that you know? I’ve kept my mouth so full Rabbit will you create me To share this turtle island home?
2.
Red Clover 04:08
We said we’d never take more than we could make The taste of the color of your touch on skin The smell of the summer and the record spins The joy of the child who learns to tend These insides of soil again again again again again again Well I come to you cold and dusty, friend. To shake off the old road, take flight again. Is our love the tale told of how we tend These insides of soil again again again again again again When I lie with you in slumber I forget all my dreams, when I lie with you in slumber I forget all my dreams, when I lie with you in slumber I forget all my dreams, I forget all my dreams, I forget all my Well love comes, and love goes, and I go home. And what does the love know that I don't know? Will the fields all fall fallow, will we defend These insides of soil again again again again again again?
3.
Will you meet me in the snowstorm at the end of the street? Meet me in my corner pretending to sleep? Meet me in my sorrow, meet me when I break? Meet me here tomorrow when I wake to breathe in mourning? Is this love still learning is this love still learning? Can I trust the words you speak in the haze of my dreams? Trust you in the colors of the sky in the evening? Trust the way you pull at the taproot in my chest Trust that love is strong, that love lives on, that love in death Is love still learning, endless love still learning. Don’t be so shy to tell me that you love me That when you die your mama has to tell me And is this world, is the world still turning Is this love, is this love still learning? Will you murmur in the water that I touch to my lips Shimmer in the laughter at my fingertips Meet me in the meadow where the grasses sing Fill me in the hollow time that passes in anything in anything this love is learning is this love still learning endless love still learning
4.
Nighttime was our favorite time for walking. The streetlights made a pretty shine on the concrete. And in our minds we could see The green fields where you and me lay talking. And you, and you, and you are walking with me still. Breakfast was our favorite time for eating. I couldn't wait to hear what you'd been dreaming. Then off to life you would fly, You were gonna taste the sky today. And you, and you, and you, are dreaming with me still. Daytime was our favorite time for playing. She still remembers you saying, "Hey if you haven't gone outside today, It's time to go outside and pl-play!" And you, and you, and you are playing with me still! Time gives and time takes away. And you lived to never waste a day. Always loving, loving so strong Growing and learning along the way. And I know I know your love is with us still. Your love is with us still. Your love is with us still.
5.
At evening I love you in the Western sky I’m leaving one more day behind as times moves on and bloodies the sun I look for you on the horizon If I could find you I’d hold you tight but I’m leaving that up to the dreaming But you’re never alone on a summer night And they rub their wings and swell their chests with singing But the songs of the night don’t sound the same without you breathing the songs of the night don’t sound the same You know I love Time how she laid a quilt down for us to pass the afternoons together Now time is all mine mine to spend alone and it’s hard when home is just a kitchen You know the night loves your sweet company and now I ask her to share you with me But try as I might to speak with the trees the forest won’t call out your name And the songs of the night don’t sound the same without you breathing the songs of the night don’t sound the same
6.
Spider Woman 03:00
And she was knitting the world With her eight spider legs To go back to go back to the moment before And she was knitting the world With her eight spider legs To go back to back to the moment before And you said you will be with me Taking a lane on your bici You said you will be with me Taking a lane on your bici I said pay attention to the direction of the wind I said pay attention to the direction of the wind And she was singing a song with no words in her mouth To go back to go back to the moment before And she was singing a song but no words in her mouth Could go back could go back to the moment before
7.
what happens when a water bird takes flight and we believe in the sound of its wings we fly slowly we fly slowly listen to the song the water sings ascending where the water turns to air disappearing where the water disappears we fly slowly we fly slowly singing of the flight that we share do you feel the lightness in your feet do you feel the pavement leave the street oh come quickly oh come quickly and bring us back the songs of life the life that lies in the death that lies all around the people who in darkness greet the night the people who in darkness see the night fly in on grey-blue wings do you feel your feathers growing an itch to fly to land upon the soil, the sand the water, to be the hunter, the living and the prey man made the jetplanes so we could fly fly fly fly
8.
The night was old and we were young, lover brother friend. And all the souls had all washed in, lover brother friend You said, “Is this a dream?” I said, “Yes, it’s a dream.” I said, “Can I hold you close?” You said, “Yes, so close. So close.” Come back to me, come back to me, I’m ready, come back. I said, “It was hard, when you were dead, to tell you how I love you.“ And oh when I found you, your eyes washed my eyes And oh when I found you, I held on so tight I held on I held on How I love you “Oh,” you said. “Oh,” you said. “I knew it all along.”
9.
It’s a hard road without you, a heavy load I can’t make it alone, I can’t make it alone. And I’m so angry, my heart is so heavy. And I can’t let go, I don’t wanna let go. And if you’re gone, then I’m gone too I never wanted to need you like I do But I do. Where does your love go when your heart stops beating, When your lungs stopped breathing life into us all? And if you’re gone, then who am I talking to? I never wanted to need you like I do And if you’re gone, there’s so much work to do, No one can fill the hole your light fell through Nobody but you. I’m holding on and you are on your way.
10.
Rubber Band 04:33
I keep falling in love with you again And I keep falling out of bed again And my body is a rubber band You pull taut taut taut and I keep a jar of my blood by the door I keep a heart hard on for more And our bodies when they hit the floor Were taut taut taut and Are you present in the night? And are you present in the night? And are you are you are you are you you? And I keep falling in bed with you again And you keep coming inside my head again And my body is a rubber band You pull And my whole body wants you We all love love love to be seen
11.
At the end of October, the rain starts a-falling, And we start a-wondering just how to stay outside. Cuz we don't wanna hide, from the clouds and from the water. So we say hello to the rain. The rain carries our prayers to the river. And washes our sorrows away. The rain says remember, blue skies don't last forever, so say hello to today. Welcome to the rain. I was sitting on the front porch, washing the roots of dandelion. You know the roots in the falltime love the rain. And the rain comes singing, its footsteps touch the ground, Each one bringing the sweetest sound. Rain says, "Offer your prayers to the river. Don't hold on so hard to the pain. Don't you go thinking that you are a-sinking. Don't worry, it's just me, Rain. Don't worry, it's just me, Rain." At night as we lie sleeping, perennial roots lie a-dreaming Of the leaves that they'll push up towards the sun. And the rain is a drum, pounding out the dreambeat, and in our sleep we sing the water song. Will you carry our prayers to the river? And wash all our sorrows away? Will you help me remember that nothing lasts forever? Welcome to the rain. Goodnight goodnight rain.
12.
Bloodroot 02:28
When the spring comes may all that you planted rise up and greet the sun

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This album was made possible by an Artistic Development Grant from the Kalamazoo Arts Council. Made with love in Michigan.

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released January 24, 2013

Engineered by Patrick Carroll in a home studio, Keith Kinnear at Backseat Productions, and Ian Gorman at La Luna. Mixed by Ian and Pat. Mastered by Ian at La Luna in Kalamazoo. Produced by Elisabeth and Pat. Artwork and layout by Laurel Premo.

Elisabeth Pixley-Fink: Vocals, piano, Rhodes, organ, mellotron, acoustic guitar, sycamore logs, slaps, claps, jar & spoon
Michael Shimmin: drums, shaker, tambourine
Brennan Andes: bass
Samantha Cooper: violin, vocals, mandolin, slaps, claps, whispers
Patrick Carroll: vocals, drums on Tracks 1, 7 & 9, banjo, electric guitar, lap steel on Track 9, knee slaps, claps, foot stomps, tambourine
Ira Cohen: vocals
Andru Bemis: acoustic guitar, fiddle
Seth Bernard: electric guitar, lap steel, saxophone
Zachary Boyt: cello
Joel Pixley-Fink: bass on Track 7
Ian Gorman: bass on Track 10
Carolyn Koebel: buzz sticks, pods, rods, chimes
Rachel Gorman: clarinet
Earthwork Family Weekend 5 Year Olds: "again again!"
Tree frogs: singing

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Elisabeth Pixley-Fink Michigan

EPF is a song-writer & singer who loves supporting creative empowerment. She is a member of the Earthwork Music Collective.

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