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Thousand of Years and Thousands of Miles

from Stand Looking Around You by .SueAnn Harkey

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Thousands Of Years And Thousands Of Miles (6/87)
Sue Ann Harkey - Mandolin, words and vocals
Cinnie Cole - Banjo and Bass
(Banjo and Mandolin were recording live as an improvisation)

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Thousands Of Years And Thousands Of Miles

The smell of campfire lingers on my Huipil
I see the dripping weight pounded against the stone
The river mud reaches this city from my back
It can rot the weave

The green and brown of the natural world
The florescent cultures bounce from their spectra
Woven into images
They tell a story
A tune of the people
A passage of ancient time

Those primitive complexities
Allow time to know the abstractions
The comprehensions of the natural world

Once the time to see the stars
To study the connections
To know the earth as life

We as modern beings
Have lost that
By knowing
Everything but it

The instincts of a wild world
Challenged our own
Unfortunately we won

This cat of mine is my Milkyway
This city is my canyon
This subway my river
This job is my harvest
These Con-Ed bills are my seasons
This TV is my moon
This alarm clock my sun

The hard times in the midst of nature
When she determined us
When we read her rather than wrote her

Those times with time

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from Stand Looking Around You, released June 5, 1987

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Sue Ann Harkey Seattle, Washington

Seattle - New York - London | free improvisation | prepared guitar | folktronica | weird american | indie | alternative | singer | songs | instrumentals | underground | DIY

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