Songs From the Ridge

by The Bison

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1.
Ambient 02:12
2.
The Sun it never knows if you've got fungus 'tween your toes I guess I'm saying it's alright The summer, sitting, drinking, fearing what the future holds And if it's coming in the night Once I woke from frightened sleep And found that it was in my mind Wondering what to do to keep you sitting but it's cool If you keep walking in the light This shouting, calling out, yeah all my hollering about May not be doing myself right So climb the tree, its laughing green Will send you up into a flight And turn to see me standing, smiling, Waving goodbye
3.
Moon Song 03:12
New moon in celestial lagoon Waiting for me to sing to Blue girl in her lantern canoe Trickles past firefly view And I will wait for you As long as you sing with me too And I'll be the bank for you Shoring your sickle-craft too Oh moon, will you croon this duet? Will you, oh will you? Will you wait for me To swim up to you
4.
The fog's caught the moon down in the ravine Bristle-haired flume, shroud serpentine A wisp was loosed up the hill, so it seems It's heading straight for my place in the trees Manzanita crawls up from down below Hooks, reaching red, wrangle my toes And whispering things I don't want to know Saying, "We've saved your place way down in the hole." I will come, crawling, crawling home I'll be leaving a ghost over your town Coyotes call the kill, their cackles a-ringing The Earth stood still with your arm dripping Our bodies do whatever the wind, it does sing So now I'm wondering if that was me laughing I will come, crawling, crawling home I'll be leaving a ghost over your town All the best clouds never touch the ground
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Ambient 01:25
6.
All the times the fox has come to dine And I don't know why ever he's let in To feast upon your flesh Forty years of running from the threat When all you say is it's just for today Oh, what a day, when they took you away I'll never forget the face you gave When strapped upon the plank And I'll never forget the tears you left On your hospital bed Everything that's happened left an X On some impossible map But we both know the truth in all of this That every step is just to find some rest So now I lay here upon the dead oak leaves 'Cause I could never find that certain place That I was supposed to see So I guess I'll keep laying here instead The argument to heavens' ceaseless spin
7.
Jakedog 04:59
The day will come that'll see your face Home and smiling And you'll raise your house under sunlit leaves Nevermore pining But oh, forget my name 'Cause I'm going home where my sleeping dog lays It's cold and wet in the square today And no one's got any change Your open hands just fillin up with rain Come away Come with me, and we, two, will play And we'll go home where the sleeping dogs lay I'll pray to her three times a day Oh, I'm so sorry And I'll say it just before I eat my cake Of shame and barley How I hate this old taste Well I'm going home where my sleeping dogs lay "Come down south and stay a week The family's got space And we'll line out just how to love this world Oh-so-blindly But why do you stray?" Well I'm going home where my sleeping dogs lay I'm going home where the rivers keep wet And I'm going home where the sunrise stays Yeah I'm going home where the sleeping dogs lay I'm going home where you haven't left yet And I'm going home where my troubles fade Yeah I'm going home where my sleeping dogs lay Yeah I'm going home where my sleeping dogs lay
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Ambient 05:18
The way our bodies move in the waves The way our bodies move in the waves I'm a sea thing And you're a starry scape The way our bodies move in the waves The way great bodies move in the wind The way great bodies move in the wind I'm a green thing And you're a sunny place The way great bodies move in the wind The way our bodies move in the waves The way our bodies move in the waves I'm a demon And you're a pretty face The way our bodies move in the waves

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Written and recorded in the hills east of the San Francisco Bay, during my time in the woods, in the spring and summer of 2014. All songs recorded via handheld field recorder.

Many thanks to Jason Courtney for the beautiful drawing of the explosion tree.

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released February 22, 2015

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