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Cover Me
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Urge to Forget
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Urge to Forget (Connect)
Lyrics by Char Easter
Can’t let sorrow run your life
It’s like a knife, it’s like a gun
Touched to your head
The urge to connect
Can’t stop it yet
It goes like it bleeds
It goes like a ghost goes
Talk to me
Yes, gash, push me
Oh boy
Yes, gash, to mind’s eye
Let me over the why
Can’t help make you blue
Living in and out of your heart
One in the same child
Push, yes, over this steel band
You know, I can’t stand to live in a box
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And I saw
06:07
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"The words came from me recalling a dream. verbatim, into the mic at practice -- no edits. I interpret them to stand for the precarious and chaotic nature of being an artist ('on the fringes of my society...' and '...that caused the sky to darken and the rain to fall in unnatural and sequential downpours'). -- C. Easter
And I saw
2 lines of people
who worked and wore chains
And I resisted joining this group because it was
frustration and
humiliation
So i lived on the outskirts and the fringes
of my society
Escaping the social pressure
I found myself in a life and death situation
For I was told
I held in my possession
a piece of paper
that caused the sky to darken
and the rain to fall
in unnatural
and sequential
downpours
So I searched for the designed paper
but I could not find it
And finally, I found the piece of designed paper
and obediently
I tore it up
And looking to the sky I saw
the orange sun soften
the hard black clouds
and I knew
that things would be normal
And I saw
the 2 lines of people
who worked and wore chains
and I joined them
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Common Language Seattle, Washington
Common Language was an ethereal goth band from Seattle. Name is based on the Adrienne Rich poem "Dream of a Common Language." Formed 1989 by Char Easter (vocals, bass), Gretchen Wenner (guitar), and Mary Lake (guitar), "If Sonic Youth and Cocteau Twins borrowed Big Black's drum machine they might come out with a sloppier-sounding version of Common Language"--UW Daily. Signed w Blast First 1991. ... more
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