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New American Gothic

from Rare Weather by Jack O' The Clock

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lyrics

Don't look now, just lock the door
There's someone on the porch outside.
Brazen-eyed and sallow, looking in.

Her right hand holds an abacus.
Her left hand holds a golden star.
And through her paper temples
the black blood whispers:
better call all your children in,
better call all your children back,
better call all your children in
or paint the windows black.

A holt of wooden markers grew
upon the roadside overnight
and queasy in the third-shift dawn
I found I couldn't bear the sight
of such a claim upon the dead
within the view of Crawford town
and that is why I jerked the wheel
and with my truck I mowed them down.

She is like a baby
her hands are soft like a baby
her eyes are wide like a baby
her tears are free like a baby
and there are Arabs in the corn.

credits

from Rare Weather, released January 29, 2009
Damon Waitkus - voices, hammer dulcimer
Emily Packard - violin
Jordan Glenn - drums, percussion
Nicci Reisnour - harp

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JACK O' THE CLOCK "presents a fine lesson on what it means to write songs that are at once approachable and human while simultaneously being incredibly profound in terms of timbre, depth of emotion, and harmonic complexity," Progulator.

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