Name: Fireflower
Duration: P00H03M32S
Description: Fireflower explores the deep roots of hatred and rage, which we all have the capacity for. It is, in part, a response to the disastrous border policies our government has been enacting, pulling children from their parents with no plan for reunification.

Fireflower

from Rabbit Rabbit Radio - Volume 4 by Rabbit Rabbit Radio

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Fireflower explores the deep roots of hatred and rage, which we all have the capacity for. It is, in part, a response to the disastrous border policies our government has been enacting, pulling children from their parents with no plan for reunification.

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Who planted you?
Who planted you here?

Were you carried on the wind,
fliers dropping from above,
landing silently embedding
in my heart while I sleep.

Poison seeps into my veins,
tendrills feeding on the fear.
It grows taller by the day,
hate reaching up for the sun.

Who planted you?
Who planted you here?

Open the canopy, let the sun in.
It's a battle of wills.
It's a figure of speech.
But you hate to be wrong and you long to be loathed.
And you bathe in the glow of your flame,
the flame, the flame, the fame, the fireflower!

Fireflower, you're strangling me!

Follow the stem down and pull it out by the root.

Who planted you?
Who planted you here?

Poison sucks up in my veins,
tendrills feeding on the fear.
It grows taller by the day,
hate reaching up to the sky.

If I let it, it will come,
sweet and warm, the liquid sun.
Closing tight around my lungs, my hands, my mouth.

Fireflower, you're strangling me!

Follow the stem down and pull it out by the root.

credits

from Rabbit Rabbit Radio - Volume 4, released March 2, 2018
Carla Kihlstedt: Voice
Matthias Bossi: Drums
Jeremy Flower: Guitar
Jon Evans: Bass, Baritone Guitar

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Rabbit Rabbit Radio Falmouth, Massachusetts

Rabbit Rabbit Radio is the song-spinning duo of Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi. Collectively, they are founding members of Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Tin Hat, 2 Foot Yard, Causing a Tiger, The Book of Knots, and Fred Frith’s Cosa Brava.

Drawing on their love of both art & folk song, industrial & improvised music and heart-wrenching balladry, their songs are raw, beautiful, sparse and rich. ... more

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