Name: Milk and Oil
Duration: P00H03M20S
Description: This album was written deep in the dark days of the Covid-19 quarantine. The four of us sent files back and forth, as we've been doing for years. The lyrics for (almost) the entire album were excavated via erasure/blackout poetry from Pema Chödrön's book, "When Things Fall Apart - Heart Advice for Difficult Times."

Milk and Oil

from Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Volume 5 - Love is Code by Rabbit Rabbit Radio

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This album was written deep in the dark days of the Covid-19 quarantine. The four of us sent files back and forth, as we've been doing for years. The lyrics for (almost) the entire album were excavated via erasure/blackout poetry from Pema Chödrön's book, "When Things Fall Apart - Heart Advice for Difficult Times."

lyrics

Bury us under a tree
for a million years,
our hopes and fears.

Dig us back up in the sun,
discolored and dirty,
beautiful and warm,
unnamable form.

Bone into sand into powder into dust
into silt into mud into mountain into land.

Milk and oil,
Silk and soil.

Take it in, breathe it in,
turn us in, kicking and screaming.

Milk and oil,
Silk and soil.

Break my heart into pieces,
melt it down.
Crush my hands into powder,
pressure mounts louder and louder.

Throw it out, breathe it out,
turn us out until we kick and scream again.

Milk and oil, Silk and soil.

Break my heart into pieces,
melt it down.
Crush my hands into powder,
pressure mounts louder and louder.

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from Rabbit Rabbit Radio, Volume 5 - Love is Code, released October 15, 2022
Music written and performed by Carla Kihlstedt, Matthias Bossi, Jeremy Flower and Jon Evans.

Lyrics by Carla Kihlstedt, excavated via erasure/blackout poetry from Pema Chödrön's book, "When Things Fall Apart - Heart Advice for Difficult Times."

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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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