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Cibola

by Bird Friend

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1.
The Mountain 02:46
oh bring me down my weapon from the crawlspace by your bed i have seen the mountain and i will go there tonight and surely 'fore the moonlight has left us oh 'cause tonight all the earth and all the heavens are a circuit and the engine is the goddess alone the crack in your bed the voice in your head the sun and the sandstone the moon and the jawbone oh no it is only one more mile 'til we reach the promised land she rests her heel on the big chrome wheel and laughs who put these things in your head? oh i can hear em it isn't any secret the road isn't sacred try and repeat that with me the miles return to the mountain and i can hear the ground is shaking
2.
Flood Song I 04:21
you are crossing under the wire and i pray that the water don't come for to carry you down you are singing i am transfigured and i hope that this flood lifts my tired feet off the ground you are glowing i surrender pluck a hair from your head weave the thread through your hospital gown you are wading in the water chanting darling it's okay it's all out of your hands now oh but homeless and horrified looking away from your eyes beyond death as they sweetly say i am the architect of your destruction lover i am gonna make you pay
3.
well she left us with emeralds in our eyes and a field of wildflowers in our hair and they left her body lying on the horace greely highway on the fourth of july when there was nobody there but what light is this? she awoke the next morning from the sand and the foam borne on the back of something sinister and casting her eyes to the funeral pyre she cries all these rivers they must roll on forever what light is this?
4.
1994 05:16
in half a century they will mass produce the poison that will finally take me away from this place cartwheeling through the twin ends of this vast inner space floating free from the anchor contingence erased on nights like these i fear the creature will finally take me away from my sleep walking the miles of myth of a cruel misery speaking with stones in the tones of a prehistory go on darling go on get some rest your body is a criminal go on darling go on get some rest i am not responsible
5.
Three Graces 03:28
around the hanging tree last night you come down from your cloud to say that here beside the glow of god's own gaslight we were saved and when she finally heard the news it was a year ago today she wept over her coffee in the drawing room as if to say three wishes for the race of man three stitches in the guiding hand it is written that it all trickles down three to watch while the elephant bled three graces return in chains to the homestead it is written that it all trickles down tall tales of a former life here your letters were a legend but you lied it was the glow on your daddy's chrysler that finally made me blind and in the upstairs bedroom your head was slowly swelling as you cried my god i think this holy water's finally eating me alive it's fine it's okay i don't think it matters
6.
when i quit drinking i will come see you at the bleeding edge of the empire i will make peace with you you been waiting i been long wandering along the wire here by the driveway widows walk with heads of their husbands in hand and you and your sister watched the wagons from the screen door the dogs in the yard peek through the bars and howl at the ambulance bells the storm crossed the desert with great white sails and out in the yard by the big black car the ash from the pine fire piled like snow in your hair and in the right light they said you looked like an angel
7.
Dancing 06:05
superstitious sweetheart you're a mess sick and seeking sanctuary in your own distress the embers of an adolescence smolder in your breast but you're the same sweetheart clip my wings i am a skeptic with everything in motion you're a pawn you must accept it god you are an angel when you choose to least express it anyways she says i am no beauty i am cruel and i am haunting i am weak and i am weary i am sure you do not want me and i say although i am already married to the demon drink i like the way you think so let's go dancing a little life and the city lights and now you figure the world it ain't my garden no it's so much fucking bigger and although i can't see the stars behind a tide of piss and vinegar i've changed and now the lip splits open the salt of a single syllable misspoken and the lock outside your bedroom door is always broken but i'll wait i said i am inert i am the vessel and you steer me i am supervised and sickened by the things that i hold dearly and she reeled me in by singing oh my dear i'm nothing like my mom and dad so put the money in the bag and we'll go dancing
8.
outside the dogs are barking just a little while 'til we see some lightning the cannons are ready and the river swells and it's all spilling over like your daddy's beer belly the breadth of the water and the strength of man your father was a sailor your mother was the brass band long hair caught in the engine tilt your head back and taste of the medicine outside the dogs are laughing the screen door slams and the rafters are snapping the cannons are ready but the coffee is thin and it tastes like the oil put a hole in the wineskin the cannons get a little louder and all the while white waters surround her the firelight illuminates the bed and it's fine your eyes roll back into your head and she comes from on high and says ooh do you recognize me? i am your maker
9.
Highway 40 02:20
every night i see you climbing down the stillhouse stairs as graceless as the hollow carcass of the yankee flyer the seven hands of heaven scratching at the surface of the seven dirty rivers running by her so i dipped my fingers in because your feet had touched the surface but it tasted like the snow upon the town where i once lived and i said why can't i go there why can't i go there too? i looked in the holy mirror and i was hunting you backwards down the artery whose blood runs with the santa fe chief there was blood in my boots too and it tasted just like you and the union of our lives however brief so i dipped my fingers in because i thought it was the currency of all the heroes faraway from home and i said i guess i don't care i guess i don't care too
10.
by the time that you opened up your eyes it was over the carnival come to a halt in the night and the ghosts with no place to go look so much older the lantern inside your mind's eye reignites oh but when we complete this archaic recital any temperance left has just yet to see trial and the you of your youth is completely defiled and you name what remains as your reality you finally got your liberty back in the crucible your life just used to be so provincial the people so absorbed in their misery you're a hometown hero of the highest degree but you're just trying to atone for your fucked up family and as sure as our god builds his home on the shore and as righteous as you are you will ask for one more chance to return our lives back to the way that they were but when you disappear darling i will know the score know the score
11.
Acoma 02:19
the silver sings of foreign lands take it from my shaking hands leave quivira far behind cibola beckons fifty miles nigh tonight the gears of heaven will turn like dancers the will of god has come to pass the bodies buried in the buffalo grass spit the blood between my gums and open up the gates of zion tonight the blue mountains will reveal the answer

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released February 26, 2016

geoff himsel: vocals, guitar, saxophone, percussion
lucas baca: vocals, bass guitar, guitar, violin
peach tauzer: percussion

featuring
carson kennedy: vocals
felipe jensen: trombone

recorded at the bungalow, abq, nm

produced by bird friend with help from the indomitable andrew eckel and "mad" matt eisenberg

special thanks to:
richard "dick" davidson
caitlyn calhoun
adam snider
bella trout
spencer bargas
gabe barva
cody lutz
issac vallejos

loser fuel 2016

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Bird Friend is a weird folk band from Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

Geoff Himsel, Carson Kennedy, Andrew Eckel, and friends.

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