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This Beautiful Machine

by Hailey Magee

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1.
Reckless 03:15
The sky was blacker than the crows perched upon the windowsill God lost patience with the silence, poured his wine, and drank his fill "The world don't mind me much," he said, "The world don't mind me much at all" He drowned the flowers in the flood, but still he never felt so small We were reckless with our demons We let them out to play We were reckless with our love And we were reckless with our faith The ground was littered with our lies; we forgot the taste of spring Washed our sheets clean of the fire; still we didn't feel a thing We traded morning prayers for sleep; he was watching as we fell "This world don't mind me much," he said, "This world is making it's own hell," [Chorus] And then the sea grew heavy with the tide The stars blackened by the smoke He turned his back and conjured fire between his hands Up in flames we went, oh [Chorus x2]
2.
My baby's like a summer breeze drifting cool across my feet Fresh as pie, but probably twice as sweet My baby flies me to the sky I see an airplan passing by With him, I'm twice as scared and twice as high And I feel like a tourist in my own backyard I've been wishing on fireflies Thinking they were stars Well, you're so easy and living's so hard So won't you dance with me among the stars My baby laughs with both his lungs You would've sworn the gods had sung the melody that echoes from his tongue Sometimes when it's cold outside I put that tongue up next to mine And kiss him senseless till the morning light And I feel like I'm living in old time black and white When this world wasn't so big And love turned out all right Well you're so easy and living's so hard So won't you dance with me among the stars So won't you walk with me heart in heart
3.
Once he held my ankle like it was made of silver and light Once while I was sleeping he rearranged my bookcase He looks at me strangely over his coffee cup He says, “You’re just a kid Grabbing your years by the throat You’re just a kid Haven’t grown into your bones” He plows his hands through his hair Like he’s wondering how he got here Well I’ve bit my nails to the nub I’ve been tired, too My body still springs from this bed But I’ve watched love die and I’ve lost just like you He touches me softly under my sheets, now He says, [Chorus] But I know what you pray to When we have our dark days, music meets us where we are Offers us a cigarette and opens the passenger door Isn’t that what we’re all searching for? But I’m just a kid Grabbing my years by the throat I’m just a kid Haven’t grown into my bones I plow my hands through my hair like I’m wondering how I got here Like I don’t already know
4.
Even Heaven 05:11
He takes the stage with stars at the corners of his eyes He’s lost inside the melodies he breathes to life He’s a pickpocket player Steals from the stars Combs the beauty from the sea A season collector Winter in his chords Summer when he’s looking up at me He’s all I see We find our gods between the lines on empty pages Our lips are rich with poetry and wet with wine We live to be wide We claw at the skies Even heaven couldn’t satisfy I’m flame to his fire, the ghost to his writer We carve spaces into places that need light Lover, he grounds he firmly in the skies You're so much more when you’re half of a hungry whole Feed me, lover Feed me, lover I trace his face, brow to sleepy smile This trust cuts deeper than my bones And I know I feel like our bodies hold us back - I want more than that Love laughs in the face of skin But there’s music in his touch, I’ll sing it out for him And pull him in [Chorus] Morning light Brush stroke sky We’re watching it fall Break me evenly among the stars, the stars in your eyes I saw your light and I knew I knew I was hungry I knew I was hungry I knew you could need me I knew I was hungry I knew I was hungry I knew you could feed me I knew I was hungry I knew I was hungry I knew you could feed me [Chorus]
5.
"We were blind," We will say "We were stripped to the bone and we chose to be clothed And we chose to be cold" "We were gold We turned grey At our feet fell the world, but we looked to the stars and we prayed For something more For something more" "We were deaf," We will say "All the words of our peers fell like ghosts on deaf ears While gospels rang" "We know now," We will cry "We looked elsewhere for love, elsewhere for light But it was inside us all this time All this time All this time All this time" This beautiful machine [x12] "We were dead," We will say "Never living within the bind of our skin, The touch of our lips" We will bleed We will bend Every naked intent brought to life on the land, Brought to life by a hand And nothing more And nothing more And nothing more And nothing more

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released August 27, 2015

Produced by Skwerl Audio
Photography by Ryan Bobillo

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