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Rickie Lee Jones
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Now the birds speak in secret rhythms
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And the trees bark in secret sounds
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And the people speak in secret thought
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And they push the thoughts into the shape of words
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And sometimes someone among us
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Sticks her head into the
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Shiny phosphorus blue vat
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Of language
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And listens, like a skeleton
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To the pulsing of life within,
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And she tells us
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Of secret rattling angles
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To watch for and to reach into
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With strange oceans
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And deafening skies
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That can be mapped and measured
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Only by sounds
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And never by meanings
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And once we can tell where we are
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Using the nearest star
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As it relates to the ragged water
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Then we can plant our feet into the good ground
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And go to the rodeo
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And answer the plum-colored hawk
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And sing to the river
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In good faith
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God presses his mouth
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Around our head
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He breathes out
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He breathes in
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And we are resuscitated in the goofy
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Atmosphere of god
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Where there are highways and bowling
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And tattooed by the sun
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A circus
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Made by the prayer of breathing
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And living hope
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And barbed eyes
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Where coyotes hang
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And cowboys hammer
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Posts and branches
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To keep us inside
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As much as keep someone out
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And the prayer that is
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And it is answered with a breath
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Gods lips against our own
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We breathe in
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We breathe out
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He breathes out
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And sigh
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Alive again
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The unexpected
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Discovery
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Of a b-side
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Of life
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A map of voices
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A warning to others who would come this way
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An animal who has seen things
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A horn twisted into shapes
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Understood by strangers
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Recognized by demons
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An invitation in
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The secret language of trees
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Sung in wild shapes
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By a child
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