Dreams in Digestion

from Summer Triangle by Strummingbird Vegabond

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4. DREAMS IN DIGESTION

Everything is as it ought to be right now
I thought all my dreams were shatteredYet somehow you helped me find them still alive
I had swallowed them to survive
I thought they died
Still not easy yet somehow
Everything is as it ought to be right now

With all of my dreams trapped in digestion
Congested with years of
Repeating questions
What is life? What do I do?
Build my own box with a point of view
I did my best to watch it all turn to rubble
The sweetest life of my dreams
Will be still be filled with trouble
And that’s a fact

Limits you’ve had your way with me but now
With my dreams alive I’ll find a way somehow
If I was ever lost I still don’t think I’m found
Yet everything is as it ought to be right now

Feel the truth see the lies
Can’t see myself through my own eyes
Pluck those crystals from the dirt
You’ve been waiting to be unearthed
Turn all that pain to gainYou are rich from what you learned
And when it’s your turn
You will know that it was earned
‘Cause you got burned

Limits you sure snuck up on me but now
With my dreams alive
I’ll find away somehow
I was never lost I don’t need to be found
‘Cause everything is as it ought to be right now
And that’s a fact

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from Summer Triangle, released January 11, 2023
All songs words and music by Rebecca Kelley
Mixed by Damien Margo
Recorded September 21, 2022 at the Recording Center in Missoula, Montana by Rick Kuschel
Original cover art by Rebecca Kelley
Graphics and videos by Britt Arnesen

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Britt K. Arnesen is a Montana folksinger, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. She plays in the longtime Missoula band Pinegrass. Britt is originally from Juneau, Alaska.

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