Harden the Rain

from Summer Triangle by Strummingbird Vegabond

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5. HARDEN THE RAIN

Hyper-minding over-grinding never finding peace
You listen to no one say “Hear me everyone”
Well I hear the buzz for release

Your skull is your prison don’t mind the pistons
Pounding metal roof in your brain
Thinking thoughts will take away the pain
Thinking those thoughts solidifies the rain with nothing gained

I wanted to reach for you reel for you heal for you
But it all just went down the drain
To insist would just harden the rain with nothing gained

Here’s my bottomless bucket where away I will tuck it
With a ticket for the midnight train
Where it remains with some other
Mistakes that I’ve made and couldn’t trade
Oh how now to let the rain drain it all away

A little bird came to me laughed with me
Sang to me the bird said the real words between the lines
It’s in the moment before the mind defines
It’s the dawn before the sun’s rise
It’s the path through the midnight said that bird
Looking deep into my eyes it’s so easy just fly
And you’ll be fine

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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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