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Blood and Sand

from Blood & Sand by Jade Sylvan

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lyrics

A guitar shaped like a woman
is the instrument of man.
A woman is an instrument
of breath and blood and sand.

You run like an athlete
whose day just never came.
Now you drop the ball
in the last play of the game.

Come to me.
In the heavy dark
your touch is light

Fall over me.
Hold me close
and we’ll outsleep the night.

They call it entropy,
the tearing of all tethers,
we'll all move far apart
but at least we'll go together.

Each of us can trace
a pattern in the sky.
No one dies alone
cause we all die.

Come to me.
In the heavy dark
your touch is light

Fall over me.
Hold me close
and we’ll outsleep the night.

One day we realize
that we filter what we say
and all our tearful spectacles
are pantomimes we play.

They call it growing up,
that silken skin turns leather.
I will welcome it
if we can go together.

Come to me.
In the heavy dark
your touch is light.

Fall over me.
Hold me close
and we’ll outsleep the night.

I’ve seen your body
lying still upon the beach,
woken up calling out
when you’re out of reach.

When we’re tired
I’ll lie still upon your bones.
We’ll be naked underground
like Jean-Paul and Simone

Come to me.
In the heavy dark
your touch is light

Fall over me.
Hold me close
and we’ll outsleep the night.

You say I’m selfish
in everything I do,
but every single song
I’ve ever written is for you.

After every screaming fight
with everything at stake,
I still count as holy
each and every breath you take.

Come to me.
In the heavy dark
your touch is light.

Fall over me.
Hold me close
and we’ll outsleep the night.

credits

from Blood & Sand, track released April 5, 2011
written by Jade Sylvan.
geetar and vox by Jade Sylvan.
keys by Lee Wizda.
violin by Kara Kulpa.
cello by Rachel Arnold.
produced by Lee Wizda.

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Jade Sylvan Somerville, Massachusetts

Jade Sylvan is a poet-turned-songwriter living in Somerville, Massachusetts. She fled her native Indiana shortly after graduating college to pursue dreams of becoming a writer. After getting her first book of poetry published and touring the country in 2009, she came home and began writing songs, which garnered instant attention in the famed Cambridge folk scene for their lyrics and melodies. ... more

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