The Blessed

from The Blessed by Cold Snake

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lyrics

When I was a younger woman I drifted in a sea of long dresses.
Flat-chested innocence's caress was on us,
long tresses tangled together.
There was one mess of bodies in one tender nest,
we were the blessed.

La-da-da-da-dum, la-da-da-da-dum,
can you hear the gentle drumming,
its the men coming.

Oh, one wants one, one wants the other one
two by two they go off together, slave and master
three's disaster it always breaks down into two and one,
four becomes two and two, you choose the square root.

But roots in the ground way down, way down,
tangle together forever.
Yeah roots in the ground way down, way down,
tangle together forever,
tangled tresses.
There was one mess of bodies in one tender nest,
we were the blessed.

Now my room is an empty box, the flock has flown,
I am alone.
Even the beast that frightened the birds and emptied the nest
has up and left,
and I, and I,
I wish everyone I've ever loved could stand around me now
and all my former lovers would take each other's hands as brothers,
and we would sing together la-la-la-la-la-la.

credits

from The Blessed, released February 9, 2020
By Sofi Thanhauser. Guitar and lead vocals by Sofi Thanhauser. String arrangement written and performed by Nina Violet. Back up vocals by Nina Violet, Mara Carlyle, Meredith Sheldon, Willy Mason, and Rachel Curtin. Recorded by Matthew Cullen.

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Cold Snake Laramie, Wyoming

discography

Ghosts

Mar 2023
Waves

Nov 2022
I Had a Lover

Jun 2022
The Blessed

Feb 2020
Bird Sounds

Jul 2013
The Dark Ages

May 2009

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