In the Sweet Ground

from the Bat Cave Demos by Kesia Nagata

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There we were in the kitchen
You said, "I don't have words for you now,
Give me time, don't know how
But I'll have them soon."

Did you see through the doorway?
We were running like wolves through the night,
In our teeth shone the light
Of the moon.

And I've never been forgotten,
And I don't care to think that I might be,
When I'm cold, quiet and gently rotting
In the sweet ground.

You know what it's like to be someone
Waiting, with you hands on your mouth
As you grandmother's house
Is burning and burning.

She says something I can't quite hear.
Something 'bout the ways of the wind
And the cost of her sins
And the depth of her yearning.

And I've never been forgotten
And I don't really think that I will be
When I'm cold, quiet and gently rotting
In the sweet ground.

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from the Bat Cave Demos, released February 15, 2013
written by Kesia Nagata

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Kesia Nagata Hazelton, British Columbia

Kesia is a BC-based singer-songwriter who sings about trees, death, horses, and the unbearable enormousness of existence, among other important things.

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