Hold Your Breath (Daytrotter - Rock Island, Il)-The Acorn

[ti:Hold Your Breath (Daytrotter - Rock Island, Il)] [ar:The Acorn] [al:Heron Act] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Hold Your Breath (Daytrotter - Rock Island, Il) - The Acorn [00:39.13]There's a river that parts the valley of this town [00:43.99] [00:49.27]Following the road up to your father's farm [00:54.95] [00:59.30]Your rosy lungs will empty on the day that you were born [01:07.62] [01:10.44]And no one thought you'd make it past the morning [01:16.37] [01:21.60]Hold [01:22.04] [01:43.40]Your brother said your mother was a firefly [01:46.58]You buried in the earth [01:48.46] [01:52.74]And every night the firelight warms the tender [01:56.55]Bits of skin beneath your shirt [01:58.73] [02:03.00]The climbing constellations move in semitones [02:06.86] [02:12.88]And sit behind the county line in the melody of gravitation [02:17.57] [02:23.33]Hold [02:24.39] [02:45.54]Calling on the colours of the globe [02:50.13] [02:54.86]Sleep amongst the mango trees and poisoned oaks [03:01.29] [03:06.11]A flood for every footprint for every mile we forgot [03:12.53] [03:16.91]Though your hands were little we always [03:20.94] [03:22.70]Hold your breath [03:25.56] [04:31.04]The sanctity of soil [04:33.09] [04:39.96]Wandering roots and living oils [04:43.76] [04:49.87]Unions underground [04:52.81] [04:56.18]All around mountains like diaphragms [05:01.73] [05:04.71]The rhythms of a landscape that is breathing [05:09.18] [05:27.55]Hold your breath