Adirondack Amish Holler-Frontier Ruckus

[ti:Adirondack Amish Holler] [ar:Frontier Ruckus] [al:The Orion Songbook] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Adirondack Amish Holler - Frontier Ruckus [00:35.81]So I am the eyes [00:37.66]That my father cried out [00:40.13]In our swamp sunk with doubt [00:42.72]In the darkyards of [00:45.07]North Country aging uncles [00:47.46]Caught in the summer horrid [00:50.01]Endless and fluttered torrid [00:52.60]But all of my ditches [00:54.62]Were buzzing green as I grew taller [00:58.21] [01:01.63]Fam'ly don't know that [01:04.18]I've seen the road end [01:06.53]Far past the bridges where [01:09.21]Salt thaws out to the river [01:11.80]There on the roadside [01:14.36]Passing by I spied [01:16.92]Billboards that relied on [01:19.31]Only I to deliver [01:22.07]The dusk to the years [01:26.28]And old mirrors in here [01:30.70] [01:48.51]Now those windows [01:49.58]Still bring back memories [01:54.17]Supermarket rusting [01:56.03]Through the trees [02:00.00]Hearts drawn on invisibilities like these [02:07.24]Aching Spring please bring a ring [02:09.61]For the powder songs [02:10.95]These orchards sing [02:14.32]And that shall string [02:15.63]The one thing I have left [02:20.74] [02:22.44]In Adirondacka you are the fire [02:26.97]Escape alley gleaming [02:29.58]I've shed your red valleys dreaming [02:32.53]Of Springtown streets and pinksky sheets [02:35.82]Adirondacka harmonicas were blowing [02:39.77]Through the fairgrounds darlin' [02:42.42]Life blows their scary sounds on us [02:45.76]But that is why the spirits fly in Adirondacka [02:52.30] [02:52.93]So my twitchin' girl [02:55.26]When I kissed you our dock had been broken [02:59.12] [02:59.63]And every word spoken [03:02.12]Were desp'rate desire seeds [03:04.78]Sown in your raging hair [03:07.48]Blown to your face so fair [03:09.78]But I died five lifetimes [03:12.34]Before I breathed just what I needed [03:15.09] [03:18.63]No place is safe no more [03:21.11]'Cept sometimes in my door- [03:23.68]I have something that [03:26.20]No one else ever touches [03:28.64]Oh Adirondacka dust bowl harmonicas [03:33.86]Blew through poor houses [03:36.30]And all sorts of awkward crutches [03:40.40] [04:05.01]The city hall poplars soon perfumed of death [04:10.52]The kitchen yellows soon paled every breath [04:16.15]The afternoon lethargy [04:17.83]Makes our home cleft and left [04:23.35]Open wide as barns divide [04:25.82]The supper swamp and gentle pride [04:30.64]From every side as sunset is upset [04:37.02] [04:38.86]In America the mayor comes [04:41.85]And walks among the Greenpark benches [04:45.48]Dreams are just like endless trenches [04:48.53]It quenches me halfheartedly [04:51.51]Adirondacka I am the water [04:55.67]You are pumping [04:57.49] [04:58.08]The town-end glades are up and jumping [05:01.46]The narrow road [05:02.46]My past implodes in episodes [05:05.91]That I've forgotten [05:07.65] [05:59.45]We love our families [06:02.13]We love our twilight trees [06:05.52]We love our memories [06:08.41]Salt pours out to the river [06:11.47]There on the swamp edge [06:13.92]Skies north of the mountains [06:17.13]My eyes pulse like fountains [06:20.23]And salt pours out to the river [06:23.55]Kiss you in eye-gulps [06:25.90]As my piney heart yelps [06:29.22]In no other manner [06:32.03]Could salt pour out to the river [06:36.27] [06:40.50]At dinnertime